Wellness # 39 Nutrition

I also believe everyone WOULD like to eat healthier, but for the most part we don't. Most of the time we make our food choices on whatever easiest,fastest, cheapest and tastiest. I found that my most favorite thing to eat, pretzels, is not a very wise food choice. Most pretzels are fat free, and that's a plus, but they are very high in sodium, and too many carbs. I still like pretzels and eat just as many as before but now I feel guilty when I eat them.
I enjoyed the Sparkpeople site. I posted two recipes, and toyed with making them more nutritious. One fun thing I found if you increase the number of servings per recipe, you decrease the amount of calories per serving. Duh. I would still probably east just as much it only looks better. I also found a lot of recipes others have posted that I would like to try. I have added those to my on line recipe file. There was a lot of good information on the spark people site and I find that I go to that site when I am at home on the Internet.

Week #30 Spring cleaning

Don't have anything to clean out on the S drive. I know how to place a file on the S drive so didn't practice that. Cleaned out the extra stuff that wasn't being used on P drive. Things I used several years ago thatwere still there and getting dusty...got rid of those documents! The few photos I had on the P drive that I used for IHCPL got moved to flickr. Also went and cleaned out the sent mail on my email, and that cleaned up a lot of space. Yeah! Spring cleaning sure feels good!

Week #29 email, moving forward

This exercise is a continuation of the previous week. On last weeks lesson I focused on finding order between my work and personal email, and using an outside source to get my personal life in better order. So this week I created additional folders in my work email. Things I might want to save and refer to at a later date.
Such as some of the weekly updates about ill procedures. I also have a folder for all correspondence from Coxnet. From time to time I need to go and clean out those folders too, and this exercise has taught me a little about orgainizing skills

Week #28 TA DA! getting organized, maybe...

After spending some time reading about getting things done I realize I have a lot to learn about getting all my "ducks in a row" An interesting thought about removing stuff from your head and parking those thoughts somewhere more concrete and readily assesable. There are far better ways to keep lists than writing stuff down on a post it note and then forgetting where you put it. First thing I learned by reading GTD was HOW to get my work and personal information in order.
First I separated my work email from my personal email. I canceled all junk email by unscribing to as many as I could, and what ones I wanted to keep changed it to my personal email. I signed up for TA Da, thought I could find a use for organizing lists. With this wedding coming up there is a great many things to keep track of, like all the many many things we have to buy and what we have already bought, cost of things, guests and the like. So now I can add that to my Tada list and keep track and I can also set it up so that anyone can add to our wedding lists. Pretty cool.
So I think I am on my way to good organizing!

WEEK 10 - SUMMARY

The time has come the Walrus said to talk of many things.... to view a video on you tube,just a few--then on to blogs and blings! This has been a very interesting program. Some lessons I liked more than others. Some things I will use, and others never want to view again. All in all the exposure to new technology was at times, fun exciting, and some stuff was downright painful, but never once boring.

FLICKR - This was probably my most favorite lesson, and probably the hardest to figure out. This took me some time to master, but once I got the hang of it was fun and I have used it many times since. Before IHCPl I never even knew it was out there!

DOWNLOAD MEDIA/PODCASTS - This is one thing I have used before, but on the podcasting I had never used the rss feed, and now found some new sites to subscribe too. I look forward to new postings.

YOU TUBE - was fun, never really looked at it before now. It's amazing how many creative videos there are. You can see a video about anything you can imagine, and some you wouldn't want to imagine.

AVATARS - This was a fun lesson, and my second most favorite posting. Don't know if I will ever have the need to use avatars in any way, but it was fun, like playing with dress up dolls... change hair, change clothes, change everything with a click of the mouse.

There were so many things I've learned about 2.0 over the past several weeks, and would like to have more time to practice what I have learned so I don't forget. I am hopeful that I can share what I have with others.

WEEK 9 POST # 22 - DOWNLOAD MEDIA

I have looked and tried the HCPL digital media. A while back our staff was fortunate to have a tutorial on this site. I enjoy reading books more so than listening to them, and have down loaded books using Adobe reader. I like checking out on line cookbooks, and can copy recipes that interests me. At present I do not own an MP3 player so havent' used that medimum much. I did practice dowloading on the library's mp3 player. I have not tried checking out videos and watching them on the computer, but that is my next goal. I browsed HCPL'S electronic books and found a lot of interesing books, and right now most every one I wanted was able to check out right way. I think Libravox as a greater selection of material, but most of books that interested me was checked out. One thing about HCPL if enough holds are placed more copies might be purchased. I could place holds on these and have done so, but by the time the book became available, I was on to something else and lost my interest in checking it out. Of course this is all free and since it's a virtural checkout sfter two weeks it goes away and no overdue fees to pay. I also think Libravox wants too much personal information that I don't want to give. Libravox probably has a greater mass appeal, somewhat like Blockbuster, but for my money, I'll stick to HCPL for my books.

Week 9 Post # 21 PODCASTS - eat less weigh less

I was very happy with what I discoved about podcasts. What interests me is exercise and running, and one site was Podrunner exercise and music. It is fast music designed to motivate runners to perform better. Another was about running injury free. The third site I assigned to my bloglines account was exercise and diet. These ideas motivates me in my personal life and carry over in my work life. The great thing about adding these feed to my favorite bloglines, is that I am notified whenever something new is added.