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Back-Up Singer {Spin Cycle}

Spin Cycle at Second Blooming

Don’t get me wrong; I love being a teacher. Right now I am blessed to be working with a class of three year olds, and I am having so much fun working with them! But I have often fantasized about a different job.

I love, love, LOVE to sing. And I can easily hit those high notes. Got a high A in a descent? I’m the soprano for the job. But there’s a problem. I have extreme stage fright. I hate attention. I was even worried about people looking at me as I walked down the aisle as a bride. But put me in a choir or stand me next to my sisters to sing, and I’m good to go. The nerves calm down and the butterflies flap a little more softly.

And here comes the fun part. My dream job is as a back up singer! The stage, the lights, the music, the high heels and big hair! Plus, no one pays much attention to the back up singers, right? (Except for me…I’m always watching the back up singers!)

Who would I like to be a backup singer for?

Why, Sting, of course! (Am I dating myself?)

Sting has always been one of my favorites. He works with fabulously wonderful musicians. He’s a great backup singer as well–remember “I want my…I want my…I want my MTV!”? I’ve seen him two times in concert (okay, I’m not much of a groupie) and have a nice CD collection. I even have some experience going on tour!

My collection of Sting things

*sigh* What a great fantasy to have as I brush out hair tangles, convince Emmy to change into WINTER clothes, quiz Lily on her spelling words while feeding them both breakfast.

For more perfect jobs, click over to Gretchen’s blog, Second Blooming!

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Switching from Plastic to Reusable Bags

When I was a teenager, my mom would take a pile of canvas bags into the grocery store. As she handed them to the baggers, (who usually gave her a funny look) I was embarrassed that she didn’t just take the plastic bags they had at the store. When I went to the grocery store, I conveniently “forgot” the armful of bags.

“There’s a black hat caught in a high tree top,” goes a song by the Police. But is Sting so sure that’s a hat? Oh, wait, it’s a plastic grocery bag! I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen something scampering across the road only to realize it was just the wind blowing a plastic bag around and around.

Due to the number of plastic bags floating around the neighborhood, much less my kitchen cabinet, I’m no longer embarrassed to bring my own pile of reusable bags when I go shopping. When I forget my reusable bags in the car or in my kitchen, I’m upset with myself. As I see other shopping carts with their shoppers’ reusable bags inside, I regret that I have to take more bags home with me! When I do remember my bags, baggers no longer look at me, wondering what do to with these bags I give them; they are much more used to people bringing along bags from home.

Don’t these bags fill up the back of my van beautifully?

But on the occasion that I have forgotten my bags, and do use plastic, here is a way to reuse those plastic bags. At our last MOPS meeting, we turned them into reusable sandwich wrappers!

Here are the directions for the cloth and plastic sandwich wrappers we made. Although I have concerns about using plastic with foods, plastic bags seem to be safe, (see chemicals in plastics) especially if you use a Ziplock bag as the top layer of your sandwich wrapper.

The simple swap from plastic bags to reusable bags is brought to you by Hyacynth from Undercover Mother and Robin from Diet Coke on the Rocks.

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