halloween and things NaNoWriMo

I'm not going to spend this blog talking about ToTsKCE that went really well, or about my views on Halloween, but regardless HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

This post is primarily to talk about NaNo, once again, but a bit more in depth.  And yes, there are a LOT of things to cover.

PART 1

If you're on the fence about doing NaNo, sign up and join the fun (I think there's still time to sign up...), even if you don't have enough time to write the entirety of 50,000 words it's worth a shot.  It's not like we'll never talk to you again, and besides, wonder "what if"s are a waste of time!  Just go on to www.NaNoWriMo.org and check things out for yourself.

PART 2

I spent quite a lot of time last night on the interwebs just waiting for Tuesday to get here so I can start writing, so I spent a lot of that time looking for other tools and ideas to use during November as I write my novel.  One of them that I found, not really a tool, but just a cool place to go to read about other NaNo novelers' experiences and tips and tricks is WriMosFTW!  I highly recommend checking that place out for some inspiration if you get in a sticky place during your noveling.

PART 3

Also, this goes along with PART 2, I found this dandy tool called Write or Die! (no you don't actually die if you don't write) but it's a really cool thing to use to keep you writing.  You can set a timer for up to 2 hours or for a word count goal.  Pick a grace period, depending on how long you want to allow yourself to think between thoughts and a consequence level.  I messed around with it a bit last night, but I honsetly don't remember too much of it considering I was studying for my civics test today (which I think I dominated) and it was like midnight.  I would give Write or Die a shot at least once during the month to get your daily word count in so you can see if it works for you or not.  The whole purpose of it is to just make you write, and not edit as you go.

PART 4

This is definitely a major linkage blog post...I also found these neat NaNo calendars to put as your desktop background, I'm using the purple one.  You can find them right here, and there's several colors to chose from!

PART 5

I know this might be too late for some depending on how they run, but maybe not for others.  I've got a calendar set up in my room, basically telling me what I have to do and what I need for the day everyday during the week on a massive bulletin board.  Also, I've set up my Google Calender so it's got everything scheduled that needs to be scheduled so I won't forget, or lost my planner (which happens frequently) and forget something important.  Also, I've got a specific notebook set aside that I'll pack in my school bag and theatre bag so I can write on the go.  Organization is probably the only way I'll make it through November.

PART 6

I still don't have a title for my novel yet, but I'm sure that will come at some point.  I'll share more details about my novel throughout the month, who knows maybe someone can help me come up with a title?

And, I think that's about it.  If I missed something, I'll probably edit in, but I honestly don't think I missed anything...

OH! Happy noveling everyone, wherever you might be!

[[EDIT]] I forgot to mention that you can buddy me on NaNoWriMo.org, just look out for me as As.Is!

Today was awesome because: out of all things awesome that happened today, my business teacher gave us candy in class, she was the only teacher who handed out candy to her students. :)

location: freezing bedroom
days until NaNoWriMo begins: 3 hours
days until the fall musical: 17
days until I become an adult: 68
days until graduation: 201

water creatures

I've always heard the familiar "You eat your favorite animal?!" phrase since about third grade when we were once asked our favorite animal, my response was fish; and then asked our favorite food, also fish.  I couldn't help but think about how much I really do love fish and other water creatures today as I was cleaning out Ducky's (my fish) tank that I had neglected for far too long since school started consuming my life 24/7, which might I add was inspired by a random trip to Petco with my dad yesterday where we both spent at least 20 minutes if not longer looking at the fish, turtles and frogs.

Eating my favorite animal aside, I really do find water creatures quite interesting.  I think it's the novelty of living in water that interests me the most.  I mean, that's our greatest difference, I live above ground with fellow humans and other above-ground-inhabitant creatures, and fish along with other water creatures live in water.  Basically, what I'm trying to say is that things that aren't normal to me and how I live really interest me.  Like other cultures from around the world.  I mean, how would it be different for you personally if you lived or grew up in Germany, or Vietnam? What would it be like to be a fish or other water creature?

Although, don't let this make you think I've always love water animals, fish especially.  When I was about five, at my Grandpa's in Branson, Missouri, we were fishing on the bank of the lake behind his house.  I was fishing with my little pink fishing rod my dad had bought me when they found out my mom was having a girl.  As soon as I felt a tug on the line I threw the pole on the ground and ran to the house.  It's taken me years to get so obsessed with fish.

