Seen something, been there. could not stop from posting it here. Well, I recently came across few fab. designs on guess what home entertainment centers. Ive seen modern TV stands, but these need more than mention as voguish home theater entertainment centers designed for those suave sophisticated homes and studio apartments with a up-to-minute urbane lifestyle. Styled highly as Italian contemp
After a very stressful, Freaky Friday., I am starting this week off on a positive foot by focusing on the small things that life worth living.
Facing a Monday morning can often be stressful, depressing, overwhelming, and any number of other draining, negative emotions. The battle to stay postive, focused, and on track looms ahead [...]
I notice that with spouse away, the boys do not come into the bedroom in the morning. Usually they bowl in together to announce their pull-up and bed status, wet or dry, at 50 decibels, twice over. Whilst he is away in "England," I am no substitute. I am left to slumber in blissful peace. Nevertheless at 5:25 a.m. which is really 6:25 a.m. due to Daylight Savings, I am forced to quit my steaming pit and lumber downstairs to calm the screaming masses. Sunday is pancake day, all of them are on the cusp of malnutrition. I stick the thermometer in my ear before I greet them, just to check that I am keeping the fever at bay: 99.1, let’s keep it that way.We meet and greet as I discretely pat their derrieres for more checking. Dang! More laundry. I shelve laundry duty and commence panca
After plodding through the last few books, “The God of Small Things” was a refreshing change. It drew me in, into the lives of Estha and Rahel, into Kerala, Ayemenem, onto love and its fragile boundaries, easily crushed by blind traditions, by selfish, hypocritical motives.
What Arundhati Roy achieves in her debut novel, her only [...]
The God of small things is a bestseller novel written by first time author Arundhati Roy. This book has won the English premier literary award, the Booker prize in 1997. The novel was written in non sequential narrative style. The story moved from flashbacks that took place 23 years ago to the present day. The God of small things basically deals with how certain events can affect a person’s behaviour and future.This is a tale of fraternal twins Estha and Rahel who were separated at an early age by their mother due to some unfortunate circumstances. The main events occurred during the visit of their cousin Sophie and her death. On the way to the airport the family experienced a lot of traumatizing events like Estha molested by the Orangedrink Lemondrink man in the moviehouse and Baby Koch
Ryan Couch (and anyone who went to CCBC during the Twin Peaks years) can attest that the phrase/verse “Don’t despise the day of small things” was ground into our heads for a reason. Back in the day I felt like the ministry/servanthood required course was forced slave labor. Some people cleaned the conference rooms. Some [...]
Like getting to sleep late in the morning.Or wandering around until noon in your pj's.Or getting almost my whole proposal done (except for part of the thesis, which I'm stuck at but not totally helpless on)Getting my laundry done (which I have to take out of the washer- remember that Jen before you go to bed!)Making dinner tonight (real dinner, not just boiled eggs for myself) for myself and Gabe... and having it be edible! And rather tasty too! I made stir fry, (with fake chicken and lots of veggies) and put it over grits (because I wanted to be adventurous and prove to Gabe that I could at least cook SOMETHING)Just as proof, I took a video of it, but I'll have to put it up at a later point.My connection is shaky right now.I'm feeling rather off, and I had a grand intention of writing a witty and funny post, but now I'm just feeling tired.Later
Just like most of the people out there, I have this determination that I label it as "Up and gone" motivation on doing something to the best. I am sure everyone has this, either on financial issues or motivation to study or work. I recently has a financial one (I think I did have it last time, but it's gone for long I guess). I want to save every penny that I can!As my previous sponsored post about printers and cartridges pointed out, it is important to know on how you can save. I found this article from Bankrate.com today, citing the Top 10 money drains which we incur in our everyday life expense. Some of my expenses do went in there, some purposely but some without intentions.I do drink coffee, a lot of them, since I studied in college because of the long hours of classes. Apart from that, I buy mineral water from the college's canteen to quench my thirst rather than bringing my own water to class. I also need buy my lunch because my hostel don't allow cooking to take place (I got
Here is a very good tutorial on how to do a good product photo cheaply for online auctions. But it can also be applied to almost any smallish object that you want to take a good photo of:-Photography Tutorial – Shooting for Online Auctions
As we talked about a couple days ago, there is definitely a difference between “small things” and “big things” in the lifestyle choices that we make. Yesterday, we talked about, on a practical level, what the day in and day out lifestyle of an ethical person might look like. Today, it’s time to contemplate and consider if all those “small things” really do make a difference. We’ll talk about reducing energy, buying sweatshop-free clothing and fair trade coffee.
What if we all reduced our energy consumption (like turning down our heat)? Instead of using 80% of the world’s resources we take only our fair share? Maybe global warming is true and we save ourselves from utter destruction. Maybe it’s not true and we simply take a step down from our high pedestal and join the rest of the world.
What if we all bought sweatshop-free clothing?
If everyone made a small decision to change the brand of clothing they bought from Hanes to sa
This is my response to the comment below that was made on my blog a while back:
My point is that people of faith who ache for a lost, dying, and hungry world ought to spend less time worrying about what soda or coffee to drink, or whether to put on a (”fair trade” wool) sweater or turn up the heat, and saying things like “heres to you” to pizza donating murderers, and more time doing things with a little more substance to help alleviate or solve the problems they lament.
Dear Friend,
If people of Faith, and readers and author of this blog, were spending ALL of their time worrying about what to buy, regulating temperatures and toasting murderers, I too would have a problem with that. From what I can tell you see the above steps and actions to be “little things.” They are things that you see as not having any major significance in the world, effecting no major changes, impacting only a small portion of this “lost, dying and hungry world.” I think to s
Here is a video I found via GreenMaven and Treehugger. The video was created by the Apeiron Institute of Environmental Living and the Rhode Island Film Collaborative.
The video is about making the commitment to go green. Even if everyone around you doesn’t hop onboard, the impact will still be felt.
