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Wellness #42: Staying Well

2009-10-06T10:59:00.000-07:00

1. Try out the symptom checker...Mayo Clinic's system checker is interesting. After entering all the symptoms for a heart condition, it pulled up many other things as well. It wants you to make an appointment with one of their doctors but only lists Arizona, Florida and Minn. I had to go out of their system to find their Houston clinics.

2. Pick any medical condition and use the local MedlinePlus to see if there are related resources within 10 miles of your home....I found an adult day care center for seniors ...Liberty Dayton Community Day Activity, 1801 Grand, Liberty, TX 77575, 936-334-8888.

3. Create a sample family medical history tree. Discuss how this could be a useful addition to a genealogy study....This is the one that is difficult for an adopted person who has no knowledge of parents, grandparents, siblings, etc. So I created the tree but I'm the only one on it! It would be interesting and helpful for my children to have this information but, unfortunately, it just isn't available.

Wellness # 41: Going Green- Part 2

2009-10-01T12:17:00.000-07:00

Activity 3: From any of the sites above, list one activity that you think would be easy to do to live a greener lifestyle.....I liked the tips on driving to conserve gasoline, tire wear, etc. Since I commute 40 miles a day, this is very relevant.

List a second that would require more commitment, but would really like to try..... The Do-It-Yourself: Stop Junk Mail, Email and Phone Calls really does take a great deal of time and effort but I WILL try. We have stopped the phone calls (pretty much!) and emails are a fact of life but junk mail is a real pet peeve of mine! We have a post office box and sometimes it is so packed with flyers it is difficult to get all the mail out of the box. I asked at the post office but they told me that they are paid to put it in the boxes...so it is necessary to go through all the channels that are mentioned...Lots of time and effort but certainly worth a try!

Wellness #41: Going green- Part 1

2009-10-01T11:30:00.000-07:00

Activity 1: Use one or more of the websites to determine your carbon footprint...We use much more carbon dioxide at our house than the average American family..Our house is 40 years old and electricity costs have always been high. Also, I am guessing the calculations for the average family is for a very small home or apartment. I commute 40 miles a day but just bought a new car which gets much better gas mileage. We are careful with natural gas usage at home and have lowered our gas water heater temperature. We keep our garbage to a minimum since there are only two of us at home now. My carbon footprint was 79,272 lbs/ 40 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
Activity 2: Local farmers market...We have one in Dayton which is near our home. I frequent it and love the freshness of their vegetables.

Wellness #40: Fitness

2009-09-30T13:48:00.000-07:00

1. Check your BMI- Mine is 27.5, overweight.
2. Calculate your calorie requirements- 1380 BMR, 920 Activity
3. Answer a questionnaire to determine your health age or life expectancy- Health age 48, Life expectancy - 83
Yes, I was surprised by the results. I expect to reduce my calorie intake and adopt safer driving practices. This was interesting!

Wellness #39: Nutrition (Part 2) Continued

2009-09-28T12:03:00.000-07:00

According to Recipes.Sparkpeople.com, by substituting Light Cream of Mushroom Soup and Light Mayonnaise and eleminating the black olives, the calorie count per serving goes from 276.7 calories per serving to 223.3. Fat is reduced from 11.5 g to 5.4 g. Sodium is reduced from 424.9 mg to 205.5 mg. Saturated fat is reduced from1.6 g to 0.8 g. A significant bottom line change!

Wellness #39: Nutrition (Part 2)

2009-09-28T11:52:00.000-07:00

A favorite recipe: CHICKEN SPAGHETTI
4 chicken breasts, seasoned, sauteed in olive oil and cut in small pieces
Deglaze the skillet with 1 cup water
16 oz. Linguine, cooked al dente
1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 cup Hellman's mayonnaise
2 T. prepared mustard
3 T. lemon juice
1 can sliced black olives, drained

Season chicken breasts with garlic powder, cayenne pepper and
sea salt. Brown in skillet with olive oil. Cut in to bite size pieces.
Remove from pan and deglaze with one cup water and save.

