mmm... money

"When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money..."

-www.greenpeace.org

I've been a complete load since coming home in November, I'm sorry. I could go through my day and share with you what I did and you can see what kind of load I've really become...

Fell asleep on the couch last night (this is typical) after watching the rose bowl with my dad and reese, my dog. Woke up around 10, oh so tired, and... holy crap, I just realized I actually worked out today. Now this wasn't a typical day after all. I think I worked up my first sweat since July. Showered and then filled the rest of the space between 12 and 5 with who knows what. My friend Jamie thinks I am so amazing how it's impossible to bore me. I can spend an entire day in my room (which is what I think I did) and be perfectly content and then you'd ask me what I did and I can't remember. I think I straightened things up a bit. I think I get distracted easily... looking through pictures and journals and books and nicknacks. Sometimes I sit there just looking around, almost like I'm taking pictures with my eyes, knowing someday I won't be here and I'll need to remember it.

This winter I've done some writing, lots of reading that I've been meaning to do for a couple years, cleaned for my mom, visited my new nephew a lot, and my greatest accomplishment... de-cluttered.

Life has a way of adding "stuff" and never really taking it away until nature decides to or we decide to. Fortunately I got to decide to this time. I went through every single thing in my room and took it to Goodwill, the women's shelter, the trash, or filed it away again. It felt so good to simplify. Mom says it's creepy, like what people do before they die. I'm just obsessed with simplicity lately. It's like extra stuff is a real weight that sits on my shoulders and I had to get rid of it. I physically feel lighter.

So, today was another fun-filled day and I'm sitting here with Reese pawing my knee, begging me to come to bed and I was reading an amazing book called, "Delaying the Real World," and came to the section about the organization GreenPeace. Good quote. Hoping I get to do alittle environmental work this year when I head out to Denver for AmeriCorps in a couple weeks.

Don't give up on me people. Even though I'm a complete loser without a life or a job and I never write on this anymore, I am working on putting Zion pics online to finally share. And I hope to get back in the habit of writing here (I'm told that I'm not cool anymore and that anyone who's anyone is on "facebook" but I'm just going to play the stupid card here and pretend I'm too old for that and I'm rigidly stuck in the ways of the blog).