Tuesday, May 20, 2003



I dragged Li out of bed this morning to help me with the Big Gomi day.
Basically this is the big recycling day for my neighborhood. All tin cans, metal, glass etcetera are separated on this day. Everything from pop bottles to batteries has its own little container to drop it in. It is quite well organized. The night before the city people drop off all the necessary containers in the area that is used for this. I am lucky as this area is directly next to my apartment parking lot. In the morning the local neighborhood committee people sort out the containers and watch over everyone as they bring in their garbage. I have basically been a good girl. I have only been told on two separate occasions that I did something wrong - put it in the wrong container or failed to remove a non-recallable item. Other then that the system works really well. There is very little garbage in peoples yards and the system is well used. We pay for it out of our tax dollars and it appears to be fairly self supportive.
We have Big Gomi day once a month. Once a year we receive a community calendar with all the dates for all the different types of recycle days. I insist that Li helps me with the Big Gomi day. I hate walking out there with my arms full of bags. That and I have to go to work in the morning. His regular duties also include stepping on and sorting all of the cans that we have in our recycle pile. He is quite good about doing it and never really complains.
Well today I screwed up. I had all the bags in the house, Li up, changed and ready to go when I realized that I never saw the containers yesterday. I quickly read the calendar again and realized that Gomi day is tomorrow. Ohhhhh!
Evil eye from the boy who immediately stalked off to bed. Hehehhe. Sorry hunny.

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