PixieKitten

Day 2 stats! Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Workout: Yes Stretches: yes Calories eaten: 2687 Calories burned: 2542 Water drank: 4.5 pints So so tired. Going ti finish my cheese then go to bed. Night <3

I've done so much today even my fingers are tired. typing now being kept to minimum. at work from 11am-10pm today abd it was busy aaaaall day. before work i ran with the dog, rode the horse, did my On the Ball workout(reallydifficult), bathed the tortoise, had two big meals and had a shower. Now I'm home, I've worked out i haven't quite eaten enough calories so I'm eating halfa pack of brie before going to bed. I'll let you know if I have nightmares. 2 days off now!

DAY ONE. Day one went well. Stretching so far simply tells me how inflexible I really am in my legs. Which is a surprise because I always thought they were quite flexible. Meh. But yeah. Exercise went well, I rode Queenie for the first time in weeks, Hutch had a nice walk, and I blew up my exercise ball ready for tomorrow. Day 1 stats! Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Workout: Yes Stretches: yes Calories eaten: 2582 Calories burned: 2442 Water drank: 1 pint On the Ball tomorrow. Actually a bit nervous. Exercise ball has been blown up and sat on. Gotta get that in along with the dog walk, riding queenie, and a shower before work. Work starts at 11 tomorrow. Until 10pm Eek.

I saw Queenie today! I rode Queenie today! She did super good, didn't spook once, and I'm very proud of her. My butt hurts. Queenie has had a week off from any work. Pixie was fully expecting another injury. Queenie obliged. But it's actually ok. Just a small case of mud fever, so I bought some vaseline later in the day to put on it to keep the mud off. I'm really more annoyed because there's a rip in her rug. It's not big, but now I gotta sew it up with fishing wire. I hate sewing rugs up =[ ANYWAY Today is the first day of Pixie Kitten's Stretch 'n' Flex challenge! Today I woke up around 7, ironed Not-Boyfriend's shirt, grabbed Hutch and walked to work with him. Said goodbye and carried on walking for a little while. Took Hutchy home and cleaned out the rabbits. Since their setup is so similar to a stable, and what with me being horsey and all, I've been taking an equine approach to their indoor area, called deep-littering. Basically, you don't change the majority of the bedding, just the worst bits, then mix it all up and spread it back out. They had a deep layer of shavings, with a deeper layer of straw all winter, with hay and more stuff being added in every now and then. They've been so snug, as the waste that gets in there generates heat. But now it's warming up, and they can actually go out on the grass, I figured it was time for a clean-out. four bin bags, half a bag of shavings and half a bag of hay later, their home is nice and clean. And they got their first taste of fresh grass for the year! Just need to work them back up to tolerate it, then they can go back to daily mowing of the lawn! I'm planning to buy another run to add to the one they've got to make it twice the size, they're gonna love it. =D Once all that was done, I saw Queenie. She came when I called, walked nicely to the stables, stood nicely to be groomed and tacked up, and walked to the school nicely. We worked in-hand for a little while, as it was windy and I wasn't sure how she'd react. She was fine, so I hopped up on her bareback. We spent another 15 mins walking around before heading back, where she got her rug back on and was fed and went back out and yay. Then I went shopping. In the mega wind. It was all super heavy and my bike kept going sideways and I hadn't eaten and by the time I got home I wanted to die on the sofa. Instead I made a mega lunch and watched some let's plays. I did then want to do my workouts but figured I should let the food settle. The food has now settled and I am procrastinating by writing this post. I can't wait to do my stretches but I can't do that until after the workout and that's just so much effort and- Ok, ok, I'm going! EDIT Did it. Did overhead presses with 10kg on the bar for the first time ever. Kinda proud of myself today.

I have a problem. A stationary problem. When I go to town I actually have to avoid stationary shops or I will ocme back with three folders, seven notebooks, two pens and an armful of stickers. I just love them! I love writing things down and making everything look pretty and organising it all and making lists and organising the lists into sub-sectioned folders and... I guess I'd work pretty well in an officce, as long as they let me do everything in purple. For 2016 I bought a big A4 jotta pad to write everything down. But it's become too disorganised for me. There's challenge ideas, descriptions, detailed plans of how to achieve them, workout routines, workout logs, challenge introductions all over the place. and it's lined paper and my kinda-neat-but-not-good-enough-for-me writing is all over the place, there's stars and edits and scribbled-outiness everywhere... It's pretty chaos. So I'm gonna buy a new folder.This one. Because it looks healthy, and is therefore instantly recogniseable amongst my bazillion other folders. I almost got the jelly bean or doughnut one but then I realised that not only would that be ironic, but it would just make me want sweets. Then I thought I'm an assassin. It should be black. But I wanted something vibrant and colourful that made me squee a little. So kiwis. And I've typed up my jottings here, ready to print out, place in plastic sleeves, and put (in a very organised fashion) into my new folder, with separaters so I can easily tell where one challenge ends and another begins. And if I don't like the layout? I CAN CHANGE IT. You can't do that in a notebook. I'm so excited about this it's pathetic. Completely, utterly pathetic. But god I love stationary.

