Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Happy Birth Day To Me

Well, starting this year, I am officially celebrating my 28th birth day forever! My chronological age is 32, but it sounds old. I don’t feel like I am this old. I think the perfect age to be is 28! That’s why I am going to be celebrating my 28th birth day every year forever! I [...]

Compostable Plastic Made From Municipal And Biodesel Waste

Compostable plastic that’s made from plants is not a novelty. The manufacturing process is rather involved. It requires land and fertilizer to grow the plants, mainly corn, then the necessary ingredients need to be extracted from the plant, then additional chemical/biological processes are required that involve energy input. Currently to make a pound of widely [...]

Biodegradable Plastic – Is It Really?

What is the definition of ‘biodegradable’? Here are some definitions that I found:

capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria
capable of being reduced to water and carbon dioxide by the action of microorganisms
capable of being broken down by air, water and bacteria

Up until now, ‘biodegradable’ used to mean to me that if I throw such [...]

Homemade Sushi – Is It Worth The Hassle?

I carried out my Valentine’s Day plan of making sushi for the first time. Both my husband and I love sushi, so that was one of my contributions to our Valentine’s Day’s date.
That afternoon I went online, checked out the key ingredients required for basic sushi preparation and left for my hunting, aka grocery store. [...]

Eco-Friendly Valentine’s Day Date

This morning my husband and I decided on our tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day date. We’re hoping to tire out the kiddo by eight, so we can have the rest of the night to ourselves.
For dinner we decided to stay in and enjoy a healthy home-cooked meal. It’s nice that we don’t have to leave the house [...]

Shatterproof CFL Bulbs

Wouldn’t it be nice to have an option of purchasing a shatterproof CFL light bulb, so in case the bulb breaks the mercury stays contained within the bulb? Even though Environmental Protection Agency issued a thorough clean up procedure for mercury spills including broken CFL bulbs, many consumers still have concerns with using CFL bulbs [...]

Our Cruise To Eastern Caribbean

For the first time in two years we managed to get away on vacation! Just the two of us.  We decided to take a cruise on Crown Princess down to the Eastern Caribbean.  We left from Fort Lauderdale on January 4 and came back on January 11. Our ports of call were Princess Kays, St. [...]

Choco’s Ice Cream Cookie Bon Bons

Oh, these bon bons.  You wonderfully surprised me tonight with the odd combination of your chocolaty constituents.  it is a harmonic assembly of the chocolate cookie topped with chocolate ice cream and fully covered with dark chocolate. Drooling yet?
As I saw the site of the dark chocolate, I anticipated the taste of decadence.  As the [...]

Juicy Couture Diaper Bag Review

Juicy Couture Diaper Bag Review from Malika Risley on Vimeo.

Gerber Cloth Diapers – Is It A Joke?