Today I am placing both of my laptops and all my other books and gadgets in the office to stay. Using them in the living room puts me out of reach of resources I need in my office and things are going undone when I think of them. Everything at hand is a much better way to be. Distraction is not permissable in these next few months ha ha. But since nothing truly exciting is going on today, I wanted to mention some insanity that needs to be stopped.
People drinking bottled water. I don't think you all realize the problems with this. Bottled water is a HUGE moneymaker for businesses because you buy it. They buy land in rural areas then pump the water for practically nothing and sell it back to those areas so you can drink out of a cancer causing, environmentally harmful plastic bottle. Congratulations on the stupidity. What do you think happens when businesses find an amazing way to make money? They buy it all up. They are buying all the water up. 75% of our Earth is covered in water and only 1% is drinkable. By 2030 - no matter where you live - there will be a struggle to find clean drinking water UNLESS you buy it in plastic containers. Congratulations once again. You buy this water because of its convenience (and you think it tastes better). Your kids, nieces, nephews will pay dearly. I have not yet converted my entire family and I can't control what they do. But I can control my actions and I will choose to fill my own bottle, drink from my own glass, my own filtered tap water. Please do the same.
An interesting documentary on this subject:
Tapped
According to this documentary, Nestle has had town water supplies - like natural springs - rerouted so the town's water would be different and they would get the spring. When towns go without water for however long - Nestle never stops pumping. If I ever go without water everyone who keeps buying bottled water will be to blame and you will hear about and possibly get sued by me. Ha - kinda funny - not really. Stop being an idiot. Americans spent nearly
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on bottled water in a year when they have tap water and filters readily available at a moment's notice. Seriously? Holy crap. They pump it for free and sell it back to us at 1900 times the amount of tap water! Of course they'll never stop til our supply has gone dry - it's pure profit. They are fighting for the right in courts now for their right to pump our water. And all because you couldn't walk to the sink and wash a bottle. Again - congratulations. I used to get bottled water at restaurants, but now I would rather go without a drink til I get home than pump more money into that system. And its not just Nestle - Coke and Pepsi are to blame as well.
And as everyone as pointed out - Evian (bottled water brand) is Naive backwards. From wikipedia.org:
Naïve is a
French loanword (adjective, form of
naïf) indicating having or
showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication; in early use, it meant natural or innocent, and did not connote ineptitude. The dots above the I are called a
diaeresis (see also
Ï); the alternative spelling,
naive, is also typically correct.
Some people may need this water in their areas - well leave it to them. Stop buying it at gas stations or anywhere for that matter. Stop wasting money, killing the environment, and making our country look completely stupid.
Two other interesting documentaries I have seen lately - one I have mentioned before, but is worth repeating -
A Beautiful Truth
and
Darkon.
A Beautiful Truth is about a natural cure for cancer and how chemical companies are in charge of chemotherapy of course. But it's just an interesting homemade style documentary.
As for Darkon - it is completely off the subject of big business unless you count it as a drastic escape from such things. It's about a group of people who have created a community of Live Action Role Players or Larpers. That term is not really used in the film as they have created more of an alternate realm they go into on the weekends. It would totally be fun to slip off into an alternate reality, but as the documentary shows - there's no escaping emotions, feeling left out, ignored, and betrayed - all
the problems of real life. The only difference I see is that people who are physically hurt - rez in 16 minutes and people who aren't leaders in business and real life can be and are in Darkon.
Happy watching and FILTERED AND/OR FRESH WATER FOR ALL!!!!!!!!
Love & Gratitude,
Erica Nicole
Filtered pitchers:
Portable water bottles:
and just loved it. I would have stayed up and read it all in one night, but had an appointment early the next morning so I ended up finishing it in two nights. It is very personal and entertaining. It's basically all the craziness I love about the Osbournes.
still. Long battery life and it is not backlit. I understand people wanting the full color display of the ipad
. Some books call for that - I mean you can get picture books and not miss out on the colors. But I could never read a book to a kid from a computer device and I don't read many books with pictures so I haven't found it to be a problem so far. I enjoy the fact that the kindle is a digital book and reads like it is paper and not like you are reading a book from a computer screen. 
, but I'm sure there will be a free gifts involved for those who take time to test and give feedback. 
