care for some herbal refreshments (?)

I know it's been out for years, but a great song by Bright Eyes is 'first day of my life' and I suggest checking that tune out.


Secondly I would like to tell you that I have been doing a terrible job with my new years resolution of having a creative outlet. Apart from 1) dropping my painting class that i've waited four years to take because i'm yet again failing my statistics class, I 2) have never been following through with my ideas apart from thinking and jotting something enthusiastic with eventual and inevitable discard. so let's work on following through with this next idea because it's a simple thing that will add a lot of happiness to my life. and that thing is an herb garden.

helpful starters...

• stop right there
• herbs for culinary use & drying & storing herbs & medicinal (same-ish site)
• name this herb

This is a really, really cool thing. You can have a few pots on your windowsill and all you need is relatively little. I mean... think about it. You're either buying packaged teas or cooking herbs that come in containers, were farmed somewhere across the united states/world, using some container that causes PCBs to emit into the atmosphere & our environment, and then said herb container needs to be shipped all the way to your local grocery store (carbon footprint anyone?) - OR - you can get a pot, soil, & seeds , stick em on your windowsill and pluck a few leaves anytime you want something fresh and delicious added to your food. Soooooooollllldddd.