Mayra Takes Off! 03/23/2012
 
Mayra and I met in college.  Randomly appointed to share a dorm room our freshman year, we immediately formed a close bond.  After graduation, we both accepted jobs in vastly different professions.  After awhile, the glitz and glam of “adult life” wore off.  Mayra decided to enroll in a grad school in Iowa; with very little arm twisting, she convinced me to join her.

For the last three years, Mayra had been working for a Jacksonville nonprofit organization.  She was happy to help people who needed it, but the severely restricted salary often left her in dire financial straights.  In fact, it took less than an hour for the Jacksonville movers to pack up her scant possessions.  She was fortunate enough to earn a grant; otherwise she would never have been able to fulfill her higher education dreams.

Mayra and I both left town early Wednesday morning; we wanted to arrive in Iowa at roughly the same time.  Mayra left from Jacksonville, so she was a few hours ahead of me on the journey.  She has only ventured beyond the state line a few times in her entire life.  Therefore, the text messages I received from her cracked me up.  Mayra found everything so fascinating!

Even though she had a significant lead, I feared I would soon catch up to her.  I have a feeling she made pit stops at just about every major city she passed.  As she moved farther north, her amusement mounted.  At one point, she sent me a text about the lack of traffic.  Mayra commented that she could probably drive down the center of the road because she hadn’t encountered another vehicle for miles.  I strongly discouraged that urge!
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Fun in the Sun 02/16/2012
 
Are you in desperate need of a relaxing day at the beach?  Consider soaking up the sun at one of Florida’s world famous outdoor destination spots.  Pull up a lounge chair to rest after taking a splash in the ocean.  Or, dodge the gulls as you hunt for shimmering sea shells.
 
Maybe lounging around all day isn’t your idea of a good time.  Do you need a bit more adventure in your life?  Don’t worry!  There are plenty of activities to keep you busy; parasailing, surfing and beach volleyball are just a few.  Ripping through the ocean’s waves in a kayak or wave runner will prove to be a memorable, challenging experience!

Naturally, the ocean will always draw boat lovers and wildlife enthusiasts.  Sunset cruises, boat charters, sailing excursions, glass bottom boat trips, pontoon boat floats, deep sea fishing, dolphin watching and snorkeling will keep you occupied all day and night.

Some people might be interested in exciting inland opportunities.  A search for Clearwater beach information will result in many off-shore activities.  Art galleries, spas, open-air dining, shopping centers, golf courses, and aquariums are some of the things that might be enticing if you are interested in taking a break without sand between your toes.
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_One of the most troublesome and most common hindrances for office workers is neck pain. With this pain on their necks, it disrupts their work so the only thing they can do is rest up. What causes this pain? Read on to know more about it and what to do about it using home care and treatment.

What Causes Neck Pain?
Neck pain can really be troubling and it is best to know which conditions and diseases cause neck pain. Here are some of those:
  • Degenerative Disc Disease – One cause of neck pain is the degeneration of the intervertebral disc or which is also called the degenerative disc of the spine. It is a condition that can cause great pain and will affect sometimes the disc in the neck area. Symptoms can be chronic neck pain which begins in the upper spine and radiates to the shoulders, arms and hands.
  • Herniated Disc – If a person has been in a traumatic accident and had sustained an injury to the neck, they might have been experiencing a sharp chronic pain on either the lower back or the neck in the few months after the accident. That might be a herniated disc or a slipped disc and it is caused by a ruptured disc that cringes or pinches one of the nerves on the spinal cord.
  • Fibromyalgia – Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes pain, stiffness and tenderness of the muscles, tendons and joints. The disease is also characterized by restless sleep, fatigue even after long sleep as well as chronic or recurring fatigue, anxiety, depression and disturbances in the bowel movement. This disease usually happens with women.
  • Whiplash – This is a very common condition whenever a person gets into an accident especially if it was a motor vehicle accident. Whiplash is a damage to the bone structures and the soft tissues. One good thing about it is it is not serious nor life threatening but it can be very annoying due to its chronic pain. Most people who get afflicted with this condition will recover very quickly; however, there are also several cases in which it takes months even years to recover back.
Treatment Of Neck Pain
There are several ways to treat neck pain. If pain seems to be tolerable or not severe, you can use alternative or pharmacologic treatments like guided imagery, massage, drinking mild to moderate analgesics or pain relievers. This way you could reduce the pain experienced in the neck. Another popular treatment for this is Chiropractic treatment. It’s an alternative treatment that focuses its effects on the nerve, muscles and bones to relieve stress and pain. It is known to help treat misaligned bones and pain in the nerves and muscles, loosening it up making circulation normalize.

