But then, things like last week happen. Where I have a lot of random thoughts in my head but none of them are relevant to my green living endeavors or long enough to be an entire blog post. In fact, a lot of them are probably bemoaning the ways I'm failing and can't seem to gain traction. So I just don't post at all. How is THAT helping my blog? To not post? Probably not much.
Yet, I have a lot of random things to share, which I often do on my blog's Facebook page (make sure you've "Like"ed me!).
- The defeat of Proposition 37 in California and what does that mean for our ability to be conscientious consumers? I think I am too unhappy that this failed to see a way out right now. The truth is, Prop 37 failed because a lot of big corporations have a lot of money and they had the advertising and lobby power to convince people in a tight economy that their overall health and ability to be informed is going to cost them too much. When the opposite is true. It's another case of Big Corp and Big Money winning and I am just so dang sick of being optimistic about that battle when it seems unrealistic.
- What is going on with my garden: it is actually currently producing a fairly good crop of tiny but healthy bell peppers! I think I will collect the entire crop, chop them up and freeze them, and make a stir fry. For one person. I already made these cute bell pepper eggs once. Only the pepper was so small that I made a little flower with all the rings instead...it's hard to describe and I didn't take a picture. Sorry.
- Free shipping with Shaklee. I buy some of my green cleaning products from my friend Jessica's Shaklee business, as you will find out if I ever finish my "Green My Routine: Cleaning" post. That's going to be a long one.
- Going dairy and soy free, in addition to already being vegetarian. OK, it's not me that's dairy and soy free, it's my son. Since we've taken him off dairy and soy his potty training poop issues have suddenly improved. It's been almost 5 days since he's had a poop accident. But, since he already refuses to eat meat of any kind or beans of any kind, removing dairy and soy presents seemingly insurmountable obstacles when it comes to his nutrition. He's already in the 40th percentile for weight. Shoot me now. I have no idea.
- Giving my children salmonella by mistake. It wasn't actually me, but our stupid backyard chickens. I swear, sometimes I consider cooking those chickens for dinner and I don't even eat meat. I believe what happened is that my children's sippy cups came into contact with the chicken poop that is EVERYWHERE in our backyard because those stupid birds are aggressive poopers. As in, you leave something out there for 5 minutes and when you come back there will most definitely be poop on it. Aggressive pooping. So we have confined them to an area of the yard. Pictures to come. And maybe I should blog about the salmonella you can get from backyard as a cautionary measure for other potential chicken owners? It's just all so embarassing.
- Operation Christmas Child. It's a worthy cause, we are excited about it. I took an emergency trip to Target and Whole Foods to get a ton of suitable and conscientious items and then we left our stupid box at home so we might have missed the deadline. Nice.
