Showing posts with label green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green. Show all posts

Monday, August 1, 2011

OMG (nbd)

Since it's fairly early today I don't have TOO much to report. (But I shall anyway cuz I know I won't have internet later.)

We found the trail and pool! :D No more sneaking onto private property ;) Lol, but both are mini :/ but we suspected so when we couldn't find it the first time. Actually, walking TO the trail was more of a walk than the actual trail :P (what with two fairly big hills to climb/go down).

Buuuutttt....I've officially decided to change my life style. :) In fact, I kinda already have. .-. The fact of the matter is, I was contemplating the issue during those last few days at home. We had been eating a lot of junk food lately (because either A) Mom didn't want to cook what with all the stress she had to deal with B) We were preparing to not have a fridge and therefore couldn't add more food when needed and C) We had NO fridge :P) and I was feeling the affects. -_-' Really, I was feeling more sluggish and sick. I got to the point where I was just CRAVING home cooking! (seriously it was really sad that I didn't really get any). I even came to the point where I didn't want MEAT D: (ME! The carnivore!!!) What's more, I had become addicted to the television. Absolutely ADDICTED. If I started watching the television, I wouldn't stop. Even if we planned to go out, the tv would cause at LEAST a half hour delay (usually 1-2 FULL hours). I would WANT to do other things (especially get my hw done!) but I couldn't bring myself to. And if I dared to pull myself away to do so, I wouldn't enjoy it (even if I was generally interested in my activity).

So obviously a change was needed. I mentioned already how my dad had gone on a extreme lifestyle. Very little, but healthy food. He'd  wake up at 7, work all day and no tv or anything when he got home, then bedtime at 8 or 9. ...But now I'm starting to see why. :) Now, I can't eat THAT little. But yesterday, after leaving Hastings SUPER late (8 pm!) thanks to my dad's phone calls home (*rolls eyes*), we went for a walk while mum prepared the vegetable pasta she'd planed. We went to the trail, walked to the end, walked back home. Dinner was ready (now at 9). It tasted SO good! I wasn't even starving! (I'd grabbed a banana on the way out for the walk, so I was satisfied.) Normally, I HATE pasta. (Especially the healthy kinda *gag*) My dinner last night consisted of: salad, a small amount of protein rich pasta, and vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli, and carrots that TASTED like they were sauteed in butter but actually only had a bit of cooking oil and garlic!). After the long day, I just got ready for bed, grabbed my book. Read a chap, then hit the hay about 10. And today? I NATURALLY woke up at 7! 7!!!!!!!! (I need an ALARM to wake up before 10 normally!) Even though I slept on the floor (which didn't suck as much when I slept on top of my 2 allotted pillows X) ) and had to wake up in the middle of the night for a restroom stop, I am not anymore tired than I would be waking up at 9. O.o

So if you don't get what I'm hinting at, I'm going healthy. :) I've decided, Imma hit the hay early, try to wake up at 6:30 so I can work out (2 days a school week running, 2 pilates, 1 rest :) ), shower, and head out! Plus, less red meat, more yummy veggies. (Highlight yummy though :/).

Also, I'll try to be a bit more green. :) I'm currently reading:
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beavan 
and WOW! The guy and his family strive to make NO environmental impact for a YEAR. He starts off slow, and it's really nice how he doesn't preach. But all the facts is sure to make u wanna make u change, if only a little. :) For example, we have our reusable bags we've always had but never used before in tow for our normal groceries today. X) Plus, he agrees with the no-tv lifestyle. :D If you LIKE to read and have some time, pick it up! I'm sure they have it at the lib. 
On a completely dif note, I'm happy to say, "OUR STUFF IS COMING TOMORROW!!!!" I am SO psyched! (Mostly cuz, I have no clean clothes after tomorrow left O.O).
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See ya,
~S~