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My computer is broken & my life has not allowed for adequate blogging. Will be back soon. Happy 2012 blogfriends!

Carless Weekend

The objective.

To not drive.

To experiment with walking as transportation.

To focus on what is important.

To not waste money.

To exercise.

To travel.

To follow through.

To prove I can do it.

To do it in my small town where this is not important to most people.

Any place can be a pedestrian city. You just have to become a pedestrian. -MissMoney

I am trying to remember to ask myself,

What did I do today to create the life that I want to live?

In my previous relationship, I toyed with the idea on being a one car family. Now that I am a one person family, I want to prove to myself that I can go without a car. At least for the weekends. Will every weekend be a carless weekend? Probably not. That is not my main focus. I want to make myself focus on getting places using my own two feet. I want to get out and enjoy the day. I have had a dream of moving somewhere far away where walking everywhere was possible. I failed to tell myself I can walk anywhere I want to really go. It is just not something most people in my town chose to do.

My only boundary for this experiment is that I do not drive my car for the weekend. This was my first carless weekend. On Saturday, I walked to the mall to meet up with my bestie's family & I ended up riding with them to Best Buy in search of an HDMI cable. Today, I walked to Panera Bread and used a gift card my dad gave me for my big meal of the day, Breakfast/Lunch. I enjoyed a salmon salad & a frozen mocha and took off from there. By the way, Panera does have the prettiest pink straws. Kinda magical. I walked up to Payne Street. Payne Street is a random street in my town with the cutest little old houses. It is quite possibly my favorite street here. My mission for the day was to go to the public library. I looked through a roadtrip book and then read about Annie Leibowitz photographing the queen. The sun was starting to set so I headed back. I stopped at Earthfare, a healthy grocery store, and picked up fruit for the week and some healthy snacks. One of my New Year's resolutions was to try to eat two different fruit a day. I have done well so far. I make oranges and pomegranates last a few days and eat apples and pears as a whole. I wanted some avocado, but there were only two sad looking ones left. Maybe next Sunday. I loaded up my backpack with my healthy fare & headed home as it turned dark. II enjoyed my carless weekend. Especially today. I walked about 8 miles and had a great day to myself. One of my other resolutions is to document life. That's where my Instagram photos come in. I will post soon about my New Year's, holidays, resolutions and get caught back up here on MyPrettyPicture.

High Five!

Have a wonderful week!

Happy New Year's Eve!

Glitter & Dinosaurs

Christmas inspiration did not come naturally this year. Finally, I got an idea for another art project and I took the idea, molded it to fit Christmas, and ran with it.

TaDA! Glitter & Dinosaurs!

I wish I could share more, but I can't ruin surprises.

Happy Holidays blogfriends!

Miss Gideon & Pencil

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of hanging out with my favorite English teacher & her cute little fellow, Pencil, to snap some shots for Christmas cards. Pencil sure knows how to rock a dog tag & a Christmas sweater. He was such a good sport. Enjoy.

More of Miss Gideon & Pencil.