More about Polystyrene aka Foam

We toured MRFs today (recycling facilities). First, whilst walking around wearing my vest, hardhat and safety glasses in the stinky building I was quite happy I went to college. Second, boy do we generate a lot of trash. The particular MRF (pronounced murf btw) goes through 350 TONS every day!!!! It's kind of mind boggling and smelly of course. We also went to a factory that not only densifies foam but uses it to make products:

We got samples:

All of these frames are made out of plastic with 30% recycled polystyrene. The plant can produce up to 20,000 feet of framing per day.

And at the last factory of the day they gave us this:

85 densified 4 oz. foam cups.

So tomorrow night the singles ward I am now in is having an activity. As a girl, I am required to bring my favorite movie and my favorite dinner. This is ridiculous. I have ranted on here before about my feelings about picking just one favorite. Basically, it's impossible. And to add to the impossibility of choosing just one favorite movie out of the dozens that I truly love, the movie that I choose will be how the boys choose to have dinner with us. Pretty much, a boy is going to decide to have dinner (a pseudo date if you will even though I'm considering it as merely an opportunity to meet new people) with me based solely on which movie I bring. Who knows, maybe no one will pick my movie at all. It would be nothing short of miraculous if there were even numbers in the first place. 

I'm deciding between About A Boy and Big Fish at the moment. 

And about my favorite dinner. Really with the favorite thing again? One, I have no desire to put any significant effort into cooking a dinner for someone that could turn out to be a complete loser, snore fest, bore tour, weirdo, etc. etc. Two, I do not have my cooking supplies with me even if I did want to wow anyone with my admittedly above par culinary abilities. And three, how in the world are we expected to have any sort of hot food at an activity that will possibly be attended by 20 plus couples with one microwave, and one stove? Silliness. 

Theretofore, the only feasible, sensible decision for dinner is Subway.

To be honest, I'm rather looking forward to tomorrow night!