are you green??

pat and i are trying to become more environmentally conscious.  has it caught on more in chicago?  or has it always just been a west coast thing? 

we started recycling after watching al gore's inconvenient truth a while back.  and then we switched from buying water bottles to just using brita filters and reusable bottles.  then linda got me into buying grocery bags like these below instead of getting the plastic ones.  they're so chic and fun!  it's like another accessory.  i just got mine last week and used it for the first time.  i got a whole 5 cents back from whole foods for using it.  but it's less plastic bags cluttering up our place and the world. 

and omg, the strawberries are so good out here.


RuMe bags - made in korea, they have solid ones too...these are my fav



envirosax - 5 bags comes in a little pouch and lots of variety of prints; linda has these


baggu - i wish i got these after i bought the envirosax.  just solids and some stripes, but fun bold colors.

well, linda beat me to it...but as she said...it was freakin 80 something this past weekend!! and now it's back down to the 60s.  brrr...  how quickly we get adjusted to the warm weather. (yes, i know back home is still cold but you would say the same if you were living out here now.) 

so our place doesn't have a/c and it's usually not hot enough to even need it but it was sooooo bad on saturday.  it didn't help though since i was cooking for a dinner party.  inside temp of our place was 86.  the only relief was our trip to the grocery store to buy some ice cream to cool off.  haagen daaz makes chocolate peanut butter now.  yummmmm...  it's the perfect combination of sweet and salty. 

i finally made an appt with the dmv to get my license and plates.  you can make appts out here!  weird.  i've been putting it off b/c i felt like then our move was permanent.  we still don't know but i think we're out here for a while.  the weather and scenery is difficult to beat.  pat and i have been frequenting the stanford dish - basically a 3.5 mi hilly trail that overlooks the bay area.  it's sooooo pretty with mountains, the bay, the trees and green rolling hills.  you just don't get that back home.  i've walked it several times and i'm still amazed everytime.

oh and pat's leaving Ggle.  sad....  no more free stuff after this month.  i love bringing back a lunch for the next day so i don't have to pack one.  teachers hate packing lunch...actually no one likes packing lunch.  but he's on to something he's been wanting to do - nonprofit consulting.  they work a lot with the gatesfoundation to help really good causes so i can't really blame him. 

and i've never watched more golf in my life than this weekend.  trevor's son looks like a little leprechaun.