The Beginning

Over the past few months, I've slowly accumulated a variety of things:

• Pinterest boards with DIY ideas and natural alternatives to store-bought products
• Evernote notebooks filled with recipes, ideas, DIY notes
• Levenger Circa Notebooks in varying states of organization
• And a realization that if I want to change things, I very well have to start with myself.

Thus, the dawning of a slow-brewing idea and this blog. What I intend to do is to share with you my efforts to live more naturally, greener, and happier, all the while being a bit more organized.  I had hoped to begin immediately upon my return from the service trip to Guatemala, but a rather nasty head cold has set me back a few days. 

Here's the plan, we're going to do a month long boot camp. That's right, each day I will do one new thing to get rid of a few complications, chemicals, or unnecessaries. Each day I'll share my success and failure with you. If you are like me an hooked on Pinterest, go ahead and follow me. I will share what I've found helpful and not so helpful in my exploration of the vast expanse of the Internet.  If you have something that you want to try, but might not be brave enough (or want a second opinion) send it my way. I might add it to the schedule.

To give you an idea of the fact that I'm a (relatively) normal human being who lives and works in the real world here's a bit of who I am. I am an absolute bibliophile who also adores movies (the good ones and the flaky ones). I have a high maintenance dog, Gracie, a Cairn Terrier who will likely appear frequently on this blog. I work full time as a youth & young adult minister so my hours are wacky, my job is unpredictable and like many of you I have to plan for meals at work and meals when I don't feel like cooking. Gracie is my only housemate, so I also don't have to consider the tastes and wishes of another person in this adventure.

Oh, I'm also not eating out or getting take out at any point this month. That might be the hard part. We shall see.

I promise future posts will be shorter, but this will also serve as my "who I am" for future reference.

So here we go!