Oh god....

I'm online checking the weather forecast (rain and drizzle, drizzle and rain, and just plain rain... with a little bit of drizzle. Isn't it a lovely day, Cowboy? No. It ain't.) and as soon as I sit down, the kids start squabbling.

So why am I posting when I try not to ever, ever, EVER update when the nieces are awake and I'm upstairs?

Deep down I hope that if I ignore them enough, they'll stop fighting over, of all things, their ability to drink from an empty water bottle. EMPTY, I say, EMPTY!

I have no metrocard either. This day is just going swimmingly - should've gone out yesterday.

Kids are asleep

I finally signed up for that CSA. A full veggie share, AND a fruit share AND (just because) an egg share, so hopefully that will sustain the two little growing-like-weeds kids who live in this house, especially what with the garden and all as well.

The fruit share isn't all that much, but then again, it costs less too. And we can always buy fruit, right?

So we'll see how this goes this year. Wish me luck!

Edit: Oh, cool. The farm doing the CSA I joined (picked solely on the fact that it has a clearly written payment plan) also does a "market CSA". NOT this year, obviously, but next year that'd be a great idea to supplement the veggies and fruits, right?

I really want to buy from the farmer's market more often, you know. I hear so often (from people who travel a lot and therefore have Opinions) that our prices for food and clothes in the US are "so low" compared to other places - even wealthy places! And I hear from other people (who read a lot and are full of social conscience and who also, therefore, have Opinions) that our prices in the US don't reflect the "true cost" of good food and clothes.

Well, I don't know. I live in the US, what do I know about prices and life outside?

But I read an article recently, an editorial really, about a guy who decided to only eat humanely raised meat. (I *also* have heard it said that if you don't eat meat for ethical and/or environmental reasons you do a better job by convincing three people to eat less meat than by trying (and failing) to convince one person to go vegan, and that's probably true.) He found out that it's more expensive that way. What he didn't say, but I thought at the end, is that it might not have to be so much more expensive.

If you buy beef at a few dollars a pound, and you throw out the bones with meat still on them even, and you burn a little, and you let some get freezer burned so it's largely useless, and you throw out some of your leftovers, and you eat a HUGE portion... how much have you gained doing this? If you bought that same beef at two or three or four times the price and you used the bones for stock and you only bought as much as you needed and you used more rice grains and veggies to fill out the bulk... well, I don't know. I always figured that meat was kinda boring, it's spices and veggies and fruit that tastes good!

(And, for that matter, why do people eat meat every day? Seriously? Nobody in the history of the world ate meat like that until recently, did they?)

I'm rambling. I'm sorry, it must be this rainy (ugh) weather.