in the mean time...

ok. i have some time now.
fifteen minutes starting 6:55 p.m.

i picked up my csa veggies, but in the excitement and my confusion i forgot to grab my bunch of radishes. so i got rhubarb, arugula, white turnips, and spinach, and my radishes were donated to a food charity. i made a salad this morning for lunch, but then my coworkers wanted to go out for sushi, and i made the decision to be social instead of eating my salad. i paid for it all afternoon with my stomach's reaction to the white rice. it's so easy to see in hindsight that i shouldn't eat crap! haha.

this morning when i went to make breakfast, i took a bite of my granola, and the milk tasted kind of sour. fair enough, that quart had been in the fridge for almost two weeks now, and we still had two quarts left from this past week (less than a week old at this point) to get through before tomorrow's trip to the farmer's market. open a "new" quart, go to pour, and it's solid on the top. smells like yogurt cheese only a little more sour. :( both quarts were like that, and i don't think it was our fault. it was freaking hot last saturday, but we wrapped them in newspaper and i brought them straight home, so they were only in the heat (under my care) for an hour or so and they totally still felt really cold when i got them home and in the fridge. oh well. we get new milk tomorrow.

today is the official beginning of the 90% down project. it feels less like the start of a race and more like the germination of a seed to me. other people are talking about "last hurrah"s and what they're starting to do differently today that they weren't doing before. because i'm taking a year to GET down to the reduced point, it's supposed to be gradual, right? like growing. growing smaller emissions. hmm...

one thing i did do today is to track my mass transit. i think i want to log my mass transit (at least until i get bored or can estimate better than i can now). that means carrying a paper or a book to write down where i got on the bus/train and where i got off (to be tracked on google maps later on in miles). i want a lighter bag *sigh* and i've been thinking about this for a long time, so maybe it's time to act on it finally. i have this idea where i have like, a regular tote bag (which we have several of), and then i take a bandana and make it into a smaller pouch bag that fits inside the tote bag and is clipped to the handles somehow. the smaller bag holds things like my wallet, ipod, comb, check book, pen. the tote bag is used for things like my lunch, book, bottle of water. i'm still thinking about it because a) i don't have a sewing machine and am loathe to do much sewing by hand at this point, and b) i want to work on the design so it ends up having a "finished" look rather than an "i threw it together on a weekend" look. vanity.

fifteen minutes is up!