You know how the instinct of any parent would be to save their child from a fall no matter what. It's inherent and just happens and all costs. Well on Monday, the streets, sidewalks, everything was wet, icy, snowy, and slippery from the terrible weather over the weekend. I was walking to my morning class (very early, no one was in the city streets), after I made my trip to Starbucks to get my venti dark roast. I had the coffee in my left hand, my heavy backpack (with 85lb laptop) on my back, and trying to stay warm in the cold. I crossed the street at the crosswalk and was turning the corner to walk down to the building I needed to go to and BAM! Body meets ground. Now the whole "parent instinct" thing comes in, just wait. So all of a sudden I was just on the ground, in pain. I landed on my "left side butt" and left knee (from what I could tell in the moment) with no hands.
Now, get this. Somehow my coffee was perfectly upright and safe (like a child) in my left hand (no spills!). Do not ask me how I managed that, but I'm guessing I am so subconsciously in love with coffee, I really don't know. My body got pretty beat up though. My "side butt" is super sore, the side of my left knee is bruised, and then I noticed my left ankle was bleeding and had "sidewalk rash". Not fun. Somehow I did manage to pick my self up and limp to class. The other funny thing is, I was thinking so hard about not falling that morning, yet I did. So now when I'm going to class, I'm dead scared to even take a step. Really...I need the warm weather. The ground is much safer then.... 😉
SS Posts from the week:
Monday: Power Monday #69 Snow, Yoga, And Clarity
Tuesday: 4 Ways Blogging Has Changed My Life
Wednesday: Key Lime Quinoa Flakes
Blog Posts and Links I loved this week:
Life, Mind, Body, Spirit:
+ No One Have The Right To Be Cruel
It's a weakness and nothing more.
+ I've Chosen Quantity Over Quality
Sometimes the former is better!
+ 10 Damaging Lies And Excuses Your Mind Loves To Tell You
I bet you've said one of these!
+ Kicking Unhealthy Thinking Habits
Questions to ask yourself when the negativity steps in!
+ Meditation For Beginners aka Learning To Set
Ah, yes! More helpful insight!
+ How To Start A Meditation Practice
On that note, you also need to start!
+ The Most Valuable Advice You Will Ever Receive
It's not from someone else!
Great thoughts and perspective!
Fitness:
+ How To Create A Yoga Sequence From Scratch
More reasons you can always do yoga at home!
+ 10 Tips For Running In The Cold
I really hope I can get back outside this weekend!
+ 4 Reasons Practicing Yoga At Home Is The Bomb
I could have written this exact article!
From my favorite instructor 😉 XOXO
+ Why Personal Training Didn't Work For Me
It isn't for everyone...
+ How Not To Lose Muscle While Marathon Training
It is completely doable!
I love Sharon's take on her passion...not therapy.
Getting the right nutrition for your workouts can be tricky.
Food:
+ If They Ate It, Why Can't I?
Great post on the whole comparison thing!
+ When Did We Become Afraid Of Food
It's so sad. It should not be this difficult!
+ How To Cook With Frozen Vegetables
Frozen veggies for life!
+ When Intuitive Eating Isn't So Intuitive
Here are some ways to combat the problem!
Or...just eat it straight out of the jar 😉
Health:
+ 50 Things Every Healthy Person Should Add To Their Bucket List
Love some of these ideas!
+ 5 Things Most Doctors Get Wrong
Ha! #1...so true!
+ How The Food Industry Shapes Health Research
We need to be skeptical of where the funding comes from.
+ The Least Healthy Thing You Do Everyday
What is it? This scared me!
+ 10 Teas For Common Health Concerns
The goodness of tea!
+ Why A Celiac Should Always Ask
More greatness from Alysa!
Really great breakdown of some fundamentals!
+ Iron: What Every Vegetarian Should Know
You can get enough iron being plant-based!
Blogging, Social Media, Tech & Photography:
Ugly little things 😛
+ 5 Resources For Optimizing Your Blog & Posts For SEO
Slowly I'm understanding!
