Buy Me That Useless Piece of Plastic!

After stowing away tons of plastic shopping bags after grocery store visits only to lug them back to the store's recycling bin, I realized that I didn't need them.  Sure you can use a plastic bag to line your bathroom trash bin.  But other than that, what is the use?  (Well, other than holding your flour as you lay a hash trail.)  So I decided to purchase canvas bags.  You can fit as many groceries in one canvas bag as you would in 3-4 plastic bags.  Plus, if you are like me and live on a third floor apartment it is so much easier to lug everything upstairs in sturdy canvas bags.

I also realized how many plastic sandwich bags I use (since I bring my lunch to work 80% of the time).  Where do those little baggies go?  And how long does it take for them to break down in a landfill? So I decided to go out and purchase some gladware plastic containers to use instead! Thanks to the many shapes and sizes that they come in these reusable containers can hold your afternoon snack, sandwich, cereal, etc.

And to explain the title of this blog.  This is from one of my favorite stand-up comic shows.

Earth Week

Happy Earth Week!  Earth Day is this Wednesday.  So to celebrate I'll be posting a few photos or tips from my little world o' Cindar.  Over the past year and a half I have tried to find ways to not be as wasteful and help the earth.  Being green or eco-friendly isn't some left-wing hippie-dippy mumbo-jumbo.  It can be a Christian thing to do, too.  Being a creative person, I've been seeing the earth in a different light.  God being the ultimate artist and creator I feel that it's important to respect his creation.  How would I feel if someone came up to one of my paintings and totally trashed it?!

I may not be the best eco-friendly example but every little thing counts.

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."  Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so.  God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

-Genesis 1:27-31

Unfinished Business

A lot of my twenties felt unfinished.  Threads left hanging, holes to peek through, fuzzy memories of happy days.  This painting was intended to be a come back after the serious relationship I was in fell apart.  But I just never got around to finishing it.  I guess drama is what drove my creativity.  That and an extremely strong bond to the Trinity.  I'm in my 30s now.  What to do...what to do...with this soul of mine at this point?  We'll see.  I'm not putting pressure on myself to get my creative self back together again.  It will happen.  But darn.....I look at unfinished things in my life be it a piece of art like this one, my good intentions, spirituality and sometimes have to pat myself on my back and say, "Dang, Cindy.  You were pretty good at this 'life' thing."