Anyway, this was just a little something that was on my mind today, although I didn't really intend to share that specific story with you all because to me it's kind of embarrassing now, considering how much I love fishing...

I'll be blogging tomorrow about my preparations for all things November to help stay organized in what is definitely my busiest month of the year.

Today is awesome because: I think Ducky and I are on better terms now that I've properly started to care for him again.

current location: organized desk in the freezing bedroom
days until NaNoWriMo begins: 1
days until the fall musical: 18
days until I become an adult: 69
days until graduation: 202

mail time

If you follow me on Twitter, or happened to be on my blog a few moments ago and looked at my Twitter feed, you'll know that I received a package in the mail.  I got really excited when I saw it through the kitchen door window as I was unlocking the door because I thought it was my piano book that I ordered.  BUT IT WASN'T. Talk about a plot twist, eh?  Anyway, the package wasn't small, but wasn't too big.  It was from Jostens, the company that our school does all of our graduation things through.  I grabbed the nearest knife and opened the package to find my lovely souvenirs, that we ordered.  I even took photos, with our crappy camera that's almost ten years out of date.

This is all that was in the package, the 2012 Senior women's grey v-neck, 2012 key ring, a memory book and then a class key ring that has the school colors and emblem along with my initials engraved on the back.

I usually don't like key rings, but I like this one, also it adds weight to my lanyard which makes it easier to throw...

Our camera wouldn't focus properly, but I was trying to show the detail on the emblem.  I just absolutely love this so much.  Even when I saw it in the catalog with red and yellow as the school colors, I just fell in love with it.

I actually didn't want the memory book, but my mom was buying one of the special packages that included this in it so I have it any way.  I flipped through the pages and really all it is is a place to put photos through the last four years and write down specifics about event that happened during the year.  Maybe I'll like it more once I get a better look at it...

Also....

205 DAYS UNTIL GRADUATION!

Today is awesome because: I got this wonderful package from Josten's AND we play the first game of play offs tonight at home. GO WILDCATS!
current location: kitchen table that isn't in the kitchen but in the living room, so I guess it's a living table.
days until NaNoWriMo begins: 4
days until the fall musical: 21
days until I become an adult: 72
days until graduation: 205

free write: too much pressure

I've been meaning to do a few free writing excersices before NaNo starts, but I havn't really been able to do any because my lack of time and brain engergy.  Today though, in my music history class we were listening to music from the romantic period, and though the first couple of selections were good, I couldn't just sit there and listen to the music.  So I flopped down on the floor, sprawled out with my notebook and pencil and started writing.  I was going for a 40 minute free write which would have lasted until the school dismisal bell, but about ten minutes before that we got on the subject of graduation so all my focus was averted else where.

And I thought maybe you'd like to see what I wrote. *bashful smile*  I would like to preface this with the fact that it was mainly inspired by the fact that the first selections of music that we listened to today in class was those primarily composed of piano, since the romantic time period is when they really started using pianos as a center piece if you will.  Also, this is unedited or proofed, so keep that in mind...

Too Much Pressure

Michelle pounded on the keys of her piano in frustration. She was thankful though that she was the only one in the piano hall since it was three thirty in the morning.  Things from the outside looked good in Michelle's life, it would be confusing for anyone to see or hear her banging on the one thing that made Michelle such a known person.

That in itself was part of the frustration Michelle was feeling.  She had been taught by world known pianists, even taught her own classes to adult beginners.  Michelle hadn't even applied to the university she was attending, they wanted her so badly for their music program they made offers that even Michelle's extremely wealthy family couldn't pass up.  She had all that weight on her shoulders, to continue to be the "best". It wasn't like she didn't love playing anymore but all the pressure was definitely taking a toll on her.

Folding her sheet music up and slipping into a folder specifically for her recital music Michelle let out a sigh.  As she poked out a simple rhythm using only middle C, she couldn't help but wonder what could have been if she had never came here.  Or even yet, if she pursued something in another field.  Pounding one last time on middle C, Michelle stood up and left the hall headed back to the dorms to sneak into her dorm room without waking her room mate, Alexis, up.

It seemed like the walk back to her dorm room that morning helped clear Michelle's head.  waking up in a good mood she had happily agreed to get breakfast with Alexis.  Instead of wearing a nice pair of jeans that she normally wore while at school, against her mother's protests, Michelle chose a coral floral print dress that fell right above her knees.  Instead of her Converse, aslo not approved by her mother, she chose a pair of nude pumps that made her tall stature even more apparent.

