(Re) Chic

The past few weeks I have been less than social-and I haven't exactly been a nice person. I got angry with my friends for being selfish and self-centered and then I realized that I was getting back from my friends the same thing that I had been dishing out lately.   We live in a world that is all about ourselves.  We use Facebook to post about our lives, we post on Twitter play-by-plays of our every moment.  And I feel that this has made us forget about being good to one another.  There are tons of different projects out there that illustrate my vision of the emphasis on kindness that I feel that I have lost.   Random Acts of Kindness , The Kindness Project , The Human Kindness Project,   etc.    But I feel that I want to emphasize something a little different so I'm going to call my "The Kind Project".  KIND ="Kindness (in) Individuals (is) Necessary Daily.   My May goal and daily assignment is to do at least ...

Every once in a while I click the "Marketplace" application on my Facebook page (in case someone is giving away a free bed that I could use).  Upon doing so yesterday I saw a pet Wallaby for sale for $1,200.   I want one.   However, the question is...can I have one?  Are wallabys...or is it wallabies...or maybe walleye...no that's definitely not it...you know what I mean...but are they legal in this state? Well let's start with what we know is legal: cats and dogs (unless your landlord says no then you'll be out on the street), most lizards, but those are basic pets.  Here's a little snippet into the unusual (and expensive) pets.   World's most expensive pets:  Green Monkey: $16 million Legal in Ohio Missy: $1.2 million Legal in Ohio Capuchin Monkey: $10,000 Legal in Ohio That's right.  I said LEGAL!  There are neither bans nor requirements on monkey ownership in Ohio so go for it!  Buy your monkey! Need a less feminin...

I just read this article on Bit Rebels called Facebook in Real Life.   The article includes a video (which is hilarious) showing how ridiculous some of our social media (specifically facebook) habits really are. Now, once you get past the ridiculousness of the video itself the idea really does have a point.  On Facebook you actually use your real name, your real face, real pictures of you, your real job and email address are listed.  You don't hide behind a screen name or a buddy icon.  Its our real selves there on the page.  However, Facebook is losing more and more popularity as Twitter continues to get stronger and stronger but on Twitter you can still have that aspect of anonymity.  Your 160 character bio doesn't have to have any information about you at all.  And your mom won't be posting photos of you in the Christmas sweater your Grandma knitted you. Why do we use social media if we're simply going to spend our time hiding be...

So there was a Twitter blackout yesterday. For those of you who don't know what Twitter is its a social media that allows people to "tweet" 140 character messages that people who "follow" them can read. It is essentially micro-blogging that allows you to update your followers on what you're doing at any given moment in time. Twitter blacked out yesterday, and the social media world FREAKED OUT! Ok, I have a Twitter, and a facebook. And I love them (especially facebook as ashamed as I am to admit that) but I did NOT "feel naked" or "disconnected" or "Lost in the world" because Twitter was blacked out and facebook was having so many glitches it wasn't worth using for several hours until they sorted things out. I was fine, I turned facebook off, stopped sending stupid bumper stickers and "creeping" on people and went over to my friend Andrew's house where we listened to a favorite CD of mine (I'd for...