Ok, so I totally should be doing laundry right now... but I've got plans, baby! Well, plans in my head anyways. I was flipping through my Real Simple magazine (no really, I DO have aspirations of being green and all that) and I stumbled upon the ad for home farming sponsored by Triscuit. I know, I'm a sucker for ads... but at least it didn't force me to buy a product to sign up! Its crazy late in the season to start a garden, but maybe I could throw some herbs in the ground and start there. Hmm... They suggest raised beds, and the resident expert to explain how to do things is Paul James, whom I love love love. Well, haven't quite gotten anything actually started or anything, but I did manage to lug one of the dog fences out to the new house backyard and set it up in a corner... then my composter will go right next to it! Yay!
And now to look at furniture...
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Going Green?
Ok, so this started off as a chronicle of my weight loss. Yeah. Um. Not happening the way I want. So rather then focus on the glaring numbers on my scale each morning and evening (I have a problem, I know) I'm going to focus on other ways to improve myself.
Like going green.
DH and I have really been stepping up our recycling efforts, and this brings me joy, knowing that I'm doing something friendly towards mother earth. You know, to offset all those disposable diapers we've been dumping into the land fills for the past 2.5 years. And while I cringe thinking about all those diapers (and the diapers that will continue to fill my diaper champ until both Baby G and Mister Mister are potty trained. I am human and have a budget after all...) Im super excited about stepping up my Green Friendly attitude. The new house has... drum roll please... a composter! And apparently it's a really nice one from the research I've done (to find directions for it, ha). And the yard is big enough that I feel really good about fencing a corner off for a veggie garden, and el composter can be installed right next to it! Pests and flies will be kept to a minimum just by churning it, keeping it moist, and chucking some dry leaves and whatnot in there on top. I can't wait to start! And it just seems super easy too! Woohoo! Yay for going Green!
I heart positivity. :)
Now, iit would be delightful if my parents got over to the new house today at somepoint to plug in the dehumidifier so my floors would dry enough to put a second coat of polyurethane down on the hardwood! I just want to get all the random junk out of the kitchen so that I can get it prepped for the move... recleaned, touch up paint, etc... And I still need to figure out what we're going to do about the carpet upstairs... Landlord does not return from his trip until Sunday... granted that is only 3 days away and he was planning on coming out to get another load Tuesday, but yeah... Can't move in any of our stuff upstairs until the carpet is down. The floors are just in that bad of shape. Not to mention the stairs... Oye! Its coming along beautifully though... and it's only a matter of a week, maybe 2 before we can start the mondo task of moving. Then that composter will be kicked into high gear! Woot! :D
Like going green.
DH and I have really been stepping up our recycling efforts, and this brings me joy, knowing that I'm doing something friendly towards mother earth. You know, to offset all those disposable diapers we've been dumping into the land fills for the past 2.5 years. And while I cringe thinking about all those diapers (and the diapers that will continue to fill my diaper champ until both Baby G and Mister Mister are potty trained. I am human and have a budget after all...) Im super excited about stepping up my Green Friendly attitude. The new house has... drum roll please... a composter! And apparently it's a really nice one from the research I've done (to find directions for it, ha). And the yard is big enough that I feel really good about fencing a corner off for a veggie garden, and el composter can be installed right next to it! Pests and flies will be kept to a minimum just by churning it, keeping it moist, and chucking some dry leaves and whatnot in there on top. I can't wait to start! And it just seems super easy too! Woohoo! Yay for going Green!
I heart positivity. :)
Now, iit would be delightful if my parents got over to the new house today at somepoint to plug in the dehumidifier so my floors would dry enough to put a second coat of polyurethane down on the hardwood! I just want to get all the random junk out of the kitchen so that I can get it prepped for the move... recleaned, touch up paint, etc... And I still need to figure out what we're going to do about the carpet upstairs... Landlord does not return from his trip until Sunday... granted that is only 3 days away and he was planning on coming out to get another load Tuesday, but yeah... Can't move in any of our stuff upstairs until the carpet is down. The floors are just in that bad of shape. Not to mention the stairs... Oye! Its coming along beautifully though... and it's only a matter of a week, maybe 2 before we can start the mondo task of moving. Then that composter will be kicked into high gear! Woot! :D
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