Cook Linguine until until tender and drain.

Blend Cream of Mushroom Soup, mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice and water from deglazed pan. Add chopped chicken, Linguine and black olives. Place in casserole and sprinkle with grated cheese as desired. Bake at 350 until cheese melts and casserole is slightly bubbly. Serves 10+.

Wellness #39: Nutrition

2009-09-24T14:15:00.000-07:00

Activity: 1
Spend some time exploring Nutrition Data and write in your blog about features you would find useful. Include something surprising that you learned about the food you have been eating...

I am surprised to learn that reheating food causes a loss of most vitamins...some by as much as 40%! I am sticking to lean meat on whole wheat bread ( with lots of leafy lettuce!) for lunch at work.

And I hate what I learned about grilling meat! We love outdoor grilling at our house and consider steak a real treat but, according to NutritionalData, grilling presents a real health risk. Two separate types of carcinogenic compounds are produced by high temperature cooking- heterocyclic amines and polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons. Maybe that is why it smells so good! Guess we just won't eat it so often...

Spring Cleaning #30: Take a Load Off our Drives

2008-03-24T13:10:00.000-07:00

Straightened up the children's file on CY's P drive, checked S drive and organized my Z drive, eliminating outdated material. Found Gap List from 1999. Oops!

Spring Cleaning #29: Email

2008-03-12T14:36:00.000-07:00

Today I created a folder in my work email account for summer reading corespondence, of which I have a great deal. Nice to have it all in one place.

My address book was and is clutter free and I already have a personal email account--no personal emails to work address! Absolutely! Great to clean up!

Spring Cleaning #28: Don't Clutter Up Expensive Cyberspace

2008-03-06T10:34:00.000-08:00

I had not realized it costs so much to store files on our library computers! I cleaned and consolidated! Also cleaned up my email...Feels good!

I use the old fashioned method of organization...love our monthly planner and keep it close at hand. I keep everything in it and can tell at a glance what I have to do each day, week, month. This is especially important for children's services since we have so many activities, especially during Summer Reading Programs.

Read the GTD and found it helpful ....

Week 10: #23 Is this really the end? Or Just the beginning..

2007-12-07T10:16:00.000-08:00

This has been a great learning experience! I found the information about web-based applications most helpful to me personally and also love the Library Elf. For our customers, I like Library Thing and Image Generators. For general information, Feeds and RSS are fun. Bloglines are the coolest! The staff has helped each other with this training session and that has been the best part!

Week 9: #22 Downloadable Media

2007-12-07T10:12:00.000-08:00

LibriVox is having issues but I browsed Wowio and found some older books and some self published. HCPL has more popular material available. Go HCPL!

Week 9: #21 Podcasts, Smodcasts!

2007-12-07T08:30:00.000-08:00

Today I added a podcast to my Bloglines account...All Ears! Audiobooks for Family Listening..for listeners and librarians with weekly postings which feature a variety of award winning audio books. I am a children's librarian and will find this useful as well as entertaining.

Week 9: #20 Discover YouTube and other video sharing sites

2007-11-12T12:05:00.000-08:00

I absolutely loved the librarian career video from 1946. Imagine stamping the books and writing in the due dates! And the card filing! We've come a long way! And wearing suits and high heels to work...wouldn't that be something! I can see using parts of this video to spice up any library website.

Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops

2007-11-05T16:24:00.000-08:00

This is the coolest of all! I can see this saving us lots of money on our home PC! Thanks iHCPL!

Week 8: #18 Social Networking: Making friends in the comfort of your own home

2007-10-30T15:03:00.000-07:00

I found "Rate My Space" fun because I love decorating but I still have reservations about communicating in an open forum. I LOVE email but hate it when I get junk from people I don't know. I don't think this form is right for me.

