#eco stuff

Oho! What a question. :D So this took a while because I tried, I tried, to find my own pics, but I'm between computers rn and who the hell knows. Anyway.

The closest I've ever come to paleontology is the original Jurassic Park and some studies on evolutionary development/embryology/etc. I... can't really name any actual dinosaurs. 😅 Buuuut... I don't know, "dinos are extinct" kinda feels to me like just phylogenetic semantics tbh, so forgive and indulge me, imma be a chatbot-ass mf and give you a reply that sounds sorta relevant but isn't technically an answer to your question.

The most dino-looking creature I've ever laid my own eyes on:

Baby gannet. Wow! So ugly! You should see em before their down comes in!!! Paradoxically, so much skin on those skinny-ass bones! (I really, really wish I coulda found my pictures for you but you're gonna have to take my word for it lol) They sound pathetic too!

Other creatures I've been lucky enough to encounter that made me think "Fuck! Dinosaur!"

secretarybird

leatherback turtle (with person for scale idk who that is i found these pictures on a web search lol....and ok I've never actually seen a leatherback in the flesh but I've seen greens and dozens of different tortoises and terrapins and they're ALL dinosaury this gal's just the biggest)

Honorable mention for komodo dragon (which I have seen) and tuatara (which I sadly have not) esp. the latter for diverging from lizards something like 200+million years ago and PERSISTING. They don't call em living fossils for nothing.

Why you need this awesome water bottle.

One thing I've realized during the agonizing process of packing and moving—I think I'm an obsessive collector. Depending on my item du jour, I tend to amass these in different designs, patterns, sizes and colors.

One of my many objet d'obsession are water bottles. I have them in aluminum, mini-jugs, small, tall, pink, blue, purple, etc. This became a problem when we moved because our kitchen space is much smaller than what we were used to, so a lot had to be given out/sold.

When I came across this at Echo Store, it seemed like the perfect answer to my water bottle dilemma (what dilemma? Haha, I'm obviously reaching here).

Enter Vapur.

According to their site, Vapur is the “anti-bottle” because there are so many plastic water bottles floating around our planet, with only around 12% being recycled.

Apart from that, Vapur is a fold-and-go water container (since they're not bottles) and takes less energy to produce and ship.

A Vapur container filled with water.

Plus it solves my other water bottle problem: whenever I bring reusable bottles with me, I tend to a) leave them behind (especially when empty) b) not bring them at all because I hate lugging them around when they're empty and I'm in the mall or wherever.

The container comes with a color-coordinated carabiner where you tuck the rolled portion.

It rolls up so compact it’s easy to stow in your bag when empty.

Since Vapur is fold and go, I can roll it up once I've emptied it and put in my bag, so I really have no excuse to not try and save the planet by bringing water in a reusable container.

Isn’t it so neat?

Of course, once I filled it up with water, I realized what I had just bought: a reusable Zesto doy pack minus the fake orange flavored liquid. Haha.

I shouldn’t have visited the site though. That’s when I discovered that Vapur comes in limited edition prints, like this special one for MoMA:

I want!

And limited edition artist collaboration prints like these:

I want I want I want! (Uh-oh).

And, cutest of all, Vapur sells sweaters for your container:

You can roll it up, too. I WAAAAAAAANT.