The average person goes through a large number of plastic waterbottles every year.

Most people do not even recycle them. This really takes up a lot of room in our landfills.

If plastic grocery bags take 100 - 500 years to completely decompose in our landfills, think how long it takes for plastic waterbottles take!

First of all,

Instead of throwing your waterbottles away because there is no recycling bin around to throw them in, or because it is just easier to throw them in the garbage can because it is faster, just recycle them. We all should want to keep our earth in the best condition that we can. Not ruin it by throwing away things that can be recycled.

This doesn't just go for waterbottles either, shopping bags, packiging and everything gets thrown away and we are going to run out of room to put it all.

There is an alternate way to change this too. REUSE! Use reuseable waterbottles, shopping bags, hand-me-down clothes. Buy things that are not over packaged.

That brings up another subject.

In school we were talking about how, so many products are over packaged these days. For example, those little tuna snackers that you buy. . . the tuna is in a second package than everything else, the crackers are in a seperate little baggy, plus everything is inside all of this plastic packaging. Don't you think that this is a little much. . . it all gets thrown away anywayse. . . it is kind of dumb when you really think about it. . .

I am going to post a challenge for everyone that reads my blog. . .

Next time you go to the store try to buy things that are not overpackaged.

This post is getting quite long. . . Please comment!

Hurting and Lovin' it!

Let me tell you, tonight's sihing class was really an eye opener for me!

It is definitely not easy to push yourself beyond your limits. Tonight's class taught me that.

I really do not know how to explain this, but, I have a challenge for everyone reading my blog.

When you have a moment, find some space and start slide stepping in your horse stance. . . keep going lower, and lower each time you step. Now do this for about three minutes.

After I finished doing this, my legs were burning so bad. Strangely though, I had this burning earg inside of me to keep going. Funny how that works.

That's all I really have to say for today!

Surprises in life. . . .

Well this week has been really crummy for me.

Let me tell you, Life is full of surprises. Sometimes they are good surprises and sometimes they are bad. Dealing with the bad surprises, and making them turn out to be good surprises is the trick.

I just had a really big fight with my friend in school. I just didn't get why she got all mad at me all of a sudden either. She just kind of started ignoring me and acting like I wasn't a person! It was hard at first but then, I started trying to turn it into a good thing, and, you know what, it kind of works.

I just thought of how, having this happen to me, I know that when and if it happens again I'll be prepared. You really learn from the experience.

Anyway, having this happen to me really made me thankful that I have Kung-Fu in my life. With out it, I don' t think I would have handled this as well as I did. . .

Kung- Fu has taught me that, even when the tough gets tougher, you can always find a way through it. I always think to myself, that when I have a bad day in school, that at 5:00 or even 7:30, I will be at the studio, working my butt off, and feeling good about myself the whole time.

I guess what I am trying to say is that when I am feeling really down and bad about myself, that is when I really need to go to Kung- Fu and get that kick in the butt that I need. Without
Kung-Fu, I really don't think that I would feel as good about myself as I do today!

Wow,
Blogging all of this really makes me feel so much better.
I need to go do some push ups!