I achieved.... *goes back and counts* 148. That's less than ten points off in 4 weeks, so I'm counting that as a win. LEVEL UP! I did actually write some notes about this challenge in my notebook.. Lemmie type 'em out. Finding a reason to get up at 6:30am, when the world is still dark and cold and the bed is so comfy was challenging. Which I guess is why it's called a challenge. I'm so, so very proud of Queenie actually letting me clip her, when no one thouht I'd be able to do it. We only managed a small part and we've had to stop, but it had nothing to do with her behaviour and I'm so proud of her. Workouts were tough but manageable to the point that I felt as though I should have been pushing harder. But I know I have a habit of pushing too hard and giving up, so while I started off easy, I did make progressions into slowly making them tougher and I kept at it the whole time. I might actually feel just that little bit stronger too. Eating more calories than I burned took the most effort f all for me. Eating is such a chore by itself, but then making sure I had enough food in the house, bought healthy, filling things, kept a budget to make sure I could afford it, and then actually prepping and cooking and eating and washing up and tracking it down? Exhausting. Fitbit = <3. There's just no way I could have kept on track the way I did without it. I've struggled in the past with recording my progress and I think this has been the helping hand I've needed. Physically seeing my stats in colourful charts, graphs and displays is not only fun to look at, but gives me a number, a time, a goal to aim toward the next day. Got a badge for 15000 steps today? Next badge is 20000? I bet I could do that tomorrow. My love for this program will never be put adequately into words. Doing the same Yoga dvd four times a week felt repetative, excessive, and frankly got really boring, even though I love that DVD. For this next challenge I plan to switch out 3 of 4 with Pilates and Exercise Ball workouts. I feel a bit disappointed with myself that I didn't have any adventures this month. I felt like I was too focussed on my goals to just get out and do something random. So I'll make an effort to throw some unplanned adventures in next challenge. For my next challenge, I'm going to attempt something I've never been able to do before. It's number 6 in my signature. I hope to see you there! Bring on February!

Hello and welcome, to the challenge where PixieKitten more than likely severly injures herself! I hope you brought popcorn, because it might just get messy. For those who don't know me, I've been here on and off for the last 2 years. I am somewhat flexible, but at the same time totally inflexible. I can get both my knees over my shoulders, but I struggle to touch my toes, and don't even think I can get my head anywhere near my knees without bending them. Also, I have the world's most useless horse. I feel like I've lost strength in my thighs and butt because I've never gone this long without riding since the day I started. My butt's like half the size it was :/ Let's cut to the chase. Pixie, what's your main quest for this month? Main Quest: Achieve a full front split by February 26th (18XP, DEX 3) Yeah. That's a stretch. Pun intended. Apparently if you can stretch to a certain extent(which I can) you can do it in 6 weeks. But then you guys decided to turn the challenges to 4 weeks, so I'm just really gonna have to kick ass with this. And if I don't manage it, I'm personally blaming Steve. Anywhoodles. My plan to make this happen? Stretch for 20 minutes every day after exercise (16XP, WIS 2) Seems like the wise thing to do. Want to be more flexible? Stretch more! Start Pilates twice weekly (16XP, STA 1) It's called On the Ball, and I've been dying to try it ever since I watched it. Not looking forward to blowing up my exercise ball though. Continue to wake up early so there's time to do all this (16XP, CHA 1) I worked so hard last challenge to get more sleep while waking up earlier, it would be a shame to drop all of that now. Continue workout plan (16XP, CON 1) It's been tweaked for this challenge's needs, but then, if I didn't switch it up every now and then, I'd die of boredom. So there we go. SUPER DUPER SIDE QUEST Queenie has had a week off from anything. She's come in and been fed, but my clippers died, Yard Owner doesn't have any blades for hers, which doesnt matter because Queenie would kill us all if we turned those ones on near her. So she's got one shoulder and half her neck clipped, and I've just left it at that. No exercise, very little grooming, no training, just 'hello, here's your food, let me paint your hooves so they don't get awful again, right back out you go, see you tomorrow' That stops this month. I'll take all my tack down, and we're gonna RIDE. Obvs jusst walking around first, my legs aren't used to it anymore and she's probably going to try and deck me if I do anything else for the first week. Next month's challenge is already planned out to be all about her, so this is her warm up month while my focus is somewhere else. So yeah. Start riding Queenie (18XP, STR 2) Also doing the usual tracking my life on my Fitbit(lovesomuch), walking the dog every day, might start letting the rabbits on the grass for short periods of time now that it's getting a little drier in the day.. As far as posting updates, I may stick to last month's format. The day's stats will be very boringly posted here, and my more personal, funnier updates will be on my battle log. I just can't write character and funniness into both, it's exhausting. So if you walk funny tales with disney gifs and photos of my day, make sure you check on my battle log. If you just want hard numbers, stay here. (I have a ridiculous number of animals so if you want cute animal photos, again, battle log!)

