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In keeping with our apartment theme of "small," we've decided to make a terrarium. We already have the container ready: our large Brita filter/dispenser that is way too prone to growing algae. Seriously every week for the past month or something, we'd peer into the plastic reservoir and notice a faint but very real cloud of green, just hanging out in our drinking water. Enough, we said. Obviously something wants to grow in the Brita, so might as well jump on that trajectory!

This project has not been hashed out yet, since more research is definitely needed, but I'm excited to make a little container garden for the kitchen. We've already run out of space for having plants, and that is not a conducive situation for growing plants.

...Also, the tap water really isn't that bad at all.

Terrariums! Yeah!

Post 1/2

Yesterday John took a half day off, and I had a whole day off, so what did we do? ...Not much. Burritos for lunch and a casual sunny stroll down College. Went to a bookstore for the first time in...months?...and splurged on retail therapy. First, a birthday present for my uncle. Then a new pack of stationery. Finally two books for myself - an origami handbook and this:

I'm pretty dang excited to read it, since a) this will be my first novel since I started and ended spring semester and 2) it's about a kid cartographer! Who wins an award for being a kid cartographer! I actually think the writing might be a bit affected and not entirely realistic for a 12-year old narrator, but I'm more than willing to give it a go. A neat aspect of this book is that it includes tons of illustrations and diagrams (!) in the margins, a.k.a. annotations. I'll try to remember to write a review when I'm finished reading it.