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I had a CrossFit session this morning which showed me that my cardiovascular fitness is.... not great. I will not beat myself up regarding this, I will just accept it has happened and work towards greater cardiovascular fitness This was followed by pulling out weeds in a garden bed and planting sunflowers. So long as they grow I can tick this off my goal list, hurrah! Sometimes the best feature is that it's done. I've been working on an assignment for the rest of the day so nothing done towards reading. I did convince my mother to take the computer and monitor I had sourced her so that's one thing gone from my space.

Ooh, that all sounds really good.

I am tired of hating myself. Setting myself 500 goals and then being upset when none are complete because the thought of them is so overwhelming I cannot begin just one. One of the intentions on my whiteboard is to let go of my past self and that combined with envy of other people because I feel like I'm not doing enough ultimately resolve in me doing nothing. So, all I have left is to be kind to myself. It's been a challenging month for me. University and work have been very stressful. I'm trying to finish things on a deadline for an SCA event at the end of this month. I'm now in a relationship that while it is joyful it also challenges me. I should spend less time focusing on this and more time focusing on myself. Inspired by Steve's post on Instagram I have two goals this challenge. 1. Read the book on calm I got from the library (Actually reading the books I get from the library is a smart idea) 2. Prepare the batcave. Except, it's more a hobbit house, I think I'm not sure what this looks like overall, except everything I don't want is gone, my areas are tidy, things are accessible and I set boundaries about what goes into my spaces. Does anyone have more advice/words on how to be kind to ones self?

Excitedly following along!

My vote is yes.

I'm sure you mean pot but honestly think you deserve a whole pit of always perfectly right tea.

It's been a while since I wrote here but things are plodding along. I've updated the original post, but here's how I ended up after my three months was up. 3 Month Goals - 01/04/2021 Complete Charity Walk - Completed 07/03/2021 Finalise my Mission Statement - Completed 10/02/2021 Put 'Life File' together - Completed Unplug for 24 hours - Completed 24/02/2021 Have a baseline for my weightlifting goals - Completed 03/01/2021 Complete story timeline - Completed Put University assignment plan together for Semester 1 - Completed Regularly attend archery training 90% 1 caffeine source a day - Completed Kon Mari'd assets Identify attributes I like and dislike about myself - Completed Complete budget tracker - Completed 03/01/2021 Put the wrist balancer together - Completed 02/01/2021 What was interesting to me was that the trackers I completed - Uni assignment plan and budget tracker I don't use at all. This has been a learning opportunity that those kind of trackers don't work for me. I don't check them regularly enough and I loathe having to regularly update something. Which reminds me I didn't update my mood and caffeine tracker for yesterday. SEE?! The two goals I did not complete... I definitely left Kon Mari until too late and then tried to do it too quickly. I don't think I'm going to finish off decluttering as a Kon Mari thing now but the values I will definitely hold in mind as I do so. Archery training was happening and then I fell off the wagon between school, needing to find archery gloves to wear that ideally are also sustainable in some way and in the right fashion and not being able to do so... It's on the list to start back up. Today I completed this and I am happy.

Oh good. My brain was very confused for a second!

42km charity walk completed in just under 10 hours (I am a slow walker). I bumped the XP for this walk in my Quest for Adventure. The walk was entirely worth going up a level. My journey began at roughly 8:15pm on Saturday after a speech from Adam Gilchrist (Australian ex-cricketer and ambassador of the charity this was for) and a Welcome to Country from a lady whose name escapes me but it was a very nice Welcome to Country and I kinda wish I'd memorised her name. As we left the starting area people stood to the sides and cheered us which was nice. It was a common theme throughout the race actually - strangers walking by would find out what was going on from people ahead of me and as we passed them they would cheer us on. At first, things were easy. I overtook a lot of people and during the first two pit stops only stopped to grab something to eat before continuing onwards. The distance between the second and third pit stop was difficult. Apparently it was a longer distance than the first two had between each other and I definitely felt it. Also, a lot of people I had overtaken in the beginning now began to overtake me. What would happen though was we would then get to the next pit stop and because I didn't hang around for long I would get ahead of them resulting in a lot of lovely "oh hello, fancy seeing you again!" moments. Many people checked in with me as they passed me to make sure I was okay (solo walkers seemed rare) which was nice. When I got towards the finish line I was overwhelmed. I had to keep blinking back tears and I'm afraid some people probably thought I was miserable as they congratulated me when I passed them by but really I was just very proud of myself. I rarely finish the things I set out to do. It's something I still need to work on. And here I am, with my level of fitness (another thing to work on) completing a 42km marathon walk in just under 10 hours by myself. If I could do this, if my body could do this, I can do anything. Also, I found out at the end we get medals for finishing and we all know I like shiny reward items (sorry for the giant image).

