I would like to talk to you today. Im not going to keep it down to four paragraphs to keep your attention. Im not going to fill it with pretty photos. Im not going to fill it with keyword rich text. (You can already tell cant you?)
This article isnt meant for the faceless world at large, its for you, my faithful readers, who join me when I post a new article. Im not going to push it, twitter it, stumble it, digg it, reddit it or any other number of things. If it takes off, I have only you to thank.
So now, lets talk.
How often do you get asked I dont get asked that a lot, but Ive been asked a few times in the last few days. You see, my wife and I just purchased a home, and we are doing the remodel work ourselves.
My wife is a trooper, a true worker and my best friend and partner. The other day, we were both on our hands and knees, laying polyurethane on hardwood floors with every window in the house open, in 34 degree weather. Watching her work beside me, both of us in our winter coats, hats and gloves in the middle of an empty living room, made my heart swell with pride and love. She is my hiking and kayaking partner too, but there is no guy task that she does not want to or is unwilling to do. Sooo..
Ive been asked Why are you gutting 5 rooms and redoing them yourselves? Why dont you hire someone to do it? Why indeed, why am I doing it? I could hire someone to do it, and they might even do it better than I can. So Why do I do the things I do?
Here we go.
When you think the words I am, what follows in your mind? The answer to that has changed over time, hasnt it? I truly believe that it is the answer to that question that dictates why we do the things we do. Please allow me to explain.
For those of you who have been following me for a while, you may rightly believe that I am passionate about the environment. But the real truth behind a thing isnt the I am, but why am I? Why am I passionate about the Environment, and how does that permeate every other thing that I choose to do or not do? What does the Environment have to do with me doing my own remodeling, and what does that have to do with
Those of us that are struggle with it every day. We try to be deep green to help make up for all the people that are (The opposite of Green. Those people who consume and pollute to an excessive degree) We struggle against the very real and human instinct for comfort, taste and sensuality. We try not to eat to much beef, we recycle our toilet paper tubes, we re-set the margins on our printer paper (that ones for you Robin) and we make do with less, reuse what we can and recycle the rest. Its difficult. It really is, but it helps define us.
Some would say that it gives us a Martyr Syndrome. Some would say that we look down our noses at over consumers, at those who shop because of addiction, low self confidence, ego building or boredom. Some would say that we push a Green Agenda because we are all poor and cant afford to consume like the rest, so we hide it behind this new Some people say these things because they cant see it the way we see it, and thats o.k. They ask these things because they dont understand why. They assume that I am all the things above, but I, like many of you, am successful, make good money and have a healthy 401k, investments and savings account.
This is why. Every thing that we do, except for a few things beyond our control, like our breathing, our hearts beating and sleeping, is a choice that we make. Everything else, from the things we put in our bodies to the things we purchase, to the things that we say, are a choice. These choices that we make are predicated on prioritys. If I say , this will happen. If I eat , then this will happen. If I drive this or purchase this or throw away this then this, this and this will happen. If you are willing to live with the this will happen, chances are you will do
But where do we learn these priorities that drive our choices? Nature and Nurture. Nature dictates that we seek warmth, comfort, love and safety. Nurture dictates that we seek power, respect, peer approval, popularity and thousands of other things. Society dictates that all things, in both categories, can be bought. Why does a Coal Executive fight for Mountaintop Mining when he knows it is wrong? Because he wants to stay an Executive. He wants to keep getting paid. He wants the power and respect associated with his position. Why does an S.U.V. driver living in a McMansion insist that Global Warming is not real? Because they are vested in their lifestyle. The balance of their prioritys have not tipped the scales in favor of them making change in their lives. Because to believe otherwise would make them a hypocrite.
We dont see things the way they are, we see things the way WE are. Priorities change the person we are and the person we are changes the choices that we make. That is why arguing with someone who is vested in a way of life makes no sense. Finding ways to change their priorities is the only way to make change.
So who, or what, changed my priorities? Why would I rather reuse my own labor, than pay someone else for theirs, to remodel my home? Why would I pull 4 good rooms of carpet out and donate it to Habitat for Humanity? Is it because Im almost so green that I would rather someone who needs it more than me, have it? Have I taken the philosophy that far? The fact that there is hardwood underneath doesnt hurt, but yes, I do get a thrill knowing that it will go to someone who needs it.
It took an extreme case for me to change my priorities. It took starting over at the age of 30, on the verge of homelessness, two dufflebags full of clothes and $10.50 in my pocket. Thats what it took to change my priorities. (I gave the $10.00 to a homeless woman with 2 children) At 30, I started over, with .50 cents in my pocket.
It was the best thing that ever could have happened to me. After losing it all, It left me free to figure out what life was really about, and I learned very quickly that it is not about consumption. Its not about destruction. Its not about killing yourself or other people. Its about protecting. Its about protecting both the present and future lives of the people who share this house we call a planet.
Its not about saving the planet, its about saving ourselves. Its not about me hating anyone, or looking down my nose at them, its about me trying to convince them that there is more to the world than the world they know. That there is a world outside the front door of the house, and between the car door and the office door that is there for the exploring.
Its about showing people that their world is like a puzzle on a table. They spend their days pushing down the corners of the pieces of their lives, so they dont bounce out of their life puzzle. Bigger and or better houses, cars, clothes, meals, entertainment, trips, toys, careers Longer work hours, commutes, time spent in front of t.v.s, texting, phone calls, computers More time spent paying builders, lawyers, child care workers, massage therapists, pedicurists, lawn care professionals.  Thats a lot of puzzle pieces. How can you have and do all that and give more than just lip service to the environment?  Thats a lot of puzzle pieces my friends.
But what if your puzzle got swept off the table? What if it fell, if it shattered, if all the pieces were suddenly gone, and the only piece that you could find, was You? That little piece right in the center. That little piece that all the other pieces had been holding together?  Suddenly you are not defined by what you have around you, you are defined by yourself alone. Would you be able to pick yourself up off the floor and turn your back on everything? Would you be able to start over?
If you did start over, what would you do differently? Would you create another puzzle, or would you create more of a picture? Would your life be based on things and consumption or would you base it on relationships and beautiful, natural things that are too big to be swept off the table.s why. Thats why I use my own labor. Its one less puzzle piece. Thats why I love the environment. It cant be swept off the table.
Or can it?
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I woke up, hadn't slept so well, had had fever last night, my period had started, you know, the typical nice start for a day :D It was raining outside and it was to rain all day long.

