habits

3:29am Ashley Benzwie's Current Status: habits. . . thinking about habits

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Recycling is the last resort !   Just avoid getting things that would need to be recycled in the first place.  i.e. bulk purchases with less packaging, glass containers. So actually this image has it wrong and it should be rearranged to REDUCE, reuse, recycle. So try to eliminate using extra material at all in the first place, then consider what has greater reusability, then if you really have to consider what is recyclable.

Biodegradable things are only biodegradable when given the chance to break down with the aid of sunlight and oxygen...in other words when not put into a landfill, otherwise they are just as bad as plastic packaging.

Just some food for thought!

Brought Back

Music reminds me that I am the same person I always have been.

Seriously I have noticed that.  Sometimes it's hard to recall the person that you were years before.  How you thought, what you did, and how you felt about anything, but when I hear certain songs I am just instantly brought emotionally to a moment from my past.

For instance yesterday I was listening to a classical music radio station and a song came on that immediately triggered a specific emotion.  I didn't know what the piece was called but I suddenly realized that I used to hear my mom playing it on the piano as a kid. Part of me was brought back to this time and state, sitting in my family room at my small white table and chair set listening to my mothers' notes with such awe.  Again earlier this evening I found myself walking from my house to Ideenfabrik with my ipod on shuffle mode, when a Modest Mouse song came on.  From there I got nostalgic and emotional.  I was brought back to a time in my Ford Taurus driving from my high school to my babysitting job a couple towns over.  And I remembered how I felt about things at this time, and I saw how different my perspective has become.  But nonetheless I felt a bit of what I felt at this time.  I recalled with whom I had close relationships and where my priorities were.  It's an interesting thing.

Pictured here is certainly an old place to be brought back to

 

 

Music can remind you of who you once were and how that is part of the same person you are today.





 

Kleber Kochen

Mehl       +         Wasser           =                selbstgemacht Kleber

durchmischen

und abkalten

Salmon Corn Chowder

I have fond memories of touring Westwood with Christina to find the best soups in town as a child. Soups have always been close to my heart.  The winter is winding down (wishful thinking?), and soups will soon become less of a staple.   I really like cooking them and Ben wants to learn a thing or two. So....we're going to make this.  mmmmm....I'm pretty excited for tomorrow's dinner!

Boskops

 

My latest possibly unhealthy, should be healthy obsession: Boskop Apples - luckily they are a lot cheaper than dried mango.  These giant, intended baking apples,  are crazy big, and delicious.  I've been going through crazy amounts of them along with Courtney.  Fruit vendors are starting to recognize me as the girl who cleans us out of Boskoop Apples.  Courtney and I have conversations about which establishments have them and which don't,  we even joked about (well discussed) making a map marking the hot spots.