blogger gripes

Okay, I need help!

When i signed up for this here blog, I was Holly Jones. Now that blogger has teamed up with gmail, I have to sign out of one gmail account and into the old one in order to post. Blogger won't let me change my email in my profile!

This is so annoying! Any suggestions?

spring cleaning

I am by no means a clean freak. Just ask Britt. I am the clutter queen, but lately i have had spring cleaning fever. It is crazy. I mean, last week I got out and cleaned the OUTside of the windows. Who does that? Holly Duke that's who. I just received my Martha Stewart Homekeeping Handbook in the mail.Yes, cleaning is so foreign to me that i need a Handbook. I am excited about what i might learn from good ole Martha.

Spring has motivated Britt as well. He got out to do yard work in the back of our house and has discovered we have a small gold mine out there (a.k.a. landscaping stone 6-8 inches under the soil). We were planning on making a small investment in these nice stones and now we have dug up all we need! Amazing. The plan is to have an acceptable backyard by my birthday (June one). I think we can do it!

It's EARTH DAY! In honor of this special day, a few of us UBCers went out to Cameron Park on Sunday afternoon to pick up trash on the trails. We spend nearly 3 hours scouring the park and I think we made a considerable difference out there. Happy Earth Day!

it has been a while

Wow alot has happened since my last post! Let's see here...

I got married!

My dad and I are now officially cancer survivors.

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I just finished reading a book called "Garbage Land." I could hardly put this book down! It is about a New York woman who follows every type of waste that she produces. She follows her garbage to the landfill, her recycling to centers, and her sewage to the water treatment plant. It is fascinating.
I have had many discussions about how much we consume and how important it is for us to make conscious decisions. This book proves this to be even more important as 98% of waste is from factories and the making of those things that we throw out. Our landfill waste only makes up 2% of our nations garbage. Amazing. So as we look at that cool new item at Target not only should we consider how much packaging it has there in the store, we should attempt to find out how responsible the manufacturing company was in the making of this product. (which is not exactly easy to do)

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Thanks to Carn-dog for posting our lovely little commercial on his blog! It is nice being a Waco celebrity.