Life Attacks!

And that's why my blog has fallen behind once again. My promised pictures for the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment did not happen because I decided it would be way more fun to spend the day in the emergency room with my second kidney stone than to hang out with my family. I mean, who wouldn't rather have an IV, experience mind-boggling pain and get poked and prodded than blow up some Diet Coke??? (I also want to add here that I find this to be the only real use for Diet Coke...you certainly wouldn't want to drink it!) So, the kidney stone is a thing of the past now, though the doctor did discover a new and exciting condition that I have when they ran me through the radioactive donut. How exciting! Uterine fibroids, unite!

Okay, enough health talk. Well, enough talk about my health specifically. This next section actually is still about health and grocery shopping. I've read a gazillion times that to protect yourself and your environment from chemicals, preservatives, pollution, etc. that you should buy fruits and veggies that are in season and grown locally if possible. Well, since I'm not a farmer, I have very little clue as to what is actually in season, so I just kind of grab whatever's there that looks yummy. No more! I found http://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/ ... this site gives a list of fruits and veggies per season (they also have a category for all year) with tons of other information about nutrition and cooking with fruits and veggies. Very useful to visit this site if you're like me (which means you're pretty agriculturally challenged).

In other oh-so-fascinating news, I have made it my life's mission at the moment to find toilet paper and paper towels that are made of recycled paper. I know they exist. I've found them on line. What I would like to find though, is these products in a local store and I would prefer for them to be cheaper than me setting up a manufacturing plant and making them myself. That has proven to be the tricky part. Sadly, at this point, I have only found toilet paper that is made of recycled paper and that was at Wal Mart, which is the enemy. I was only in Wal Mart as a last resort for finding hula hoops for a class project (hula hoop and tissue paper pie charts - beautiful!) when I wandered down the tissue aisle and spotted the recycled toilet paper. I'll let the world know how this mission turns out....you're all on the edge of your seats, right?!?

Well, it is now time to go enjoy a hard-core session of Viva Pinata with the family. I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!