I know, resolution blog entries are like…well never mind what they’re like but everybody has one. I’m going to have one too. Overall, I feel like I’ve got things going pretty well and there isn’t much of the clichéd resolutions that I want to take on. I am eating pretty much the way I like – no need for a diet and I’m getting a healthy amount of exercise (though since resuming cycling I haven’t been to a spinning class). But I do have a couple.
The first has to do with, you guessed it, cycling. In the past year I went from not cycling at all to a peak of about 100 km/week (and once as many as 200 km). However, as work changed and I worked for other clients outside the area or from home, I went back to transit. These past couple of weeks, though, have taught me that with the right gear I can be outside in more unpleasant weather than I thought and still have a good time. I need to keep cycling as much as I can and not take the bus just because it is easier. In most cases it isn’t faster. The only challenge, other than the weather and possibly cycling infrastructure at whatever client site I end up at, is that I do have to travel with Sage and Paul sometimes. Perhaps sometimes I’ll meet them at their destination. After all, it’s probably no more than 45 min each way wherever they’re going. When better weather comes and I can take some of the off-road paths, Paul can and have ridden together all over. We did try cycling a little on the street after Bells on Bloor and it wasn’t bad but I found it extremely nervewracking. Maybe after Paul takes a CANBIKE course I’ll feel a bit better.
My second one comes from reading the 100 Mile Diet. Yes, part of the resolution is to eat more local foods – I am not ready for the full 100 mile diet plan, nor do I think Sage and Paul are ready for it. I was surprised to see how many of the vegetables I bought at the health food store were from Ontario though. Onions, jerusalem artichokes, beets, carrots, onions, and garlic all came from the area. I figure next week if I can, I will stop by the Dufferin Grove Farmers’ Market, amd see what they have, too.
My third one is along similar lines to the last one. I don’t know why it took me until today to realize what a waste letting food rot in the fridge is. I guess in part I only thought of the one zucchini or bunch of broccoli that was left a little too long. But for some reason I never thought about the further waste of all the energy to transport this bunch of broccoli by refrigerated jet and truck from California to here only so it can use energy in my fridge and then use even more energy to be hauled to the landfill where it won’t even be composted. Rather disgusting, I think. So I am resolving to do a bit better in cooking what we have in the fridge and not letting as much (and sometimes we let a lot) go to waste. In many cases it is as simple as tossing produce whose days are numbered into the juicer. Not doing so is true laziness. (Not that I’m not truly lazy at times!)
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