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Mail is the worst! Great job keeping up with your goals!!!!

Heyyyy So many great things here! Great jon with moseration of booze! Your breakfasts sound DELICIOUS!!! And I love that fall inspired flower arrangement! Have fun on your bike with your fancy new seat, and keep rocking on!!

You got this!!!! I'm cheering for you!!

How's your week going??

Thanks for the link to those core exercises!! Great job on your workouts!!!

So excited for you!!! Love to see the creative goals you're working toward!!

Sorry for your loss! Here to support an autopilot challenge!

Sorry to hear about Lottie! Thinking about you!!!

You go, you writing badass!!!

Hello sleep needing buddy! We got this!!

Hey Rho, sorry to hear about your dad! Good luck with your challenge!!

Hello from one simplicity embracer to another!!! Hope it goes well!

I know I'm a whole week late, but as a person who just did a meal prep service for 9 months because I did not have the mental energy to shop or plan, it's a bit pricy, but it's a great short-term solution, and was worth it to me for the time and effort I saved planning and prepping. And now I have like 70 recipe cards, and I can make an array of healthy, planned meals for cheaper by buying the ingredients myself. Good luck!!

Congrats on a great 0 week SHAARRRR!!! I love all of this (especially deadlifts and cute cat pictures!!!!)

I am here for this!!!! You are lifting heavy and kicking ass!!

I feel this so hard. It's summer and I'm barely keeping up! But I am ALWAYS HERE FOR SOME SHAAAAAAAAAR! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!! (I must have missed this in my months off) Goof luck with your challenge!!!

Sorry about the traffic and that you had to use PTO to make up for it! Good luck on your continued organization quests!!!

Thank you!!! We laughed so hard at the first attempt and how crooked it was. Luckily, it was easy to loosen the screws and fix it. Thank you!!! Thank you! The last few days have been awesome, and I'm very excited to see them continue!! Good morning! My productivity streak continued into yesterday! I went out yesterday morning originally looking for a shelf to sit under my TV, but I came home with a 20 dollar shoe rack instead, and here's why I have been so motivated over the last few days, and I definitely think a lot of it has to do with signing the separation agreement and knowing that in 30 days, the divorce is all but over (beyond fixing our taxes and refinancing the house into my name...we have 60 and 90 days to do those things respectively). I have already emailed a tax professional (recommended by my lawyer) and paid off both vehicles (to get them out of my name) but I have to wait for those payments to clear before I can really make a move on the house (debt to income ratio and all). The nice thing is that I'm only taking over the mortgage (90k) because our house was valued at 265k in this market (which is nuts for a 1100sqft house even with all the upgrades we did). I can definitely afford it (especially with these other payments off my back) and live well within my means and save and invest for the first time in 8 years (which will be soooo nice). So, I need to figure out a simple, attainable, habit building food goal for this challenge because I circled back HARD to some poor eating choices in July when my emotions were everywhere. It also doesn't help that I don't have a microwave right now (it's bolted to the wall where the rats chewed the wiring) because it makes leftovers a PROCESS when I do cook, and I have just been eating out for lunch or skipping meals then overeating later. And my lack of discipline here is starting to impact my mental health and how I view my body. I think my best option right now is just to plan out my eating (for portion size sake) and to buy stuff that doesn't take much prep (sandwich stuff, salad ingredients, etc). I just need to get back on a plan so that food becomes a routine again and not an "on the fly" activity. Today's to do list: Email tax guy ACTUALLY FINISH THE FUCKING LAUNDRY 🙃 Plan meals for the rest of the week Anyhow, that's all I got! Happy Tuesday!

Is it puppy daaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy???? Don't cancel the interview! You deserve to have your work out in the world!!!!

I now have a gift sorted for SO MANY of my friends, ha. Great job adjusting your workout!!!!

Thank you for the support! I have had a lot of fabulous support here too! I know I’m doing the right thing!! This is the truth. So much. I know I made the right choice and I’m okay with it! Thank you! Me too! I am very ready to leave this chapter behind!! This is hilarious. While I won’t be doing anything like this, the mental image is awesome!!! Thank you!!! I’m loving that the next chapter is right around the corner!! This is what I keep reminding myself! I am so ready to get to December and get this officially and finally over it! This was my thought exactly. No regrets about my decision!! Thank you!!!! I have so much support and so much good in my life that it’s easy to move forward. Thanks for the poke. Signing the agreement has put me in a very productive phase. I have tackled a bunch of projects and had some great times with friends! Hey guys! I promise I haven’t abandoned you!! I have been busy making changes in my house as a kind of purge of emotions and and physical things that I want to be rid of. I have been hanging out a lot with my people too. I have so many great friends and it has been a very positive time. I’m very happy and life is good. Today’s list was…. 1. Mount the TV 2. Mow the lawn 3. Take out recycling and I accomplished it all with the help of my friend (who deserves equity in my house with all the help I have been given). Mounting the TV was an insane adventure. Pictures in the spoilers of our (mis)adventures. We finally got it right, but the studs gave us some real issues and the first time we put it up it was so crooked! I’m happy with it though! I don’t need no man. I have great friends!! I hope everyone else had a great weekend!!

So, the divorce news came in, and it’s about what I was expecting. Basically, he decided to go nuclear since he wanted as much money as humanly possible (not so ironically, he spent our marriage jokingly calling me “chattel” and “moneybags”. There were SO MANY red flags, ha). He has been lying throughout this entire process, and there is really nothing I can do about that, so I made the decision that I was done letting him take up space in my brain. I did not send a return offer. I’m signing his offer later today, and the money I’m losing would never have been able to buy the emotional relief of never having to think about him again. It was always going to end like this…part of me knew this, and I’m at peace with it. He can spend the rest of his life bragging that he “won” our divorce like that’s something to be proud of, and I’m just gonna move on. So, the good news is I’m signing the agreement today (in 6 hours) and once he signs it, everything (asset switching, some repairs to the home) gets done in like 30 days and then I literally never have to deal with him again. I will not be in the house when he is there, but I am installing cameras. Because of this news, I got a little side tracked with my goals, and did not do any of them (but I did purchase and set up dog crates, so there’s that). Anyhoo, at least it’s done, so there’s that.

ha, we all say things like this. Tracking is such a drag! Following!!!

I'm sorry you're feeling so drained! Could you do a grocery delivery instead??

Sausage, bacon, black and white pudding, ketchup (some other things I'm sure) (It was perfect for hangovers) Great job giving yourself time and space to deal with difficult things and still keeping to your goals!!