I love the Method* brand non-toxic cleaners. I use them for most of my cleaning needs, and I have been replacing any cleaning product that runs out with the Method equivalent. I especially love their "naked" line of products....no toxins, no dyes, no perfumes. Perfect. However, some of the products don't come "naked" but that it ok too, because sometimes I like the wonderful and natural aromas that their products possess. My house never smells "clean" anymore, in the sense that it does not smell like bleach or other chemicals, but it does smell like grapefruit, almonds, and mint. Much nicer if you ask me.
I have been wanting Method's Omop since we got the new floors. The Omop is similar to a Swiffer, but is more environmentally friendly. However, I have not been able to find a store that carries it. Target carries the replacement fluids, but not the actual mop. The Method website has the Omop, but charged $13.00 in shipping. And I am cheap. So, I have waited and waited. Finally, Amazon has started carrying the starter kit, and had free shipping. It was the most exciting part of my day ordering that darn mop. I will have to review it once it arrives, and I start to use it. Let's keep our fingers crossed that it is not a big disappointment, although I doubt it, because I seriously love all the other Method products.
*I am endorsing Method brand products with no financial compensation from the company. This is just me sharing my love of a good product. HOWEVER, if Method would like to pay me to advertise their product or send me some kick backs, I have absolutely no reservations about doing so. Just throwing that out there.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
I knew it!!!!!!
Dalan and I have found a new favorite thing to watch on the television. It is ESPN's 30 for 30 series, which features 30 different moments/stories/events/personalities/etc in sport's history over the last 30 years in order to celebrate the network's 30th anniversary. See, everything that is cool is turning thirty this year!
They are really interesting, and they are done by different film makers and directors each week as a documentary, and air on Tuesday nights with limited commercials. So far, we have watched the one on the Baltimore Colts marching band that continued to play and march for the 12 years after the Colts moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis, and the one on Len Bias, the college basketball player who died in 1986 from a cocaine overdose after being drafted to the Celtics. Come on, you all remember Len Bias, you may not remember his name, but anyone in my age bracket will remember the cautionary tale of the superstar athlete who only tried drugs once and DIED of a heart attack, so who knows what drugs could do to ordinary boys and girls like yourselves. I think I heard his story every year of my life in drug prevention lessons. Well, his story was very interesting, and the jury is still out about how often he used cocaine, depends on who you believe in the documentary. We still have one on Mohammad Ali in our DVR, and one coming up this Tuesday on Jimmy the Greek.
Dalan's interest was piqued as far as the other topics featured in the series, and then found a piece of information on ESPN's website that confirmed what I have known my whole life. ESPN's 30 for 30 is devoting an entire episode to June 17, 1994. MY BIRTHDAY! They had thirty years of sport's moments, highlights, stories, and personalities, and they chose to devote one of their 30 precious hours to MY BIRTHDAY. I have always known and taken any opportunity to remind people that June 17th is magical, but here is further proof of the greatest day to ever exist. I know that in 1994 on MY BIRTHDAY O.J. Simpson went on his infamous drive, but I cannot wait to find out all the other stuff. This particular segment won't air until 2010, so I will send out a reminder, because this is a show you will not want to miss!!!!!!
Edited to add: Dalan wanted me to make it clear that we receive no compensation for promoting ESPN or its programming. We just really like this show. However, if ESPN would like to sponsor the snoop bloggy blog, we are open to any and all offers.
They are really interesting, and they are done by different film makers and directors each week as a documentary, and air on Tuesday nights with limited commercials. So far, we have watched the one on the Baltimore Colts marching band that continued to play and march for the 12 years after the Colts moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis, and the one on Len Bias, the college basketball player who died in 1986 from a cocaine overdose after being drafted to the Celtics. Come on, you all remember Len Bias, you may not remember his name, but anyone in my age bracket will remember the cautionary tale of the superstar athlete who only tried drugs once and DIED of a heart attack, so who knows what drugs could do to ordinary boys and girls like yourselves. I think I heard his story every year of my life in drug prevention lessons. Well, his story was very interesting, and the jury is still out about how often he used cocaine, depends on who you believe in the documentary. We still have one on Mohammad Ali in our DVR, and one coming up this Tuesday on Jimmy the Greek.