"You're in a good mood." Alexis noted with a smile as they left the building.

"I guess so." Michelle said nodding her head slightly.

"How many more weeks until the senior recital?" Alexis asked.  "You're staying at the hall later and later every night." Alexis pointed out.

Today is awesome because: I finally got to free write!
current location: homework covered desk in my warm bedroom
days until NaNoWriMo begins: 6
days until the fall musical: 23
days until I become an adult: 74
days until graduation: 207

unicorn random

Preface: I'm in a really good mood right now but also short on time, so this will probably contribute to lack of cohesiveness.  Also, I have a weird obsession lately with unicorns. I blame Krista Horner.

PART 1

Considering how much school I've missed in the last two and a half weeks mostly due to a really bad sinus infection and basically every single joint in my body hurting to the point where I'm limited in moving, today was a REALLY productive and good day at school. I managed to get everything organized finally, which I've been needing to do for a super long time but things kept being pushed my way.  I'm hoping that within the next week, if it productivity stays like it was for today, that I'll be mostly caught up.

PART 2

I finally got enough nerve to shred the paper application up and apply online to SC.  So that's a thing.  Now all I have to do is write my essay, which you'd think would be pretty easy for me considering how I enjoy writing and blogging. BUT IT'S SO MUCH HARDER THAN THAT.  I have absolutely no idea how to write about myself technically.  Although, it's mostly just coming up with interesting transitions to transition from my points, because let's be honest, when they ask for some back ground information about you plus your goals in life AND how the school can help you achieve them, it's a bit difficult to come up with transitions that are just run of the mill. I guess I'm just making this too difficult on myself. I just really really want my essay to stand out.

PART 3

I'm pretty much recovered from taking the ACT on Saturday.  It didn't feel like it took four hours, but I guess that's all because I was so focused on it.  To be honest, I'm sure my scores are pretty horrid looking. Except for the grammar, it's basically like proofing a paper, and that was really easy. Especially since it was multiple choice, I like multiple choice questioned tests.

So once we get the feedback from ACT it'll be sent down to SC and, allowing that I've already sent my essay, the admissions office will look at my application.

PART 4

I once, a very long time ago, thought of majoring in English.

NEVER.

PART 5

I currently hold in my position my good friend's keyboard piano.  And of course, considering piano is something I'd like to learn, have been taking advantage of having it in my posession.  I'm so committed to learning that I managed to talk my mom into getting an adult beginner piano book from Amazon.  Also, my best friend Jessie, she gave me some sight reading books to practice with since I was never good at sight reading to begin with.

PART 6

Remember when I said I was going to give blood a while back? Yeah, I survived, obviously.  And today I finally got a letter from the American Red Cross.  It was basically a letter thanking me for donating and the statistics of young adults and children who need blood, and how most first time donors never donate again.  I mean, that was cool and all, but I got a special card with my name and blood type on it for future donations. I think that's the moral of this story. Is that I have yet another special card to carry around with me.

PART 7

I'm. so. excited. for. NaNoWriMo. to. start. already.

PART 8

The show is going...good.  We're behind since we started a couple weeks later than we normally do with musicals.  But I've got my costumes lined out and things.  Now I just remember the dancing, music and when to go on stage.  Oh, I still need to learn how to BE A MAN. It'll probably come more natural once we start doing runs in costume.

Today was awesome because: it's been super productive.

current location: on the floor in my bedroom

days until NaNoWriMo begins: 7

days until the fall musical: 24

days until I become an adult: 75

days until graduation: 208

then and now

Tomorrow morning one of my best friends goes into surgery on her ankle.  Today we spent breakfast and lunch talking about it (her surgery) and my hip replacement.  As I was doing some errands, waiting on a stoplight to change to green, I realized that my hip replacement was the first surgery that I had been treated like an adult.  Granted, the nurses had no idea in the world how to treat me otherwise, considering they were all used to patients at the youngest fifty for a joint surgery.

As I've mentioned in posts past, the surgeries I've had pre-hip were done at a children's hospital where they are obviously very used to working with kids and now the tricks on how to keep them calm and things like that.  The nurses comforted me in a way that I knew things would be okay and my parents were only at a short word away.  When I had my hip replaced, I can remember clear as anything when I started to come out of anesthesia , I started crying because I wanted my mom, naturally as you do when you come out of a major surgery intended for an old woman instead of a seventeen year old.  The nurses I remember, were basically "ohgreatwhatdowedoshewantshermombutwerenotsupposedtobringfamilybackbutshescryingandshesonlyseventeen".  Needless to say, they sent a nurse to get my mom.

