Mommy has abandoned me in this closet. She hasn't played with me for many years. My eyes were blue, my skin porcelain, and my hair bountiful and beautiful. I wore designer clothes. One night I got super hungry. I ventured downstairs and into the pantry. The only food in reach was this strange glass container of cabbage, carrots, leeks, and onions in a strange brown sauce. My hunger overtook my fear and I plunged in with both hands, eating this strange and scary substance accidentally smearing the mush on my face while trying to satiate my intense hunger.

Minding my own freaking business in PYPT listening to @shadowspub - adding my stupid little .02 cents here and there in chat and then BAM! My life forever changed - an entire day of my life I shall NEVER recoup, taste buds dying a horrible death.

Whether it be the full sugar version or the 'diet' version, soft drinks are damaging your health in a number of ways.Eliminating soft drinks is a 'low-hanging fruit', meaning this one small habit change will reap large paybacks to your health.

Welcome to the first edition of Wellness SNiPs!This will be a short format wellness blog to help kickstart you into a "well-style" that works for you.The headers will be the TL;DR summary statements of the post. While Wellness SNiPs will be written in short-format, if you're REALLY pressed for time just read the headers which will give you the what, why, and how summarized.

photo credit PixabayThe ketogenic lifestyle boasts many benefits including losing weight (if that's your goal), banishing your brain fog, increasing your energy and protecting you from some of the most prevalent chronic diseases currently afflicting the world.

You can see my quite awesome (if awesome = really bad) entry here and be amazed at my lack of artistic skill.Hopefully, someone can tell me what I'm to do with all my newfound fabulousness.I hear a game is launching soon. As I never played any of these card games (unless go fish counts?) I am at a major disadvantage. I fear, that just by my admitting to my naivete around this type of gameplay the card sharks will be knocking at my virtual door trying to scam me out of my most precious cards.... dun...dun....dun.....paranoia sets in.