I am guilty of severe neglect on this blog recently, but I have a good excuse. After eight years in the same city, I moved to North Carolina last week. I grew up in eastern NC, but I'm now in the Triad, near Greensboro. It's beautiful here, and I'm so glad to be back in the state. I absolutely love North Carolina and can't believe I stayed away so long. I'm kind of a hippie/country girl at heart, even though I love 80s electronica, Victorian tea sets, and doc martens. Love to have a farm someday with sheep, Alpaca, or llamas to produce wool for sale on the Internet, and host spinning and weaving classes in my barn where I usually rehearse with my grrrl rock band. Nonexistent as of yet, but a girl can dream. And it certainly wouldn't be unheard of in NC, where hipsters and good old boys and girls mix beautifully and the arts and culture are second only to the gorgeous landscapes.
Anyway, this is the first step - moving here. My dear best friend and her husband and daughter have been willling to put me up for a month or so while I get my you know what together and get a job. So my projects of late have been more job-application-oriented. But I'm conserving paper, - yay me - and my friend is an excellent teacher of green living, especially since she started teaching a college course on global impact.
My next few posts will be sharing some of the techniques I'm learning here about how to reduce your footprint in everyday life and not kill yourself doing it. Simple but meaningful acts that can help the planet and help us all feel a little better about our own impact on it.
So stay tuned...tips are forthcoming, as well as updates on my job search and how all this quality time with my son is probably going to kill me. With love, of course!
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Don't Tell Mom the Maid's Dead
"The dishes are done, man!"
I stayed up till midnight last night to do dishes. I had already taken down the Christmas tree and balanced the boxes artfully in a Dr. Seuss-esque tower in the garage. I was on a roll and figured I'd keep on keepin' on, though I didn't get more than 5 minutes of post-work downtime. Booo.
However, one of my Home Ec resolutions is to no longer go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink. It's ten times grosser to clean up the next day, it hits me with Catholic guilt first thing in the morning (not healthy for my psyche), and a shining sink at bedtime is a major best practice in Marthaworld. The task (and its lateness) was unpleasant, but came with many rewards the next day and I felt as if I had made some progress on my quest.
So what did I use to green-clean my dishes?
I stayed up till midnight last night to do dishes. I had already taken down the Christmas tree and balanced the boxes artfully in a Dr. Seuss-esque tower in the garage. I was on a roll and figured I'd keep on keepin' on, though I didn't get more than 5 minutes of post-work downtime. Booo.
However, one of my Home Ec resolutions is to no longer go to bed with dirty dishes in the sink. It's ten times grosser to clean up the next day, it hits me with Catholic guilt first thing in the morning (not healthy for my psyche), and a shining sink at bedtime is a major best practice in Marthaworld. The task (and its lateness) was unpleasant, but came with many rewards the next day and I felt as if I had made some progress on my quest.
So what did I use to green-clean my dishes?
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