2009 April 23 «

Earth Day Adventure

Earth Day isn’t all about the gifts we receive, it’s about what we give back. To celebrate this, I put Oscar to work. Since I signed my fourth deal in 10 days (a new record) last night, I decided to take the day off. I also decided that I wasn’t going to clean up my home office on my own – I was going to make my child do it. He’s almost two, and he’s been slacking since the day I met him. So, off we went to pick up all of the draft merger agreements I had lying around. Oscar helped put them all into the recycling bin, and even tried to up the ante by adding anything else he could find, including opening remotes and trying to dump batteries into the bin. We’ll save that lesson for a future Earth Day.

Following our trip to the recycling bin, we did some gardening, mostly so I would have something to throw into the compost bin. That’s the big green bin the garbage people give you. Apparently you’re supposed to fill these things up every week with compostibles (whatever those are). We chucked in some yard waste and decided to end this phase of the day. I had considered planting a tree or something, but c’mon, let’s save a little for when the kid is a little older.

Now that we had warmed up, we kicked things into high gear. Oscar and I headed to the beach! It was a perfect day, so how better to spend it than hanging out in the sand, exposing our pale skin to the harsh sun, whose rays are even more damaging as a result of this “global warming” thing people say exists. Whatever, we loaded up the Prius and headed out. Wait, you know I’m joking. Who would drive on Earth Day? We got on the bus and headed to the beach. Kidding again, you know I don’t do mass transit (at least not with the kid and not on a bus). How better to celebrate Earth Day than to hop in our gas guzzling SUV? Well, we got to the beach, but I apparently picked the wrong one. Lots of sand erosion so it was one of those kind of dirty beaches. Not what I was looking for, so we went to the zoo. I know you’re getting bored with this, but Oscar is still into it, so we drove down the street to the zoo. We’re really working that membership lately. Oscar had a blast, and afterwards we went to lunch at Louis (a divey diner with a great view and Oscar’s all-time favorite minestrone, which he screeched for when he finished his entire bowl). After that we topped off the day with a trip to T@rget and a drive home eating Ore0s. A perfect day.