Also, pre-hip, in post op I didn't have an oxygen mask to wear.  Of which, I might add, I don't like to wear AT ALL, because I can't talk with it on...Post hip, the nurses kept getting onto me because I kept taking the mask off of my face, and finally after I told them that I wasn't wearing the damn mask they gave me a nasal cannula to put in my nose, of which I also didn't like, but I could at least talk with it on.

Another difference is the fact that when my parents left me, I was just on my own.  At Shriner's, a nurse would always stop in until I would go to sleep to see how I was.  Post hip, the only time I saw my nurses was if I called for them to help me out of bed and walk to the bathroom, to give me medicine or check my vitals.  I have to admit, that was the first time that I really felt like an adult, was the first night when my parents left me to go home and I was there by myself.  Although, considering the medicines I was on, I was mostly asleep.

A long running joke we've had through the last few months post hip, is about the Klondike bar.  When I was in Shriner's my parents basically bribed me with Klondike bars, basically because it was the only thing in the vending machine upstairs and it was one of the only things that got me motivated to do anything.  Like go the extra five feet walking without crutches, or doing an extra set of physical therapy.  I didn't get a Klondike bar once throughout my recovery from hip replacement.

Today was awesome because: I got to sleep in an extra hour this morning, thank goodness for late start Wednesdays at our school!

Current location: the blue comfy couch in the living room
days until ACT: 3
days until NaNoWriMo begins: 12
days until the fall musical: 29
days until I become an adult: 80
days until graduation: 213

simplicity

I had quite an interesting trip yesterday to the laundromat, though normally it is usually always an interesting trip because of the interesting people there is that show up.  But yesterday was different because I actually got a lot of stuff done.  By a lot of stuff done I mean, procrastinating my revisions and homework for school...  I blogged, yeah at the laundromat; read some headlining articles over at the Washington Post, read some blogs, and of course did my laundry.

What really made yesterday an interesting day at the laundromat though wasn't that I got things accomplished, but because I had an enormous amount of clothes to wash for the week when I only went to school one full day and part of another. I mean, I also had rehearsals, which I wore my sweats to; but I couldn't figure out why I had so many clothes to wash.  That in itself isn't why my trip to the laundromat was interesting.

I got to thinking, how many t-shirts I own, because let's be honest, I will automatically pick a t-shirt and jeans or t-shirt and sweats over anything else; so I've got a pretty large collection of t-shirts.  Of those t-shirts, I tend to only wear maybe ten or so most of the time.  I have three pairs of jeans, three sets of athletic shorts, and one pair of sweats (that actually fit me properly) that I wear.  Compared to my friends' wardrobes, I have the most simplistic wardrobe of them all.

There's no doubt that I prefer Twitter over Facebook.  Because of simplicity.  Twitter is just so much more simple than Facebook, and I really like that fact about it.  It's easy to use and generally doesn't make me confused.  Speaking of Twitter, I now have a new Twitter account, so follow @Nerdfighter12 to keep up with me and other things blog related!

Also, I'll eat nearly anything.  Which makes it easy for my mom since she doesn't that majority of the cooking in the family.  If I'm rushed on time to eat, I don't care what it is, I'll eat it.  I'm definitely not someone who enjoys big fancy expensive dinners, so much so, I would probably say that would be a DON'T if you took me on a date.

I guess what I'm getting at, is sometimes it's good to have one part of your life that's really simple and easy so that you don't have to worry about yet another thing.  I'm pretty detailed in the things I do normally, so it's nice to just have something really simple in my life that I can just do and get on with the day.

Today is awesome because: it's really feeling like fall now, plus we have the day off from school; also, I'm bringing back "why today is awesome".

Current location: very messy desk/sewing table
days until ACT:  4
days until the fall musical: 30
days until I become an adult: 81
days until graduation: 214

blog action day 2011: FOOD

Today is Blog Action Day 2011 (you can follow the blogging action by following the hash tag #BAD11 on Twitter), and this year the topic is food, since it is World Food Day.  At first I wasn't for sure what to talk about, I didn't want to just write whatever my brain told my fingers to type out, I wanted this to have a meaning to it.

