late again, but I have an excuse... Sort of

Turn off lights
Use dishes
use less paper
use less water.

Ah yes, once again I come back to blog about my comic misadventures, joining me this week will be an all star cast! No, actually, not really. Sadly my low impact life is not a "non stop Hollywood movie show", with witty lines and over payed actors.(sigh) However, I have more important matters to attend to!
Over the past few days, since my last blog, I have battled the great beast of laziness! more then once walking out of a room, I've had to fight my self to turn around and turn off the light. "Oh, but my cereal, it will get eaten by the vultures I live with!" Or, "I'll miss the UFC match!" And then the more reasonable guilt trippy part of me comes in. "It only takes a second, and UFC will be there when you get back." When the inner battle of will is all said and done, I'm glad I turned around, and a little ashamed I actually had to think about it.
Then again, after dinner time, I battle the beast! My not so environmentally friendly house mates use paper plates! (insert dramatic gasp) I, being the good Samaritan that I am, casually ask about using our many dinner plates. "I just wanted to save you from doing the dishes, Mari!" Our cook and house mate replies jovially, the dinner table laughs and I nod sheepishly. I do despise dishes...and most general house hold chores. However the feeling of guilt creeps back, is doing dishes that hard when the other option is just creating more waste?
I think about this and do not have a solution. trying to wrangle my house mates into joining me in this cause would be like trying to herd cats, but I have an obligation to try and do what I set out to do.
What's a low impact ninja to do!

An overview, where I attempt to convey the fact I'm actually trying.

What did I learn this week,
(tangent alert!) well starting off looking back on the first meeting I found it very interesting that there were only a few people who spoke, and it seemed to me a somewhat male dominated conversation. Not to say that we're a male dominated community, but I thought that was interesting. (Un-tangent.)
I've learned that with very little change to my own personal habits I can make a difference in how I use energy. I find myself remembering to turn off lights more often and not leaving it for someone else to do, I remember to try and use less water, and I often think about what kind of an impact I want to make in the long run. Are these gateway habits of some sort? maybe because of this challenge I'll become significantly more aware of how I live my own life, or perhaps this is a simply temporary feeling of awareness.
Errr well that kind of covered the second question, sooo on to the third!
I would like the share my feeling of joy with others. I'm really glad we're doing this. (smiley face!)

Low impact

Ah yes, I of course forgot to post something yesterday, so to recap, I basically exerted the same amount of effort to follow through on my goals as I did the first day. I find myself with some what of a lackadaisical attitude toward the whole thing. I think I maybe need more strenuous challenges? But then I may not actually do them. Oh what a conundrum.