Earth hour and other happenings

Little Peeper's blood work is pretty much following the same trend as last time I posted, that's to say everything is still coming back up, but his neutrophils are still alarmingly low, so we're keeping to ourselves as much as possible. The only time we se other people is when we go to his appointments orr to the counseling, but we're hoping that his values will come back up during next week, so that we'll maybe get the chance to see at least my sister for easter, as we have an extra week at home before the next chemo treatment.

Alex has the next week off from school and, in a moment of weakness I promised him that he would get to decide the menu for the whole week. The only condition was that he would help me cook the meals he picked out and, that he included vegetables. It'll be good practice for him...

We started off nicely by making our own pizza. The result wasn't too bad and, it was nice to get the chance to do something with him for a change, as little Peeper of course takes up most of my time...



We went for a long walk today too. I've been keeping track of distance, average pace etc, with Run Keeper and, we have walked over 30 km since Sunday. It's a good trend and, I hope tomorrow will be warm enough to keep it up.



Today was sunny enough, but the wind was pretty bad and, awfully cold. But at least we didn't get woken up by a blizzard like my mom and my brothers. Either way, March is definitely going out like a lion.

Earth Hour ended a little over an hour ago and, considering what a good time it was to play word-games with Alex and B and, to sing songs together at candle light, we should turn all electric stuff off more ofthen. Little Peeper especially enjoyed the last part and, he loved to look at the candles.



Surprisingly enough, It seemed like a lot of people in our neighbourhood showed mother earth some respect and turned their lights off during Earth Hour. I didn't expect that, this isn't the type of neighbourhood where people believe that they can make a difference. They prefer to sit at home and complain about the crappy government running this country, instead of casting their votes on their oponents to make sure that the bastards lose their seats in the parlament.

You'd think that they'd join the ones who argue that turning everything off for an hour isn't going to make any difference and, how we will use up more energy by starting everything back up again, but for once I was glad to find that I was wrong...

By the way, of course it doesn't make a lot of difference from the energy perspective, but the whine-bags are missing the point...

Earth hour is about raising awareness about how much energy we're using up and, about the environmental situation, which is getting more desperate every day and, jus the fact that the world's largest volontary movement to save the environment has reached even the semi-ghetto where we live, is proof that it's working.

I wish there was a way to raise awareness about baby loss and childhood cancer that was just as effective.