New beginnings

Paperwhites sprout up on my windowsill

The new year is a great excuse to take a look at your day-to-day habits and really think about the longterm lifestyle changes you wish to achieve -- as tacky as new year's resolutions sometimes seem.

This year I am giving myself a list of goals and I resolve to make a real effort to stick to them.

1. Compost -- I resolve to save my food scrapes and bring them to my local greenmarket each week to be recycled. 
2. mEAT local -- I resolve to only eat meat, fish, and dairy products from producers that pasture-raise their animals without all the icky hormones, chemicals, etc. This means no ordering from restaurants unless I know the source!
3. DIY -- I resolve to take on a DIY project once a week. 
4. Cook with friends -- now that I have gotten pretty good at making most of my own meals at home, I resolve to cook more with friends. It's easy to get lazy when we're all together but the few times we have cooked food instead of ordering, it has always been fun, rewarding, and less expensive.  
5.  Go glass -- slowly but surely I resolve to switch almost entirely from plastic to glass, ceramic, or metal. 

Most recently, I acquired a glass water pitcher (with kishu charcoal filter) and a set of glass straws. 

Let's do this 2014!

What are some of your goals?