I keep alternating between a tiny house or just finding a small already built house. If I was going to go the tiny house route at this stage I'd be looking at buying the plans for this one: Of course I'm not looking to build or buy anything for the next three years (I already have a mortgage on a home that I rent out and then I pay rent for the house I'm currently in) when university is done. Your point is one of the things that makes me hesitant to date though. I'm sort of at that stage where I've always been the person willing to make compromises in relationships and as I get older I'm getting less inclined to do so. Oof, that sucks. I'm lucky that for a lot of my units it doesn't appear that books are a requirement, just a recommendation. There's only one unit that had a textbook in the last few years that was a requirement and I have a free version of it., Two of my units released the outline on Friday so I'm only waiting for two more which will likely come in on Monday. So far no required texts and no exams. (One does have a take home test during exam week but that's not the same). Today's very long to-do list is: - KonMari papers - Wash sheets - Wash clothes - Vacuum - Work out uni route - Clean study so I can post pictures to the Garden thread - Charge laptop in prep for uni - Advertise my VAX vacuum battery and charger online (my vacuum is broken so I'll just be using the housemates for the future) - Complete study file set up - Finish of my household file set up funfunfunfunfunfunfunfun

It's like a horrific Where's Wally?

Me looking at that jigsaw puzzle (and I love jigsaws): Does she hate herself??

I have done a KonMari declutter before, I think it was around 2-3 years ago? But I am much changed since then and have different life priorities now. And I still have too much stuff that drains me and isn't aesthetically pleasing in the 2 rooms and 1 bathroom I get to put my stuff Also some day I want to live in a tiny house and we are currently ignoring all the stuff that's in boxes out in the garage because it is Too Hard to Get To. I usually struggle to write in my thread during challenges but the KonMari and continuing to walk where I am are the priority items at the moment. The assignment tracker would be, if I had my unit outlines yet. The university only officially releases them one week before classes start which I find infuriating considering they contain the book lists and so if you're required to buy books you have precisely one week to attain them before classes start. And some classes have pre-reading. Luckily you can access the unit outlines from previous years and make an educated guess about books which is what I've done and have already attained the essential and non-essential books unless they change something. Today is the last day of my last full work week. Excited!

Catching up and following along

I'm going to start on my study/craft desk this week but as KonMari is already a part of my challenge I'll have to do it between that

Hey, I just went off what came on the box. Except it'll be 11lbs in 8 weeks Considering I have another 55ish lbs to go I might extend though. Maybe aim for an extra 2lbs or something.

I've generally only done 5k walks. I was highly sedentary before the end of last year. Probably 6-7k with a heavy hiking pack around September last year? I have 13 hours to complete it, at least. And there are food/water breaks every 5k. I've always had relatively weak ankles but since I got my orthotics it hadn't been a regular thing as much. Luckily, I went to my podiatrist for my orthotic review on the weekend and they gave me some exercises and also suggestions with my orthotics that will hopefully solve the issues I've been having. If I keep getting the blisters I've been getting as well, they said they'd give me some blister bandaids before the charity walk which is nice of them. I have finished 4, 5 & 6! I may make Unplug Day a tradition for Valentine's Day. The story timeline I finished ended up being for Aliens which is about life after an alien invasion. Which seems to be a popular movie thing these days but I want this story out of my head anyway. I completed the Books section of KonMari yesterday. As I've done it relatively recently I only had three books I chose to remove. Need to hustle on this one if I'm to get it done before uni starts.

Ooooh. Can't blame you. I've decided to make all the desserts but in order of how I posted them but I'm super keen to try that one. Also, VICTORY IS NIGH

I made the chocolate mousse! It isn't overly sweet but is very very tasty. There are six servings of it and I was unable to successfully convince my housemate to take any (she prefers it sweeter). WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS AGAIN??? (It's all good, it's freezable.)

I tried starting this but don't think I had the brain energy at the time to give it attention. Might have to loan it back out from the library again and give it a second shot.

I have a few story ideas that have been stored on scrap and in my mind for the last few years so it will be one of them. At this stage I'm leaning towards the one in a historical fantasy setting where people with magic are being persecuted and it's about the people fighting to defend magic. But now I just started thinking about what if it was in a modern day setting.... (I hate my brain). I think I have jinxed myself with this challenge but as it's zero week, changes are perfectly fine right? My ankle is not enjoying the Zombies run program so I need to switch it out for a bit. I'm thinking of doing 30 min of exercise six times a week to make up for it but when I'm more awake I'll reevaluate my thoughts.

Why does this graphic scare me so much?

Huh. I should try this. Nice zero week so far Yasha! Congrats on your lift.

It's definitely the recipe I'm most fascinated by. It'll be interesting to see what grapes and rosemary are like on/in a cake.

I have finalised my mission statement. It is: To live with and learn from nature. To support it and the communities I immerse myself in with vigour and kindness. I have currently planned my unplug for 24 hours day to be the 14th of February. Hopefully I will use that time to do some KonMari decluttering or writing my story timeline/outline by hand.