New

New is something I try to avoid. New is very shiny, enticing, and works extra hard to make Old feel inadequate and completely outdated. New screams at me from billboards, store windows, glitzy metal zipping past me in the fast lane. New demands attention so much that it often uses force to achieve my glances. New dances on banners atop my email and pops up to surprise me on my favorite websites. How did New know I was reading a topic about him? New knows just how to manipulate me and draw me into wanting more, more, more. Does Old stand a chance against this over achieving, in your face, always attainable, very attractive, New? I would like to think so, but it's going to be a fight!


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Ooops, my hippy is showing

Years ago I tried to knit a horrible scarf with tiny needles. As you may have guessed, it didn't work out. Well, some mamas in my area are starting up a knitting group and promised to teach me a less painful way of knitting. I'm having a better time of it and so I have basic knitting skills.
Now comes the hippy part... I have been really craving a new purse/totebag. Now I can't buy anything new so I have searched every thrift shop in town with no luck. This led me to ebay and so far the ones I have found that I like are very expensive like this one I then found one with an eco-friendly message. It is a simple canvas tote that says "I'm not a plastic bag." However apparently a fancy designer made it and so it sold out and now I would have to pay about 50 bucks on ebay for something that was originally 5 bucks. The money goes to no worthy cause, it wasn't made by fair labor, and well, it's just not so eco-friendly anymore.
In my search for a similar bag at a decent price I stumbled upon this handmade bag and decided with my newly found knitting skills I could make my own bag. So last night I got to work cutting up old shopping bags. I ran out and went to the store to find more bags in the recycling bin at the front. So there I sat knitting away with my recycled plastic bags and realizing that I just may have reached the peek of hippyness. Wait.. nope.... I still shave my legs!