Son of Rylos

Solid accomplishments!!! We're all going to have a moment when we won't be able to keep up on the goal and the thing to know about that is just that one day won't force us down. Take that day, clean yourself off and get back up and rolling.

Week 3 Days 3 & 4 Update Catching up on the week so let's get to it! Day 3 came and went without much ado. It's been light enough at work that I'm slowly catching up/keeping up with my 30 Day Challenge while there. Had something homemade for dinner but meatloaf isn't the most good homemade-y food. Day 4 is a lot more of Day 3 Dinner was fast food, no progress on finances except for actually getting paid today, paying up my phone bill and transferring money to a savings fund, did Day 12 of the Challenge so I'm up to 12/17 so winning. New medication may be causing my nighttime to come up a little earlier due to drowsiness but we'll see, could just be tired from being at the end of 10 working days out of 11 days. Short day tomorrow at work so that will hopefully make for a nice end of my long stretch and I'll get back to more successes. Plans for next challenge are already starting to grow slowly in my brain so goodness.

Midday Update! It's kind of a really slow day at work today but by some crazy reason I'm already starting to come up with ideas for next challenge!! Whom am I?!?

Week 3 Day 2 Update Not all too much to report for the day. It was one of those weird days where anything that could go lazy did for the most part. There wasn't any updates where it comes to food or finances but throughout the day I did manage to catch up on my backlog of days for the 30 Day Challenge so I'm now through Day 10 of 15! Now I'm bending over to touch my toes for 25 seconds! Can I even do that?! Well, I'm getting down and reaching so it's helping and I think making me a little more stretchy. Time to work, get my eyes checked and hopefully survive the ice rink that is Michigan right now!

Saturday wasn't that bad here just cruddy snow dumping over us. Yesterday morning left for work at -2. Either way too damn cold! [emoji39]

Week 2 Complete So the week has been a mixed bag (I use that term way too much, gotta change that up). Exercise -- 0/2... IMPROVEMENT NEEDED!! 7/13 Days for Toe Touching Challenge Food -- 2/1!! Both times it was steak with a different veg so that's good. This week I'm going to adventure with chicken sometime. Finances -- I'm a point up on my credit score but nothing much else to report. So that's that Week 3 Day 1 Update Yesterday was much of nothing so I continued part of that AKA leftover pizza because it is below freezing here!! @annyshay you could prepare for your trip here now!! Beyond the lack of anything else I did get in Day 8 of the Challenge so I'm up to 8/14 days. It's a Monday and makes for a long day at work plus I'm in the middle of 10 out of 11 days at work (yesterday being my only day off). I really need to work up a new plan for the working out and need to implement that sooner rather than later. Might be making another kind of change here in the next few weeks, time will tell on that.

Awaiting a delicious update for the week!!

Can't wait to hear how the full week has gone for you!!

Great work on the goal progress and absolutely excellent news to hear about your father!! The human body is both a marvelous miracle and an infuriating enigma. The recovery should be smooth and all will be great.

Yeah Yeah likely excuse! Awesome work on the previous week and looking very forward to seeing how you're going to improve on a week with a 5k! Believe in you!

Week 2 Days 5&6 Update It has been an up and down kind of couple of days. Snow storm, travel to help another club, doctor visits, and whatnot leads to some poor choices and not much done. Friday came and went without much success though did get back the bloodwork from my doctor's visit. Amazingly, all my results are within normal ranges except for low Vitamin D levels LOL no exercises, no good food, no money goodness. Saturday was a little different and better. Big snowstorm yet I still needed to go to a club to help out that's almost an hour away in good weather. It was a pretty good day and a good amount of millage was gotten for the trip. Made myself another steak with some green beans for dinner tonight so while it's not new it was homemade and that's something! Did my 7th day of the Toe Touching Challenge so I'm up to 7 of 12 days. Nothing else new financially except my credit score is up 1 more point right now and that's without the new car loan showing on it. Getting prepped to pre-authorize the first payment so I stay on track. Not too bad for the first day of the weekend. I'm gonna catch up on you all tomorrow. Getting really sleepy right now.

Steak Take 2 with green beans and Wreck-It Ralph. Update coming

Week 2 Day 4 Update So the day was a mixed bag. It was going GREAT!! New general physician I saw, thought he was very down to earth, listened to all my concerns and we're going to start a few things plus of course seeing how things look with my bloodwork and such. Work was a decent enough day but then to be attacked when getting home REPEATEDLY (verbally not physically) just took a real freaking toll on my soul last night. No successes in any goals and today will probably be a mixed bag as well. Time will tell but the effort will be made. Happy Friday All!

This was dinner! Bathe in the GLORY!!

OHhhhhhh man you know how to work a guy into pushing out of their comfort zone!!

So, we're getting hungry for more updates!!! It's not ball season yet!!