Ok, so, challenge over! When I calculated what score I was aiming for, I forgot that the challenge ended on the 29th, so those numbers are actually invalid. The score I'm actually loking for is 156 at the highest. I achieved.... *goes back and counts* 148. That's less than ten points off in 4 weeks, so I'm counting that as a win. LEVEL UP! I did actually write some notes about this challenge in my notebook.. Lemmie type 'em out. Finding a reason to get up at 6:30am, when the world is still dark and cold and the bed is so comfy was challenging. Which I guess is why it's called a challenge. I'm so, so very proud of Queenie actually letting me clip her, when no one thouht I'd be able to do it. We only managed a small part and we've had to stop, but it had nothing to do with her behaviour and I'm so proud of her. Workouts were tough but manageable to the point that I felt as though I should have been pushing harder. But I know I have a habit of pushing too hard and giving up, so while I started off easy, I did make progressions into slowly making them tougher and I kept at it the whole time. I might actually feel just that little bit stronger too. Eating more calories than I burned took the most effort f all for me. Eating is such a chore by itself, but then making sure I had enough food in the house, bought healthy, filling things, kept a budget to make sure I could afford it, and then actually prepping and cooking and eating and washing up and tracking it down? Exhausting. Fitbit = <3. There's just no way I could have kept on track the way I did without it. I've struggled in the past with recording my progress and I think this has been the helping hand I've needed. Physically seeing my stats in colourful charts, graphs and displays is not only fun to look at, but gives me a number, a time, a goal to aim toward the next day. Got a badge for 15000 steps today? Next badge is 20000? I bet I could do that tomorrow. My love for this program will never be put adequately into words. Doing the same Yoga dvd four times a week felt repetetive, excessive, and frankly got really boring, even though I love that DVD. For this next challenge I plan to switch out 3 of 4 with Pilates and Exercise Ball workouts. I feel a bit disappointed with myself that I didn't have any adventures this month. I felt like I was too focussed on my goals to just get out and do something random. So I'll make an effort to throw some unplanned adventures in next challenge. For my next challenge, I'm going to attempt something I've never been able to do before. It's number 6 in my signature. I hope to see you there! Bring on February!

Day 21 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Exercise: Yes Calories eaten: 2415 Calories burned: 2192 Water drank: 3 pints Sleep amount: 7hr 16 mins Sleep efficiency: 93% Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: Yes Today's score: 6/6 Day 22 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Exercise: Yes Calories eaten: 2370 Calories burned: 2160 Water drank: 2 pints Sleep amount: 3hr 59 mins Sleep efficiency: 91% Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: Yes Today's score: 6/6 Day 23 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Exercise: Yes Calories eaten: 23467 Calories burned: 2376 Water drank: 4 pints Sleep amount: 6hr 51 mins Sleep efficiency: 96% Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: Yes Today's score: 6/6 Day 24 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Exercise: Yes Calories eaten: ? Calories burned: 1818 Water drank: 3 pints Sleep amount: 7hr 26 mins Sleep efficiency: 83% Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: No Today's score: 5/6 Day 25 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Exercise: Yes Calories eaten: ? Calories burned: 1668 Water drank: 5 pints Sleep amount: ? Sleep efficiency: ? Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: Yes Today's score: 6/6 Day 22 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Exercise: Yes Calories eaten: 2453 Calories burned: 2230 Water drank: 2 pints Sleep amount: 8hr 2 mins Sleep efficiency: 96% Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: No Today's score: 5/6

