The presidential debate was on last night and, quite frankly, it bored me to death since the candidates seem more concerned with defending their past record than telling us what they would do in the here and now. I fell asleep half-way through, about the time Obama was underscoring how right he was about a number of things he predicted back in 2003. Speaking of Talkin' Trash...
"It happened again. Trash day was yesterday and, as is the norm, we always win for the most number of trash cans on the street. Here is an excerpt on the subject from a recent column of mine..My neighbors seem to be ahead of the curve when it comes to going green since they put out approximately one-tenth of the trash we put out every week. So now, as if the environmental and societal pressures of saving our planet aren’t weighing on me enough, I have the additional burden of having to lay claim to the burgeoning heap of superfluous waste that brands me like a scarlet letter.
In a weak attempt to defend myself, I will say that we do recycle, but clearly we have a long way to go to get up to snuff. Furthermore, I am a bit of a clean freak, as is a girlfriend of mine. We figure that between the two of us, we go through about 573 rolls of paper towel a week. This would make environmentalists like Sheryl Crow, who suggests we use one square of toilet paper per trip, throw in her organic cotton towel and call it quits.The important thing is that I want to do better. My own children are helping me do better. I will do better, as soon as I figure out what an aerator is and how to install the darned thing. I even took a quiz on the National Geographic Web site to find out my Eco IQ. I was happy to discover that at the end of each question, tips were given but no overall score was calculated. Look, my actual IQ is disappointing enough.
I am not suggesting that I will be selling compact fluorescent light bulbs out of a Prius anytime soon, but I do have a goal of producing only two barrels of trash per week, which will mean using a lot fewer disposable products, which could quite possibly ruin my life."
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Okay, tomorrow I will post about my new challenge - to learn how to produce an audio file for this blog. Despite a background in radio, I am a bumbling idiot when it comes to anything that requires formatting and feeds and fa la la..so I will enlist the help of my good friend and guest male blogger, Mike Katz, who himself has conquered some challenges in this area...more on that tomorrow.
So my one and only attempt at recycling (because we all know how I feel about that one!!!!) - 6 barrels full of recycling goods (only because my children guilt me into doing it) - windy day, wrong day, - say more? 6 Barrels full of plastic bottles, newspaper, cardboard - all strewn across three lawns - all down the street - I personally, pride myself on the number of trash barrels I can put out by the curb each week!! THAT is truly the sign of a bad mom....a mom who does not care about the environment - isn't that what I am attempting to do? be the worst one I can possibly be so I succeed at embarassing my children beyond reason? I take pride in being the only one in my children's school who does not recycle (even if they are all green, tree hugging freaks.....just kidding s.t......) - it takes a special kind of mom to say "I don't care what all the other moms are doing".......
ReplyDeletewas thinking if you get this audio thing up and running it would be great fun to include a karaoke aspect - I would love to be a guest singer on your site - singing all my favorite Donny and Marie or Shawn Cassidy songs - think of the possibilities!!!!
ReplyDeleteI personally enjoying singing Olivia Newton John circa 1980...
ReplyDeleteGotta go buy some pre-packaged snack packs.