To my dear husband.

I am sorry for being so not happy on mother’s day. When I said that I didn’t want any gifts; I didn’t mean that. I meant I wanted a day at the spa. and a new car. and an award for being so wonderful and such a martyr.

Of course if you did any of those things I would be angry at you for spending money or not listening to me when I said I didn’t want anything. Either way. You can’t win. Sorry.

To the middle aged lady in the red convertible.

I am sorry. I am sorry that I didn’t run you right off the road when you decided to play chicken with me and flip me off and yell curse words at me when you passed by. I apologize for not being as wonderful as a driver as you in your “midlife crisis mobile.” Unfortunately, I had children in the car and for some hormone induced reason decided to drive the speed limit and try and preserve the lives that have been given to me to raise. I am sorry that you were driving on Dale Mabry Hwy and not the Audubon. Sorry.

To the bill lady at our doctors office.

I am sorry for the fact that you have such poor record keeping skills that for the second time this year you double charged us for a co-pay. Once again I was my slacker self and paid the bill the first time you sent the notice. Unfortunately to keep yourself busy, you sent me a second notice with a big red underlining swoop demanding I pay NOW!!! because you like to forget that I already paid you.

Then to ice the cake you are only available between the hours of never and not in this lifetime. So when I try and call you to discuss this and give you the bank statement that clearly shows I already paid, I get to leave a new message. Are you wallpapering with all my messages? Because I have a few extra rolls of paper here I would be happy to give you. But then you would probably lose those, too.

Anyway, I am sorry that whenever I think about you I imagine wrapping you up with sticky note messages and cancelled checks. and tying you to your chair with the phone glued to your ear. Sorry.

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Not sure if any of you realized it or not, but I haven’t been posting as much about going green as I once did. It’s not because I have stopped my quest to reduce, reuse and recycle, because I am still going strong.

Actually, why I have stopped (and not so happily- I feel like I am not in my right element), is because going green seems to be the new fad. On one hand - Yay! I am so happy that we all are making strides to do our part.

On the other hand, ugh! I think it’s a fad. We all know what happens to fads. They fade.

It also bothers me that it seems like more blogs than not, are posting their tips on going green. Change lightbulbs, clean green, etc. Then 2 days later I see them post their CVS purchases which contradict everything they posted about going green. It makes me wonder if they actually believe what they posted.

Now by no means am I in anyway perfect in my attempts to be more eco-friendly. I can say that I do try and practice all that I preach. Yes, I slip up every so often- usually when I haven’t planned properly. I do, however; honestly try and keep my tenant of reducing, reusing and recycling all as often as I can.

I applaud all efforts of anyone who is trying to do their part and make a change. What I am calling for and urging even, is a little more action or maybe even new ideas. I am fairly certain that most people know to switch their light bulbs by now. Almost everyone has been made aware of using harmful chemicals. We all know to cut back on the plastic bag usage.

Why not kick it up a notch? I know that I am not able to buy as much organic food as I would like. We just can’t afford to do so. I don’t expect that every person is going to be able to do everything that has ever been suggested to going green.

Instead of giving up completely because I can’t do something, like buy organic, I try focus on something else I can do. Like Reduce! Not only is this a green option, but frugal, too.

This is why my posting of ideas on being more green have started to trickle. I am slowing down on things to suggest that haven’t been suggested by every other blogger and morning tv show already.

My point in writing this post was not to point out faults or be negative, but to request that we all do our part to not just make this a fad. Let’s take all the talk and ideas and incorporate them into our daily life as a consistent function. Let’s make it real!

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