OK. Pixie is back. Pixie had a lovely couple of days away from anything fitness related. Internet wise of course, I still did my workouts. Basically, much alcojhol was had, much fun was had until I had a panic attack because we went in an elevator 3 times and I haven't been in one in years and I was drunk so I thought I could do it and we got back to the room and I couldn' breathe for a while. But you know, other than that, everything was fun. There's a new girl at work now. We'll call her A. K and I are slightly suspicious, because she fit in really well. People who we end up loving never fit in easily on the first day, everyone who does that ends up leaving real quick. We like her, but we're not getting our hopes up. I've decided to start watchign the Walkign Dead and I'm honestly struggling to get everything done now. Every time I think I have a little time before I have to do something, I watch it. And occasionally go over the time I said I had. So I've been doing my workouts at the end of the day when I come home from work. Gets me a bit tired. Having those few days off from tracking everything also meant the fitbit... I still wore it but I didn't log food or sleep and it's messed with my graphs and I don't like it. But meh. I was getting a little sick of writing down everything I did and ate and remembering when abouts I fell asleep and gah. A few days away was needed. First challenge is over! I should probably go and sort that thread out actually.. Onwards!

Sorry guys. Not-boyfriend and I are booking a night in a hotel tomorrow night. Going awol on posting, but will be keeping up with my goals! I'll catch up with you all in a couple of days

Day 20 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: No Exercise: Yes Calories eaten: 2668 Calories burned: 2312 Water drank: 3 pints Sleep amount: 6hr 59 mins Sleep efficiency: 94% Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: Yes Today's score: 6/6 gottamakeittobedintwominutesBYENOW

Not fired! Manager D is still a dick. He sauntered in at 4 to start his shift, ignored me for an hour(tbf, I refused to make eye contact with him either) Said we needed to have a talk when my shift was over. Told him we didn't. Said I went in on Monday and apologised for not turning up (which I did), and I also apologised to Manager S when I started today. I didn't call in sick because I was sick and slept through, then I had to rush while being ill to get shopping and by the time I got back I really didn't care about phoning in, as it was pretty obvious. He pretty much gathered that I was on the edge of just quitting anyway today (and we both know that I'm one of the best out on the floor and he doesn't want to be left to babysit the others) so he left me alone after that. Manager S threw a carrot at me. I love Manager S. Seriously though. The first four hours with Manager S were HECTIC. the queue to the bar was at the carvery, the queue to the carvery was nearly out the front door, Manager S was stuck on the bar non-stop for three hours and I was the only waitress on the floor. Of the entire restaurant. And it was fun, because Manager S was on. Throwing things at me, telling customers that his mistakes were my fault, and poking holes in my cappachino art(he ruined my panda!) We joke and laugh and however busy it is, we deal with it together. Then Manager D comes on, as well as someone else on the floor, and boom. I hate my job, I want to quit, the atmosphere sucks, I hate everyone. The floor's dead for the rest of the night, and once again I'm put under pressure to be on the floor at all times. Will possibly ask Manager S to just be rota'd on with Manager D as little as possible while I ultimately decide if I'm leaving or not.

Iiiiiiiiiiiit's morning. Yoga has become rather boring. But it was done. Hutch is on the treadmill 'cause it was a little frosty outside and I didn't want to get out of my pajamas. And I have the day's food to plan. Which sucks. Back to work today! I feel like there's so much I could have doen with the 5 days off, but I was too busy focusing on the challenge. Eating takes up a lot of time :/ And I have a ten hour shift today so I've gotta be sure I get the calories in as much as possible before I go and that I take enough food with me to get it right and blah. So I'm rifling through my fridge, seeing what I can take with me, portioning it off and putting it in on the fitbit dashboard so I can see the carlories add up for me. I've just eaten a breakfast of 693 calories. All hail berries and double cream! I'm really not looking forward to this shift. I'm trying not to think about it, but it's less than 3 hours away now. The first half will be fine I'm sure. I've got Manager S. He's kickass, and if he owned the place I'd be happy to work there till the day I died. But there's also Manager D. The one that gave me shit all last week for things that werent my fault and is more than likely about to 'have a chat' with me today. He's a dick. He shouts at you in front of customers, he hasn't even given out the New Year's tips yet(I have a feeling he's pocketed them), he constantly undermines you and makes you feel like you're doing something wrong, or not doing enough... And he wants you hovering on the floor. ALL THE TIME. I dunno about you guys, but when I go to a restaurant, I don't see the waiting staff. They're there when they have something to do, take an order, clean a table, bring out food.. But when none of that needs doing, they're gone. They're not stalking around the tables doing laps of the restaurant. It makes customers feel uncomfortable, but that's what we're made to do. Else we(I) get accused of 'sulking in the back'. I've told him time and time again it's actually driving customers away, but he wn't listen. If you've just circled the place 5 times(and don't even think about doing it at anything other than a brisk pace) and you pop around the back for a sip of your water that you havent been able to touch for 3 hours, he suddenly jumps out at you. 'THERE ARE NO CUSTOMERS IN HERE' AND THERE ARE NO CUSTOMERS OUT THERE THAT NEED ME RIGHT NOW, AND I'M DEHYDRATED BECAUSE YOU WONT LET ME STAND AND HAVE A DRINK YOU TWAT. *huff* I was ill all last week and whilst every single other member of staff came up to me at some point and either asked 'are you feeling ok' or 'what's wrong' Manager D says nothing then bitches to not-boyfriend behind my back about moping around all over the place and looking miserable. I smile for the customers. I'm always friendly and engage with them. I'm always upbeat, polite and making sure I smile when I interact with them. Excuse me if I look as down as I feel while I'm out of customers sight. It's not my job to smile at managers. Christ, I feel like I could rant forever about this guy. He's just on my case all the time. And I'm one of the more productive members of the waiting staff. ANYWAY I NEED TO STOP RANTING BECASE I NEED TO SORT OUT MY FOOD. So I'm gonna go now. I'll let you know tonight if I got fired or not. Twat.

