How to "Not Drink" my way to Brazil

When I was home this month, my cousin and her husband decided they were going to visit a friend who lived in Brazil next year. I teased them about wanting to come (well it wasn’t really teasing as I’ve always wanted to go to South America) so after a bit of planning, we’ve decided to go for it!

Our trip will include Rio, Sao Paulo, Lima, Machu Picchu and Easter Island. Eeee. Very exciting…and very expensive.

So I’ve decided to save money by not drinking (New York is expensive!). Every night of no drinks, I get $10 in the pot. Every night I do drink, I take $10 out of the pot. Yikes!
Now there is a secondary reason for this as well. I have mentioned before in my blog that with all the stress of moving, new job, new country (so basically excuses, excuses, excuses), I’ve been eating and drinking for England. This has expanded my waist line and the size of the clothes in my closet. I’d like to climb to the top of Machu Picchu without keeling over so I got to cut back.

A lot of wonderful people in my life have decide to go down the road to health in the last few months and I want to join them. It’s a path I’d been on for a great portion of my life until recently and I’m tired of scrambling around in the bushes watching the rest of the world go by.

Though I was thinking of adding more challenges to help my fundraising (like exercise), I think cutting drink is a good and simple goal as it’s 1) expensive 2) calorific.

It’s important to note that this drink rule still counts if it’s free. That is my downfall. I do love free…but if I want to be sunning myself on a beach in South America in 5 months and look hot in my bikini, I have to start saving - calories and coins.

For those of you also facing the same problem (especially as there’s SO many networking events out there that are oh so tempting to indulge at), join me! I’ll regularly post how things are going and will start to add other challenges in here to keep off the pounds without taking all the pleasure out of life :)

How to change your Twitter header image

The last few days I’ve been pursuing Twitter and seeing some users have headers! Say wha?? I want one of those! So I did a little searching and found out that this is a new feature that rolled out with the Twitter iPad app.

Never fear, you don’t need to have the iPad app to add a header but you can access it from your friendly browser (mine is called Chrome). I’ve included pictures to show you just what to do - they are a bit tiny so click on them to get a size that you can see without your glasses ;)

First off go to edit your profile:



Then go to Design (it’s a tab on the left hand side)



Scroll down and add a photo from your computer



And then you have a pretty header! Hoorah!



If you have the iPad app, you can take a picture and add it to your header but you can’t seem to be able to do that on your phone yet.

Done something cool and inventive with your new Twitter header? I’d love to see it! Please put a URL below and I’ll post my favorite ones!