Work and Life Collide
Since my job involves writing ads for home business opportunities, sometimes I get to do cool things that are related. Two since I started.
1) Drink Xango, juice from the Queen of Fruits, the Mangosteen.
2) Make an awesome soy wax candle.
Did you know that paraffin is full of toxic sludge and made from petroleum products? And we all know where those oil-type products come from. The Middle East. That's right, people. When you buy standard paraffin candles . . . the TERRORISTS WIN.
So tonight, at our church Vacation Bible School, I helped some second and third graders light candles. We were talking about shining your light, and they were the quietest they've been all week, and it was all very reverent. And then I started looking at the smoke coming off the candles. All I could think: These should be soy wax! Look at the toxins that these things are emitting. And we're breathing it in right now!
Another thing I sometimes see at work are success stories. These stories are usually about people who started a home business on the side and ended up making a ton of money, or people who were so down-and-out that they had nothing to lose. Already in debt up to their eyeballs, they just go for it and end up making a ton of money.
So, later, my cousin told me about a woman who is living out of her car because she's going through a divorce, apparently, and she spends all her time in my cousin's development, in her car.
On my way out of the development I drove by the car. I felt a tiny spark of pity, and then promptly thought: wow, she would be a great candidate for a home-based business.
1) Drink Xango, juice from the Queen of Fruits, the Mangosteen.
2) Make an awesome soy wax candle.
Did you know that paraffin is full of toxic sludge and made from petroleum products? And we all know where those oil-type products come from. The Middle East. That's right, people. When you buy standard paraffin candles . . . the TERRORISTS WIN.
So tonight, at our church Vacation Bible School, I helped some second and third graders light candles. We were talking about shining your light, and they were the quietest they've been all week, and it was all very reverent. And then I started looking at the smoke coming off the candles. All I could think: These should be soy wax! Look at the toxins that these things are emitting. And we're breathing it in right now!
Another thing I sometimes see at work are success stories. These stories are usually about people who started a home business on the side and ended up making a ton of money, or people who were so down-and-out that they had nothing to lose. Already in debt up to their eyeballs, they just go for it and end up making a ton of money.
So, later, my cousin told me about a woman who is living out of her car because she's going through a divorce, apparently, and she spends all her time in my cousin's development, in her car.
On my way out of the development I drove by the car. I felt a tiny spark of pity, and then promptly thought: wow, she would be a great candidate for a home-based business.
posted by Melanie at 10:57 PM
