oh fruits & veggies

so many of the fruits i love are showing up in the grocery store again (at reasonable prices) and i'm so happy. (side note: i would like to say farmer's market, but i'm still working saturdays so they don't work out with my schedule. hopefully soon...) i remember coming back from mexico and buying all this delicious fruit and making fruit salads every morning for breakfast and it was all for me (karen wouldn't touch half of it)! it was wonderful! and i'm so excited we're getting back into the season for more...

then this release came out. really? apples now have the highest pesticides. i think i saw 98% of apples. ugh. i vaguely remember not too many years ago (4 tops) apples were one of the safest and strawberries were the worst. which sort-of makes sense because strawberries soak it up. but apples. apples and bananas were my fruits i never worried about purchasing organic. maybe i'm crazy. i'd rather not eat pesticides. i mean. it's not natural.

but even buying organic may not solve my problems. after the mention of it in the last article, i looked into it a bit further. so "fewer dangerous chemicals, but certain pesticides are still allowed." ugh. i know people have told me how pesticides are used to keep certain bugs from ruining the crop. i just wish i could afford to buy food without any.

i can dream.

so basically i need a garden so i can monitor my food's growth.
actually i think i would really like that.

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museum field trip

i've been doing really well on my field trip resolution . yesterday i hit up another one: the chicago history museum . it turns out it was a free day there, even though i was going to get in free anyway. that means it was busy! which is fine, i still got to take a gander around. I've never been to the history museum before so that in itself was exciting. probably my favorite part was when they talked about the world's fair in chicago (i can't remember the exact name). the buildings were so much grander than i imagined them in my mind while i read, devil in the white city a couple months ago. it was fun to see what it was really like. and wow! there was also an awesome exhibit about workers rights and such. so it was a fun little excursion.

thanksgiving time

( via ) Yes, I like Santa. But why is everyone so anxious to start with Christmas? Why can't we appreciate Thanksgiving first? don't get me wrong, i'm excited to watch Love Actually again (when it's in-season. i actually watch it all year long). everyone kept talking about christmas being everywhere this month, but i really only encountered it when i walked around the mall with Greta (my sister-in-law) on Monday. it was all over the mall. it could have been december. look what Nordstrom is doing i'm actually really excited for thanksgiving this year... (details to follow) but as far as today goes... I have to share this with you because I think it's funny ( via ) actually... at 11:11 I was running around looking for a book called The Moon Seems to Change

Birthday

i was yawning? Here I am: 28! Top 5 of 27: LouFest Marathon Florida (how can a vacation not make it?) New Job trip to Savannah to meet Callie ! My parents came to Chicago last weekend to help me celebrate & celebrate we did! It was a super fun weekend! And it was 40 degrees! Friday I was on the phone with a member from Kansas City. He started chatting with me about the weather and I said, "we are currently experiencing a heat wave in Chicago of 34 degrees." He responded, "it's supposed to be 60 here this weekend, we're going to pull out our bbq grills." I laughed, but thought, 'why are my parents coming here?!? why am I not going where it's warm?!?' SIXTY DEGREES! We won't see that til...april? may? obsessed i made a baby snowman, no one wanted to help so i went with a tiny one... ;) What I would give for the day off today! I want a nap ;)

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