August 18, 2010
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Recent studies show that walking at least 5 minutes a day in a green environment promotes emotional wellness … so have you walked around your block today? … have you walked to your local park today? …. have you walked at all?
As someone who used to be an avid hiker / camper / canoeist before she got bogged down with the world of underemployed work (that is work in which you work 40 hours but only get paid as if you’ve worked 20 hours), I find this statement to be some what of a “Duh”. Its so infrequent that I am able to get back out into the woods nowadays, but when I do, I am … for lack of a better descriptor … a “happy camper”.
Face it folks, we are animals and being outside is a part of our nature …. hiding in an artificial environment and finding artificial ways to promote happiness can only achieve results for so long. Seriously, go take a walk.
On a completely different note, I logged into Xanga today to find that there have been major changes to the Weblog Editor …. it is now too complicated … what I really liked about Xanga was its simple editor … I didn’t have to use all the bells and whistles if I didn’t want to … and seriously, I never do want to … I always end up typing my entries in simple HTML .
..Then, when poking around on the home page, I came across this and it made me remember that yes, indeed, Xanga used to primarily be a place to review books, movies, and music …. it had moved to weblogs by the time I started here, but the reviews were still a big part of Xanga … there was a separate forum on your site, heck there was even a different editor that you would use so you could choose ratings and reference the books …. now reviews are pretty much missing and its all about the weblog … which is kinda a shame because I used to love the reviews ..
.This made me a bit nostalgic, I think I am going to bring reviews back … and start reviewing things … as soon as I have time to read, watch, or listen to something worth reviewing and also this would entail me being able to post more than once a month … I’ll get there though …
Another thing I noticed while browsing through some of the home page stories is that every post now seems to end with a question. Is this some kind of new official weblog style?
Sorry folks, I refuse to end my entries with a question … if you can’t come up with a decent comment without me dragging it out of you with an open-ended question … I really don’t want to read it …
… oh and just another quick style note … I have now decided that color, pic and quote changes will be based on the number of entries made since the last change … not on the month … the number will be set at 7 posts because I like being random and arbitrary
