It was rainy and cold all day today. Stupid global warming. It has snowed exactly ONCE this whole winter, and what the hell else is winter good for if not for snow? Surely not that whole getting-dark-real-early thing, or that too-cold-for-my-kid-to-be-running-and-screaming-outside-so-he’ll-have-to-do-it-inside thing. I love love love snow, and this winter is so bumming me out. Plus, the flowers are all confused and the crocuses and daffodils in front of our building think it’s time for them to wake up, which of course it is not so they will all just freeze and die when we do finally get some wintery weather.<\/p>\n
Boy, that was upbeat! Cheerful, even! Let’s start again. Hi! How’s it going? Everything is fine here in Brooklyn, barring the lack of snow. Lately I have been obsessing over treehugger.com…thank you, Ann and Daniel, for giving me something to ease the procrastination pain! Chock full o’ green tips + tricks, it’s pushing my buttons bigtime since these days you can mostly find me right at the intersection of green + frugal (some would say stingy, but those people don’t realize how cool I looked today in my $10 Goodwill ensemble!). I will fault them a *little* bit for being so very consumer goods focused, but since those goods are recycled and\/or sustainably produced I guess it’s not that bad.<\/p>\n
And they helped me out with research into my latest eco obsession, the Plastics Are Evil campaign*! Really it wasn’t as crazy as it sounds — mostly I just cleared out all of the gnarly old takeout containers we’d been using and bought some real, microwave-safe rubbermaid containers. And banned microwaving in plastics in the apt. And decided to chuck our reused plastic water bottles for some spiffy new metal models. J + I are getting these<\/a> (red and slate green, the on-sale colors), and Gus, this<\/a> (airplane). I have to admit that I’m not 100% on board with these because of the possibly-weird “inert, water-based internal lining”, but the alternative was steel bottles which seem so so so heavy (plus I couldn’t find a small one for Gus). These are aluminum and very pretty, here’s hoping they’re durable and don’t give us cancer.<\/p>\n