[Morag] Aiming high ... lvl 50

[Morag]

Morag's

The Mountain

 

 

I don't know if THE MOUNTAIN holds the same significance for others as it does for me. Neil Gaiman coined the term in my mind. Joining the rebellion has been an enlightening step towards the mountain. I just yesterday realised that I am only with the rebellion for 10 short weeks. Wow. I have turned a few things around, have learned A LOT, am making real progress... and it's only been 10 weeks.

Which makes me wonder:

what else is possible?

 

And with that thought I am formulating my list. It's an unfinished thing. It's going to change without notice. Things may vanish without explanation, appear without warning or change because that's what life is like: Impossibly to gauge and full of changes.

 

 

Fitness

• Freestanding handstand
• Push up
  • 5 consecutive push ups
• Pull up
• Muscle up
• get into crow pose June 13th 2017
  • hold crow pose for 10+ seconds or longer
• (Dance onstage)
• Done a staff fighting class
• Done a wall climbing or bouldering class
• Do a kayak thing with the hubby
• Try out aerial silks
• Try out parkour
• Run (and walk) an OCR October 8th 2016
  • Run (don't walk) an OCR (I didn't walk exept for the obstacles but it's hard to cross this out anyway)

 

Travel

• Visit friends:
  • Kansas
  • Cornwall
  • Scotland
  • West Australia
  • East Australia
  • Florida
  • Abu Dhabi
• Visit megalithic temples of Malta
• Visit Hathor Temple in Dendera, Egypt
• Visit Faroe Islands
• Visit standing stones circle in Portugal
• Visit Denmark
• Visit Japan - rural and urban
• Visit China
• Visit Atacama Desert

 

Languages

• german sign language have a conversation about life without stumbling over missing vocabulary
• Spanish sing a spanish song, knowing what the words mean / write a poem -- not sure if I want this anymore
• Learn French alongside my older boy -- he shall enjoy his exchange programme 2017/2018!
• Danish give directions to someone who is lost / ask for directions
• Dutch visit friend and have a conversation in his language -- not sure if I want this anymore
• Learn Maltese. Visit Malta and avoid Tourism
• Arabic haggle over a coin belt, veil or other piece of clothing (and get a good price)
• Try Russian see if you want to learn it...
• Try Tyrkish see if you want to learn it...
• Try Swahili see if you want to learn it...
• Sanskrit (?)
• Give a drive by compliment in any of the languages I'm not native with.

 

Skills

• Shoot a bow -- and hit my mark (and not by accident)
• Forge a brooch or other item of adornment
• Spin a ball of yarn
  • Knit an entire garment from yarn I made myself
    • That is not a shawl
• cook a delicious 3-5 course feast for guests (no instant sauce)

 

Cooking and Nutrition - Knowledge is Power

• learn about coconut oil
• learn about almond milk
  • make my own
• learn about smoothies
• learn about meal planning
  • And do!
• learn about batch cooking
  • And do this too.
• learn about liver
• learn about home made bacon (Ressources, other ressource)
  • make a batch of bacon at home
• learn about brewing mead, Link

 

Personal

• Remember people's birthdays -- I'm -slowly- getting better at this
• Remember and use new acquaintances' names -- I'm -slowly- getting better at this too
• Live a life connected to Source -- more shamanism in everyday life -- fallen a bit by the wayside...
• Write (and finish) a short story -- Wildwood Manor
  • Write (and finish) a good short story
• Write (and finish) a novella
• Write (and finish) a novel
• Write (and finish) a screen play
• Be happy (and confident) with how I look naked and feel with myself
• Be happy (and confident) with my body and wardrobe and how I am perceived from the outside
• Raise my boys to be good men
• Find apprenticeship -- not sure at all
  • Learn a trade -- not sure at all

 

Professional

• Get Licensed - C-Licensed since May 21st 2017 - yay!
• Figure out what I can do and can not do with said license -- picture is clearing up some.
• Yoga instructor -- Ressource: expensive. long. is it worth it to me? Not sure yet.
• Pound instructor - hell no! maybe in the future sometime...
• Try out Zumba, see if I could stand doing that... if yes, get instructor thingy... No.
• Learn about anatomy, Legs, Shoulders, Pelvis, Ligaments, Sinews, Muscle chains and imbalances, rarara.

 

 

As hinted above: this list is going to evolve as I go.

[ShadowLion]

Awesome Quest outline and thanks for posting the Neil Gaiman link. He gave a great commencement address. Really some things I needed to hear.

 

Good luck on your epic adventures!

[Morag]

Expanded on the Cooking / Nutrition / Knowledge front.

 

Also did pushups at physio therapy: 6+2, 6+2, and 8. YES! (they could have been lower but I'll take 'em for now.

[Morag]

Another bout of editing up top, just minor stuff, adding a temple in egypt, ticking off knowledge aquisition about coconut oil (love that stuff), adding two more languages that seem interesting on first glance... will keep you posted.

 

For all the bigger things I'll aquire the online spirit of "pic or it didn't happen" and make a folder in my gallery for linkeylink.

[Morag]

I kept reading through LUYL and a lot is stuff I already know, but there is another -for lack of a better term- level reading it all in one place. Getting a new depth of understanding for where I'm headed... So I was reading about writing out our Level 50. With all the details we could put into it, and I thought: "Yeah, sure, I have my lvl50 thread... done that." But something kept nagging at me, so I sat down, locked my inner censor in a closed in my mind and let the words tumble out. This is what came of it. It's not the outpour itself that holds my attention, it's the intense feelings within it.

