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Hiya friends!

T-minus TWO days until I load myself up on melatonin and jet off to the Philippines! With a twelve hour time difference, I am anticipating the jet lag is going to be pretty bad. So I’m hoping my excitement fueled adrenaline will keep me going until I can adjust.

Aside from the jet lag I am really looking forward to this trip! I can’t wait to share pictures and my daily adventures with you all while I’m there! Speaking of being away, I am still looking for guest posters for while I’m gone! Let me know if you’re interested!

Today I have necessary brain dump. Does anyone else get hit with random thoughts and ideas sometimes and just feel the need to document them? I actually have a special note in my iPhone for occasions just like that! And that note is currently, FULL. So I think it’s time to share some randomness…plus some funny things from around the interwebs! Nice and light for a busy Monday!

-Summer has a very distinctive smell. A good smell. Does anyone else notice this when the seasons change? My house is just filled with it and I like it.

-Serious ‘TUDE comes out when I’m riding my bike. Buffalo is seriously biker UNfriendly. Cars are constantly screaming at bikes, almost hitting them, and not giving them the right of way, even though bikes are supposed to be in the street! If we go on the sidewalk we get just as much flack from pedestrians! I rarely swear…but my pirate mouth comes out when I’m out for a ride! I would love to live in a place like Boston…so biker friendly there!

The cars be like…

And I’m like…

-I actually wouldn’t mind eating bugs. Now before you freak out, hear me out! There has been a ton of talk lately that they are going to be the food source of the future and they actually happen to be quite full of nutrition! Heck, the majority of the world already included them as a mainstay in their diets! The US is just behind the times. I’m not saying I plan on fetching dinner from the dirt anytime soon, but if I was given the opportunity to try a bug dish (say in the Philippines?) I wouldn’t refuse.

-I’ve noticed that Lend a {Healthy} Hand posts get the least views out of all my posts every week….and that’s okay. I do find it a little discouraging but I am in no way complaining because honestly, even if no one looked at my weekly round up of good deeds, I’d keep posting them. For me, for the people that participate, and just to put some positivity out there the world is severely lacking in. The weekly round ups make me so happy and I am so excited every time someone shares a small act of kindness they’ve done for someone else. So as long as people are doing #healthyhelp , I’ll keep the Lend a {Healthy} Hand project going!

-Baby geese are the cutest. SO FLUFFY! Saw these little ones on a leisurely bike on Sunday today.

-You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes has taken top spot on my list of favorite podcasts. This dude is freaking hilarious and I want to be best friends with him.

-I always break workout reps into smaller increments. It makes everything go by so much faster! Let me explain…so if I have 25 burpees to do, I will count by 1-5 five times instead of counting the full 25 out. Don’t ask me why but it makes it seem like less! Anything to get through burpees LOL! (Lots of them in this final week of BBBC!)

-Glamour’s on to something with their “10 things you wish you could un-see” list.

I love this section of their magazine! It’s great for a good laugh…but also very relatable There are numerous things I wish I could unsee on a daily basis….case in point today: the woman wearing underwear instead of pants at the park, the man sitting on a bench biting his toe nail, this article<—so sickening.

-I might get some hate for this but I think I am in the minority of HLB’s who doesn’t care that they missed the Blend retreat this past weekend. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for fun meet ups and I would love to meet some of the bloggers I’ve gotten to know online in person! But this particular retreat, as conveyed through social media and instagram made me a little ragey. Not only did it seem incredibly over priced (I’m not a fan of paying upwards of 300 dollars just to have my own bed), but there seemed to be a lot of hypocrisy going on. There were a few bloggers that attended that were clearly very ill, yet everyone seemed to go about their business as normal and not seem at all concerned that these people convey very different persona’s on their blogs. Unstaged instagram pictures don’t lie folks. I can only hope that someone reached out to some of these ladies and attempted to help them help themselves. As a member of the HLB community, I don’t think I would have been able to justify being around, EXERCISING with, and eating with people who are severely compromising their health without at least trying to reach out to them. Hoping that this was actually done and that I just couldn’t tell from what people shared about the retreat.