+ Simple Ways To Improve Your Blog Images
Thankfully I haven't had to take many in this horrible (no light) dorm!
+ 3 Tips To Help You Become An Organized Blogger
Love these!
+ Google Is Slowly Phasing Out Google+
Thank god! Haha to every blogger who still insists that it's good!
If you're ever feeling down on numbers, read this!
+ 31 Days Of Writing Prompts For March
Another month, another great list!
And if you still need more ideas!
It is an ugly word.
+ How I Started And Grew A Blog Through Social Media
Tips from some blogging greats!
+ 11 Surefire Ways To Grow Your Instagram Followers
I've been trying a bit harder recently!
+ 51 Tips & Tricks For Bloggers
So many!
+ What Brands Look For In Bloggers {From A Brand's Perspective}
Great insight!
+ How I Got Into The Huffington Post On My 1st Try
May need to take a stab sometime...
+ I Don't Believe In Writer's Blog
There's so many stories to tell.
+ How To Learn To Use Your DSLR Camera In Manual Mode
No more auto!
+ How To Write A Delicious Food Blog Post
For us food bloggers.
Other:
+ 50 Pictures That Look Just Like Your Childhood
Omg, yes! So funny how times change!
+ How To Whiten Teeth Naturally With Turmeric
I'm intrigued!
Favorite Pins:
(Follow me on Pinterest – RebeccaGF666)
Chai Spiced Winter Porridge. I could use this on those cold mornings!
Paleo Orange Chicken. It's such a healthy (not-fried) take!
Teriyaki Romanesco & Beet Bowl. I can't stop staring!
Vegan & Gluten-Free Green Brownies. Healthy spinach in a luscious brownie!
Daikon Noodles with Red Cabbage, Spinach Slaw, and Sesame Mustard Dressing. I can't even handle all the flavors!
Roasted Fennel and Beet Salad with Tahini Herb Dressing. This may get me to really love fennel!
Veggie Noodle Bowl with A Tangy Peanut Sauce. Hello, dinner bowl!
A few things I loved about my week or am grateful for:
+ Snow day yesterday...but only because I didn't have to go to some boring classes!
+ Spring Break is starting....NOW!
+ I'm grateful for my ability to live, breath, and catch myself when I fall 😉
So tell me:
+ It's supposed to warm up this week! What are your plans? Hopefully getting into the city for some fun exploring!
+ We all have them. Tell me about a slip-and-fall incident when the stars aligned you you survived...or didn't!
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kimmythevegan
I can't believe you fell and saved your coffee. Damn that is skilled! I'm glad you're ok. Falling can be tough on your poor body. I'll try to send some of my warm weather to you ;p
Vegan ice cream snickers?????!!!!! =)
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks Kimmy!
Sherry
These photos are stunning. Makes me sooo hungry. Thanks for linking up to Funtastic Friday and sharing with us. Hope to see you again this week.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, of course!
madaline
Just popped over on your blog because OMG those food pics - I didn't even know I was hungry! Can't wait to read some of the posts!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hahaha! Enjoy 😉
Nicky
That's amazing that you didn't spill your coffee. I hope you are recovering okay from your spill. I hate it when I'm trying really hard not to do something and it happens anyway. This week's recipes look really good.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks Nicky 😉 I know, when we aren't focusing on something we end up with better results!
Kristy @ Southern In Law
Hahaha I wondered where you were going with your story but I LOVE that you saved your coffee. Priorities, girl! 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Their definitely straight 😉
Ariana
So much awesomeness! I'm happy I have a night off tonight - I was looking forward to spending my evening reading all your good finds! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Glad you enjoy, Ariana 🙂
Kelsey @ Snacking Squirrel
I would die to try that chai spiced winter porridge!!!!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Right!?!?
genevieve @ gratitude & greens
Eeeek I hope you're okay! I once slid down an entire flight of stairs- on my bum. Needless to say, I was pretty bruised and sore afterwards. I am so impressed that your coffee stayed upright! That is definitely mama instinct right there 😉 As for all the reads- the food industry's role in research always creeps me out. Always. I wish more people knew about it! And I have all your blogging related posts open. So many tabs hehe but so excited to read them all! (My boyfriend always laughs at the number of tabs I have open on my laptop. OOPS.) Happy Friday!!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I'm okay! They don;t make shoes with enough traction either 😉 That's the problem!
