I cannot dye my hair because I have a job interview. I will not reveal anything about it because everything I ever blog about is a jinx :)
So, no green, but I did put in some big blonde chunks and I like it.
Steve's "job" has been a flop so far, it is nothing like they described and mostly he is not able to attend impromptu trips across the state on a Sunday evening or 30 miles away at 9 pm until midnight--hello!?
They told him 7 to 8 pm, near your home. I just hope I get something quick so we don't have to deal with this unprofessional shady side business anymore.
I am still working some light clerical on Saturdays with my friend. I like it alot and will be bummed when the project is through. MAYBE there will be more for me to do when this job is done.
Its so weird to not spend very much time with all of us as a family, but maybe somethings can change down the line and we won't have to be apart as much. I would like some combination of Steve getting appropriate pay like he was before his idiotic pay cut this past spring, and living in a tiny cabin, making soap and knitting sweaters and eating rice and beans and homemade lemonade and being off the grid greenies--but with Internet access ;) of course.
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Oh, too bad, we'll have to wait for the lovely green hair. Best of luck with this possible job. I am always trying to find new ways to bring in extra money but I really have to make myself focus on getting the dissertation DONE, since it costs me every semester I am in school. ($850 for a zero-credit "continuous enrollment" fee! Ouch!)
I have made and sold slings here and there, but since I am not doing any active advertising, it's fairly slow. I really want to open our B&B after Christmas, but I have to install a fifth sink in our kitchen before it will meet the health codes. Too many sinks, in my opinion.
Well anyway, enough rambling for today...
Oh, to live off the grid!
If only it didn't involve such a huge investment to unplug! Those wind turbines and solar panels and wells etc are soooo expensive!
I'm sure this is a temporary situation with your lack of family time. You guys still have Sundays together, don't you? Sheldon only has Sundays off - so I understand how quickly that ONE day a week together goes by!
Well, working lady, the green or blue or turquoise hair will happen eventually. Once again, I'll bet this is a temporary situation. You'll charm them into not even noticing when you show up to work one day with crazy hair :-) By then they'll find you so indispensable that they wouldn't dare say anything negative about it!
Thanks, guys!
I officially have been offered the job, so now to just get in there and become beloved, haha and then maybe a few crazy strekies will appear in my hair ;)
This job is only until April so maybe 1/2 the year I will have wacky hair and 1/2 I will have regular people color.
Isnt it ironic how expensive it CAN be to be a nature girl? I think of the price of living in a little cabin, making my own food, raising famr animals and using wind power and cloth diapers and non-sweat shop clothing and weaving our wool and my head spins.
Rediculous really. even stocking up a medicine cabinet with all homeopathic stuff and herbs is exhorbatant. Seems that so much of "the simple life" is only for the elite. I welcome commenters to show me how I am wrong!
Yea for you! I'm glad to hear about the job, and I certainly hope you ingratiate yourself quickly so you get to have the fun hair. :)
Sorry I haven't commented lately. I'm not on the Internet nearly as much as I used to be. My blog is suffering, too.
What's the job, by the way?
Well, as rediculous as it sounds, I refuse to blog about it until I start actual working, but I am going to be the bartender at a curling club. You know, the ice sport that is really popular in Canada and Europe--there is a curling league here in town and my good friend curls there. I will be bartending 2 nights there, from about 6pm to midnightish. It is mostly older guys who just get a pitcher of beer and out it on their account tabs, so no tips, and probably not too many fancy drinks or anything. I really think they just want someone friendly and professional who, in a small club member environment, will become a well known personality. I like this place and am really looking forward to this job. It pays hourly so that is nice. The job runs from October until April, and my friend found out they might be looking for someone and asked if I was interested. I think it will be very different from my typical evenings (!!!) but not so freaky that I feel scared or stressed by it.
Very cool. I hope you have a wonderful time. The friendly and professional part sounds like it's right up your alley. :)
Methinks the expense of living a "natural" lifestyle warrants its own blog post! That's one of my biggest pet peeves with the whole "natural" lifestyle as it is marketed. You know, organic everything, from diapers to dish detergent. Recycled wood flooring that is 10x more expensive than new, but it's "better" because it has lots of scratches and nail holes in it, and it was once a ceiling joist in an old sawmill. $100 fair-trade ecologically grown cotton jeans.
