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It’s A Green Life

On By Michel McDonaldIn Diet, Exercise, Green, HealthLeave a comment

A few weeks ago we came home from San Diego after only being gone for a few days and discovered that someone had taken our garbage can.  The city wants to charge us $60 for a new one.  It hit me below the belt because it made me think that I do take it for granted.  Trash that is.  We normally just save soda cans and soda bottles and give them to the dumpster divers but we decided to start recycling them for ourselves.

I took it a step further though and instead of just soda bottles and cans I’d look at the back of every container we buy and those cans that food come in are recyclable too and so are milk containers.  Paper can also be recycled.  I set up 2 paper bags with the cans (1 bag for each type of can) and I’m going to set up another bag for shredded paper which I am now going to start shredding the mail along with junk mail and even bad ideas that I’ve printed.  I have so much paper just sitting around in notebooks that have absolutely no purpose anymore so those will be shredded straight away.

I’ve also become green when I shower.  When you live in a trailer or if go camping and have one of those hanging bags of water for showers you have to use the least you can use so you have enough water for yourself and others so you get wet, turn off the hose, lather your hair and body then turn the hose back on to rinse off.  Well, I’ve started doing that at home.  I don’t know exactly how many gallons of water I am saving but I bet you it’s a lot.

I started riding my bike for exercise, not to get anywhere in particular but so I can lose weight and so that’s good that I’m doing that but it really serves no green purpose for me.  But it’s at least a statement.

And we do have to drive our car to the recycling center just to recycle all this stuff.  I can’t carry bags of cans, bottles and tied up newspaper and bags of shredded paper on a bike so we have no other choice.  I feel I’m at least helping.

Below are pictures of my cans bags and a trash bag of bottles which is a new bag so it only has a couple of bottles but you get the idea.

Anxiously Waiting But No Word From Shelley

On By Michel McDonaldIn Friends and FamilyLeave a comment

July 26th 2008 5pm – Yes I realize watching the phone isn’t going to make it ring. I sent Shelley the letter and it should have arrived today and it’s 5pm now which means she should have been off work by now unless she works at night however in which case I will have to wait until tomorrow, she probably hasn’t checked her mail yet. At any rate, I sit here waiting anxiously for her to call.

July 26th 2008 9:03pm – Well, I guess I gotta wait and wonder for another day or so. I didn’t get a phone call from Shelley today like I was expecting. I can only think that she didn’t get it in the mail or it went to her mom’s house and she didn’t go get it or something. Or, they don’t live there anymore and I will get it back in a few days. I can only wait and see.

July 28th 2008 8:57pm – Well, today was Monday and I sent that letter to Shelley on Thursday so she should have gotten it on Saturday. I was thinking maybe she might get it on Monday and then I’d hear from her since I didn’t hear from her on the weekend. But, I didn’t hear from her today so I’m thinking that I will probably get it back in the mail tomorrow (return to sender, person doesn’t live here anymore) or perhaps it went into the garbage can.

Maybe she or whoever she lives with thought it was junk mail and trashed it. I think if I don’t get it back in the mail that maybe she thought it was junk because of the labels so I might try again with a new letter but writing “Shane” as the return address and writing her address on the envelope instead of using a label. I also might think about using the other address that I have for her since there were 2 addresses in the thing that I got from US Search. I won’t give up just yet. I might also think about printing that picture as a little tiny sticker and use it to seal the envelope. You won’t be able to miss that.

Update January 30th 2011: I don’t know why I never updated this but here goes.  I still have yet to hear from her to this day.  I guess she put me in her past and left me there forever because she moved on.  Well it’s time for me to move on as well.  I won’t even give it another thought.  I had no ill intention when I wanted to contact her, I just wanted to see how she was doing and catch up but if she doesn’t want to do that then that’s fine.  So, it was fun knowing her those couple of years that I did know her and life goes ahead.