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Thanks, Eve and Gypsy. There were some fair views on the way down Gypsy, but it was too dark and wet on the way up. I was concentrating too much on the actual walking to really enjoy them though - a slower group would have been good on that front. Unfortunately the mountain/weather got to me. I've been having a rough time breathing while walking since yesterday and went to see my doc today because that can be a sign of all kinds of nasty things. He thinks I've insulted the nerves around my ribcage (probably from the cold and wet on Friday), so it's painkillers and keep out of drafts for the next few days for me and see what gives. On the upside, back to low carb eating after giving it up for the two days on the mountain (and cheating at lunch at a friends place yesterday)... Gotta go tot up my score for week two.

"Overall I am quite pleased with how things are going so far. My main problem is when I do have time in the day when I don't need to work, I'm not very good at getting started on things I enjoy, I laze around and waste this 'free time' instead. I'm not really sure what to do about that." Hey Sounds like things are going well, especially the sleep. As to getting started on stuff you enjoy, here are a couple of ideas: - Make it easy: put the guitar on a stand so you don't have to take it out the case. Or keep your craft things on a table ready to start (I don't know what your specific hobbies are... ). If I have to unpack my guitar, start the computer or get out my yoga mat, I won't start. So they permanently clutter my living space - Pomodoro method: set a timer for ten minutes and promise yourself you can stop when the timer goes off. Chances are you'll keep going. - Call up a buddy and do stuff together. If they don't have time now, make a date for later that you have to prepare for. This works for me for singing - I get together with a pianist friend every couple if weeks, and it guilts me into practicing/learning new stuff. Good luck!

Well, I was the slow one at the back, but I made it safely up the mountain and back down again, and no-one made fun of me and my colleagues made due I had company. Next time however I will be taking an emergency Biwak with me. The weather turned when we were about two thirds of the way up and we spent the last hour walking up through heavy rain and high winds, in the dark. We were wet through by the time we got to the Hütte, and I was walking on lead legs for the last 30 mins at least. Hate to think what it would have meant to have had to spend the night on the bare mountainside. Thankfully it didn't come to that and we had a great evening once we'd dried out. We waited for the rain to clear before heading back down this afternoon. Also, looks like the yoga is paying some dividends, because although I did have some knee pain coming down, there was no hip pain/locking (which has sometimes happened to me before), and my knees now are tired and stiff, but not sore, which is something.

Excellent, Kätzchen, I'm proud of you.

which is your favourite yoga exercise, and why?

Just wanted to say congrats on the "not blaming yourself" story. Well done, and keep taking care if you.

What kind if shoulder exercises are you looking for? I've done a bunch in my time...

This gratefulness thing works, doesn't it? I've been doing it on and off for a while, but I'm trying to make it a habit. It's a but buried in my challenge as part of a longer evening routine, but I'm at it too

Oh, that's 2.5 hrs UP, btw. We're spending the night at a chalet/mountain hut /Hütte and coming back down again Saturday. All carb goals are therefore abandoned for the duration if the trip.

Thanks Gypsy and Heidi Things seem to be going well. Revelation thus far: after a certain number of glasses of wine ai become less effective at my evening routine. Solution: do it before ai go out. Now, if only everything else were that easy. Tomorrow, for the first time in <mumble> years, I am going hillwalking/hiking/whatever you want to call it. It's only a short walk, about 2.5 hours and 700m in elevation (which, believe me, is nada around these parts). But I'm going with a bunch of colleagues and I'm kind of panicked that I'm going to be the slow one at the back holding everyone up. Like I always was at school. Which gets me into a real bad head space on top of the physical exertion of the walk (some of the guys could probably sleepwalk this hike barefoot, and I'm the only frigging girl. The guy who had pledged to sweat his way up the mountain with me at the back has since dropped out. Aaaargh!!!) Anyone got any advice?

Nerdiversary, even..,, (gogo autocorrect...)

Enjoy the Netdiversary. Hope you will be celebrating with appropriate abandon.

Good going in a hectic week. Keep at it!

Go Eirlys!!! Impressive pics

Nö booze for seven whole days!!! You're nuts, kiddo, but you did it AND you went out most days. AND you wore your glasses a couple if times. Sounds like progress to me. Maybe push-ups aren't the right goal right now. Perhaps wrist exercises working towards push-ups? Or wall push-ups first thing in the morning before your brain has a chance to protest? Whatever, three out if four goals are progressing, which is pretty damn good if you ask me...

Good luck on the article: Just keep Setting yourself small, achievable goals towards the final target, and you'll get there. And congrats on everything else you've achieved so far.

Nanowrimo worked best for me the times I was 1) self-employed and 2) jobless, so yeah, go for it Seeing as I am currently very employed and not very creative on the writing front, I probably won't be attempting another nano this year, but I'll be rooting for you if you do!!! And don't worry about the bad days. Check them off the calendar and move on. Today is a new day (but I hear ya!!! they're tough!!!)

How's it going, kitty?

That certainly sounds like a lot to deal with all at once. So, how do you unblock the chakra?

100% ??? You're rolling!!! gogogo!

Well, Journeyman and Élan, meet another INTP So many of us around... I suffer for that "being seen as cold and aloof" thing. Some folks I met on a manager course gave me a bunch of feedback along the lines of "you came across all distant at first, but now we realise you're totally not like that." It makes dating kinda tough... (struggling there right now, and something I want to look at - somehow- in the next challenge. Anyway, enough about me and more about Journeyman... Here's another question for you: Who would you confide your deepest darkest secrets to, and why?

Blocked Sacral Chakra sounds painful, but is essentially Greek to me How does that express itself?

Thanks Turtle and Bekah Wk 1 total: - J exercises: 6/7, one not done because forgot rolls in other apartment - Yoga: W, Th, Sa = 6/6, + 3 bonus for Monday - Carbs: 5/6, (I get a free pass for one day) - Work post-it: 3/3 (only 3 days in the office this week) - Evening routine: avg 7.7/10 Total score: 27.7/32 = 87% (+3 bonus points; not sure how to count them ). Have a whole bunch of thoughts running through my brain on this process (and where to take it next challenge), but I'll save putting them to paper for when I'm not posting from my phone

I have a whole bunch of stuu from the hemnes series - basically two set of shelves with doors, the writing desk with the thing on top and more shelves where the bottom part is a chest of drawers. Also a side table, a shoe thing and a trolley for the kitchen. I got part done a couple of weeks ago (the desk and one set of shelves without the doors. Hoping to get most of the rest finished this weekend. What do you have to build?

"I like the simplistic outline and realistic planning in your challenge and the fact that you have already tested it in Italy." Thanks Eve. By the end of this challenge my stuff will also have been tested on: - an overnight stay at a mountain hut - a weekend back at the college town I studied at, with college friends I haven't seen in years - 4 days in Prague with a friend - a whole week in Pittsburgh on business. See why I kept it simple?