It's been weeks. Nonstop craziness for weeks. I have one more week of actual going to work, and then things get just as crazy or crazier, even though I'm technically out of work for summer break. In June, I'm doing a teaching internship and taking a law class and finishing the administration internship (which I really need to stop whining about because it's pretty much over except for 3 more written assignments. I'll stop now. Officially.) All of this will happen and possibly leave me in a tailspin by July. BUT in July...the beach awaits with Will and my best friends/fam and a fun trip with my old pal Flakey Thomas to D.C. It's been a while since Flakey and I have been road tripping. Luckily, we will just be taking this trip up rather than across the country and so it should be obstacle-free. I don't know why but driving up seems less daunting than driving across. No logic. Just seems that way.
In other news...the chickens in the backyard are growing. I'll post pictures one day. The plants in Will's garden are growing. Seriously. 6 foot tomato plants. WHAT!? I know, very exciting, right? The custodian at school told me I should can them. Well, I lie. She really said that most people just freeze stuff now. I think I want to learn to can though because how cool would it be to look in the pantry which is currently filled with rows and rows of Hunts canned tomatoes (which are possibly from heaven) and see my own jars of canned tomatoes? I might have to try it. Will's honey bees have deformed wing syndrome. I don't really know that it's called a syndrome. It might be deformed wing virus? ailment? pox? I can't remember, but their wings are deformed. This isn't fabulous.
And the biggest announcement of all (not pregnant)...we have decided to be a paper towel-free house. BIG news, huh? I know, not so much. But it actually is a huge adjustment. Yesterday while making the umpteenth batch of salsa in the food processor, I had no idea how to clean up the spilled salsa that always escapes through the hole in the middle of the bowl where the blade goes. So, I just stood there and stared at tomato juice running all over, unsure what to do. I figured it out, but still it was weird to not grab a paper towel. But we use way too many and it's just dumb when we could use cloths and just wash them. So, we hit up Bed Bath and Beyond and found flour sacks which will do the trick I think. Thank goodness for consumerism, right? Just think, had the big box store not been right around the corner, I might STILL have tomato juice on my food processor today. Amazing, right? And if you come to my house, I'll give you a cloth napkin instead of a paper towel to wipe the salsa off your chin! This is funny to me. Growing up my family always used cloth napkins. The parents still do, and it's just how it is. Friends would come over, and my mom would hand them a cloth napkin and they'd be all, "What is this?" because at their houses it was paper towels. Duh, right!? I clearly opted for paper towels too as a grown up because of the laundry issue (meaning I don't want more laundry than already), but I've given it up and will just deal with washing napkins and cleaning cloths because it will decrease the pile of paper towels I throw away daily. But then...water. I'm going to use more water. Is that bad or good? Who knows? I need an environmentalist to weigh in. Help? Robin, where are you?
I guess one way to look at it is that fresh water is a renewable resource. Although, the amount of fresh water is declining, but in my expert (ha!) opinion, the benefits of using water outweighs the benefits of landfilling paper towels. Ok, so paper towels come from a renewable resource also, but then they have to be landfilled and that space is limited enough. The less space we have around us, the more we have to truck it somewhere else (another state, even) and then that increases the carbon footprint of that little paper towel.
ReplyDeleteOH GEES, WHY DO I STILL USE THEM!?
look what you've done..