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Oooh if you do the overtone, lemme know how it goes! I’ve heard mixed reviews ahaha sorry for falling off the map (again)! School has gotten Difficult - well, more than it was at the start of the challenge - and I’m expending so much mental and emotional energy just trying to keep up that I’m just,,, exhausted all the time. It’s been nigh on impossible to get out of bed when Mr Spouse Man does for the morning walks I had originally planned, so I have just been letting myself sleep. Maybe this weekend I’ll come up with a new plan for how to spend the rest of the challenge. Happy 2nd day of Halloween! 🎃 🍂

Aw jeez, that is tough I’m so sorry. I’m glad you still get to see Sunshine at least. Sending internet hugs... :hug: those goals sound like sensible goals for such a week.

😜 love you too, Sky Hey!! Yeah, we've both been here a long time huh? You're the person I've known the longest on these forums, so I'm glad you're still here too 🥰 I don't want pics of my face on the web, but I can DM you one with my face cropped out hahah!!

Ooooh that looks pretty slick!! I'm undecided what to get, but since I have an iPhone I've been looking into the apple watch. Yasss do it! I got arctic fox dye (it's semipermanent so it fades moderately quickly, allegedly) and just put it over my natural hair color, no bleach. Though over dark hair, that may not work so well. 😤 😝 I kid. You're right of course. It may have been a foolish action, but I righted it.

Week 2: This morning I did laundry. Walking back and forth to the laundry facility totals to around 0.8 miles by the end. Might do more later, this was just to clean the things we needed sooner haha. If I do more later, that will meet my original distance goal for sure. Considering saving for a smart watch... If I have some manner of fitness tracker, I won't have to trace out my path on google maps anymore to figure out the distance 😂 lol.

Well, I’d say I’m a fool in this instance at least, haha. I brought more not-paying-attention upon myself, beyond the usual amount I expect. I thought I had found a loophole by taking screenshots of my prof’s notes during our video lectures... cos then I’d have an exact copy right?? I felt terribly clever. But it turns out that when I do this, I am paying attention to taking screenshots and not to what my prof is actually saying 😅 so I’m back to hand writing notes lol. And going back through the notes I have screenshots of already and hand-copying those, too. Turns out, after spending the past few days doing this, I understand what’s going on much better. Crazy right?? 😝 Ye! First time I’ve dyed my whole head of hair. I’m pretty excited about it

Week 1 is gone and I did 1/5 days... RIP. School sucker-punched me cos I'm a Fool and bad at Paying Attention in Class so I've spent the past several days catching up. It's week 2 now and apparently today was a go-for-a-walk day, and I did not. I think my days this week are today, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday? But I'll double check and post something official once I'm not running around like a headless chicken anymore. Random fun life update: I dyed my hair teal! It came out a little more on the green side than I would have liked... but I love it anyhow. 💚 💙 Have a good night everyone, be back soon~

I hope everything’s okay. Text me if you wanna talk about it 💜 love you mama

I’m sorry you’re feeling bad evenings are often worse for me too... so hard, when it’s dark and lonely. I can’t think of anything that might be helpful right now, as I just woke up and can barely think about anything before my coffee but I will keep thinking about it, to try and remember what helps me when evenings get tough. 💜 (edited to add: your plants are lovely 💜)

I forgot you were working on a moon puzzle. I was very confused for a moment. 😂 That sounds like a really lovely day! Those kinds of days are the best. I’ve spent five minutes trying to describe the feeling, and I can’t. 💜

Ah... yes, I’m not good at that yet. I need to keep that in mind more.

They did haha! I made sure of it!! I haaaate spiders. So much. >__<

Meee too haha 💜 ~~~ Week 1 update: It was my third of five activity days this week, and I went on an early walk around 1.8 miles! However, some of my feel-good was stolen when I walked through a strand of spiderweb right as I got to my apartment. Right on my face and arms! Ugh!!! Gonna go take a shower to wash off the sweat from my walk and the Spider Germs™️ lol.

That’s good that the anxiety has eased for you a bit! But yeah, knowing what to say is so hard. 🥰 aww!!! That’s such a wonderful feeling :3

O O F that’s a late shift!! Also I’ve definitely been an accidental lurker, somehow I forgot to comment on your thread at all! So - hi!!

Ok cool! I’m just Anxious™️ and have trouble with social interaction and knowing the right things to say sometimes hah. Sunshine is such a sweet nickname 🥰

Hey, it may be “only” fanfic but it’s still fun fun!! And good writing practice. I’ve never written any myself, but I love reading it. One of my irl friends writes a ton of fanfic and it’s been so cool to see her writing improve. I hope you feel less dissociated soon 😕 that’s not a fun feeling at all.

Bruuuhhhh I loved reading about the introspection you’ve been doing. You put a lot of my own thoughts into words. I’m another person who doesn’t want kids or a 9-5, you’re totally not alone about that! (Even though it can feel like it sometimes haha)

Nice meal prep! Sounds delicious 😋 Weight can for sure be sooo discouraging, and I have definitely fallen into despair when I focus on that - when I focus on the present, and forget that my current state is not permanent. We are all here to cheer you on and encourage you in those moments!! And we’re also here to celebrate your successes with you!

Sounds like your day went pretty well overall! I’m glad you got to relax Is Sunshine your partner? (Hopefully that’s ok to ask, I just wanted to check so I don’t say anything dumb lol)

I’m really glad you have an opportunity to get finances under control! That will take so much stress off! I hope today goes well 💜 intense cleaning like that is definitely a workout haha

That’s great!! 😁 Holy MOLY that sounds delicious 🤩

I tested negative! Which we all suspected anyhow, but it's nice to know for sure. I didn't do any fitness things on Monday or Tuesday, though, cos Monday I was Made of Angst™️, and Tuesday I was busy busy. Thursday is my next day to try again, and since I can go for walks again, I think I'll try to go for a morning walk.

Tall baby tall baby tall baby!! That lunch sounds absolutely delicious. What makes your ranch bougie? Good job on the kettlebell workout! That does sound fun to do that outside! This is hilarious, but also... relatable??

Good to see you too Wolfie!! Yeah, it felt like a surprisingly important decision?? Hahah. It's "just" a username for a website... but it's also a projection of myself, you know? Thanks! Yeah, I've heard the first year can be the hardest too, and ours was punctuated halfway through by the ~pandemic~ so... if we can survive this, we can survive anything!!! 😆 Heck yeah! Thanks! ~~~ OK my zero week is done! I took a brief walk around my neighborhood today, about 0.7 miles. So, that's 3/4 walks for this week done, and the one I didn't do was only cos I was ill. Total distance covered this week: ~2.7 miles. Total distance for the month of September so far: 5.7 miles. I'm gonna have to think of a new plan for at least the first half of next week though, cos I had to get tested for the 'Rona™️ today. Long story short, my campus is asking students to self-report any symptoms or lack thereof so they can keep track of the status of campus as a whole... and what I suspect was food poisoning on Tuesday, of course, flagged some of the symptoms on the list, so they wanted me to get tested just to be on the safe side. (Maybe that means I shouldn't have been going on walks... but I just didn't think about it. I did make sure to keep my distance from other people and cover my face, though, so I think my oversight was not disastrous.) This means I have to isolate until I get the test results back, which should be next Tuesday or Wednesday. Good thing I stay home most of the time anyway these days, and all my classes are online! So my life isn't disrupted too much. It does stink not being able to kiss Mr, though. Here's hoping it was, in fact, food poisoning or some other stomach bug, so I can leave the house and kiss my spouse like normal in a few days' time!