I started thinking about to things I've done in the last few years that involved food.  I've helped with numerous dinners where we fed at one sit down was over a 150 people.  I had also helped do sandwich Saturday a few months ago when we put together small lunch sacks consisting of a dry bologna and cheese sandwich, a banana, a water and cookie to hand out to the homeless of Wichita.  And then, I finally remembered Kids Against Hunger.

The mission for Kids Against Hunger is pretty self explanatory on their website: "The mission of Kids Against Hunger, a humanitarian food-aid organization, is to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed the starving children throughout the world."  It doesn't seem like much of a life changing experience to help KAH, but until you've been able to help pack the food you have no idea what the feeling is like.

A few years ago, when I first started attending church on a regular basis with a close family that I had been around for quite a while, our church was hosting a KAH packing day.  The food packets that you pack at KAH mainly have rice and seasonings in it but also holds a lot of proteins and vitamins that a lot of kids don't get.  On a KAH packing day, you get to experience every part of packing.  There's a station where each person gets a specific part of the food pack to put into the package; from there the packs are weighed to a specific weight so the boxes being shipped out are all within the same weight range; after weighing, they're sealed shut and passed on to get tightly packed into boxes and finally get taped up and set into the truck.

Going into that day, I had absolutely no idea what to expect, I had never heard of KAH and from the sounds of some of the people in the congregation it seemed like not very many of us knew what we were doing.

I have to admit though, through the experience I not only learned a lot about the hunger of kids in our own nation, but worldwide, but it changed my perspective of things.  I knew that there were kids my age around the world and even kids as close as in my own state; I hadn't the slightest clue of truly how bad it was.  If out of anything, I came out of that experience appreciating the fact that I knew I would be coming home from school to a snack and then dinner.  That I would wake up and have food for breakfast.  And even going to school with the thought of I would have a lunch.  I had taken all of these for granted.

Food is one of those necessities in life that I think a lot of people underestimate.  We complain about not liking certain vegetables or types of food, but we have the awesome opportunity to have food and we complain about it when there are thousands of people, mostly including children that would be so incredibly happy if they got a portion of food, they don't complain about what they get, they're thankful for what they do get.

Admittedly, I have tried the food packs that KAH make and send out to children around the world a few times.  And I didn't particularly like it, but I had to remind myself, I'm used to the luxury of foods that I enjoy.

For more information on KAH or how to help, just visit their website.
I also urge you to check out Blog Action Day and spread the word, it's still not too late to participate this year!
Also, if you want more stuff on World Food Day, check out YouTube's blog post.

determination

One of the reasons why I decided to audition for the musical this year instead of working on tech, was that I was determined to show myself (and the others who might have doubted me) that I could come back with a force and do a musical...with a prosthetic hip.  Considering I haven't been in a proper vocal class or lesson for two years, my singing was rusty; but with the thanks of my awesome friend, ironically enough, named Jessie, we got my voiced tuned up pretty well.  And the acting, I was confident with my acting.  I had been dreading the dancing part of the show though, because normally I'm not very cordinated when it comes to dancing to begin with, but then when you add in movements that my hip hasn't done in a few years the brain and muscles get incredibly confused.

But after tonight, I feel good about it all.

We had a dancing rehearsal tonight, and to tell you the truth, I'm surprised I haven't gone and passed out on the floor already (I'm sleeping on the floor tonight because my back is out again).  I went into the rehearsal feeling good about things, even though my stomach wasn't agreeing 100% with me, I toughed it out.  I had completely forgotten about the repetition of things...

We worked on Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat , which in our show, involves a lot of sitting, standing, sitting, standing, sitting, standing, sitting, standing.....so on and so forth.  And considering how fast paced the song itself was, it was difficult for us to know exactly when to do what, which lead to going over through the steps countless times again and again.  It wasn't too terribly later that my muscles started to freak out from such use all in one "sitting'.

I was determined to get it though.  My legs were feeling like jelly and my brain was yelling at my muscles to get in gear.  By the time we quit for the night my muscles seemed like a completely different part of me that didn't even listen to my brain; so much so, that I had a difficult time standing upright when I changed out of my sweats back into my jeans in the parking lot.

The thing that makes me most happy about tonight, isn't really the dedication of my fellow seniors were putting into helping to get the dance together, or the fact that we actually made it look presentable; but was how determined I was to do this.  Before hip replacement, I'm not sure mentally I would have continued on through rehearsals.  I would have opted to sit out most of the night, but not now, I maybe spent ten minutes total sitting out to stretch and give myself a break.

