48 Weeks of Doing Good

Erykka and I decided to do the #dogood52ways challenge from the Do Good Bus. Every Wednesday night, we draw a new paper from the jar; complete the task; and invite our blog readers to partake. For more information on how this started go here.

I really hope you took part in this past week's challenge because it was so easy to do! 

I didn't take any pictures of this, but I did pick up trash every day. As I mentioned last week, picking up trash is something I do daily. I just hate to see trash on the ground. We should care more about or environment and take care of it better [maybe then our weather won't be as crazy as it is].

This week's challenge is absolutely perfect for Valentine's Day and I swear that I picked it at random from the jar...

I managed to lose the slip of paper on my way to work today, so I wrote it down on my favorite notebook paper :) 

To be honest, this next one probably won't have a fun picture either...since I will be camera-less! I am so excited to do this tomorrow night at our Valentine's Day sushi date. 

I hope you have fun with this week's challenge, too! Unplugging is very important! 

#dogood52ways,


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49 Weeks of Doing Good

 Erykka and I decided to do the #dogood52ways challenge from the Do Good Bus. Every Wednesday night, we draw a new paper from the jar; complete the task; and invite our blog readers to partake. For more information on how this started go here.

Last week's task was a fun one! 

We had the plan to do a whole row of cars in a parking lot with a note that said "Just a stranger hoping to make your day," but Sunday didn't exactly work out for us. We worked on this week's challenge separately. 

Erykka did do a whole line of cars with daisies, and I got one car with a carnation. I then gave the rest of the bouquet to Iman because we've had a rough week, and I just love to see his smile!

These do good challenges do not have to be just for people you know or people you don't know. It's nice to mix them up!! 

This next week's challenge is definitely one that we will be doing daily - in fact, it is something that I do every day already!! 

I'm one of those people who is crazy about picking up trash. I feel bad when I dump water out in the parking lot [I don't know why]. Once, I broke up with a boyfriend because he told me littering created jobs. I almost socked him in the face. I participate in beach, park and desert clean ups. I grew up in Girl Scouts and live by the motto "pack it in, pack it out." As a server, you'll find straw wrappers and trash in my apron pocket because I obsessively take them off of tables as I stop to check in.

Of course, my room is typically a mess and has trash in it, but at least the outside world doesn't!! :P 

Join us this week because this is literally the easiest challenge we could have pulled! 

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In case you missed it yesterday, here's a lovely picture of me modeling our February design! #ColorMeAWarriorQueen! 

Click on the image to order! :) 

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51 Weeks of Doing Good

Alright, who did the #DoGood52Ways challenge last week?

Join us on Instagram! :) @raetothewyn #dogood52ways

Now's the time to let me know! I am going to put a link up form, but you don't have to do a blog - feel free to just share a picture from Instagram! I just want to go and comment! You can also hashtag the picture in Instagram. I didn't come up with the hash tag, it's from the jar that I received, so the Do Good Bus is following the hashtag, too!!

Don't know what the #DoGood52Ways challenge is? Go here to find out!

We completed week one! I hope it was an easy one - I mean - taking a few minutes to write a Yelp review is very simple and easy, and so gratifying! I reviewed Sushi Joint - my favorite sushi restaurant for the past year! I had no idea that I hadn't reviewed them yet. I'm usually pretty good at that stuff. They have the most awesome and caring staff I've ever encountered, so they definitely deserved the accolade.

Erykka reviewed California Health Foods, a store where she purchased a one day cleanse. I am so excited to share with you that Erykka has joined me in the blogging world! She got a Tumblr where she plans on posting her good deeds, inspirations and other ways to be the change. We're on this path together!

Seriously, you should go follow her. She's the girl who got me into yoga and someday wants to be a yoga instructor. On top of that, she shares my passion for giving back! I am so happy to have called this girl a best friend for almost a decade!

Last night, we picked this week's #DoGood52Ways challenge and it might be a tricky one for anyone effected by snow. You can table this one and come back to it - but still do something good for someone :)

Join us on Instagarm! @raetothewyn #dogood52ways

Can't wait to surprise someone with a car wash!




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Warrior Queens Petitioning the President

Hey Warrior Queens!

I just wanted to alert you to the latest petition I've seen on Change.org that's worth supporting. Here's an excerpt:

When we learned that it's been two decades since a presidential debate was moderated by a woman, we -- three high school students from New Jersey -- decided to take action.

More than 115,000 people have signed our petition calling on the Commission on Presidential Debates to name a woman as a moderator for one of the three U.S. presidential debates to take place this Fall. Now we need to show the Romney and Obama campaigns just how important this campaign is, since both campaigns also have a say in who gets to moderate the debates.

Women and men will never be truly equal in our country until they’re one and the same in positions of power and both visible in politics. There is no reason why a woman shouldn’t have a chance to show what she’s capable of by moderating debates in the upcoming election.

This is important to each of us, for different reasons. Here's what we think, and we hope you'll join the campaign and sign our petition.

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I would definitely check it out (maybe sign it) and read these girl's reasoning for their petition!! They're definitely warrior queens :)

Teen Girl Protests Seventeen Magazine: SIGN THE PETITION!

Hey guys,

I created this storify about today's protest: The Negative Effect of Teen Magazines

Her petition reads:

Girls want to be accepted, appreciated, and liked. And when they don’t fit the criteria, some girls try to “fix” themselves. This can lead to eating disorders, dieting, depression, and low self esteem.I’m in a ballet class with a bunch of high-school girls. On a daily basis I hear comments like: “It’s a fat day,” and “I ate well today, but I still feel fat.” Ballet dancers do get a lot of flack about their bodies, but it’s not just ballet dancers who feel the pressure to be “pretty”. It’s everyone. To girls today, the word “pretty” means skinny and blemish-free. Why is that, when so few girls actually fit into such a narrow category? It’s because the media tells us that “pretty” girls are impossibly thin with perfect skin.Here’s what lots of girls don’t know. Those “pretty women” that we see in magazines are fake.They’re often photoshopped, air-brushed, edited to look thinner, and to appear like they have perfect skin. A girl you see in a magazine probably looks a lot different in real life.  As part of SPARK Movement, a girl-fueled, national activist movement, I’ve been fighting to stop magazines, toy companies, and other big businesses from creating products, photo spreads and ads that hurt girls’ and break our self-esteem.  With SPARK, I’ve learned that we have the power to fight back.
That’s why I’m asking Seventeen Magazine to commit to printing one unaltered -- real -- photo spread per month. I want to see regular girls that look like me in a magazine that’s supposed to be for me.For the sake of all the struggling girls all over America, who read Seventeen and think these fake images are what they should be, I’m stepping up. I know how hurtful these photoshopped images can be. I’m a teenage girl, and I don’t like what I see. None of us do. Will you join us by signing this petition and asking Seventeen to take a stand as well and commit to one unaltered photo spread a month?

If this is something you're passionate about WQ's...SIGN THE PETITION HERE.