It’s the beginning of the Labour Day weekend and along with the many families getting ready for the first day of school, I’m sure that there are just as many people planning on getting out of the city for the next few days; myself included.
As soon as the clock strikes 4pm, I’m planning on dashing out of the office, getting into my car and onto the road for a solid 4 hour drive from Toronto to Ottawa. In an ideal world, it should take about 4 to 4.5 hours. However, it will realistically take longer. It once took 7 hours over the Thanksgiving holidays!
The other day I was having dinner with a good friend of mine and we were discussing some of the recent changes in my job. I’ve been in my new job for about one month now and there have been many changes that have taken place.
Our conversation turned to some words of wisdom that people have shared with us in the past and that have, perhaps surprisingly, stayed with us to help us to succeed in the various roles that we have taken on in the evolution of our young careers.
I often feel that some form of advice is dished out to me by just about every person I meet. I have no intention of minimizing these well-intentioned words, however I will admit that the significance of these words is generally lost. There are very few instances where I feel that words of advice have really had any significance to me.
This morning, a particularly difficult Tuesday morning (since yesterday was a holiday, so it felt even more like a Monday), I sat at my computer at work staring blankly at the screen.
My to-do list had grown again since last Friday, and all I could think about was how much I’d rather still be in bed. Suddenly, I seemed to hear a voice saying “Someone’s got a case of the Mondays!”
Let’s start with a clip from one of the most genius movies, or should I say documentaries, I’ve ever seen.
Seeing this movie as a student in high school, I enjoyed it for it’s comedic value, it’s seeming exaggeration of the workplace environment that I was striving to be a part of, and the movie’s ability to bring lightness to what I realistically thought might simply be monotonous days at work.
It’s been about 6 weeks now since I’ve started my Circus School classes and I’m really loving being able to jump around, test my physical limits and re-learn old tumbling skills. Like I mentioned in my post about about “Never Going to the Gym Again!“, after being away from any sort of gymnastics training for over 10 years (am I really that old?!), I decided to stick with something that I was familiar with.
I didn’t think it was such a bad strategy as we all know that when you have been away from physical activity for some time, it’s always best to start slowly.
After noticing that some skills were coming back more quickly than expected, my coach pulled me aside last week and asked me “What do you want to get out of this?”. I quickly responded with a blank stare and a shrug of my shoulders.
Lots of people have been talking about the Wii Fit, which came out at the end of May in North America. While the popularity has been great for Nintendo, it’s certainly made it difficult for any Wii fans to get the newest Wii peripheral.
Yes, you read it correctly. I’ve decided never to go to the gym again…sort of.
After paying monthly membership fees for a year to one of the larger exercises facilities in Toronto, I decided to cancel my membership when I realised that I could count the number of times I actually went to the gym over the past year on one hand. Not a very good track record and I think rather hypocritical of me to not practice what I preach.
In any case, I decided that I needed to find something that I actually enjoyed. I remember being a kid and really loving to move around. I took all sorts of dance and gymnastics classes, not to mention loving school gym class and joining just about every school sports team that I could. When did exercise become such a chore?
Well, I recently decided to go back to what I love and sign up for some adult programs in Toronto. Let me tell you, it was the best exercise-related decision I have ever made!
While working on a new design for Healthy Simplicity, I’ve decided to implement Do Follow, a plugin that removes the ‘nofollow’ attribute from the URL a commenter provides.
While there’s quite a bit of debate about the ‘nofollow’ attribut, and whether it’s effective or not, I wanted to provide a small thank you for those commenter’s that take the time to write an insightful comment here — and that thank you is a link back to your site.
Don’t worry, this won’t change your experience on Healthy Simplicity whatsoever, except in the background where you’ll now get a nice link back to your site for taking the time to comment.
I know there haven’t been too many updates recently, but that’s mainly due to the work that’s being put into the new design. After the design is completed, I should be back to a more regular posting schedule.
Just a quick note to let you know that Healthy Simplicity has been upgraded to WordPress 2.5. The newest version provides a few new great features (the management interface has been dramatically redesigned to give the administrator a much better dashboard, where you can see everything at a glance).
Another great feature of WordPress 2.5 is the one-click plugin upgrade (no more having to download plugins and then upload them to your webhost in order to upgrade). This one feature has already saved me time!
This time of year is not always filled with laughter and cheer, and can instead be a stress-filled, financially and emotionally draining time. Remember that the word “No” can be a friend and ally when you feel like you need to re-establish your boundaries and regroup. This is a time for family, but it’s also a time for yourself. Enjoy yourself, relax and do what you need to do to come back rested and refreshed.
I have to wonder where the line between protecting children’s health and making it everyone else’s problem will be drawn. As someone who has unfortunately been afflicted by the “disability” of severe nut allergies, this issue is one that hits close to home.
I will agree that the incidence of food allergies in children seems to have exploded in recent years. I never knew of another child in grade school who also had any kind of food allergy. I alone, had to look out for myself and make sure that I did not trade snacks with classmates or eat baked goods at the school bake sale.