 

So this is it, Level 50 25. I get up early, before husband or kids rise, hopping into the pool for a few laps (of crawl) before the day starts. A short walk home I pick up breadbuns for the husband, greeting familiar, friendly faces everywhere. Once home, everyone is up and about when I walk in the door, I join the hubby and kids for breakfast, eggs and bacon for me, and a smoothie, or banana pancakes, if hubby felt like making them. I send the kids to school with a kiss, they tell me their ETA for after school, so I know they know when to be home, and not to dawdle. Hubby leaves moments later, a kiss and a hug, maybe even a smile for me. I put away the breakfast disaster and fire up the dishwasher and washing machine. I check the calendar and smile. 2 classes today. I grab a back of lunch out of the fridge and a second water bottle and head out a half hour after my family.

I'm teaching an arobics/fitness class for deaf women in the morning, the music is good, if a bit base heavy for my hearing ears, but we laugh a lot and that's what matters. I eat lunch with the women from the children's library and the sports club's office, and we go over our plans for the afternoon. I have a second fitness class to teach, this one is a multilingual one for Danish, English, Russian, Turkish women, so I head out a bit earlier than the others. It's an ongoing class, and the participants vary, but we always have good fun, and slowly I see friendships form across language barriers, isolation lifts. These women felt left out at one point, we all have, but we fought through that. One woman is pregnant and we celebrate and laugh, another, older one, found a job. We cheer, she's not gonna clean and clean and clean, she will work in the profession she learned before coming here. Life goes on.

 

Later my older son is sitting in the hallway when I walk out of "class" room. He's early. First love or a fight, we talk about it, and after hugs are exchanged he feels better, he's here for karate class, of course. I'm off to the library, where he'll join me later. I spend two hours there with arts and crafts, voluntary work, but my kids love it, and so do I, even though they are older now, they love the "Bilderbuchkino" (= Picture book show) where we show dias of a picture book and tell the story to the assorted 20 kids. The little one is already cutting up cardboard. Today we make lanterns, blue and green, and purple. After crafts the three of us walk home together, the kids pack their school bags for the next day while I check the fridge, freezer and cupboards, it's my turn to decide what we'll eat tonight. We cook together, I hang up the laundry, while the monsters put the cut up food in the pot, remembering to make their own starchies. After cooking we clean up and set the table just in time for hubby to come home, he looks tired, but has a smile for us regardless. After dinner, the kids have an hour and a half for media, before bedtime, the little one can sit on my PC tonight, so there won't be a fight. I'm grabbing my bag for class and head out, either an aerial silks class or a sign language class or a parkour class I'm taking.

 

I am home well before 9, have an hour before bed and unwind with a good book, a cuddled up movie with hubby, or something. Hubby reminds me that I need to check with our friends soon if the dates for our vacation work for them... That's right, he has to declare when he'll take his vacation time soon. He works fulltime only 3/4 of the year, that means long vacations. I promise I'll do that the next day, since it's gaming night with The Guys anyway. 5 weeks of Summer Break in Scotland (or Australia, or Florida), the kids will freak out when we tell them... I fall asleep with a smile on my face.

 

So I activated my 20 seconds of courage and asked my trainer how this trainer-business works, how he became a trainer and how I could ... (chicken that I am, I messaged him, and didn't do it in person, but baby steps!) He explained about trainer licences C B and A and blablabla, he finished off with a simple if I want to, I should just go do it. So I'm doing it. Or at least asking a few more people (that I hope can get me into the program) a few more pointed questions...

 

I think this qualifies as an update.

 

EDIT the little outpour of "wouldn't it be nice..." feels more like a level 20 or 25 than a level 50, so changed that.

EDIT² more small updates.

[Morag]

Switched around the order of my travel goals... will have a chat with someone travel agency-like and get some price tags for those goals up there...

 

[whitedhairedwolf]

You have awesome goals! I'm going to follow along and see how it goes.

Best wishes to you!

[Morag]

On 13/07/2016 at 0:58 AM, whitedhairedwolf said:

You have awesome goals! I'm going to follow along and see how it goes.

Best wishes to you!

 

Thank you dear, happy to have you along.

 

Apologies for the irregular and erratic updates.

[Morag]

Added a few things... yay Professional category, yay OCR

[Morag]

Okay, hey folks. I have a not-so-small problem. See, early in last October I participated in this amazing event. And I never really celebrated it. I had friends with me and all the lift-y obstacles they gave me boost after boost. But me not lifting myself over obstacles is no reason to not celebrate the fact that A I ran my first Mud Run. B I RAN the 6k distance (slow jog, but it still counts!). And C I loved it.

So in an effort to do just that, celebrate, I found that on one hand it is on my lvl50 list ergo it is a big deal and on the other hand I've never bragged about it here or ticked it off, even.

Pics or it didn't happen, so here are the pics:

 

 

first wall

 

 

Feels good, doesn't it?

 

 

Jogging, jogging...

 

 

The 3m wall... teamwork, that's how.

 

 

after the 10m waterslide and horribly cold water: Trenches. Good shoes help A LOT.

 

 

Last before finish line: the sizzler. It does what you think it does. But it wasn't so bad, really.

 

 

 

So yeahhh

Self love and self confidence (=work in proress)

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"Travel lightly, for what you bring with you becomes part of your landscape." -Anne Bishop

[Morag]

So much has changed... just a quick update and a number of tweaks in the list above.

[Morag]

Did crow for the first time, twice, for a second or so each.