Noellenicolette's Profile

For me I am a half grown up. I'm a 27 year old who moved back with parents to finish my education. I having been living fairly broke for a long time since I decided to go back to school and also due to periods of bad health. On the one hand, I feel like a kid because I haven't graduated, don't own a car or home, am living on a not quite full time retail paycheck, and only have car insurance but no other kind. So I don't have a couch or guest linens, or kids, or enough credit to cover an emergency car repair (thanks for the rescue loan mom!) However, I can pay bills, do laundry, cook a great meal, and prepare my taxes. I am grown up enough to not worry what other people think, to not put up with being mistreated, to know what really matters in life, and to be there for friends and family when they need me. Maybe I don't have the trappings of a grown up life but I have learned hard lessons about growing up. Adult life means making sacrifices, being responsible, overcoming hardships, taking care of yourself and the people who matter to you, and finding and creating your own happiness.

That turned out cool and is a fun idea. I believe art is indefinable the qualifications are different for every person. The process involved does not dictate if something is a work of art. Exploration leads the development of new ideas and the strengthening of techniques. I am in the fine arts program at ASU concentrating in fibers. My professor told a story of a graduate student she had who made a gorgeous piece of felt that she had made binding wool and fabric and processing it in the washing machine. The result was incredibly beautiful, but the student didn't know if she could call it art because she didn't totally control the whole process. My professor and the whole department told her sometimes great art is made by accident or chance and that does nothing to devalue the work. Why shouldn't a baby start painting and if the result is beautiful why not put it on the wall? If you care about art you should encourage kids and all people to explore art.

I bought a liquid soap refill pouch a long time ago. I bought it because it was economical, used less packaging, and I use a pretty soap dispenser anyway. It is really easy to refill my pump bottle out of the pouch. I will by another when I use the first one up. I would definitely buy more refills and wish there were things I could buy refills for.

These aren't the greatest suggestions I agree. That being said I have had parties both where I have cooked and provided everything and where guests have brought food, drinks, or dessert. Both ways are fun. Luckily for me my 2 best friends are foodies and everything they make is great. When money is tight I'd rather have an informal party where everyone chipped in and brought something than not see friends. With my group of friends we are just as happy to go out to an upscale restaurant as we are to have hot dogs and s'mores. I also am not friends with people who are takers only, so its not like I shell out a bunch for parties without my friends doing the same for me. It all evens out and that's what good friends do.