World According to Shia

Healthy Endings I am saying goodbye to Facebook. I've never really been someone 100% involved in it anyways. I really don't want the 20 invites a day to join stupid applications, etc. Also, minus a few friends (Betsy and Taller of course), most of the people that I've befriended aren't my actual friends. Most of them are typical annoying people from high school that I really don't care to be friends with now. Also, because of these "friends" I feel like I am in high school still. Hello that was FOREVER ago! So I've decided, after receiving that someone from high school answered a question about me and seeing the answer, to take myself out of this childish scenario and delete. I mean seriously am I going to let someone from high school get me down? No way! Speaking of happy endings, this is the end of Shia's Healthy New Lifestyle Tips for the Month. Stay tuned for March Madness!

Healthy Walk So the weather is sort of up and down at the moment, one day it's 80 and then the next it is 32. Okay 32 isn't miserable to most people living up north but for Florida that is pretty cold, plus downtown is on the river so it does get pretty breezy, but I've decided to start taking a healthy walk at lunch. Top 10 Reasons to Walk (from Walk the Weight Away by RoseMarie Alfieri & Andrew Flach) 1) It's the most natural way to exercise. 2) Best starting point, even if you have never exercised, you'll be able to walk. 3) It doesn't cost anything. 4) Your walk time is for you to enjoy. You can mediate, listen to your fave music, or solve problems - whatever keeps you walking! 5) You can walk alone or with family and friends. (Okay alone if you are in a safe neighborhood) 6) It's safe, the possibility of injury is slim. 7) You can gradually build your fitness level. 8) Promotes overall wellness, which is nice knowing that you...

Sometimes it's healthy to just say NOOOOO.... There is seriously nothing I dread more than Girl Scout cookies. Let's face it, they are getting a bit pricey and there just so darn tasty that you can eat an entire box without realizing it. So yes, it's that dreaded time of year where they are outside every store pushing those cookies. An attorney here had his wife and daughter go around with her sheet asking for us all to buy cookies. At that point, how do you say no? I mean I know how it feels to be a kid hustling people for money to pay for summer camp or band stuff. So I always cave plus what is she like 7 years old. I'm not that heartless people. Granted I have no problem pretending not to hear them outside of the grocery store but come in my office with your sheet...I'm gonna buy something. So now I have two boxes of those dang cookies in my desk. I had totally planned on giving them away. Then I come back from lunch and a co-worker left a box for m...

Healthy Environment I'm all for doing my part to help the environment. I recycle EVERYTHING that can be recycled, I use cloth bags for the grocery store, I drive a reasonably fuel efficient car and have taken many steps to decrease my carbon footprint. My absolute #1 thing that makes me mad about others here on this damaged planet needing our TLC is people that drive HUGE SUVs (just for show) with extreme hatred to those that drive Hummers. (What is worse than a Hummer? A Hummer Limo!!!!) So tonight after Inbetweeners , Paul and I were watching BBC America World News. We all know that GM has filed bankruptcy and with that they were going to sell off Hummer to another car company. Well it was announced last night that no other car company will be buying Hummer. SO NO MORE HUMMERS!!!! YAY! That is the best news I have heard in a while. Capitalist pigs 0 .... Earth 1! So if you drive a Hummer: 1) you suck and 2) don't plan on getting an updated version cuz there is...

Okay so I took my lil break from daily blogging as a zen to not stress out about getting it up there everyday. My mom emailed me to see if everything was okay because I hadn't blogged in awhile.

Improving Memory Forgetting something can cause stress. You can't remember if you sent out your payment for a bill, you can't remember where you parked, you can't find your keys and you're in a rush, all of these and many more instances of forgetfulness can cause undo stress. So here are some tips to improve your memory from helpguide.org : Pay attention. You can’t remember something if you never learned it, and you can’t learn something — that is, encode it into your brain — if you don’t pay enough attention to it. It takes about eight seconds of intent focus to process a piece of information through your hippocampus and into the appropriate memory center. So, no multitasking when you need to concentrate! If you distract easily, try to receive information in a quiet place where you won’t be interrupted. (I...

-Vacation - Taking a break is always a way of becoming more relaxed. On my lil vay cay from blogging, I've done tons more research so more new tips and such coming soon.