What's going on right now...

So I've been wanting to write a new blog for a while now.  I've had a lot to talk about and get off my chest but as things have been going on society wise and world wise what I've wanted to say has changed.  So with this Covid-19 thing here in ND the government hasn't done as much as I feel like needs to be done so I've chosen to self-quarantine for 2 weeks.  I am very susceptible to upper respiratory illness (seriously last year I had pneumonia twice in 6 weeks) and I became uncomfortable with the risk.

So I'm not going to go into a lot of my opinions about this pandemic we are in.  My opinion changes slightly as we get more scientific information on it as well as numbers come out with who is affected and such.  However as the need to clean and disinfect has risen I my desire to live zero waste and make my own cleaners and such has been reinvigorated greatly.  (Here I talk a little bit about my zero waste journey.)

I've been doing a lot of research and as we have been shopping I've picked up a few items here and there to make my own cleaners while I spring clean my house during this quarantine.  I'm super excited to try making toilet bombs! I have a couple different recipes I'm going to try and see what works best for us.  We are horrible about toilet cleaning so I'm hoping this will help us.

I'm super excited about making my own cleaners because we have cats and we both are very sensitive to chemical scents and headache/migraine prone so eliminating a lot of the chemicals and stuff will be good for all of that, not to mention being way cheaper.  Seriously all of the "ingredients" I purchased to make these items, which will be seriously a good year's worth cost about 2 months worth of commercial chemical cleaners.  Not to mention the companies that make the cleaners want you to believe you need a separate cleaner for everything.  Why is that?  If it's safe to clean my kitchen counter surely I can clean my bathroom sink with it, ya know?

At any rate that's what I'm doing right now.  Keeping a lot of my thoughts to myself regarding this pandemic.  Going to be spring cleaning and I'm super excited about that.  I'm going to be making a bullet journal collection style journal for my homemade cleaners and what items are good for what and so forth. 

One other note though is that I have never eaten this healthy in my life.  When it comes to illnesses one of the best things to do is to support your immune system so you can stay as healthy as possible.  Plus we don't want to eat food cooked out of our control right now.  We had already been focusing back on eating home cooked food again so taking that a little further was not all that hard.  It feels wonderful and I am hoping, praying and intending to continue these healthier lifestyle changes once the pandemic is over.

I hope everyone is doing as well as can be!