I'm just here to bask in your glory.. You were my inspiration to finally buy a barbell set.. I'm actually starting to put weights on the bar now! Good luck lifting all the things!(Not that you need it of course!)

Day 19 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Day off Exercise: Yes Calories eaten: 2319 Calories burned: 1814 Water drank: 4 pints Sleep amount: 7hr 32 mins Sleep efficiency: 96% Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: Yes Today's score: 6/6 Sleep is up 3%. Maybe it is best if Hutch sleeps downstairs! Only one week of the challenge left! I'm getting all my stuff prepared for the next one this week. Get ready for the most well-thought out introductory post ever on the 1st of Feb!

Today, whilst not feeling particularly active(but at the same time, it does? I'm confused), has been productive. The rabbits have food, Hutch was walked, I did another half hour on the treadmill, did my strength workout, and watched a exercise ball workout video to see if it will work in with my goals for the next challenge. I also planned out the next challenge. Mostly. I gotta watch one more exercise video, that one's pilates. I feel like doing the same yoga dvd four times a week this challenge got boring rather quickly, so I'll be swapping three of those sessions for the exercise ball and pilates workouts. The exercise ball one looks so fun. Challenging, but fun. But yeah. Next challenge, I got my title, my intro, my main quest, two side quests... I'm prepared. I'm ready. Just gotta get through the last week of this challenge! Yeah. Today's been good.

Went out in the rain to buy more rabbit food. Soggy Pixie. Soggy dog. Back in pajamas now, don't think I'll be leaving the house again today.. Good thing it's Queenie's day off! Neo's out in the living room fulfilling his sulcata instinct to walk. I just looked around to see where he was and he was in a corner trying to eat my kettlebell. Now he's moved on to the dining room and is staring at a wall. Now he's trying to eat the dog's bowl. ...Seriously, I could do this all day. He's so fun to watch. Such sexy leggies. Excuse me while I free him from under the sofa. He's stuck.

Day 18 Stats! Woken up at 6:30: Yes Vitamins taken: Yes Dog walk: Yes Queenie: Yes Exercise: Yes Calories eaten:2336 Calories burned:2017 Water drank: 4 pints Sleep amount: 7hr 39 mins Sleep efficiency: 93% Sleeping tablets taken for tonight: Yes In bed by 11: Yes Today's score: 6/6 Gonna make the dog sleep downstairs tonight, see if that makes a difference to my usual 20+ times being restless at night!

Went shopping. Bought a gammon joint. Why? Because it'll feed me for days. Also bought an avocado. Never tried one of those before, but I hear they're insanely good for you. Like coconut oil. I'm cautiously hopeful about this. It needs a couple of days to ripen first though. Bought peanut butter and nutella too. Kinda feel like nutella wasn't a god choice health-wise, but the small jars actually include a pretty tumbler glass when it's all gone and you wash it out, and I wanted a pair instead of just the one I've got from ages ago. So yay new glass. I can have a couple of spoonfuls a day as dessert I guess? Last time I got one of these I ate all 200g in one sitting! Love me some nutella. Anywhoodles. Queenie was VERY warm when I got her in around half 11 this morning. She's back in her normal 180g rug tonight. Not so cold this time. Also, the frost has disappeared. After 3 days of it constantly being there, it's finally gone. I'm rather sleepy now. I'd put up photos from today but you know. Sleepy.