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What I’m Loving – Insta Edition

Filed Under: Uncategorized // April 17, 2013

Here are some of what I’m loving lately, according to my Instagram:
 
 
– The beautiful warm weather and clear blue skies
 
 
 
– Wearing black when I work out “because it’s a funeral for my fat!”
 
 
– Throwbacks … I can’t believe that nearly two years ago, Tim and I were enjoying the spring/summer in VA Beach. Time sure flies when you’re on a fun ride!
 
 
 
– Skirt suits πŸ™‚ They feel so much more feminine than pant suits (but I don’t like to wear them in the winter). 

– Indulging. After all, stressed spelled backwards is desserts πŸ™‚ And I hadn’t eaten one of these delicious cupcakes since Fat Tuesday. Plus, thanks to NY Deals, it was FREE!

– The solidarity that exists in our country. It’s simply amazing.
Created by the Illuminator @ Brooklyn Academy of Music
Linkups: Halfway There Blog Hop, What I’m loving Wednesday, Wednesday Walkabout
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Look for the Helpers

Filed Under: Uncategorized // April 16, 2013

 
When a facebook friend of mine posted a status about Boston, I was confused. Then he said there was a bomb. I turned the TV on and I got sad. I’ll never understand why bad things happen. And why, most of the time, they happen to good people. I always wish hatred and war would cease to exist. But there’s been hatred, evil, and war in this world since before any of us can remember. 
 
That being said, I am always in awe of the heroes who step up to help those in need. Seeing the first responders run toward where there had just been explosions made me happier beyond words. They had no idea if another bomb would explode but their priority was to rush to the help of those in need. That’s why I still believe in humanity and that there is more good than evil in this world.
 
Watching it all unfold on TV also reminded me of 9/11 because that is the only other terrorist attack on our soil that I can vividly remember. I was in the 7th grade and at school when the planes hit the towers; my parents were home. My dad, a NYPD veteran and my hero, looked at the TV, turned to my mom, said “that was a terrorist attack,” got dressed and went to the location of the towers. He arrived just as a tower was falling, and I didn’t see him until much later that night because he stayed to help out at what would be later deemed “Ground Zero.” He helped out in days to follow, also.
 
I don’t speak about my dad to detract from my original thoughts on Boston. I speak about him because when I saw first responders helping out following the Boston explosions, I immediately thought of the good in the world and I immediately connected them to my dad, who was once is a helper in a time of need.
 
My thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected by yesterday’s events. 
May love always prevail over hate and good over evil.
  May God Bless the USA.
 
Linkup: Just Because
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I love contests.

Filed Under: Uncategorized // April 15, 2013

As some of you may know, Tim and I won the Bryant Park NYC/ Southwest Airlines long distance LUVers contest on Valentine’s Day πŸ™‚ See BP’s blog posting about it here: http://blog.bryantpark.org/2013/02/the-winning-luv-birds.html?m=1.
 
Since then, I’ve entered a plethora of contests because … hey, maybe we’re super duper lucky this year!?
 
Well, I’ve entered another contest for TWO roundtrip tickets from Delta and I’m here to ask you all to PLEASE VOTE FOR MY PHOTO πŸ™‚ 

the photo
 
*** You can vote DAILY ***

Simply go to: http://oak.ctx.ly/r/3kli

Click: Check Out Picture This!

Search for:  “Hanauma Bay, Oahu, HI”

& Click: Vote

Thank you!!!!!

P.S.:

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Linkup: Monday Mingling & I love Bloglovin’
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Complain Less, Appreciate More

Filed Under: Uncategorized // April 11, 2013

We live in a world of complainers. For those more fortunate, the complaints might be more materialistic and less drastic. Now, I’m not saying I don’t do this. I myself am guilty of complaining about trivial matters. That why’s why when I read this Buzzfeed article, which outlined the below, I challenged myself to complain less and appreciate more. Why don’t you all join me?

And if you feel like you need reasons to do so, read on (examples taken from article):

Political assassinations

1. Political assassinations

In the Philippines 2010 election year, over 100 people were killed due to political violence. VICE follows this terrifying cycle of violence as politicians, businessmen, church groups, and everyday citizens are stockpiling weapons to take the law into their own hands.

Image by Pat Roque / AP

Contaminated water

2. Contaminated water

30,000 deaths occur every week from unsafe water an unhygienic living conditions; and 90 percent of those deaths are children. Here, a resident of Mabvuku fetches water from unprotected sources in Harare.

Image by STRINGER/ZIMBABWE / Reuters

Human trafficking

3. Human trafficking

According to recent crime data, 14 children go missing in New Delhi every day, at least six of whom are victims of human trafficking. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says around 1.2 million children are victims of child trafficking across the world every year.

Image by MANAN VATSYAYANA / Getty Images

Child soldiers

4. Child soldiers

Here, a child soldier points his gun at a photographer in Liberia. The use of children for the military is a worldwide issue. VICE covers the story from Afghanistan where Taliban leaders are manipulating children and teenagers into carrying out their suicide bombings.

Image by GEORGES GOBET / Getty Images

Severe drought

5. Severe drought

Brazil’s northeast is suffering its worst drought in five decades. Lack of rain has hurt corn and cotton crops, left cattle and goats to starve in dry pastures, and affected 30 percent of sugar cane production in the region responsible for 10 percent of Brazil’s cane output.

Image by LUNAE PARRACHO / Reuters

Electronic waste

6. Electronic waste

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), e-waste is the fastest growing commodity in the waste stream. Guiyu, China may be the largest electronic waste site on earth, with 80 percent of it coming from overseas.

Image by STRINGER SHANGHAI / Reuters

Education inequality

7. Education inequality

Pakistani school children gather under a poster of injured classmate Malala Yousafzai who the Taliban attempted to assassinate for her outspoken insistence on girls’ education. She has since returned to school and is now the youngest nominee of a Nobel Peace Prize.

Image by Anja Niedringhaus / AP

Hunger in Mauritania

8. Hunger in Mauritania

In this African country, half of the population lives below the poverty line and faces chronic food shortages due to lack of rain.

Image by SUSANA VERA / Reuters

Poverty in India

9. Poverty in India

Mumbai is the center of India’s struggle for twenty-first century economic ascendance. In a place where more than half its people live in slums sprawled in the shadow of billion-dollar, single-family skyscrapers, VICE looks in on just how surreal this collision of caste and future can be.

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Jetlag & Sickness – the Aftermath of Travel

Filed Under: Uncategorized // April 9, 2013

I’ve been to many places. And yet I still manage to get jet lagged. I thought – without any foundation to back this up – that the more you travel, the less jet lag you get. Wrrooooong. I had some pretty bad jet lag when I got back from Hawaii. The last time I was this jet lagged was when I moved to Barcelona in January 2009. I still feel like I can not fall asleep easily at night and this past weekend I almost convinced myself that I have developed insomnia from the jet lag. 
 
Well, I hopped on a plane 4 days after returning from Hawaii and I now feel sick. sick. sick. I’m thinking the mix of being tired and stressed, and then filing into a plane to sit in condensed air has not done my body -or allergies- any good.  I also got very sick following my 24-hour trip to Chicago last fall so I’m now thinking it’d be a good idea to take some Airborne before getting on a plane next time.
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Have any of you taken this prior to travel?
 
Here’s to hoping my next travels wind up much less tiresome and healthier!
 
 
Linkups: Tuesday Travels, Anything & Everything, Just Because
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