Several clinics that practice chiropractic treatments are now making websites so that their clients can approach them easily even from the comfort of their home like http://thelakelandchiropractor.com. In these websites, you can see how you can avail of their chiropractic services, promos, freebies and scheduling.
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People are always looking online or ask friends about how to lose weight fast and effective. Sometimes they end up nothing but fraud weight loss plan. In this article we will discuss two of the most famous weight loss plan nowadays because of its unique features and some nutritional benefit that a human body needs.

The HCG Diet

First off, let us look at the HCG diet. This is the brainchild of Dr. Simeons, who had embarked on an extensive study of the human chorionic gonadotrophic hormone. This is the hormone that the woman’s body secretes when she is pregnant. This is necessary because, when a woman is pregnant, she needs to sustain both herself and her fetus. To assist her, the body will consume its own fats to provide calories to the woman’s body. This means that the presence of HCG in the blood will cause the body to turn on its reserve fats, effectively causing weight loss. Dr. Simeons had inserted HCG’s into some overweight boys as part of his study and it showed some promising results, results which then prompted Dr. Simeons to further develop his regime.

Together with the HCG injections, the person who is undergoing treatment is told to restrict his daily calorie intake to 500. This is to ensure that the body will indeed burn off those fats for calories because there is not much calories in the person’s diet. This can be difficult and not without side effects, to be honest, like dizziness, weakness, fatigue and headaches, among others. It’s not that Dr. Simeons did not take that into account, however: he specifically advised his patients to take supplements to further boost their energy. That’s where the next therapy comes in handy.

Vitamin B12 Injections

Vitamin B12 injections for weight loss is another option that you can take, and comes in very helpful when paired with the HCG diet. While the HCG diet takes care of the fats in the body, the B12 shots will help one remain energetic and avoid weakness during the whole regime. By limiting your intake to 500 calories, you will surely run into B12 deficiency during the duration of the HCG treatment but taking B12 shots will addres that for you.B12 injections also help in treating sleep problems, so if you are suffering from insomnia, you can also help yourself out with this treatment.

If you’re still on the lookout for the best diet regime for you, why not try both the HCG and vitamin B12 injections? They are considered as the best and most effective match of treatments that can help you lose weight effectively.

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I have been reading two books alternately the past month. It's not even bookish, it's more like an outlandish idea to just pre occupy my mind with fantasy and thrilling stories. Has it been working well for me? Not even near well.

And yet, those 2 books have been an adornment. Perhaps I should consider another pasttime. One that requires an outdoor venue.

At an office gathering, a colleague of mine mentioned a game that became his family's favorite pastime over the summer.  And it involved corn. No, not corn-eating contest mind you. Corn-Toss!

Corn toss is a game that involves custom cornhole boards, toss bags, your yard and your toss-perfect abilities. You need not make the equipment yourself ---- offers a wide array of corn toss paraphernalia.

How I long to relive the outdoor recreational activities that me and my grandpa used to do. We used to go hiking with his friends. The one good thing about hiking with his buddies is that at their age, they don’t rush.

When the weather was just right, not too warm and not too cold either, we used to venture out into the woods and camp out there. My grandpa did not tell ghost stories when we had the campfire. Instead, he would share his mischiefs when he was still my age. I had a good laugh.

He would then sing me the kumbayah to lull me to sleep. With grandpa around, there was no need to fear those big bad wolves and giant brown bears. Security was synonymous to my grandpa.

Perhaps I should also consider learning how to crochet. The lessons I learned from high school didn't really stuck especially when all that was required of us to do was crochet patterns to cover tiny Christmas balls.Three teeny weeny Christmas adornments.

I have always wanted to emulate my grandmother. She was an English Teacher and a skillful homemaker. I have given up on becoming a teacher because if truth be told, I don't think I have the patience to be around students.

My grandma loved to cook. I don't have problems in the cooking arena. Cooking is easy to learn. You just need to follow procedures, read and watch shows about food and learn how to be creative.

The downside of my family's love for gastronomy is that we have the "fat genes". Weight has always been a lingering issue. With more health problems weighing our bodies down, the members of my family have become health conscious so the things we learn from the Trim Nutrition is a welcome reprieve.

I used to do needlepoint stitching a lot. But for every pattern that I finished, I never achieved that feeling of fulfillment just yet. Because it’s so simple, I felt like I’m cheating my way to being called a homemaker. Not that I want to be but it would be nice to be adept in those things for when I grow old, right? Oh well, there are always good books to read.
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