Brooke usually hates dancing, but when she saw us having so much fun (and not caring about looking stupid) she jumped in. This is one of those moments I’d like to remember when I’m old.

(CB) Despite its tendency to get flooded with too much stuff, my RSS reader rules. I see so much that I wouldn’t normally read.

Like this post from one of my favorite bloggers, Colin Beavan, aka “No Impact Man”. He’s the husband of a posh, Prada-wearing lady and father to a baby in NYC. As an experiment, he decided to go zero impact. That’s right, zero. In New York City.

No plastic baggies, no riding buses, no trash, no waste, whatsoever.

The experiment has been an ongoing success. Colin went a year doing the no impact thing and has changed his life and consumption habits completely. He writes about it all on his blog, which is awesome to read.

Today’s post is about diapers. Cool stuff, I know Brooke will love that I’m posting it.

Incidentally, one of my other favorite bloggers has written a lot about cloth diapers. I think we’ll try to do it.

In case anyone’s missing my writing, sorry for not posting more lately. I’ll do more. I’m thinking about a cool new blog project.

i love listening to these when i need some background noise while i’m working. oh she is so sad, it is beautiful.

i got sadie j this cute little outfit on sale at janie & jack on the condition that andy would send me a picture of her in it. seriously, i hope they pass this back to me when we have our first daughter!

i just came back from lunch and wanted a little pick me up before i dive back into the numbers and spreadsheets. i went on youtube wanting to watch a little of the umbrellas of cherbourg, my favorite movie of all time. everyone reading this should go out and watch this movie - if you want to borrow our copy i will happily loan it out to you. it is a movie from 1964 by jacques demy and the entire script is sung. it’s not like a musical with breaks, they sing every word - which sounds weird but it works. the music is by michel legrande and it is what we had played at our wedding reception. our first dance was to the song in this clip, ‘i will wait for you’. in this clip he is leaving to serve 2 years in the french army (sound familiar?) and they are saying goodbye at the trainstation. i couldn’t find one with english subtitles, but just imagine them saying things like “i will love you all the days of my life … please don’t go … i will write you every day … how will i live without you … without you i will die … my love … i love you”. so sad and so good. i thing i’m going to have to go home and watch the full movie tonight.

christian, jim, and i went to see wall-e friday night with the wilsons and absolutely loved it! who knew you could fall so in love with a funny-looking little robot. the movie had a surprisingly mature message about consumption. i highly recommend it.

after seeing the movie, i came across this picture that looks scarily similar to some of the scenes in the movie of the future wasted earth. scary. check out this article in the washington post today about bottled water. did you know that if we were asked to pay for the water we use in our homes it would be over $9,000 a year? did you also know that 24% of the bottled water we buy is just re-filtered tap water?

This is a video worth watching. How breast milk gets toxic, how our shoes make us less happy, and how good choices can make us more happy.

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

christian and i watched the movie “once” on monday and i am ADDICTED to the music. if you haven’t seen it yet, i highly recommend it. everyone knows “falling slowly” because it won the oscar, but “lies” and “when your minds made up” and “say it to me now” are even better in my opinion. here is “lies” - if you aren’t addicted too after watching this then you are C-R-A-Z-Y.

thanks kelly for the tip.

look how cute this is: meet cinderella, pig in boots!

 kelly - you should write a children’s book about this!

in case anyone is interested, my employer’s ceo/president was interviewed today for this article in the washington post.