What's New, Pussycat?

In my journey for simplicity, I've noticed how much clutter is going on not in my home, but in my brain. I absolutely adore technology, but I think I'm guilty of using it to become over-informed about meaningless things. How much do I really need to know about some celebrity's wedding or a basketball player's career moves? How does this affect my life? Do I need to send a gold-plated, forty-eight speed blender with a personal chef attachment to the couple in question? I sure hope not. I feel like I don't spend enough time with the people that are dear to me, so why am I wasting time finding out about people I don't even know? Well, in this line of thinking, I have made a minor change in my life. Previously, I had a CNN news feed on my google page (which gets checked with embarrassing regularity). Well, CNN pays an awful lot of attention to celebrity news, and tons of meaningless headlines were sucking up my valuable brain waves. No longer! At the suggestion of a friend, I have changed my news feed choices to NPR and Discovery News, and, already, I've noticed a fabulous difference in the quality of information I'm soaking up. Surely, this will lead to more interesting dinner conversation than the latest Britney/Jessica/Lady Gaga/*insert today's celebrity here* debacle.

In other news, the bathroom de-clutter went fantastically well. Not nearly as scary as I had built it up to be. ;)