Big Agribusiness and mean food corporate giants....evil and disruptive and deceptive!
My laptop is always SO slow and locking up because of all the tabs I open! hahahaha!
Rustedrecipebox
I understand your parental love of coffee! Love your blog, I'll be following!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hahaha, thank you friend!
Georgie
Thanks so much for sharing love! Can't wait to read all these great posts.
I was cracking up reading your coffee story. The whole time I kept thinking, omg I hope she didn't spill it on herself and I was so happy at the end (minus the sore butt part)
Have a fab weekend!!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hahahaha 😉 I really wish I could have it taped and what the whole thing from above to see how it actually happened!
XOXO stay warm!
Rachel
I'm glad your coffee was safe but sorry you fell! That sucks. There's an instinct when driving, when you have to slam on the brakes to put your arm out to "save" whatever is in the passenger seat. I do it to keep my purse from hitting the floor, but found myself doing it when my husband is in the passenger seat. He thinks I'm nuts!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Omg! Haha, my mom has done that for me!
Tianna
thanks for sharing all these delicious food pins and all the awesome articles! I've just now been trying to build up Google+ - BLAH wasted effort lol. no idea how I had over 100 followers already without posting much on there anyway lol. thanks for all the helpful links. also hope your side butt feels better! Similar thing happened to me when I slipped on stairs at my old house. I fell down an entire flight of stays and dropped everything but the Ipad. I dunno about you, but I like where are priorities are at. lol have a nice weekend!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, yea, Google+ is such a waste! I just have my posts automatically go up there!
Haha, o goodness! I guess it shows we aren't so selfish either 😉 We'd rather save something else than ourselves, hahahahaha!
Kim Osborne
Hey thanks for the link love and glad you liked our article! All those pins made me hungry (and it's only just after lunchtime!).
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha no problem Kim 😉 XOXO O I know! Dangerous....but perfect to get the dinner ideas going!
Lexi
Oh no, you poor thing. I HATE the ice! I am so ready for everything to be melted and flowers blooming. Thanks for sharing all of the links. Have a great weekend!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Yes! I am beyond ready! Have a wonderful SUNNY weekend!
Linz @ Itz Linz
thanks for the link love! such pretty food pictures!! makin me drool!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha! 🙂 XOXO
Linda @ Veganosity
Great posts, as usual! 🙂 I particularly liked the one about how the food industry helps to shape research. This type of practice has led me to not trust most of the studies that are released in regards to food. When the dairy industry, meat industry, Coca-Cola, and other companies are funding research, there is clearly a conflict of interest. Sadly, most things seem to always come down to the almighty dollar.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Exactly! I never believe any study that comes out. Too many are so biased or will son be refuted by another study. Plus, science and health is always changing...
Andie
wow, Rebecca, thank you for posting my recipe! I'm glad you're unharmed along with your coffee
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, you're so welcome! And thanks 😉
Michele @ paleorunningmomma
OMG a vegan snickers? Snickers is my favorite candy bar! I hear you on the ice and weather in general. My driveway is terrible and so slippery even with salt. I know what you mean about the coffee, I would have done the same, also for my phone! It's funny the things we think about when something like that happens. I have also done some crazy one handed kid-catches in my time as a mom 🙂 Glad you're just sore and scraped and nothing worse!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Not just that, it's with cashew ice cream!!!!
Haha ugh! All of a sudden I was just on the ground and then I looked at my left hand and it was holding that damn coffee perfectly unscathed!
My brother's friend slipped this week at school and broke his ankle! I know I am super lucky here!
