Thursday night, we unplugged all the appliances and the TV. We didn't watch any TV before the unplugging, but that was mostly because Keith Olbermann had a substitute and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were both in reruns.

Friday morning, I didn't use my diffuser to dry my hair. The humidity is so out of control that my hair is going to look like I just got electrocuted no matter what — especially now that I ran out of my expensive Aveda hair products. (I snipped the tubes to make sure I got every last drop — frugal and less wasteful!) I also didn't turn on The Weather Channel or watch the first fifteen minutes of The Golden Girls before my walk to work. I wanted to get an iced coffee but remembered the plastic packaging and made myself a free coffee in a mug at work.

I took the elevator up to the 12th floor, which I do every morning since I am always running late. When I go to lunch, I walk down the stairs and back up them and I walk down on my way home as well. How much energy is saved by three fewer elevator trips, I don't know. But I do know I feel better when I take the stairs, especially since I used to only be able to make it up a few flights before huffing and puffing. At lunch, I took an empty cartridge from our laser printer back to Staples to be recycled. I had to pick up some binders there and I realized I forgot to take a canvas bag with me. So now I have two plastic bags to be reused. Damn. I forgot to make my lunch last night so I had to buy. I decided to go with a half sandwich and a soup from a local bakery, largely because I know they only use paper for wrapping. I ordered a chilled soup and totally forgot it would be served in a plastic container. Damn again! I rinsed it out to take home. I am also taking my paper wrappings home to recycle because the building I work in doesn't recycle at all. They don't even make any pretense of recycling. No bins, no recycling pick up. Welcome to Philadelphia.

For dinner, Albert made us some delicious omelettes from eggs from a local farm and Amish pepper jack cheese. We had bread from the farmers' market bread guy. We made a salad out of local romaine lettuce and a super ripe local tomato, but I accidentally spilled dressing on it and it was kind of a disaster. We had after dinner plans and decided to walk the 30 or so blocks in the light rain. Our plans ended up not going through, so we turned around and walked right back. It was a nice walk, but we were both so tired when we arrived home we just did a little reading and went to sleep. Because I am a dork, I wore a pedometer all day and I went 25,000 steps. I don't know how many miles that is, but it seems like a lot.