Awakenings.

Fall is usually the time of year when things wind down. People get back to their non summer routines.  Wrap up things for the year in business, but in my life a lot of things are ramping up. Last week was the first week of September, yet the back to school stuff is gone and the Halloween stuff is out and about. We’ve got two outings planned and a possible third, in addition to hanging out and handing out candy at home on the 31st. Then there’s Thanksgiving? And Christmas? And New Year? Rikes.

Stuff I’ve read (yep, I’m being lazy and just posting all this stuff at once):

Eating disorders have no color.

I find it interesting that a lot of people still perceive eating disorders as a white problem, when people of all ethnic backgrounds are subjected to the media’s portrayal of beauty being a blonde haired, blue eyed, size zero. I had read that eating disorders were on the rise in men. i guess this Newsweek article further confirms that.

The old new way to get to school.

School districts are feeling the pinch of gas prices, so the “walking school bus” concept has been introduced. In my neighborhood, it amazes me that more kids don’t walk to school. We have sidewalk all the way from my front door to the school, and my two oldest can easily walk the distance. How do I know? Because we walk the distance for EXERCISE (remember that concept – kids exercising, hee hee). So I really don’t understand why anybody who doesn’t have special needs doesn’t just walk to school. Nikki wrote about kids not walking to the bus stop, so I guess this takes it a step further.