I totally agree that compostable items SHOULD NOT be thrown away. I can’t imagine how many bags of grass and leaves are simply thrown away to never be decomposed to dirt and never reintroduce to the soil

We compost everything! I shred paper and junk mail, dryer lint, of course all food scraps (except old meat), I even dump out the vacuum canister into the bin. I love it.

Like I mentioned before I don’t have a garden. If I can’t find anyone who could use it, I simply spread my compost into the yard.

here’s a pic of my bin: http://home.everestkc.net/tsmith74217/compost2.jpg

I have been having a difficult time getting my children to publish on their blogs. Naturally they want to lean toward the Facebook, and MySpace crap. My daughter finally became interested in her blog and my mother commented on it which killed it for my girl, “I don’t want my grandmother reading this!” In that case, my mother should have stayed in the shadows.

As for “airing the dirty laundry,” I’ve beat that one around a bunch. I’m sure my blog hurt my interviewing when I took a swing at getting back into the corporate world. And I was raised that we must present ourselves correctly, and that image was important. But I am who I am. And I’d rather let people see me than some contrived pseudo me. I probably don’t want to hang out with those who choose to disassociate themselves from me because of judgments based upon my writings anyway.

The problem with blogging a transparent life is that even with “utter transparency” we cannot reveal everything. There is not time! And everything is not appropriate. As much as I would like to blog about my finances, I cannot see that as “appropriate.” Readers make the poor assumption that everything they read is 1) truth and not embellished and 2) is everything! Unfortunately, blogging is but a small glimpse into a complex life. I feel that readers are too quick to judge based on that sliver of observation. But honestly, I’m good with that. Hopefully when they meet me in real life they’ll give me a chance to know the whole person.

I’ve written about this topic in why I blog and Employers READ ME.

I hope that the other one will turn out a good thing. Or another one soon. It’s always stressful to look for a place! big decisions, little time.

Take care, thank you for answering me. I really love it.

I remember having rented a place where I had had no problem personally, but where all the previous tenants had ended up in a lawsuit with the landlady, because this is what she was doing, renting against improving her house for free, but never letting the people who had put a lot of work in her property ultimately benefit from anything.

But it sounds from what I heard from you that it looks like a very exciting and fair opportunity. I will think of you of course and hope that it turns out for the best! Keep us posted.

As for my email to Kosso, I also pursued, but unfortunately came to late to get an invite, and now he says he does not give invites anymore for the moment.

Of course, I never took it personally, I am not paranoïd enough for that (not yet :-).

I really miss being able to interact with you guys, but will go on patiently, and hopefully will be able to get on Phreadz some day.
(I threaded my own adventures on my blog instead).

Thank you so much for answering me.