Congratu-freaking-lations!!! Sleep? Rest? What's that when there is new baby cuteness around?!

Week 2 Day 3 Update I did it..... oh damn I did it!! OK, well maybe not that! Can't have anything good or fun about this time, have a doc appointment in the morning and fasting for bloodwork. I have a certification webinar that I'm doing shortly so I've got a quick update to do. Exercise: nothing yet but I'll be doing my Challenge shortly (probably during the webinar) but then I'll be researching other workouts soon. Food: Thanks to a little mini-challenge encouragement, I actually whipped up a meal tonight and it not be premade in any aspect!! Simply put, it was a bottom round steak pan-fried with a little bit of oil, salt and pepper with a side (side?? I made so much it was practically a plateful itself!) of broccoli steamed with oil, salt, pepper and garlic. It was delicious!! Water to drink and no steak sauce so wins on that aspect. Finances: You can't improve this goal everyday.... though let's see if there's something we can do about it tomorrow.

Seriously toxic day today!! WARNING!! WARNING!!

Week 2 Day 2 Update Today has been a kind of up and down day but for the most part it was up more than it was down!! Exercise I was up and doing my Toe Challenge just a little while ago so that puts me at 6/8 days (since I didn't start til last Tuesday) so I'm pretty much on top of it. With luck I'll be able to get on top of my normal exercise goal tomorrow since I've got a doctor's appointment on Thursday morning (nuts, I'm being responsible!!) On the food side, as much as I wanted to go out and get wings on BOGO wings from the neighborhood chain restaurant, I managed to stay home and made pasta with bottled sauce and some frozen garlic bread. It hit me like a brick but it wasn't a bad decision altogether. So it's a tentative success until I do something better this week... for real this time! Financially.... yeah, I'm really trying to get things a little more organized!! I'm being an adult with responsibility!!!! Got rid of my '02 LeSabre because it was a good temporary car for the last 3 years but when repairs cost more than the car it's time to give it up (and getting some money out of it helps), took care of a traffic violation (not mine), deposited the check for the car into savings for a fall vacation (or other uses, TBD), took car of the last things I needed for the new car including getting the title and registration in the mail and getting my safe back into a general order. Now while none of that is technically fixing my credit related, it is financial responsibility and that is what is lacking sometimes. Overall a pretty good day, especially now that I've got friends both old and new here for the ride!!

Hey Hey Hey!!!! Damn it!! Failed my Hide check AGAIN!! This is why I'm a Cleric not a Thief You're right! I should add in the stretching goal and notes into my results. I thought of it as just a cursory achievement but then again it is an achievement. I will be adding it IMMEDIATELY! And thank you, I know when you aren't used to doing something it's best to start out small, like the yearly New Years Resolution of 12 pounds per year. I do that 5 years and I'll be down 60 pounds... I'd be 274!!! I haven't been that weight since.... I think the mid-2000s. I am trying to be more 'empathetic' of my own feelings. I'm quite empathic in general so I don't usually let others' feelings affect me. I am doing what I can to be able to work with my emotions and I know that part of it is dealing with how I perceive things in my life. It is a work in progress. And I definitely can watch my fill of comedies... though maybe my choices are odd. I've got Little Nicky on right now LOL I will indeed keep pushing, I will keep moving along. If I can push my old POS car a dozen or so feet going down an incline then I can do this!!

Hey, tis all good!! Sometimes not getting on here isn't a bad thing, makes you focus on your real world goals. Work can definitely pull focus from you, especially this time of the year for some people (you with tax season, me with beginning of the year medical season ) Looks like you're really keeping up on things despite the work stuff. You've got this!

I'm probably going to head towards Corellia. Just dealing with some personal business at the moment then I'll be able to assess later.

Week 1 Final Update Week 1 very much ended with a whimper instead of a roar. Yesterday was a very dull day for many reasons but it did at least give me a chance to rest though I didn't make any good choices except I did manage to do one day of the Challenge so I'm mostly still caught up with that. Vs. Momentum -- 0/2 Vs. Kung Pao Chicken -- 0/1 (not counting the one day b/c of frozen veggies) Vs. Money Pit -- Credit Reports Pulled and score +30 pts Week 2 Day 1 Status I was doing a lot of running around town on my day off but none of it was very useful to my challenges. I really need to look into some workout that I'll be able to do here in house so I don't have to leave though the complex has a couple fitness rooms. Food today, nothing good. Need to make a plan for that, possibly for tomorrow. As for the money setup, I did happen to manage a couple things with that. I need to get two accounts with a certain major financial organization to merge so I can have all my financial stuff with them under one name and password. The upside is that even though things are separate I'm getting things together more than I ever have. If I could get my credit score above x00 before mid-year I'd be beyond ecstatic! Time will tell on all. Hope your first weeks went really well!

So I know I was gone way too long, what happened to your foot Shay?