Food & Fitness

Top Ten Ways to Keep Warm in the Winter

We had a cold spell earlier in October, but the weather cleared up beautifully and it has been a delightful November. I suppose that's technically not a good thing, as it's probably due to climate change and global warming and negative human impact on the environment, but I really enjoyed…

Welcome!

Welcome to the new Living Healthy in the Real World site! I have graduated from Wordpress.com to buying my own domain name. Exciting indeed. I also have a one-stop shop for Living in the Real World. It is an entry page from which you can access Living Healthy in the…

Just Add Spice

Don't forget to enter my POM juice giveaway! I have a very big collection of herbs and spices in my pantry. I adore herbs and spices, and I like playing around with different flavour combinations in dishes. But it seems that I always come back to the same ones, because…

Judgments Based on First Impressions

It's really funny to see people's reactions when you change from this: ...to this: Oh my goodness is that a brunette?! Reactions have ranged from the complimentary "That's a nice change, you look better as a brunette" to "oh, that's... different..." (said in a high-pitched tone which really means "oh…

Life Lessons: Happy Monday?

Yesterday evening, all of the lights and the Internet in my apartment abruptly cut out. I had a post all written up for today on LiveWriter, yet somehow it got lost. My computer battery died, I shattered a glass on the ground, and all of the work that I needed…