Green as a Thistle

When I received my first CSA delivery, I was so excited at the prospect of cooking up a local, organic storm — until this funny, stripey yellow thing surfaced from underneath the cabbage. It was a Delicata squash, and I wasn’t too sure what to do with it. Usually, if I eat squash, I like to roast it, or use it in a soup (but even then, it still tastes better when it’s roasted first). The problem is, my oven is currently out of commission.

So I’m wondering if I should invest in a toaster oven. On the one hand, it would sort of throw Change #67 out the window and mean buying more stuff that will probably come with more packaging; but on the other hand, it would mean that, even when my challenge is over, I could heat up a lot of food without having to heat up an oven five-times the size.

Here, then, is a link to the poll for you to give me your opinion (I couldn’t put it directly into my blog because WordPress is dumb). I dedicate it to the Queen of Blog Polls, Ms. Crunchy Chicken, who’s had to deal with some very sad news recently and probably has far more important things to worry about than this. So without further ado,

Take me to the toasty poll!

Whenever I go on vacation with my sister, she always lets me shower first because I take about five minutes — she takes at least 20. Now, I honestly don’t think I could spend 20 minutes in the shower if I tried, so I often ask her what on earth she’s doing in there for so long. She usually offers a vague response (typical of most people who take long showers), but I’m pretty sure that at least half the time is spent shaving.

Because I’m not a hairy person, I usually only need to shave every couple weeks — and I do so, of course, with my Preserve recycled razor and natural shaving cream (actually, as it turns out, this product has some not-so-cool ingredients like Methylparaben and Propylparaben in it, so when it’s finished I’ll be switching to something else).

Often, I’ll shave after a bath and use the water left in the tub, but now that I’m done with baths that’s not an option. Rather than go about this beauty regimen in the shower, however, I’m going to shave in the sink. I’m guessing that filling it up once — with cold water, naturally — will use less than letting the tap trickle the whole time, but perhaps I’ll experiment a bit and see.

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