I got to the shower and by the time I was finished, the kitchen door was locked. I had to wait half an hour for someone to open it for me, so I could have breakfast. I checked the last job announcements in the Internet, dressed myself as if I was gonna conquer North Pole and left. Late.

My plan was to search for a job in Cologne. I had prepared the plan before. I only needed a map. I got there, bought the map and localized all the companies I would visit there that day.

Every company I entered with that ever last durable smile told me the same: there is no work, financial problems, no work for girls (hard body work) or "come next week" (which in that moment was too much to ask),... I went to at least 10 companies, for temporary (yes only temporary!!!) working opportunities. Nothing.

The pressure of weeks of studying opportunity- and job search started to fade the smile off my face. I started to believe I was stupid, incapable, invalid... everything. I was not supposed to come here, to do this. I'm wasting my time. I'm never gonna become anything. You know those stupid thoughts of a little girl with no idea about the world. But those feelings were and partly are real.

I called one of the companies I had sent my CV in Bonn and the nice guy told me he was going to send me an invitation for an interview, but he hadn't done it yet. The job sounded good and he asked if I could come the next week. My plan at that time was to stay in Bonn till the next day, Saturday, so I told him I was gonna think about it and call back if I could settle a meeting. The only interview I had got that day was gonna be the next week. I would have had to come back to Cologne for it.

The guy with whom I was supposed to drive* home the next day called me that he was really sorry, but his car had broken. He couldn't drive the next day. That meant I wasn't gonna be able to get to the birthday of my aunt, where all my cousins from different places of Germany would come to. I was crushed. I love family events and I had missed my cousins, one of them has such a beautiful little baby that crows so fast, I wanna see her. They are my family here.

It was late and I was getting hungry. I saw a Spanish restaurant and thought - Great, I'm gonna feel like at home and eat something I missed so long, Tortilla de patatas. It was on the list, the price was too high, but I thought, I deserved it, gonna coddle myself and eat something good.

It was good, but it wasn't the Tortilla I had missed so long, it wasn't at all as good as Marta's mom's one.
I talked to them in Spanish, to have a home-feeling. They answered in German. What a disappointment. No connexion there.

At the end of the day I was so emotionally and physically finished I just couldn't help myself anymore and cried helplessly. My aunt called me in that moment, asked me how the day had gone and I just could cry.

She said she would pay me the train back the same day so she could give me a hug and comfort me, but I couldn't have let her do that. I was already living in her house for free, not paying anything, I was not gonna let her pay that as well. And I hoped to get at least to that one job interview, on Monday. My ride home the next day was cancelled anyway.

I sat to the train back to Bonn and I cried. I was sneezing and my immune system failed me, as I had failed: I got an herpes in my lip for snuffing so much. It was almost tragicomical.

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3)I do not care about titles (media specialist professional, internet market specialist, etc), or your check last month, I just want to make my money back and have some extra gas money (btw it takes $60 to fill my tank per week).
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