Dalan's interest was piqued as far as the other topics featured in the series, and then found a piece of information on ESPN's website that confirmed what I have known my whole life. ESPN's 30 for 30 is devoting an entire episode to June 17, 1994. MY BIRTHDAY! They had thirty years of sport's moments, highlights, stories, and personalities, and they chose to devote one of their 30 precious hours to MY BIRTHDAY. I have always known and taken any opportunity to remind people that June 17th is magical, but here is further proof of the greatest day to ever exist. I know that in 1994 on MY BIRTHDAY O.J. Simpson went on his infamous drive, but I cannot wait to find out all the other stuff. This particular segment won't air until 2010, so I will send out a reminder, because this is a show you will not want to miss!!!!!!
Edited to add: Dalan wanted me to make it clear that we receive no compensation for promoting ESPN or its programming. We just really like this show. However, if ESPN would like to sponsor the snoop bloggy blog, we are open to any and all offers.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thankful Thursday
It is November, and as someone who appreciates themes, I am already going into Thanksgiving mode. Therefore, I have been thinking a lot about all the things I have to be thankful for in my life. And since I have challenged myself to blog every single day this month, I decided to devote one day a week to the things that make me give thanks in my life. Viola, another theme....Thankful Thursday. I am also someone who appreciates alliteration....so Thankful Thursday meets my need to use poetic language in my life as well. Perfect.
I am thankful for..... my freedom. Reading my student's comment about freedom in Iraq and thinking about all the hardships that many families in our communities have gone through in other places in the world to get freedom has really made me appreciate all my freedoms that much more.
I am thankful to live in a country where I can have a blog to post my thoughts everyday in the month of November without having to fear for my safety. I am thankful to have the freedom to choose who I love and who I hate, to choose who I vote for and who I protest against, and to choose where I want to live and where I want to void visiting. I am thankful that I have the freedom as a woman to express my opinion through my career, my actions, and my words and not fear for my life. I am very thankful for to live in a time and a place that allows me these freedoms. It is easy to take freedom for granted when you have always had it, but hopefully, I can remember to be thankful more often than just one or two days a year.
I am thankful for..... my freedom. Reading my student's comment about freedom in Iraq and thinking about all the hardships that many families in our communities have gone through in other places in the world to get freedom has really made me appreciate all my freedoms that much more.
I am thankful to live in a country where I can have a blog to post my thoughts everyday in the month of November without having to fear for my safety. I am thankful to have the freedom to choose who I love and who I hate, to choose who I vote for and who I protest against, and to choose where I want to live and where I want to void visiting. I am thankful that I have the freedom as a woman to express my opinion through my career, my actions, and my words and not fear for my life. I am very thankful for to live in a time and a place that allows me these freedoms. It is easy to take freedom for granted when you have always had it, but hopefully, I can remember to be thankful more often than just one or two days a year.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Out of the mouth of babes
I recently gave my class an assignment to read a biography on the person of their choice, and then complete a book report. The students picked everyone from Miley Cyrus to Rosa Parks and everyone in between. I have an Iraqi refugee in my class who read and wrote about Martin Luther King Jr. One part of his report struck me.
Question: If you could meet this person what question would you ask him/her?
Answer: How can I help to get freedom for Iraq.
It amazes me the things the students in my class have experienced, and the things that they have have to worry about in their lives.
Question: If you could meet this person what question would you ask him/her?
Answer: How can I help to get freedom for Iraq.
It amazes me the things the students in my class have experienced, and the things that they have have to worry about in their lives.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Pictures of the Halloween past
I never made it over to my parents' house to get the really old pictures from Halloween past, but here are a couple of pictures from the last decade. You will all have to wait until next year to see little Jessi in her awesome costumes, and they were awesome. Patti doesn't mess around when it comes to being festive for holidays.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
NaBloPoMo
Apparently, November is NaBloPoMo or National Blog Posting Month. It is basically a challenge to post a new blog everyday for a month. I am kind of ambivalent about whether or not I want to commit to even trying this, but it has a funny name and I love a challenge. Also, it is getting colder and colder, and darker and darker earlier, so I should have some time on my hands, because I am sure as hell not going outside on the regular.
Have you seen the trailers for The Box with Cameron Diaz? It is some creepy movie about a family being offered a million dollars if they push a button in a box that will kill someone they don't know somewhere in the world. There is more to the movie from what I can tell on the previews, including some nasty consequences. Anyway, Dalan claims* he might do it, but maybe not for a measly million, he thinks he would need like 20 million to do it. I would not do it for any amount of money. I could not deal with the guilt. So, would you do it? And if not kill some anonymous person for a million bucks, what would you do for million?