Food, too. Our food expenses every month went WAY, WAY up during the time I was buying organic, natural foods because Josh needed them. I'm talking $80-100 for 8 or 9 things. I couldn't step into Whole Foods Market without blowing a week's budget on foods that if I'd gotten something similar in the regular store would have cost me maybe $30. But Josh needed them so I got them. Thank goodness we aren't doing that anymore. It costs so much more to buy veggies, especially organic, than potato chips and twinkies, but I refuse to buy those on anything but a VERY occasional basis. I guess I'll just have to to get used to it.
Growing a garden is the best suggestion I have for frugal organic produce--but of course you're limited to what will grow in your area, what is in season, whether or not you can dig up your yard, how much sunlight you get...Still I am soooo wanting to have my own garden but we're always gone during the summers. I planed a whole bunch of fruit bushes and plants and everything died. Everything. Doesn't help that I was gone for 2 months and the weeds had a heyday.
Oh, man I will definately post about it--but yes, there are 2 sides to it, of course. I can gripe about Whole Foods Market prices or I can plant 2 bucks worth of beans.
We want to have our cake and eat it too--we want to model "old fashioned" things, but in new fashioned ways: we want to knit but we are so entrenched in go-to-the-store culture that we only see it as "expensive yarn"
We want "all natural" stuff but we forget how and why the industrial revolution made things fast fast fast (and most times, crappy crappy crappy.) So, in 2007, to get something that isnt made in a sweatshop is relatively expensive compared to what we can get it for at Walmart. Add in the weird economy, how muych most people get paid compared to what they have to pay out for things like housing and heating and healthcare and we are in a position where we HAVE to buy cheap junk--or go naked! I am speaking from the low end of middle middle class, of course there will be variations...
I will do a post soon.
I am so sorry about your garden, Rixa, I alwasy joke that I have a black thumb--I have never brought so much as a tomato plant into my care that didnt drop dead instantly. I am the only one of my friends who doesnt buy those baskets of flowers in May, or plant cute little annulas around the edge of the house....my kids save little apples seeds and peach pits to plant and I just shrug and say good luck! We couldnt even sprout herbs that we got for Christmas!
My ideal home is one on some land out in the country. I want 1-3 acres so we can have an orchard, a big garden, and animals. I really want goats and chickens. My dream is to be self-reliant and to provide lots of opportunities for my family to work together. However, right now I am in an 1800 sq ft multi-level rental house in the middle of a very hilly, 3/4 acre (big, but so hilly I don't have very many flat places to garden in) suburban lot on the corner of a very busy street. As I write this I can see glaring inconsistencies in my life and what I want. Perhaps that needs to change. I love these comments, and also your post about small houses. They are making me think. Perhaps the dream is not so very far away if we can rearrange our lives a bit. :)
That sounds so nice, Kelley. I have been thinking about living according to our dreams and ideals and values for a few years now--so funny that to most folks they picture bigger newer more but those people are the same ones who never seem satisfied or "happy"--which is exactly the point of capitalism. Once we are satiated, then we dont need to run back out to buy more stuff...
I hope you get your chickens and goats :)
My dream life is one where I live within walking distance of all the amenities I need (grocery store, post office, library, school, parks, hardware store, church, etc), where I have enough yard space to grow things to eat, where I live in a cool old historic house (retrofitted, of course, with lots of renewable energy devices like passive solar heating, solar electrical panels that tie into the grid and "pay" me back when I'm not using the energy, gray water recycling system, etc).
I don't think I could handle country life because you have to drive everywhere. It's not to diss it at all, but for me I love being able to walk or bike to everything I use on a regular basis. I like being in a community and I love the independence of not having to use a car.
I guess this desire to live in the country comes from living right on or very close to main, busy thoroughfares for most of our married life. I'd like to go someplace where I can't hear rush hour starting up at 5:30 in the morning. Not complaining; just commenting.
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