What's love got to do with it?

Often I am reminded of how my Catholic faith morals and values are different then most of society. I was yet again reminded of this again tonight after going to this web site visuwords.

For those of you who have never seen this web sit is is "Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate." It's a dictionary and thesaurus in one.

It's a GREAT web site that is fun to get on and play around on, I suggest you try it. I typed in my name but nothing came up, and since the word "love" has been such a buzz word around my apartment tonight I thought I would type in the word "love". One of the branches of the word love goes directly to "sex, bed, humping, making out, rolling in the hay...." and so much more. It makes me sad that to so many people think this is what love is. After all I think society and media tell so many of us that this is love.

When I think of Love I think of what is going to take place in a week as we enter into Holy Week. Where Christ died on the cross for my sins rose from the grave and went forth. The Pascal mystery is love.

(A large thank you goes out to my friend Matt who showed me this web site, I am sure many hours of my life at work will be put to good use playing around on this web site!)

On another side note. My friend Andy thought my first blog would be something of an introduction, I'll do that now. …

I’m Tonia; I will blog whenever the mood hits me. Also I can’t spell and have bad grammar. Thank you for stopping in and reading. Please feel free to leave a comment!

Out with the Old in with the New in 2009

In the past few months I have become increasingly more "green". I don't really like the term "green" as much as I just like to become more aware of what I am doing to the earth, taking from the earth, and giving back to Mother Earth. I have started to recycle more. I never used to like to recycle because of the work, but I make the roommate take the recycling. However the amount of items I have put in the recycling box has increased. It has started to bug me with that amount of trash and items that are being thrown out each day.

Another thing that I would like to start having in my life is a compost pile. Every time I put something in the trash or put down the garbage disposal that could go into the compost pile, I think of how nice it would be to have one. I am sure there are large benefits to having one, however they are unknown to me other than the amount of trash would decrease.

Also, I have started to look into products that are environmentally friendly such as soap, laundry soap, cleaning products, and so on. I however have not gotten to the point of spending more money on these items; after all I did just get done paying off debt and would like to not go back into it because I buy green friendly laundry soap.

Also this website and concept fascinates me: 100 Mile Diet.
If I had more time, energy, and motivation in my life I would take this challenge. Since the roommate and I have gone very healthy with what we eat and put into our bodies, I am looking forward to spring and summer time with the Farmer's Markets for some Iowan grown produce.

The year 2009 has been a splendid year of out with the bad and in with the good. I am enjoying this new healthier "green" lifestyle.