-Is it selfish to not want to have kids? I’ve heard a lot of people say this before and it sort of makes me feel bad because I know I am not going to have kids. You might say I’m to young to know or that I’ll change my mind once I meet the right person (my moms favorite thing to say), but I’m 99.9% sure I won’t have kids. I just see what my parents have had to deal with with me and I don’t think I would be able to handle the responsibility. It it so overwhelming to think that you are in control of shaping another human being and that every single one of your actions affects that person in some way. I think I’ll stick to taking care of animals…definitely want more pets in the coming years!

-Please say I’m not the only one who gets REALLY pumped when there is an SVU re-run on USA that you haven’t seen before!? I’m obsessed with that show as it is, so I don’t mind re-watching on occasion. But when there’s an old episode that I haven’t seen before…it’s like Christmas!

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Have a great Monday!

Kaila

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Todays’s Healthy Help: Gave someone directions!

Never too early to start Lending a {Healthy} Hand for this weeks round-up! Tell me what you’ve done to help someone else lately!

I can’t help but think we all need to gain some. Especially when I see things like this…

Sure a slight flight delay is a inconvenient…but it certainly doesn’t warrant all the complaining I constantly see on social media (the tweet above is just one example). Seriously people, think about it….WE CAN FLY. IN THE AIR. LIKE FREAKING BIRDS. In the grand scheme of things an hour or two delay is not going to kill you and think about how much time being able to fly is saving you?! You can travel in a day what would take weeks if flying wasn’t possible.

Or this…

This was one of the first tweets I saw when I woke up. Why start the day on such a negative, pessimistic note? First off, hate is a really strong word. I try not to use it towards anyone because even when you feel incredibly angry, to say you all out HATE someone breeds more negativity and effects you in worse ways than the person it’s aimed towards. Hating someone means you’re holding on to your anger and perpetuating it.

Other things that lead me to believe we all need to take a step back and realize that life isn’t so bad, that we actually have it pretty good, and that there are people who would kill to be living your worst day…

-People constantly declaring that they’re bored: As I always say, bored people are BORING people. There are SO many productive things you can be doing. Heck, I wish there were MORE hours in the day for me to accomplish everything I want! Next time you think you’re “bored” try doing something for someone else! There is no shortage of needy people in the world who would love for you to lend a helping hand.

-First world problems: Okay, I’ll admit the twitter account is pretty darn funny and relatable. But when you actually stop to think about all the things we take for granted and constantly complain about…it’s pretty disturbing. We should be so thankful for everything we’re afforded, especially in this country, and yet we all seem to have this notion of entitlement. Technology not working? At least you have access to it! Someone messed up your order at a restaurant? At least you have food and can afford to go out to dinner! It’s just about reframing things that seem annoying and realizing that they’re really not that bad. It’ll help you have a more positive outlook on life in general!

-People being REALLY rude to customer service people and other workers: More than a few times in the past weekend alone I witnessed people talking to workers/customer service people/waiters in horrible ways! Yelling, screaming, demanding! Completely forgetting that they are people too and only trying to do their jobs the best they can. Where do people get the idea that just because they are receiving a service that they have the right to treat someone as less than human? It might be cliche, but it’s true…you get a lot farther with kindness and understanding than with criticism and rudeness.

These are just a few examples, but I really wanted to write a post highlighting the lack of perspective I’ve noticed out in the world lately. So much complaining and negativity, and not enough appreciation and gratitude. Yes, it’s evident the world is full of bad things, horrible people, and too much suffering…but on the whole, it’s filled with more goodness than anything else. If anything, the unity and generosity we’ve seen in the wake of Boston and West, is a testament to this! Heck, just the fact that the Earth has just the right set of optimal conditions for us to sustain life is pretty amazing! There truly is a lot more good out there than bad. We just have to learn to look for it, find it, and focus on it!

Just thinking about all the chaos of the past few weeks and reflecting on how lucky I am to be alive and living the life I am, I felt the need to give a little reminder to put your life into perspective. I’ll be the first to admit that I lose sight of what’s really important sometimes, but it’s important to be reminded and realize how fortunate we all are. Yes, some of is have it harder than others, but there truly is a bright side to every tragic situation. Positivity and light can be found in the darkest of places.