A Plastic Epiphany

  I believe it was a week ago, I was about to shave. I took my shaving cream and my razor out, rinse my face with warm water, and then I remove the plastic tip of my disposable razor. That's when I realized something. Since it's disposable, which means I pretty toss and buy new ones several times a year... that's a lot of plastic.

  That's when I look around my toiletries. It can't just be my razor right? Oh gosh, my toothpaste, my toothbrush, they're all plastic. My tongue scraper too but that isn't as severe as the others because tongue scraper is not exactly in the "disposable" sect, while you're suppose to replace your toothbrush every 3 months (which means 4 toothbrushes a year), and your toothpaste container... well depending on how much toothpaste you use then.

Figure 52.1: What I meant by lots of plastic

  Then some other thing hit me! A bar soap! Now I know why some people (other than preference) use bar soap over those squeeze bottles/top ones! Even less plastic! So there I was, with a warm wet face, razor on one hand and cream on the other, just standing in front of the mirror, having an epiphany.

  A lot of things makes sense now. The wooden toothbrushes, the powder deodorant, the bar soap... I'll probably try to get one after I'm finished with my current one. As for the toothpaste, I don't think I could switch to that black goop thing that the Giantess use yet, I think that takes a while to get used to. As for the razor, I've been looking up and there's this thing called safety razors. Safety razors are usually 100% made of metal, hopefully rust resistant, and you replace the blade once like every 2 years or something. Unfortunately, 2 aspect of it is preventing me from purchasing one right off the bat:

1. The technique used to shave with a safety razor is different from a disposable one.
2. It's hecking expensive.

  Which unfortunately means I'm going to stick with the disposable razor for awhile. But fret not, for I have plans to head to the local hipster barber and inquire about safety razors. I'm sure they will know all about it. Hopefully I will get one in the near future! 

  I've been trying to go green lately. I guess one of my proto-going green things is purchasing a kindle. At first, it was more for convenience and novelty reasons, "Wow, so cool! Wow, so light! Wow, I no longer have to carry so many books anymore!" Although the trade off means I have a smaller book collection on my shelf... and I can't exactly lend someone my kindle... but as time went on, I realized that the kindle does help me cut down my "paper usage". 

  I've also started using handkerchiefs. I bought a 6 pack the other day, and have them in my pocket ever since. I'm trying to not use any more of those serviettes, or tissues, or whatever... I bought a lunch box and I've been consistently trying to bring food to campus, thus cutting down on those plastic cutlery and, probably those Styrofoam plates/containers. Heck, the new mechanical pencil I bought, it's body is majority metal (unfortunately, there's still some plastic parts, can't be avoided), which hopefully means it gets to last longer.

Figure 52.2: Zebra M 301

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  Back to my struggles with cooking! I've tried making vegetarian lasagna again, this time with tomato puree. Rather than chopping the vegetables, I grated ALL OF THEM (except the spinach), so basically it's all mush. I thought I had enough leftover cheese to work with from the last time I made the lasagna, apparently not... so this time, the lasagna wasn't as cheesy as it should be. It definitely turn out better than the last time, but there's still a massive room for improvement. 

Figure 52.3: Sad looking mozzarella vegetarian lasagna

  I tried making banana bread as promise, but I added all my leftover chocolate chip from that time I made muffins, and boy oh boy, this bread could give you nose bleeds. I didn't measure the chocolate chip, I literally just dump it all into the batter, and it became extremely extremely chocolaty. It's delicious if you eat it slowly, but you're gonna feel horrible if you even try to eat just a whole slice. 

  I still have some leftover bananas left, so I'm going to try it again, this time without the chocolate chip. Also, this week, I will attempt to make carrot cake. Stay tuned!

Figure 52.4: It turned out extremely decent

Remember I mentioned I craved for oyakodon? Well, I attempted to make it, and boy... oh boy... it is... extremely delicious. I was legitimately sad when I finished it. It's soooo easy to make! If you don't measure the time it takes for the rice to cook in the rice cooker (cause that takes awhile), the main dish only takes like 10 minutes? While the prep work takes about 3 minutes! It's so simple yet so delicious! It's extremely healthy too! There's no salt or pepper used (well... soy sauce), but no oil was used either! Whew!

Figure 52.5: My lunch box and my dinner bowl

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Figure 52.6: Slowly but surely