Pre-pinterest, my world view was much different than it is now.
For my teenage years I worked in either the food industry or as a telemarketer. I dealt with people at their worst: Hungry and annoyed.
In college I worked as a telephone surveyor and recorded people's inner most thoughts and opinions; mainly in relation to politics, consumer goods and their occupations. Yikes. Bleach, toothbrush, brain.
Stuff like this,
And this
And I just can't, I--it's madness!!
In college I worked as a telephone surveyor and recorded people's inner most thoughts and opinions; mainly in relation to politics, consumer goods and their occupations. Yikes. Bleach, toothbrush, brain.
S'all I'm saying.
At different times in our young married life I worked various jobs in retail, customer service and cashiering. These snapshots of people, outside the comfort zone of family and friends, was slightly disturbing at the best of times.
At different times in our young married life I worked various jobs in retail, customer service and cashiering. These snapshots of people, outside the comfort zone of family and friends, was slightly disturbing at the best of times.
Was I alone to have thought that "people" fall someplace on the mental health pie chart between quirky and idiot?
No? Oh yeah, totally, me either.
People were either yelling at me, robbing me, scamming me, blaming me for what's wrong with the young people of today, or lecturing me how it's not funny for a full grown woman to participate in a plunger parade in the middle of Walmart.
That last one may not be people's fault per say.
But suddenly out of nowhere, Pinterest is here, and reality is turned on it's head. The people of the world are brilliant! I feel a bit like Ellen Page in that scene from Inception when Leonardo asks her how exactly they got to the cafe??
Who knew, people are great! Mind. Blown.
They know stuff. Like really cool, useful, amazing, fun stuff--and they just give it away-- for free! I used to see Mason jars and shiver in disgust remembering weeks on end of the double boiler going and my mom canning food she'd just boiled, that supposedly I was gonna want to eat at some point in the future.
How shortsighted was I? Do you know how many amazingly awesome things you can do with a Mason jar besides store hot fruit?
Stuff like this,
And this
And I just can't, I--it's madness!!
I used to be under the naive delusion that you just cooked chicken in the oven and served it with a vegetable.
As if.
I feel embarrassed now to even admit it, but I used to think if I wanted to have home decor I had to go to the store and buy things already put together! What a waste of time and resources. That's what modge podge and the Home Depot are for. That and old doors. Don't even get me started.
I feel embarrassed now to even admit it, but I used to think if I wanted to have home decor I had to go to the store and buy things already put together! What a waste of time and resources. That's what modge podge and the Home Depot are for. That and old doors. Don't even get me started.
After two months of pinning, 12 bottles of spray paint, 2 paint guns, 5 cans of paint, 16 2 by 4's, a new light fixture, 14 packs of Oreos, that guess what?? you can bake into anything, a imperceivable tick in my left eye (due to either loss of sleep or over exposure to wood stain), and my relationships hanging on by a thin thread due to their questioning my sanity, I am an official believer that people are not, in fact, idiots.
I guess once you feed them or don't call them in the middle of dinner, they're actually quite a pleasant lot. And more generous than I gave them credit for.
But if you are still skeptical, and think as I once did that people are the worst, just hold off judgement till you see what they can do with recycled pallets.