Week 7: #17 Blog about Technology

2007-10-26T08:47:00.000-07:00

Since Horizon has been down for a day and a half, I think this is a good time to talk about what our particular technology means to us at HCPL. We all take this wonderful tool for granted, using it like our third hand. When it goes down, which isn't often, we come squarely up against the way we USED to do things...slowly and laboriously.

The other major point is that it is our tech staff who makes this possible. We tend to think of our computers as entities but humans make them go. Thanks to all who got little sleep last night so that we could serve our customers today. We appreciate you!

Week 7: #16 So what's in a wiki?

2007-10-23T10:18:00.000-07:00

I created a login account for myself on the iHCPL wiki and added by blog to the favorites blog page.

M. Franklin did a wiki for the Summer Reading Program. It's purpose was to assist new children's librarians. Since our branches are so diverse, this was an excellent way to compile lots of information which reflected all our branches.

Week 6: #15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

2007-10-18T12:51:00.000-07:00

I wish I could look fifty years into the future. I'm sure the services offered by our libraries will be unimaginable.

Library 2.0 speaks of a modernization of libraries but I wonder if that is not what we are experiencing right now. Technological change is a part of our lives. Service to our patrons is the keystone of our lives as librarians. We change our services to serve. Technology naturally follows us. This is a George Orwell moment.

Week 6: #14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

2007-10-18T10:31:00.000-07:00

Taking a look at Technorati. Did advanced search by typing "Learning 2.0" as keywork search in Blog posts. Got 'No posts in English with some authority containing Learning 2.0 in blogs tagged Blog posts." Tried in 'tags' and got 666 posts tagged Learning 2.0 and tried the Blog Directory and got 705 blogs about Learning 2.0. Explored Popular blogs. Amazing amount of information on diverse subjects.

Week 6: #13 Tagging makes the web 2.0 world go round

2007-10-15T14:01:00.000-07:00

Registered with Del.icio.us. Tried tutorial but it was too fuzzy. Explored the 'del.icio.us' tag which was saved by 16310 other people and saw comments, some pro-some con. It would be an interesting tool for research and a good way to create bookmarks I can access from home.

Week 5: #12 The Library Elf will remind you!

2007-10-11T15:14:00.001-07:00

The Elf is down and I am sad! Reminding is a good thing! I will come back to visit when he is ready to play!

Week 5: #11 A Thing about Library Thing

2007-10-11T15:00:00.000-07:00

What a fast and easy way to pull up a favorite author's books! Library Thing is just the tool for me!

Week 5: #10 Play around with Image Generators

2007-10-10T09:32:00.000-07:00

This stamp Framer is from Big Huge Labs. The Pirates are back!

Week 4: #9 Finding Feeds

2007-10-03T09:48:00.000-07:00

Bloglines is certainly friendlier than Feedster, Topix and Syndic8 although Feedster's Widget looks like fun. Technorati seems the most complicated to me. I did enjoy Topix People Reading, Talking, Editing. CNN and Reuters also look promising.

Week 4: #8 Make Life Really Simple- RSS and Newsreader

2007-10-01T11:13:00.000-07:00

Wow! I can spend the day reading about animals and art and health and gardening and on and on! This is so much fun!

Spring Flowers

2007-09-27T12:23:00.000-07:00

More Flickr Fun

2007-09-27T11:16:00.000-07:00

A friend took a trip to Venice and used Flickr as a photo site. We were all able to
be a part of her adventure. So cool!

yellow_submarine

2007-09-27T10:03:00.001-07:00

yellow_submarine
Originally uploaded by dcrawfor95

Could it be that we really do live in a yellow submarine?

Internet safety

2007-09-26T13:40:00.000-07:00

I'm very cautious about sharing information online but what a wonderful world of information we have at our disposal!

Learning goals

2007-09-26T13:22:00.000-07:00

I'm going to read Getting Things Done by David Allen. Sounds interesting!

Blog day!

2007-09-26T12:56:00.000-07:00

I'm in and ready to go! My first blog--too cool!