TUESDAY

This morning before going, just after the kids left for school, I walked through the house and turned off 14 of the 17 lights you could have on in our house. I do not know how they all got turned on. This morning when I woke up, no lights were on. I think Noah or Josiah just goes around and turns lights on just to see how I react. You see, before I was laid off I would just turn them off and not say anything, but now, since the money is TIGHT, I have to mention to everyone that I am turning off a light. I know a lot of them are mine. Like right now, I am typing this in the living room with a light on. My house is so bright that I can not even tell the light is on. (just jumped up and turned it off). What else.....Oh yea, Josiah does not know how to shut a door. He is 12! Refrigerator, Garage door, front door, it does not matter. If he gets the milk out for cereal he leaves the door open the whole time he is making his breakfast, unless Susie or I mention it to him.

we have started recycling plastics. I decided to start slow and just do plastics. Well, it is amazing how much plastic we go through in a week. Then I go to throw it out at the recycling dumpster and it is so full that I can not get another thing in. I am tempted to just toss the junk, but I drive to another recycling dumpster and toss it in. OK, I saved the EARTH but I drove 10 extra miles to do so. Is it a push? Does the junk I put in the air by driving extra = the amount of landfill space? who cares? At least I got those lights turned off!