Yeah

So I said I would update

but I haven't

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?!?

New Year. New You.

So far 2007 isn't looking all that great.

Emotional breakdowns.

People walking in and out of my life at their own discretion.

Crazy.

When my book gets published....

look for January 2007.

Kidz Bop has gone too far!!!

Ujamma

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) "To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Today I concluded that: Consumerism will be the death of me, and sadly (maybe?) my community.
Though I try to fight it regularly, however, constantly I find myself in the stores purchasing YET another pair of jeans...which is unnecessary for a person who owns over 40 pairs of BLUE jeans ( i am sick and i know it )
I have previously worked in retail and I know first hand how consumerism plagues not just individuals or groups, but society as a whole.
Consumerism not only eats money but it consumes values as well.
Its addictive... I have to spend money....daily...finding a reason to go to the store to by something whether its needed or not!
as my good friend knows me to say... 2007 is not going to be about that...
my money will be better controlled, better spent, and better used.
Not only for my benefit, it shows retailers that I care about where my dollar goes which benefits not only me but my community, it also allows me to become a CAREFUL CONSUMER... who actually researches the market and understands the true power and value of her dollar.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann von Goethe

"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure."
-Joseph Sugarman

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
-Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963