Have a Better Life

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Have you made your 2010 resolutions already? One of them is reduce your body weight?  Hummm I belive so. After all the parties, traditional dishes, traditional desserts for sure that crossed your mind.

New year is just a few days ahead but you still have time to made your to-do-weight-loss-list. Remember to add:

• Healthy food
• Lots of vegetables and fruits
• Outdoor exercises
• Use your ellipticals
• Use your home gym
• Take advantage of the good weather and go for a walk
• Ride your bicycle
• Make low carb meals

I know there are much more things you can do to lose weight, use your imagination and stay away from too many calories.

Go Green, Sustainability still is my main objective for this blog among other important subjects. On this holiday season I was kind of disappointed by watching people still thinking more about the gift and forgetting about the packaging.

Most packages still have materials that are hard to recycle. My daughter received dolls and make-up sets, my son toys inside packages and the packages were made with too much material, they were too heavy and some of them less than 50% recyclable.

However I noticed that in most stores the cardboard displays were made of almost 100% recyclable cardboard and they were light, using only the necessary material to sustain the gifts.

I wonder, why people waste so many heavy packagings, they are more expensive because they have more weight and they are more difficult to recycle. Next Christmas Season I hope people became more aware of the need to Go Green and protect the environment.

I’ve been so busy, so tired that I’ve been reducing the number of posts I write. When I arrive home from work it’s already dark, cold and sometimes I just want to dive in my bed and be really warm underneath the sheets.

I’m already preparing myself to work hard on my blogs, two of them regained their page rank and that was an incentive to me to keep writing and sharing information with my readers. I’m making a daily schedule for my blogs, certain subjects on certain days, certain subjects I want to cover, for now I only have a draft but I intend to stick to it.

Maybe in 2010 you will read here about a myrtle beach hotel, or a las vegas vacation but you will also read about going green, shopping tips and tips for you to have a better life. Stay tuned!

Who said we can’t eat what we want? Who said we have to take diet pills or fat burners? Here is a delicious recipe, healthy, low fat, extra light and full of flavor.

Makeover Cranberry Trifle

Ingredients

• 1 package (16 ounces) frozen unsweetened strawberries, thawed
• 1 package (12 ounces) fresh or frozen cranberries
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 4 teaspoons grated orange peel
• 1 package (8 ounces) reduced-fat cream cheese
• 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 carton (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
• 2 loaves (10-3/4 ounces each) frozen reduced-fat pound cake, thawed and cubed

Directions

• In a large saucepan, combine the first five ingredients. Cook over medium heat until the berries pop, about 15 minutes. Cool completely.

• Meanwhile, in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, brown sugar and vanilla until smooth. Fold in whipped topping.

• Place a third of the cake cubes in a 3-qt. trifle bowl; top with a third of the cranberry mixture and a third of the cream cheese mixture. Repeat layers twice. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving. Yield: 15 servings.

Source: Taste of Home

I have a friend that lost some part of his life. How? Well his computer literally burned out, in flames. An unsafe electrical connection to the PC was the reason of the accident. Now, he didn’t matter with the lost of the computer but he was really destroyed with the loss of important data information. Years of files and…most important… years of family photos that had never been backup.

I feel really sorry for my friend and I must say I learned a great lesson. I’ve already burned DVD’s with all the photos I have on my computer as well as important files. Right now I’m searching for a good online site where I can store photos, documents, where I can have an online backup of my computer in case something goes wrong with my PC.

I think that to have a better life sometimes we have to rely our own stuff to others and not only on our own stuff. Online storage seems to be safe and can offer us a backup of our own life data. But is it safe?

What do you think? Do you keep your documents and photos online?

With the internet, a person can do a quick shopping comparison of almost any item they may be looking for. Since the World Wide Web offers so many shopping sites for the taking, a person can search an endless array of stores with just the click of a mouse. No longer is the public restricted to what store can come into their area because of the population. Anyone can comparison shop with just a computer.

One of the easiest places to do shopping comparison on the internet is Ebay. Ebay online shopping can be a fun experience for even the novice shopper. Because of the vast amount of items that Ebay offers, almost everything that is desired can be found here. Vintage items dating back to the twenties and thirties are available on Ebay. Because so much is offered, a person wanting to do shopping comparison would have an easy time at this vast online shopping mall. Even though this is an auction site, a person can find several items of the same thing so if one auction is not won, another may be. The object is to keep shopping and bidding.

Types of items can be compared in price with the internet also. If a person is do shopping comparison on a pair of Prada sunglasses for example, using Google can be a good first step in finding them. This search engine is a great online shopping directory. Just by typing in the keywords of the item that is being looked for, a person can find several sites that offer the item. For Prada sunglasses, the search may lead a person to the direct Prada design house. Here someone may be inclined to look at the latest line of this fashion guru.

Product research has become so much easier with the invention of the World Wide Web. No longer is the public restricted to just relying on Consumer Reports. Now a customer can look at the actual product reviews from the manufacturer’s website, and they can also see what customers who have recently purchased that item are saying about it. Shopping comparison has drastically changed thanks to the internet.

By having the internet available to do a shopping comparison of products, a person can easily figure out which place to buy products. Even if a customer chooses to not buy on the internet, they can still do the product research by using the World Wide Web. By do a shopping comparison beforehand, a person will be more prepared to meet the challenges that a sales associate whose check is relying on a commission will put before them.