Healthy Rights. Get your smoke out of my face

I am all about people doing what makes them happy, even if it something that harms themselves. If they choose to do bad things to themselves (like smoking), but do not inflict harm onto others, than that is their own choice. But I do have a problem when someone else's unhealthy habit effects me. I do alot to keep myself healthy. I exercise daily, I eat healthy, I try and do things that are good for my body- like not smoking. It is my choice to not smoke. I choose to not inhale smoke, or be around smokers.

If you want to smoke in your own home, all power to you. If you want to smoke in your own personal car, right on. But when you choose to smoke on the side walk, standing next to me, and blow your smoke, in MY face- into MY healthy lungs, and clog MY nose with your smoke, that's when I have a problem. Not only do I find it personally offensive when someone blows their smoke in my face when waiting for the light to change, I find it disgusting- you can do what you want to your body, but don't impeded on my right to a healthy life. 

Where did this rant come from? This morning, on my lovely 2.5 mile walk to work, my lovely crisp fall air was polluted at 44th and 2nd by a short, snotty girl who decided to blow her disgusting smoke in my face. When I asked her if she could step to the side and not blow in my face, she looked at me and said, 'well, it's a free sidewalk.' and turned around. It took all my strength to not punch a bitch (sorry grandma if you are reading this). Instead of inflicting physical harm onto this extremely rude girl, I said back, "It is a free side walk, and natural air, what you are doing is gross." Might now have been the nicest, or the best zinger i could come up with, but it was better than punching her I suppose.

Lesson learned, next time, I'll punch her.

Peace, love and keeping myself healthy (and out of jail for physical assault on a smoker),
B

Chocolate sayings

Ever since last holiday time (back in ATL) I made a vow to try and eat a dark chocolate piece every day. I heard somewhere that it was healthy good for me. I don't eat one every day, but I would say at least once a week.

Today, I had one, and on the inside of the wrapper was a saying, "Take time to notice the color of the leaves changing." Not sure why, but it struck a cord. A little of it might be because its the 11th anniversary of 9/11, the seasons have started changing, and this morning was picture perfect, but I was in too much a rush to actually appreciate it. I woke up an hour later than planned (I turned off my alarm in my sleep), ran around my apartment like a mad woman, didnt blow dry my hair, didn't make the bed... but I will say, I was able to leave the apartment with a lunch. A lunch that my amazing and extremely sneaky boyfriend made for me last night and left in the fridge with a note. I saw it this morning, and just though, 'Wow.... just wow'. And ran out the door.

Now after seeing my chocolate quote of the day, after eating my delicious sandwich, and after getting back from a quick walk about the block-  This day, reminds me how amazing it is to live the life I do, love the people I do.....I am going to walk home from work today also- just to soak it all in.

Peace, Love, and Enjoying,
B

What to do....On the first day of Fall

Who ever took down the GoDaddy server.... you suck. I love my new job. It rocks. I depend on sending out e-mails, getting in touch with people, and sending them off onto a new job path. I rely on a few things to do my job:
a) LinkedIn
b) e-mail (in any form, on my phone, on the computer, anywhere so I can get messages)
c) phone

If one of these things goes down- I have a problem.

And today... someone decided (that someone clearly was not me), BY CHOICE, to take down the whole GoDaddy server. What do I have to say to this one person- why?? Just why.

You could have taken down my Facebook, or a random news site, and that would have been just fine with me. But no, on my Monday, the start of my week- the day I use to get into the grove, you take it down. As Stephanie from Full House would say, How Rude.

In other news, today marked the first day of fall in my books. The weather was amazing. Clear blue skies, a chill in the air that put a pep in my step. People here say fall is amazing, and this morning I could see why. Its getting me pretty excited for the next 2 months.... but then I realized, after fall comes winter.... that will be a different discussion for a different day.

Lesson for today: its not so much a lesson, more so a general rule of thumb, if you have the chance to balitently ruin someones day.... just don't. Its not nice.

Peace, love and refreshing my e-mail every 5 minutes,
B

I know, I know

I know- its been a while. I know I made a promise to write EVERY day. I know that I just haven't. And I am not even going to make an excuse for myself. All I am going to say is.. It happens- that little thing called my life. And in my 365 days of this year, I have had a complete turn around.

Here's whats been going on in my life-

- New job, has completely changed my life. There are not enough words that I cant type to describe the turn around in my overall well being. Media planning was just not for me, and that's fine. Media recruiting, having the potential to make more money, having  the potential to help another person, having the potential to just do more, has turned on a motivation in me that I never even knew existed.

- T has started traveling 3 days a week- which is not my favorite thing in the world. But over the past few weeks, I have now been forced to think about things I like to do with my free time. What have I discovered? That I really want to learn how to cook better. So I have started finding recipes on pinterest and just trying them. So far, haven't messed them up too bad- but practice makes perfect. I make a pretty mean banana bread (in my opinion....), so I figure I could master a few other things .

- My mom came in to visit this past weekend for Labor Day. Her and I have not spent a few days alone together in quite some time, and it was much  needed. As she liked to say, we saw all of the very important museums in the city, aka Bloomingdale's, TJ Maxx and all the shops in Manhattan we could walk to. We ate our way through the city, and even made friends with our waiters who gave us after dinner drinks, on the house- who doesn't like that confidence booster?

-Zumba has become my new challenge. Lets just say, I do not have the best rhythm, but, I am going to get better. I'm determined. Yes, this white Jewish girl is going to be good at Zumba. My hips don't lie, and right now, they are saying- this chick can't dance for shit.

-In the past 3 months, I have sailed on the Hudson twice- summers in NYC are unlike anything I have ever seen. Summer here is like heaven- people leave work early to go day drink. If its nice out, no way will people stay in the office past 4. The time between Memorial Day and Labor Day is the no work zone. I guess when most of the year is cold, rainy, snowy, and gloomy, you learn to appreciate the nice weather even more. I'm not going to fight it. I believe there is the phrase that says, 'if you cant beat em, join em,' This is a trend I have no problem fighting

That basically recaps the past few weeks (more like months, saying weeks makes me feel better about my absence). As always, I am going to try and write more- but no promises.

One thing I will say, 106 days into my 365- not a dull moment.

Peace, Love, and cant believe its been 106 days since my birthday,
B