I officially hate the Environment!

The other day a glass bottle of soy sauce fell out of my cupboard leaving broken glass and nasty brown liquid all over the floor. Since a few days ago I believed in doing my part for the environment, I had no paper towels. I believed in being a good steward and used dish towels that I could use and re-use and re-use. Dish towels do not clean up broken glass. If I had paper towels I could just sop up the mess and dispose, but no I had to clean the mess up with a dish towel, shake the contents into a bag, and then try and rinse the dish towel to be used again. This left tiny little gashes on my hands. I finally ended up using a bunch of dish towels as to avoid the cuts and then throwing them away. Take that earth, how long does a glass and soy sauce soaked towel take to decompose? Probably a bit longer than it will take for the cuts to heal on my hands--oops. But I would do it again.

Easing the Pain

Today I picked up my son from school and by the look on his face it was apparent that he had a difficult day. I know that my son has a sensitive soul and felt he needed some lovin'. So, I headed to the nearest bakery to teach him the beauty of drowning out his sorrows by consuming products made of bleached flour, sugar, and butter. While at the bakery I let him pick out anything he wanted, and just so he didn't feel awkward I also picked up something for myself. For me, that special something was a brownie pecan pie--WOW--it transformed my life. The best thing is now I have a cooking project to occupy my time. Therefore, I can pretend to take the high ground and claim I am parenting--where in fact I will be ignoring my children for the sake of culinary arts.

Goals

Part of being anti-desing is having a strong, very strong belief in "me" time. Thus, I am taking off for a vacation with my friends and am taking no children. This means: I will not wake up before noon, I will not prepare any food, I will not change any diapers, and I will not have to whip out my conflict resolution skills. Life Rocks!! My only goal is to get my annual girl's trip extended from a long weekend to a month. I am pretty sure I can accomplish this by the end of the next decade. I guess that makes me a believer in goals--who knew?

The anti-blog?

So, initially this blog was meant for me to post every day to discuss my life of anti-design, but apparently I also live a life of anti-blog. This led to guilt because my mission in life is to make you all feel better because you are in no way as flaky as I am. Luckily, I got over the guilt after about 15 seconds--I have a litany of great excuses, but I am saving them for more dire situations. Now you have a good excuse for not updating your blog because the anti-design mom can't daily blog, so why should you? Down with daily posting!! Unless you need blogging as an excuse to ignore children and housework. "Sorry, kids can't help you with that oozing blood coming from your knee, I need to blog."