Green Flamingobecause I said so

It can be agreed on by many that what everyone and everything need is change. But this is an opinion that can be pulled to either side, and the battle can rage on so long, that winners won’t prevail within the first match.

The world is changing, with the global climate escalating, and with the change of the overall well being of the earth, the world transformation becomes very apparent, and has much attention paid to it.

People are changing, the way they act, the things they do, the things they have, and their minds think new thoughts all the time. The rest of life changes in the same way, it expands, and develops new things.

And of course the world of blogging changes with everything else, what is blogged about, and what goes on in the blogosphere.

I have talked about change before. I am sure many others have as well. We all live by the concept of “change” and nothing can be done about that.

Many things happen through this transformation. The American president was elected for hope of change. New ideas circulate, new ways and behaviours circulate, new structures and physical beings circulate. Their is no determining whether change it good or bad. It just happens. And it has to be accepted that change just happens, nothing can prevent that.

Why Change IS Important To You

With everything around you changing, you have to make a transformation of your own, and keep up with the others. Falling behind in a race means you have to work harder to catch up, and to stay with the flow. But though others change, an effort does not need to be made to change. Sometimes what you call “an effort to change” is just natural, and will work no matter what. You do not need to work hard to change, but do not work hard to stay the same either. Just let things pass you one by one, and when opportunity strikes, reply in your usual combat manner. You do not need to go out of the ordinary borderline.

Bottom Line: Change WILL come. You must accept change, and keep going.

Coming up: combat blogging

-The Green Flamingo

It has been exactly 1 year and 5 days since this blog, Green Flamingo was born. To me it is like a birthday, and I hope that Green Flamingo will have many more birthdays.

I have done some things to celebrate this event, because just like many others I will celebrate for birthdays.

First I have changed my theme back to what is was, what is was a year ago. I still love the theme, and I love my blog, so I seem to be crawling back into the state of mind I was in last year, though I have still expanded and I have learned the true ways of blogging through my year of experience.

I also am going to reflect on this blog, looking back on it. From my perspective right now, I have grown with this blog and it has grown with me, and together we have overcome hardships and rejoiced through progress. I remember a year ago my circumstances, my being, how I lived, how I was. I look back upon this to reflect who I was and who this blog was, and I am proud yet sad of the change that has passed.

Lastly I have decided to hold a little “contest,” though it is not of the normal sort as you will find now on about every blog in the blogosphere. I will tell people about my contest, though I will not exactly promote it, neither will any of the objectives to win include you promoting this blog.

It is called Green Flamingo’s Celebration Of Themes contest. Details will follow, and it is easy to participate in. As far as prizes go, I will give out small prizes, though I am not going to announce anything before hand. I hope that the winner of our celebration enjoys being honored too.

So, for one week we will celebrate the birthday of Green Flamingo, though we may carry the contest a little farther. I hope that you can look deeply into this blog to see why it is still up and running after a year.

So just stay tuned, there is no need to put on anything special, though try as much celebrating as you can. Believe it or not, everything has already started, and the contest begins right now!

Good night everyone, and I hope to see you in the near future.

Yet again I write, yet again I realize. Yet again I think, ponder, act. Yet I do not always inform, or finish what I act upon.

For months Green Flamingo has held strong, and has grown just as a child would. We have all grown with it in some way too.

Green Flamingo’s voice has been silent over the past few weeks, but is ready to speak up again and be known to the world as a brave website with character and endurance.

Now I might want to word things in words you can understand. I know I have been out for 3 weeks, but I am not going to apologize and explain everything that went on. I just want to thank you, my readers.

I want to thank all of you for staying subscribed, I really appreciate that you think of this blog when you browse the Internet.

I also want to thank you for staying as active as you can, though it is hard if I do not post.

Today, this day, is September 23rd, the first full day of Fall. To me this signifies the time of my summer being over, and a new season beginning and I will rise in my efforts.

The most important saying I have though for you is:

“Forget the past, browse the future, and focus on the present.”

Those words will explain to you the meaning of this post, the meaning of my words, and the meaning of you and me becoming new people.

Here we are with the typical “green” lecture. Those can get kind of boring after a while, for there are so many different opinions. Mine lies among them and will not be shared in this post. I am just going to add some things to be “green.”

When “Green Flamingo” started out it was not to be green, live green, give methods or any of that. In fact I think this is the first post on the subject, for there is so much of it elsewhere no having it here wouldn’t be much of a loss. “Green Flamingo Designs” does not really run on “green” lines either, though I will try to recommend materials that don’t harm the earth, which is very difficult for an interior designer.

So again I will present some tips or ways to go green, because it is thought to  be so important I will talk about it.

Shutdown that computer – if you don’t already, you need to shutdown that computer at night ok? Even if you are going to be gone for two hours you should still shut down the computer, instead of just putting it to sleep. There are a few reasons for this, but the biggest is probably to conserve energy. If you keep your computer in the same room that you sleep in, the energy waves can disrupt your brain and your sleep. They could even cause permanent damage so this is another reason to turn off your computer fully. This is part of the green computing, apart from just living “green.”

I use minimum electricity – when I am out of the room, the only electricity on will be my computer – if even. You want to turn off the music, the lights, the electric chair (just kidding) and others. You want to have your computer in a well lit room so you can see what your doing, besides the light of the screen. At night my lights use energy lightbulbs, where the use much less energy than typical light bulbs. These are not difficult or pricy to purchase, and if I design your home I will get a pack of these light bulbs for you.

