Lemon Cupcake Life: Health & Travel

In no particular order, these are the places in the world I would most like to travel. 1. Scotland I would love to go to Scotland. So much. Ever since I started watching Outlander when it was added to Netflix, I have been obsessed. I didn't google anything while watching the show initially because I knew there were more seasons, and I didn't want to be spoiled for future episodes or seasons. I am notorious for googling location, actors, and backstory, while watching a show or movie. When I started rewatching with my husband, I let myself start to google--historical references especially. As a historical fiction obsessed viewer, I find it interesting how accurate a show is able to be, so I wanted to look up all the events and people in Outlander . While looking up filming locations, I was also finding that Harry Potter had many Scottish filming locations. It should have been obvious because Hogwarts is presumed to be in Scotland, but it hadn't had any obviously similar loc...

I have been using fitness apps on some sort of apple device since I got my iPad mini in 2012. I didn't have a smart phone yet, so the first fitness apps were initially downloaded to the iPad. Some of those I still use. Here's a run down of my most used fitness apps on my phone. (Side note, most used doesn't necessarily mean best. They just seem to be what I have found most useful throughout life phases.) Runkeeper Initially, I used this as my running log in college. Since then, I don't run much, but I do more walking and bike rides. I like to use this to record my cardio and weight tracking. I like the goal setting, my stats, and shoe tracker are all parts of the app I have used heavily at some point. As a running coach, I also like to use to find exact distances of team routes using GPS because the distances are generally the most consistent compared to other distance apps. Fitbit The first Fitbit I had was one my mom got from work. It was a Fitbit Charge, and I used i...

  Repost from my old, now deleted, blog from July 12, 2021. While a lot of my life has changed since this was originally posted, I felt it was important to not lose my original thoughts and original purpose. I have been putting this off for years. Okay, I'm not sure about years, but at least a year. Everything I've read about a first post just says to write one. Despite not having done much writing in the past few years, I have always said I'm a better writer than speaker, so why do I spend all my time talking?  In teaching, there's so little room for opinions or my other interests. Teaching makes up a small portion of my interests, but the majority of my life. It's making my life feel smaller, instead of bigger like the variety of my interests. As a teacher, I'm trying to expose my students to life outside the classroom and expand their world. However, each day of teaching has made my world and myself feel smaller. Now, this isn't a super peppy first post, ...