It just depends on where you are, I guess. We have farmer's markets all over the place, here, with locally grown produce (less fuel for shipping). My neighborhood was either designed for walking, or it's pure accident.
It's a theme I'm working on in my book right now, creating communities that are more walking friendly. Almost all my driving is work and back, and extra driving is within a 15 mile radius.
This still true further south/west in poorer neighborhoods. There's a hospital, different groceries, coffee shops, the metro, all in walking distance.
LA desperately needs it.
It's a theme I'm working on in my book right now, creating communities that are more walking friendly.
Allyson, despite my last post about the co-op, that's the reason we're living where we are now. Both times we've moved, DH and I have looked for a neighborhood that is more walking, less/no car. There are some really great ones.
I greatly appreciate how much I can get done just walking in my neighbourhood, but there's so much fun stuff (including friends) that's a drive (but not a commute) away that the car will always be important.
And sometimes I need to reinforce my personal bubble with metal and inertia. I need to transport my own domain.
Everyone at work is treating me like I'm about to fall apart. I feel oddly guilty about this.
SLOW!!!
What's wrong with you guys?
I'm trying to figure out why the form I created in Word is just. not. working.
I am shipping packages for work and trying to get my boss out the door for a flight - he is 10 min late for his car.
My office is trying to figure out how to preemptively argue our clients out of complicating stuff and creating three times as much work for us.
also mentally planning a menu for the rest of the week. It looks like this:
W dinner - leftovers (mac pepper steak and rice, me Eth food and rice)
Th lunch - cole slaw and hamburger patty
Th dinner - fast food (returning from long Dr. trip with mac)
Fri lunch - salad with chicken
Fri dinner - waffles
Need to do - thaw chicken, look for fruit for waffles
I'm trying to work out how much expediting to expedite, how much of someone else's job to do...
Ah, hell. Let me just go all the way and submit the full request. The request will starve and die in the formal channels.
SLOW!!!
meep!
Still trying to decide which grocery to go to. Bigtime firstworld problem. Should have been gone and back already.
les choices:
- grocery I can walk to. expensive. not a lot of choices. good exercise.
- co-op grocery. awesome, natural goodness, local produce. Living in fear of forgetting to sign up to do my 6 hours of work. 10 minute drive.
- distant big-box with the nasty lighting and the Old Navy close by. 25 minute drive.
- even more distant TJs. 30 minute drive.
- grocery I can go to after picking up the sprog. Which then requires shopping with the sprog. 5 minute drive. 1 year off life.
- Reading Terminal Market. 20 minute train ride. Just added on because it's cool and there weren't enough choices already.
btw. DH's pick is B. With an added 'get off your tuckas and do something besides work/surfing'.
