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Also a random note to ask who wants to do casserole baking next challenge? I need to start making casseroles to have on hand (especially on dogsitting trips). 

Ooo, what sort of read along schedule are you up for?

Brief note to say that despite the paint-peeling cold, I bundled up all my things from the dog house and left early enough to go to the steam room and sauna before meeting Georgia for our day of visiting and decorating.   Hooray for saunas! Also, I checked the thermostat in the the sauna for @Mistr: it’s 185F. I stayed in the steam room for 9 minutes and the sauna for a 4 minutes. ❤️ 

(Sorry again for the delay! A day full of work and two Christmas parties had me wiped at the end of the night, so today you will get a bonus TWO CARD draw!)   Day 5: You have drawn the ‘Friendship’ card!     She's quick. She's crafty. And don't tell her this, but she's good at what she does.   Miss Direction has a few new tricks up her sleeve, all of them part of her DISAPPEARING ACT!   From the comfort of her couch (yes, even supervillains are working remote these days), Miss Direction is causing chaos by making objects disappear! TADA! Car keys lost! POOF! No more phone signal! ALAKAZAM! Someone's little brother was left at home during their family's holiday vacation! AHHHH!!!!   Chances are she's done something to someone you know. And while we can't stop her every move, we CAN make sure to be supportive of anyone unlucky enough to cross her path. Let's make sure her actions are neutralized by checking in with a friend!   By being there to offer help or a listening ear for venting can greatly reduce your friend's stress as well as your own. Feel free to phone a friend, write them a letter, leave a social media post, send them an email, or even just text them. In whatever way feels good to you, reach out and see how they are doing. It might even be someone you haven't talked to in a while!   Mission: Call up a friend to check on them or even just catch up! Phoning is the preferred method of checking in for this mission, but if you absolutely cannot make a call, sending a kind check-in text, email, or even snail mail will do. Being able to lean on a loved one is a great part of being human so take advantage and enjoy the moment.

Exactly right, though when I have time I might poke around and post a few variations, so people who want a little more structure can pick and choose what works for them.   My off the cuff guess is that 5ft is going to feel cramped for you. I think the best thing to do is visit a gym, if you can, and measure your grip width on all 3 lifts, or at least get a rough estimate. But most 5ft bars have an inside length of 33-35". I could probably squat with one, but I think I'd be pushing it and I'm a lot smaller than you. Deadlift and bench I'd probably be okay, though. A 6ft bar you'd probably be good with, but the problem then becomes what rack you are using. A lot of racks built with 7ft bars in mind are too wide for a 6ft bar. There are rackable 6ft bars, but that just means more length comes off the sleeve, so you can't put as much weight on it.  If you aren't planning to put that much weight on it, that might not be a problem.   So my short answer - I wouldn't recommend a 5ft bar, 6ft might work under the right conditions, but I'd probably just go with the 7ft. If you need to buy plates to go with it, your most cost efficient option is going to be a bundle that comes with a 7ft bar anyways. And if you're willing to go used, you can find pretty good deals on 7ft bars, which are what the majority are going to be.

It has a long tail with a white tip. Not sure how helpful that is. Deer usually have horns but the hat is kind of taking up that space 🤔

-------  M  T  W  T  F  S  S Week 1: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 ⬜ 🟨 ⬜ Week 2: 🟩 🟨 ⬜ 🟩 🟨   I didn't get a chance to update yesterday because I spent nearly the entire day in the kitchen baking over 10 dozen cookies! 😵‍💫  We had a neighborhood cookie swap yesterday, so I brought half to that, and tonight we're going to a friend's Christmas party where I'll bring the other half.   Remember me saying a couple days ago that the Sunday was the last chill day we'd get for a while? Yep, that starts now. Today we're taking the kids to their grandparents for an overnight, then Matt and I have a date at a nearby vineyard for a barrel-tasting event where we get to mix our own bottle of wine! Then we're driving an hour and a half south for our friend's party (bringing the wine, of course) and staying overnight (because of the wine, of course). Tomorrow we might get a nice brunch in before we pick the kids up, then I have a Christmas paint n' sip with my Book Club while Matt takes the kids to a birthday party at the roller rink.  Whew.   Right now I'm getting on the treadmill to get my steps in early. I'm planning on "Average 🟨" for these next two days because I know pre-planning my food intake just isn't going to happen. But I want to get in a good walk this morning to counteract the wine and cookies tonight.   Hope your weekend is merry! 🥂

