The Changes

When we breach our New Year or spring time resolutions to get regular physical exercise, eat healthy food, connect with neighbours and live healthier lives, we often blame ourselves. Yet, while individual will and other factors certainly play an important role, often the same can be said about the way our neighbourhood is designed. Some communities are built to make vegetable eating, physical activity, civic engagement and other healthy activities easy, attainable, even attractive choices—others simply aren’t. This 3-minute video clip illustrates the dichotomy.

The pictures are now uploaded and can be found here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubbos/sets/72157615357346995/

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Just a quick update before I run off again. Wow the Bowling Night Yesterday was GREAT success! Thanks to everyone that's come out! I have some pictures I'll be posting soon and I'll be sure to give you all an update.

Guess what? The bowling fundraiser is really coming together!

We've got the venue set.
I've sold personally about 40 tickets to my friends and all their friends
AND....
I've got a list of all the raffle prizes to be given away!

Of course, it's all a secret til you come on Sunday...come on, I know you want to! :)

The things left to do:
1) Buy more green and purple balloons

Just wanted to let everyone know that since I'm in the running to win up to $1,000 from Vancity, just for making a New Year's resolution, I thought the best thing to do with it would be to give a whole lot to charity.

I haven't really explained the format of our training with the TEAM. TEAM in Training is organized by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. There is a group of dedicated full time staff that help in collecting donations from participants that will in turn help the Society.

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To help keep food costs down, I do a lot of baking, mostly goodies. I break each batch of baking into 3. One for eating that day and for lunches. One batch for the freezer. One batch for sharing.