“In just 7 days, I can make you a man”

Matt and I went to lunch this afternoon at this little Italian place next our house, called Nino’s.  Our food was amazing, the service was great, the prices were good, and we have tons of leftovers.  The only odd thing about our experience was that we were the only people in the entire restaurant.  1:00pm on a Saturday and we were the only people there!  As we sat and enjoyed our Sicilian Deep Dish pizza, we started talking about how sad it was that little places like this don’t get the love they deserve.  I wonder what Olive Garden looks like at 1:00p on a Saturday? 

We started talking about making an effort to buy more locally.  This talk turned into a challenge, and a challenge was extended and accepted that for the next 7 days we only buy locally. 

So that’s what we’re doing.  It’ll be interesting to see what happens.  I figured I would blog a little about the before, and definitely the after.  

We talked about chain restaurants (local ones, such as No Frills are okay, corporate franchises, such as Red, Hot and Blue are not), we talked about having to find new places to eat, and finding specialty shops for our groceries.  We also talked about gas, and since there is no way to buy local gas I had to do a little research.  I found many articles about the whole gas issue and read some good stuff about all the awesome “greening” things that BP is doing (but I can’t find a location near us) and all the terrible things that Exxon/Mobil does and we decided that QT was okay.  It is cheap, American based, and quite honestly it is convenient.  Gas is one of those necessary evils…. and our dependence on gas is a whole ‘nother issue. 

It’ll be an interesting week!  I can’t wait to let you know how it goes!

 

Pyaar and Agape.

 

 

p.s. I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how to get saline solution and body wash (both of which we are going to run out of this week) without without going to Wal-Mart.  Any suggestions?

p.p.s.  I think its kinda funny that when I go to spell check this post that I have just written here on wordpress.com, the spellchecker wants to tell me that blog is not a word, and that i have misspelled it.

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