Yeah, I'm late on top of it being a shorter challenge but there's still stuff I need to try and log on and keep track of.  The new job DRAINS me a lot.  I also am juggling the 3 other jobs.  I think I just used up the last of my Supermarket Job's time off so I believe this is the week I tell them 'hey I can work Sundays only or I quit' basically and then I'll only have 3 jobs.  I had my audit yesterday for my Nursing Home Job and sort of put in the fact that I'm thinking of quitting because I don't get any clients and it takes longer to get to the nursing home than actually working with clients.  That might be on the chopping block within the next month.  That might just leave me with DudeBros Job and New Job (I need a better name for this... uh...) which is still around 50ish hours a week so that's plenty f I only have those 2 jobs.   This challenge is about trying to mitigate damage this upcoming holiday.  My ladyfriend's mom died right before Thanksgiving and we have the funeral in about two hours and there's going to be bullshit tied with this...  I finally had time last night (since I wasn't working another job after my new job) to wrap a bunch of gifts.  There's a ton of things happening in the next two-ish months and I honestly just need a way/place to vent even if no one reads it for my own sanity.  Things happening:   -The funeral and dealing with that fallout from that   -Ladyfriend's Uncle's Partner (which I will refer to as 'Cold Miser') has a sick and dying dog and he REFUSES to bring him to the vet.  That doggy is getting put down.  He's blind and is skin and bones, smashing his face against walls and falling down flights of stairs.  It's a nightmare and everyone else BESIDES Cold Miser sees this clear as day as animal abuse.  Put the poor thing down.   -The Miser's mom is coming up for the holiday.  This has a domino effect of bullshit.  Drama will ensue.  She knows about Cold Miser living in his room, covered with dried dog shit and piss, heaps of clothes, a broken bed, and refuses to do anything.  He's in denial about what a fucking disaster he is.  Also is Cold Miser's sister (Heat Miser because she's small and always angry and punching things), who is a huge mess as well so their mom is coming for the holiday to whip them both into shape   -Heat Miser STILL hasn't moved upstairs and is fucking us over with rent.  That downstairs is getting emptied out one way or the other and, you guessed it, will cause drama.  The two of them are the fucking worst; and are made 10x worse because they feed off each other. The Misers are at each other's throats and have such a toxic dynamic.  I've had to yell, 'Will you both PLEASE just stop fucking yelling?'  Their personalities are opposites but both are complete shit-shows.  I'm basically mother nature with the two of them, telling them both to calm down, apologize, translate what the situation was, etc.  I have to do work outside of work. *facepalm*.  They actually listen to me and Heat Miser likes me a lot. (Cold Miser pretends to like me but he's a spineless backstabber of a person.)  The problem is, I have no teeth - I can't make *threats* per say.  That's where their mom comes in.      -LadyFriend's parent's house.  Well, her dad died last year and it's been in limbo because her mom was fighting every step of everything and making it more difficult with her as executor of the estate.  But with her mom now dead, things can actually progress.  Ladyfriend had a meltdown.  I told her to talk to her psychiatrist and lay out the details.  So now she has a month off from work to finish the house.  This is the house I've been helping with every weekend and some weeknights for the past 6-8 months now and basically the garage needs to be emptied out, the rest of the cellar needs to be cleaned, and then basic home clean up like floor washing and a fresh coat of paint.  Ladyfriend SHOULD be able to get this done, but she's always preoccupied with something else.  I told her once I had the 4 jobs at once, I wasn't able to help her but that was before she got the month off from work.  Finger's crossed she gets it all done and ready for the market.   -I'm moving out.  I've had this as a situation for idk....3 challenges now?  Well I've gone back and forth but my sister talking about the chemo and this being her 'last Christmas', I really need to go home and be there for her while LadyFriend deals with the rest of her b.s. with the houses and the Misers.   -Get used to the new job and quit 1-2 jobs.  Obviously a huge deal and it's going on in the background of the challenge.  They're trying to not overwhelm me but I see-saw between, 'I totally got this' and unbridled rage at the fucking awful app  I have to use for logging in everything.  If I can master this piece of shit app, then 90% of the battle is won at this new job.   -On Black Friday I bought a treadmill.  Saved about $1,500 which is insane.  Once I move back home, I'm going to start using it every day.   -Whole30 after the holiday   God, I think that's more than enough to keep track of.

That's exactly who I was reffering to.    I guess any variation goes as long we keep the spirit.    And now I'm going down the rabbit hole of "mabe it's time I purchase my own barbell"... Sigh.    Any insight? 193cm(6'4'') dude, squats, deadlifts, maybe bench press. Do i need 6ft/180cm or even olympic, or 5ft/150cm will suffice? 

Yes!  This!  my friend cannot understand how I can do that.  All I can ever really say is I just don't think about it, I just do it.  Leaves me space to think of better things