I know though, that with this determination in mind, I can do this show.  And I'm not regretting it one bit.

NaNoWriMo 2011

Hey internet type people! I hope your week has been great, or at least better than mine, but we're not here to talk about that.  I want to talk about something that I found  out about a year ago and have been itching the last couple of months to get started on it.

National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo or in short, just NaNo.

If you don't know what NaNo is, it's quite simple to explain. You write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the month of November.  It probably sounds a bit crazy if you've never heard of it before, because I know when I first heard of NaNo I couldn't help but think that everyone was just nuts to do such a thing.

I participated in NaNo last year, though I didn't get very far.  I only ended up with about 4,000 words, but for me considering what I was going through a year ago I think I did a good job.  This year however, I was thinking I was going to have a little bit more time to put in the effort for NaNo but now I'm beginning to second guess that assumption.

Here's some things I"m going to be doing over the next eighteen days.

1. Write the ideas I've come up with for my novel down. Things change through out the course of NaNo, I know this even from what little I accomplished last year. But it's always a good start to have some beginning thoughts down as you get started.
2. Free write.  I never really got around to doing any free writes last year before NaNo started, but I've heard that it helps your mind become open to just write and not really worry about what you're writing.
3. Marking the days where I absolutely can not write off of the calendar.  Not only is Thanksgiving in NaNo month, but so is our show.  I know for a fact there will be at most seven full days I won't be able to write during NaNo.  It's always good to know when you won't be able to write so you can make up those lost word counts on a day where you might have more time to write or you simply just ended up writing more than the daily 1,667 words.
4. Give some thought to character names.  I always, always, ALWAYS get hung up on names when I do writing projects. So, considering I have a strong idea for my plot line I'm going to go ahead and name my main characters so there's one less thing to worry about when NaNo starts.
5. Make lists.  Lists including things I want to happen, settings, special objects, and any other specific things that I might want to include in my novel at some point.  This way, I won't forget about them or if I have troubles of writer's block appearing (which I hope won't happen) I can have some things to work into my novel to help fuel some brain power.
6. Get excited.  I'm already pretty excited for NaNo to start again. But I'm hoping that I'll get so excited over it this year my excitement will continue through the entire process and help me finish my novel this year.

I'm sure you'll be hearing more of my NaNo planning in the coming days; I might even be needing some help on a few things...  If any of you are by chance planning on doing NaNo send me an e-mail (nerdfighter2012@hotmail.com)!

If you'd like more info on NaNo just go to NaNoWriMo.org

Happy planning!

world heart day

Preface: World Heart day was actually on September 29th, but I unfortunately could not get a blog post up in time.  But better late then never, eh?

Heart disease is America's number killer of both women and men.   Although there really is no guaranteeing way to keep from getting heart disease now or later on in life there are things that you can do to lessen the chances of it happening. Also be reminded that there are some contributing factors that can lead to heart disease that you simply can not change, like family history, personal medical history, race, sex (men are at a higher risk than women), and age.

The most important thing is simple: start now!  This isn't something that you should push off to next week, or next month. It is definitely not something that you should keep pushing off if are someone who tends to do that.  There is no better time to start than now, it could save your life.

Exercise that body of yours!  It's been proven that exercise can help lower the bad cholesterol that can lead to heart disease.  I'm not saying to dive into a high intensity work out schedule, but starting slowly and keeping persistent can help more than you think it will.  Exercising doesn't necessarily even mean "working out", you could take the dog out for a long walk, as long as you're getting physical activity in and keeping that body of yours going you'll be on the right track.

Eat healthy!  I hope that eating healthy is something that you do already, but if it isn't, you might want to start eating more healthy meals including organic foods.  Try staying away from those fast food restaurants and reconsider all the canned food you might be eating.  Treat yourself to some dark chocolate every now and then, it's been said to help decrease the risk of heart disease.

I encourage all of my readers to get informed, do some researching, talk to family members and see if there are any high risks.  If you ever have health questions, contact your health care provider and ASK, never be afraid of asking questions, even if you're not sure.

I am by no means someone who knows an exceedingly large amount about heart disease, I'm a seventeen year old girl who has done some research and has found information out through family members who have had heart problems in the past.  Do with this information what you will, but I'm just trying to spread the word and get people informed.

For more information about heart disease check out these links:
World Heart Foundation
Steps to Help Prevent Heart Disease
American Heart Association