Recycle – you should recycle things, even if most things that go to the recycling are not used again for years, and they are still using up space on the planet just as much, recycling is still a good idea. You can reuse things in your home too, so instead of putting things in the recycling then you can reuse them within the home for something useful (please, if you think they will come in handy someday, do not keep them, and have your thinking patterns altered a bit to never think that).

Feel green – as long as you feel you are living green, you most likely are. Just do what you feel is right, and you will come out on the right side.

Thanks for reading!

Tonight I or we watched Bridge to Terabithia, a movie of a book I have read, and it was surprisingly quite similar to the book. This movie actually taught it’s purpose, the purpose the book had. And if you have seen it, Lesley dieing herself isn’t the sad part, the sad part is, or more the happy part, to recognize what she gave everyone that was around her. To me it was wonderful how they created it, the joy and mourning put together, it gave you that emotion, the inspiration to open your mind to the world and new ideas, and to me that was amazing. Sorry this post is so short, it is only something that should be recognized. I am working on improving my site by the way so look for changes.

Sleep is essential in one’s life. You must have sleep to live, in other words. I myself have not been getting enough sleep. I am trying to stop this happening. It is not very easy. Not long ago at my dad’s we watched a 60 minutes about sleep. Lack of it would cause certain effects. Good sleep would cause certain effects. I will list some of them below.

For bad/not enough sleep: The scientists noticed that the sleep deprived people were not as alert and onto their senses as normal. Not having enough sleep they said was like being drunk. They were not alert on the road. Also, if very tired, they could fall asleep on the road and in two seconds, would be starting to veer, four seconds and they’re off the road, ix seconds they hit a tree, not very good. Also the sleep deprived – when shown disturbing images, would have this part of their brain react much more strongly than the regular people. That would mean they sleep deprived were very disturbed.

Good sleep: If you were trying to remember something, whatever it was, it would be much better the next day. Here’s the test they did: There was a sequence of numbers that was made up. There were two different groups that tried. One group was shown the sequence in the morning, and at night, tried to type it again. The other group was shown the sequence in the evening or at night and then in the morning, after the same period of time went by, tried to type the sequence again. A higher of number of people finished or got farther in the sequence from the second group that started night, tried in the morning than the first group that started in the morning and tried it at night.

So as you see, sleep deprivation can be a bad thing. The average amount of sleep people get in the world is somewhere between six and seven hours. And people who have not been getting enough sleep do not usually know it.

Even without these tests done to show us we are not getting enough sleep we know, (even though it says people don’t, but people in general especially if they spread the word to know) that we are not getting enough sleep. From this I can feel very tired and exhausted, and I don’t think that I have been rested to the fullest for a lo time yet. Deep sleep is what we need and the time of deep sleep one gets decreases as that person ages. Also without deep sleep you can come very close to having diabetes, or other things that can harm your body. I wish there was a way for me to be fully rested every day, or even if I could fall asleep easily. All this would be nice, but I don’t know if it will happen.

*You have probably not read this post yet, it is about getting a headstart. Also, as I said in that or the one before, I am probably going to post a lot, meaning once or twice a day, so stay tuned often.

Time for another change. As always when thinking about a change, especially in furniture, furnishings, houses, and so on, I have millions of ideas. And saying that gave me an idea! I could sell my counselling to people that need ideas with their home. But I won’t get into that now. But it may help me get on the express. So with the change, it’s more than just change of housing and furniture. It might be a big change.

 One thing that is on my mind and is sad to me, is that Grandpa was diagnosed with leukemia cancer. He will be able to be treated but there is no cure for it. Anyone who has it will die from it at some point. He may live for a few months or a few years. No one knows. But I was hoping he would be able to stay in this world longer to teach us more things. It would have been nice to know that he was going to be around for a long time without being sick. He has thought about dying I’m sure, but was surprised with this outcome, but he accepts it.

Another change that’s not just how my house looks is that in a few  months (June if it happens) my mom may be moving. This would be to help with work, to do channelling. This is OK, but we would live with our dad all of the time. hat would be OK too, but there are still setbacks.

The whole idea of us living with our dad for maybe six months is what sparked these ideas. I now have ideas for throwing away and selling stuff, and I am even going to look on realtor.com or craigslist for a house. I have some ideas, but we may not even be moving. That’s the basic change, just trying to think of a way to make money, but I think I almost have one nailed. Are those kind of ideas special? Would you pay for me to give suggestions out to make your home a better place? It’s a thought. Who knows what’s around the corner.

It is mostly true. I do not care much about this “Presidents Day” in the United States. I’d rather celebrate something more useful. Anyone have any ideas? Anyway, it i not that important besides that we school off. To update you on my ninja training,  I now have a traditional ninja and other martial arts training sword. Other than that, not much, I have begun on my lego base and know pretty much what legos I’ll decide to get.

So. Now I have decided to finally stop the votes. I think it may have been because I said the poll would end a few days ago and then forgot about that.

Becoming a ninja does not seem to be an easy thing. I started it one day when Serena said it was time and gave me and my friend Dylan a test. After the test, we began our training. We have not trained together in a long time but that does not prevent me from training on my own.

To be a ninja, you need to be flexible, strong, brave, agile, and many other things. Last week was when I really started meditating. I stretched as much as I could and tried to practice ninja skills such as jumping. Here is a little video that shows some ninjas. You may want to also search “urban ninja” to see more or something else related.

(Sorry I couldn’t embed the video. It was all messed up). If you don’t believe that they were doing that, it’s ok, maybe those people aren’t actually doing what it looks like. But there are people that can do that, and I hope to be similar. Ninja skills are very hard. But I think if you try hard enough, you can master them like the people in the video.

Go on and go on ahead. Explore the world around you. Get out there, someway, (but safely) and really be yourself. It all amounts to good ends.