Bria's Blogie

The 411 on Recycling

My poor old blender finally broke. The plastic cup on it is cracked beyond repair. I guess it was going to go sometime. I had bought it about a year ago at a garage sale for around $2 and it never really worked spectacularly anyway. It made decent salsa and smoothies. That's all I needed it to do. But now it's gone to blender heaven. What to do with it now?

I had read an article on recycling odd items not too long ago. I went looking for the article after spying the blender carcass collecting dust on a shelf earlier today. I thought I'd share the article with the blog-o-sphere.

According the article Best Buy will recycle appliances. I think I'll give them a call tomorrow.

The article also mentions a site that can link you up to places that will take your recyclables locally. You just type in what you're wanting to recycle and your either your city and state or your area code.

Earth 911

I've noticed that not too many people I am aquainted with know much about recycling. I recycle and some people get the idea that I'm some fanatical liberal because I recycle. I suppose that does kind of make me liberal thinking, but that in NO WAY states that I am politically liberal. (I consider myself a political independent, thank you.) My family recycled when I was a kid, although we didn't as I grew up because we moved a lot and didn't always find the local recycling joint. I started recycling myself when I moved out on my own about a year ago. I was rather struck that the two girls that I lived with last fall who were so terribly concerned about the environment in other ways didn't recycle, even when I offered to take theirs out with my bin. I gather from my travels and reading that Europeans recycle quite a bit. I heard on the news the other day that other countries are buying American trash for the recyclables there in so they can re-use our waste. Why can't Americans just recycle it for themselves and use it at home? I think all this is related to a lack of recycling education. I remember doing a unit in elementary school on saving the rainforest, but not on recycling. I remember hearing that you should recycle, but never what and how you recycle. So anyway, here's a few links that may help with that. Educate yourself!

List of Common Recyclables

The EPA on Recycling

Lessons Lately

Just wanted to share somethings that God has been teaching me.

On the way to a friend's place to study for the physics test I have tomorrow, I stopped at a red light. I had the radio on and Chris Tomlin's Holy is the Lord was on. I was singing my heart out when I look over at the truck in the lane next to me. There was a guy in the passenger seat waving frantically at me. Once he got my attention he pointed toward his radio and started singing the same song I was singing! So there we were, two strangers at an intersection singing the same praise song together. It was rather ironic also that a line in the song is "together we sing" It was awesome. I worship with strangers all the time in church, since I've been church hunting for a couple months. I hadn't started today or any other day ever expecting to be worshiping with a stranger at an intersection.  

Next, most any time I get together with a group of gal pals the conversation inevitably turns to our futures and how we intend to finish up our educations and get married. Basically all of my friends are either engaged, on the verge of being engaged, or have been dating someone for forever. They're all starting to try to find ways to get their own and their significant others' lives to fit together. And it is making them stress out a whole lot. Them thinking about that makes me think along the same lines with Greg. So I got thinking about it today and it is so confusing that in the end I just had to throw my hands up, give it God and let Him figure it out. It was either that or go crazy. Or crazier.

To build on that, the past two months have been insane for me and it won't get any better any time soon. In this mess, God has taught me to literally live day by day. I have to do that currently because if I look more than 24 hours in the future, I'm quite sure my brain would implode.

I hope these lessons stick to me. I'm really thick headed when it comes to life lessons.

So there you have it, my short and rather choppy testimony of the last few months. 

Hope everyone is doing well. Have you learned anything lately?

Internship and Summer Class

More or less of an update, that's this entry.

I'm soooo tired today. I started my internship today AND summer school. The work and school itself was a breeze, but I didn't sleep very well last night; I never do the night before I start something new. So I survived today on Advil. Yeah! I just took a wee post-work nap though, so the headache has abated. Hopefully I will wake up soon, and the temperature will go down a bit so I can work out in a little more comfort. 

I'm kind of excited about the internship. I'm not getting paid-- unfortunately. I bet that if I had known that I would be needing an internship this summer earlier, I could have landed the tech position at the place I'm working at and been paid. The girl they have just started last week and she's a junior communications major. Basically, she knows little to nothing about the field. I may not have had all my major classes yet, but I have way more clinical experience and special knowledge than she does. But she knows this particular clinic better than I do, so I figure we will be learning a lot from each other. I'm also excited because while I was doing my observation work the other times I was in a PT clinic, I wasn't legally allowed to have much patient interaction. I've got the title "intern" now, so I actually get to help treat patients this time! Yippie!

I'm not too terribly scared about my physics class... yet. The professor promised the lab would be an A as long as we showed up every time. I like those kinds of labs. The class itself is centered on 9 grades-- 5 tests doubled, with one grade dropped. About half of each test will be directly from the homework, which we will not turn in for a grade. The tests are on Monday too, so if I want to, I can put off doing the homework problems until the weekend! Which I will probably do, because I'm BUSY during the week. I'm either at class or work from 8-5ish everyday. Then Wednesday night, I have a going away party, Thursday a welcome home party and Friday Bible study. Sheesh. That's just this week of course, but I'd rather save my evenings to re-coop and work out/play tennis some. I miss playing. They had it on ESPN today at the clinic and they kept flashing bits of Maria Sharapova's match--which she lost to a racquet throwing nobody-- and I want to get back on the court!!

Well, I'm sufficiently awake from my nap now. I've been watching people work out all day, now it's my turn!

 P.S.-- I got my swimsuit in the mail late last week. I'm sending the oh so cute bottoms back, because it doesn't cover my entire bottom! What do they think I am, Brazilian?