Things I See: 2011

Friday, November 25, 2011

Project Complete!

My sister's dog had jumped on top of my storage cube and ripped the top. It looked like crap. I saved the pages from my Harry Potter hollow book project, so I decided to cover the top of the cube with Harry's adventures. I used a mixture of glue and water to glue the pages to the wood. Then I used watered down paint to give the paper a little color (it looked weird white). I covered it with a few layers of Mod Podge, then sealed it with an acrylic sealer. It looks much better now! My next project will be a set of dog stairs--I won't let them use the new cube to jump on my bed anymore.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

A cleansing Storm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

I have posted this video before. I needed to post it again in order to cleanse my brain of something I experienced yesterday.

I was volunteering in the office of an elementary school. I overheard two employees talking (I will call them A and B). The conversation went something like this:

A: So glad you could talk to me today. I have that remedy I was telling you about.

B: I look forward to trying it.

A: You should also give it to your kids, it is a juice and has all kinds of good stuff in it that they need. It will heal you. I started using it instead of all the drugs that my doctor was giving me. Drug companies get paid to kill you. They make money when people die. They pay doctors to give us drugs that kill us. This is a natural remedy. It works. I feel much better since I started taking it. The woman who makes it was arrested for selling it, but that is only because it works so well and drug companies don't want us to use it instead of their drugs that kill us. Since she is in jail for selling it you can't get it from her, but I know someone who has some so you can get more from me when you need it.

B: Thank you so much for getting some for me. Drug companies want people to die, they don't care about helping people, they just want money. Doctors just want money too, so they do whatever the drug companies tell them to do. It is wrong that this woman is in jail for trying to help people. She is a hero for trying to show people the truth about what drug companies do.

It physically pained me to listen to this conversation. I wanted to yell at them, but I thought it might reflect poorly on the teacher I was helping. The woman who makes this is in jail! There is not a secret drug company police force that arrests innocent people that are just providing natural remedies to people. During this conversation I kept hoping that Tim Minchin would show up in a cape and release this poem against the ignorance that I was experiencing. Sadly, that did not happen.