May 16, 2009
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
~John F. Kennedy
It's amusing how fast time flies. I haven't blogged in forever .... it's not that I don't want to or don't have a million things to put down but I just.. forget!
Life has been pretty good ... a few blips here and there but to be honest, nothing bad to report. Either life is pretty good or I'm really not sweating the small stuff anymore.
Work has been good ... the Facebook project has reared it's head again and the company who contracted us is looking to port the application onto 3 more phones. One candy bar, one QWERTY and one touch. In addition to Facebook, they have us developing a Twitter app and well ... that's got me sucked into Twitter. For some reason I really get off on getting "tweets" from people like Jamie Oliver, Kevin Spacey, Ashton Kutcher and Trent Reznor. I think I'm a voyeur....
Am still doing school but things have slowed down. I just can't run at full speed any more, so I'm down to one hard class and one easy class. Accounting sucks though ... this is the second time round and I swear, it's not any easier. All I am hoping for is that I don't fail it this time. A third time would suck ass..
Marc and I are doing well ... we just passed one year believe it or not. While there are no tales of him singing sweet nothings in my ear - I'm kind of at a point where I'm not sure what I want. Part of me would love to get married and live that "rest of your life" chapter but... the rest of me really loves my life where he fits into it and where I still get to do whatever I want because there is no other variable in the equation. Who knows where this will go ... I'm just enjoying the companionship, sex and strings that are going along with being with him.
Now that the weather is good, I'm back to working on the house. I painted the living room about a week ago ... and now I'm trying to figure out the best route to get rid of my ex-roomie's shit while fixing up the spare room to be my "exercise" room. A couple days ago I bought a treadmill off a friend of a friend of a friend ... here's to getting back in shape after falling off the wagon yet again.
I'm trying to eat healthier which fails from time to time ... I love sweets, breads (or carbs) and meat! So it takes and effort to eat more veges to replace the carbs and meat I so dearly love. I work on it but it's not an easy feat. This whole thread about how being a meat eater is the doom and gloom of the world is such an oddity. It's hard to imagine that eating meat is worse than driving a Hummer every day. While my carbon footprint isn't the lightest, I try to do what is right to lessen it. Recycle, do all I can to reduce how much energy my house takes up ... which brings me to this thought.
Nomad's post about doing the little things - recycling, making your home efficient, buying used versus new, growing your own food, etc - it makes you wonder what "rich" people do. Take Whole Foods for example - organic veges, fruits and meat - all crazy expensive. And I mean fuck me expensive. If you're rich, you can shop there and feel all warm and fuzzy ... thinking or knowing you're doing good. Me - pretty middle/lower class but I definitely cannot afford to shop certified organic food. I hope the food I buy from the Indian markets is but I'm guessing it is not....
How many rich people grow their own food? Or buy used because they cannot afford new? I shop whatever the best deal is ... but if you could afford new things like a couple different cars or new items for your home - would you? While people might make their homes more efficient, it's possible that they'll live beyond what they need - six bedroom house for two people? Pool ... four car garage? Is being eco friendly a more middle class or poor frame of mind?
I look at things like big business and wonder about these multi-million dollar execs with the high end cars, mansions and jets. Do they recycyle? Or does someone do it for them? Are they vegetarians because they're concerned about the greenhouse gas emissions or are they eating what they want, when they want?
While I can't live by what someone else is doing and I can only do what I can ... it makes me wonder. Is the only reason we're doing the little things to help make things better because we are more aware due to watching our pennies? Or does everyone have this mindset?
Regardless, I hate the finger pointing or ranting. It bugs me ... the same applies to people that used to be smokes, alchoholics or are now religious - being informed is one thing, nagged an entirely different one.