*I don't think Dalan would do it for any amount of money either. He likes to talk like he is all tough and lacks empathy, but he is the biggest softy ever. Often times, he has to remind me to be kind and think of others, so it is doubtful he would ever do something with such dire consequences for any amount of money.
Have you seen the trailers for The Box with Cameron Diaz? It is some creepy movie about a family being offered a million dollars if they push a button in a box that will kill someone they don't know somewhere in the world. There is more to the movie from what I can tell on the previews, including some nasty consequences. Anyway, Dalan claims* he might do it, but maybe not for a measly million, he thinks he would need like 20 million to do it. I would not do it for any amount of money. I could not deal with the guilt. So, would you do it? And if not kill some anonymous person for a million bucks, what would you do for million?
*I don't think Dalan would do it for any amount of money either. He likes to talk like he is all tough and lacks empathy, but he is the biggest softy ever. Often times, he has to remind me to be kind and think of others, so it is doubtful he would ever do something with such dire consequences for any amount of money.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Halloween with a twist
Halloween is one of my top five favorite holidays. I love any excuse to get all dressed up! About a month ago I came up with the perfect Halloween costumes for Dalan and me. Dalan does not share my love of Halloween, or any other holidays for that matter, but will usually dress up as anything I request as long as I do all the prep work. However, as things would have it, we would end up being booked with non-Halloween activities over the Halloween weekend. We have season tickets to Pioneer Theater, and to the Utah football games, and this month our turn at the theater was on October 30, and there was a football game on October 31. I was excited for these two events, but a little disappointed that non-Halloween activities were going to dominate our holiday weekend.
I decided to save my perfect Halloween costumes for next year when we would have more time to wear them, and go with more simple costumes that we could put together with the clothes we wore to the play. I was a black cat, and Dalan was a 1920's gangster of sorts. However, no one including the D.I. was selling suspenders, and no one sells realistic looking play guns. So, Dalan went to Jen and Gil's party as a nicely dressed gentleman wearing a fedora and carrying a alien laser type weapon. Oh well, it was better than nothing. Jen and Gil throw an awesome Halloween party every year complete with a theme. This year the theme was Alice in Wonderland. It was pretty neat to see their costumes, and their decorated house and yard. The play, Is He Dead, by Mark Twain was excellent by the way. It was silly, outlandish, and so funny. I laughed out loud throughout the night.
On actual Halloween night, we went to the football. This meant we missed chili at my mom's house, and getting to see some little ones in their costumes. Boo! However, the game was excellent, and the Utes won! I never got too cold, and the game was a nail biter until the very end. The guys who sit behind us were very intoxicated, and at one point I was convinced one of them was going to throw up all over me. Luckily, that never happened, although he did fall down several times. I would have been so upset if I had gotten puked on! Also, we left a bowl of candy out for trick or treaters. It remained untouched throughout the night, which was disappointing, because it was candy I wanted to get rid of. I was hoping some teenagers would come along and take the whole bowl, but no such luck.
So, while Halloween weekend was not traditional or full of costumes or parties. It was a blast, and I still have my costumes ideas for next year!
I decided to save my perfect Halloween costumes for next year when we would have more time to wear them, and go with more simple costumes that we could put together with the clothes we wore to the play. I was a black cat, and Dalan was a 1920's gangster of sorts. However, no one including the D.I. was selling suspenders, and no one sells realistic looking play guns. So, Dalan went to Jen and Gil's party as a nicely dressed gentleman wearing a fedora and carrying a alien laser type weapon. Oh well, it was better than nothing. Jen and Gil throw an awesome Halloween party every year complete with a theme. This year the theme was Alice in Wonderland. It was pretty neat to see their costumes, and their decorated house and yard. The play, Is He Dead, by Mark Twain was excellent by the way. It was silly, outlandish, and so funny. I laughed out loud throughout the night.
On actual Halloween night, we went to the football. This meant we missed chili at my mom's house, and getting to see some little ones in their costumes. Boo! However, the game was excellent, and the Utes won! I never got too cold, and the game was a nail biter until the very end. The guys who sit behind us were very intoxicated, and at one point I was convinced one of them was going to throw up all over me. Luckily, that never happened, although he did fall down several times. I would have been so upset if I had gotten puked on! Also, we left a bowl of candy out for trick or treaters. It remained untouched throughout the night, which was disappointing, because it was candy I wanted to get rid of. I was hoping some teenagers would come along and take the whole bowl, but no such luck.
So, while Halloween weekend was not traditional or full of costumes or parties. It was a blast, and I still have my costumes ideas for next year!
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