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a personal blog by Tina Silva

Archive for January, 2009

I’ve been reading a lot about weight loss recently and comparing different exercise machines. I already have a gazelle and ab roller, but I want something bigger and better.

I’m not thinking about getting a treadmill. The one I want is like $500 which is not something I can really afford at the moment. I have to pay off my credit card before I go and spend crazy amounts of money on something I may or may not use.

But still…it’s something I want to get maybe this year. Then again, I want lots of stuff this year and even want to go backpacking through Europe. I don’t know how I’ll end up doing anything since I don’t really have a “real job” at the moment and have been doing reviews and posts online to make up for that part.

So once I get my credit card paid off…which is nearing the $4000 debt mark (ouch!), then I can start saving for some purchases and traveling.

Wow…ya I totally need to get a real job now if I want to do that this year. Yes, I just had an epiphany. lol.

I love joining message boards. Not only do you meet new people, you also get a chance to post and read things that apply to your life.

There was this weight loss board I use to frequent a lot last year. People talked about all sorts of weight loss products such as hoodia, Leptovox, and even surgery.

I did try out hoodia. Seemed like only a few days, not enough for me to see any real results. I just found it difficult putting a pill in me that was enormous by the way, and that I didn’t know if it would work or not.

I never continued with it even though I have about 10+ bottles of the stuff and paid way too much for it to go to waste.

But meh…I figured if I’m serious about losing weight, I better get out to the gym and work my butt off.

Wow..it feels like Christmas came and gone so quickly. I just remembered watching my mom filling out Christmas cards back in early December.

She complained about not having some sort of sticker or a rubber stamp that had our address on it to put on the top left corner of the envelope. That was a pain in the butt because I had to write it over and over and over again.

So hopefully before Christmas this year, I’ll get something like that made up. Then I’ll just have to worry about getting people’s addresses right on the front of the envelope instead of worrying about getting mine right time and time again. lol.

A few years ago while I was working in daycares as part of my field placement, I noticed one thing over and over again.

More and more children have be diagnosed with cerebral palsy, autism, and other behavioral problems. It’s really astonishing because the numbers are continuing to raise.

In the case of autism, no one knows what causes it yet. The scary thing is that the child is developing normally and then *poof*…one day it all starts reversing. I’ve seen it over and over again on tv shows like Oprah. No one knows how it’s caused or how to prevent it from happening. Now that’s the scary part.

I hope there’s a cure soon because it’s happening way too much and it’s sad to see children suffer.