a change of pace

So i just added myself to the buy handmade http://www.buyhandmade.org/
website where I pledge to buy homemade and make homemade only. that is hard. but i'm looking at a change of pace. I am trying to move forward into not complaining about how our world is going to hell in a hand basket, instead i am acting. taking a stand in what I can do to make a difference: and this is my first report.
What differences do you want to make you ask? Well, let me tell you:
1. I have made a pledge to buy homemade crafts and make homemade crafts for friends and family for presents and what nots. So yes, that includes sewing clothes and really pumping up the volume on this knitting and crocheting fun.
2. Stop smoking. Why talk about how everything else is going to give me cancer when i can't/won't quit smoking.
3. stop drinking so much (i don't drink a whole lot. I just REALLY love nightcaps!). REally? Is my life all that horrible that i have to fall into the endless routine of drinking when i get home? NO IT ISN'T! i have a wonderful life and i want to live long enough to experience it. Plus i could be doing something better with my time like knitting, or crocheting or creating something!
4. eat right, eat healthy. organic, veggies, no fast food, no processed shit, no processed sugars, KNOWING WHERE MY FUCKING FOOD IS COMING FROM! That's what i want to do! I want to know what i am eating! If i can't recreate it at home then i'm not eating it!
5. Be a craftavist. I am not, can not, be one of the vegan rollin' activist. I say more power to them, but i just can't roll like that. That takes a hell of a lot of will power and i just can't get down like that. For instance, my 2 days of being vegan sent me into a spiral of binge eating off of the carcus of a cow! AND I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT! I'm also not a big hippie or hipster or trendster, or emmo punk lovin tree hugin twenty something who can stand in the cold and protest for x cause. That just not me. Never has been. So I think I found what I can do to make a difference in my own way. I'm going to be a craftavist. Where I am going to recycle everything making it into a colorful work of art, it'll be fun instead of feeling like a chore. I will give my presents to others and they'll ask, "Where did you get this funky purse?"And i'll respond, "I made it out of my grocery bags!" They'll think it's amazing and want to join in the cause and i would have made a change right there. taking things that would otherwise be trash and making something wonderful and beautiful instead.
5. Excercise. I'm going to run. I'm going to do the only thing that i know how to do to get closer to meditation, to get closer to God. Everybody has there thing and this is mine. so chk it.

So here is my declaration. Now, I know myself. I know that I am wavering usually, today i'm gong ho, tomorrow i'm tired and full of excuses. But that's what a chronicle is right? You're here to read the hardships and the steps forward in my success (or failure). Hope you follow along, and only wish me good tidings, I don't need negative energy my way.

PS: it would be really interesting if anyone who reads this can see if they could do the same thing if they're interested. Then we could read each other's chronicles and help one another. K :O)