Melanie @ Nutritious Eats
Are you kidding with those snickers bars? Whoa. Ok, I am just pinning this whole post to go through later. Stay warm and safe. 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I KNOW! When I saw them I was like......jaw drop! And obviously they needed to be in the Friday Finisher!
Shashi RunninSrilankan
Oh Rebecca - I am glad you protected your coffee so well, but I hate to hear your got so badly hurt! I hope you heal up this weekend!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, thank you Shashi! I'll be okay! Just may be scared forever about walking on the sidewalks now!
Rebecca
Great round-up! I've got quite the reading list today 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
😉 Good! haha!
Natalie @ Feasting on Fruit
Hahahahahaha!!! I loved your coffee child story!!! 😀 Made me laugh! I wasn't sure how you were going to twist in the mother-child thing, I was waiting for your mom to like magically swoop in and catch you or something, but you and the venti roast obviously have a very close relationship LOL You are so funny!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, I knew I had to tell the story and what better place than the Friday Finisher to share some rambles 😉 It was a good time...although my butt....still sore!
Farrah
I'm so sorry about your fall, but...I'm glad you rescued your coffee? 😛 I've been walking like a toddler penguin lately because I've had several close calls. ._. I have had that instinct with food, hahaha. Someone shoved me into a pool as a joke back in junior high and although I fell in, the food I was holding escaped perfectly unscathed (yay for that outstretched hand in the air!).
Can't wait to read everything else! And...it looks like I'll never have to figure out Google+ now, hahaha. 😡
Thanks for sharing my post, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Stay warm! <3
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hahahaha 😉 The love of food and coffee....it's just so REAL 😉 Damn ice and snow though....it needs to be gone!
I know! No more Google+ or should I say Google- now 😉
XOXOXO Stay warm to my lovely!
Joy @ Joy Love Food
Lots of great posts and recipes! Loving that Lemon Basil Chicken, yum!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I wish I could have that for dinner!
Lisa @ RunWiki
OMG- I wasn't sure what was going to happen at the end of your ice slipping story. I was relived to hear you were okay, but laughed how you saved your baby. Listen, I mothers instinct is strong and like a bear-- don't mess with my baby! haha! I am the same way with my morning tea. Hope your weekend is gorgeous, just like you. xoxo hugs
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, thank you Lisa! If that coffee had spilled...I really would have cried and just stayed on the ground...no point!
XOXOXO Have a beautiful weekend yourself!
Heather @ Life In Leggings
Ha, I totally get the reference to mothering instincts with coffee. I have done the exact same thing before! How crazy. I'm sorry to hear about your fall though - that sounds like you might be sore for a while. Take care this weekend! xo
Oh, and those vegan ice cream bars look AMAZING!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha! See, everyone's a mother to something in life....for me, that's coffee 😉 Thank you though! Haha! It just feels like I did some MAJOR heavy squats at the gym 😉
I want to print out the picture and frame it in my kitchen....so good!
Tina Muir
I always go through your list intending to talk about the ones I want to look at, but I get so overwhelmed as there are So many good ones, especially for bloggers. I need to take more time to read those kind of blogs, and then I get to the recipes, and all my thoughts go out the window as they look so good! You ended with ice cream snickers....all was lost 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hahahaha! That happens for me to when I read round-ups!
Omg....that ice cream...I can't even!
Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness
SO much good stuff to read and eat in this post! I seriously can't stop staring at the porridge! Great ideas in here girl!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I know right! Food is just so damn beautiful! Hahaha! XOXO
clare @ fitting it all in
Glad you're okay -- have a good weekend! xoxo
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha! It's one of those things now that looking back, I wish I had a video tape of it!
Emily @My Healthyish Life
Thanks SO much for including me 🙂 I'm happy to be on break because I can finally read all of these links! Have a great weekend!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha! Wooohoo!
Jessica @ kiwiyogirunner
Thanks for all the amazing links! Um that porridge looks PHENOMENAL, I am a huge porridge and chai fan and really really want that in my life now 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I know right! Perfect winter yumminess!