Asha Phoenix

Side leg raises 🐝 I agree 😅 could feel all the tight muscles.

The snow is mostly melted and it's starting to warm up a little bit. Today is going pretty good. I don't really feel much motivation to do anything today. Already feeling the pull of the weekend. Hoping to get dishes done before D gets home from work though. Small group was canceled tonight, so I'll have more time to work on some things around the house. Got in a workout today and it felt really good to get some movement in. Planning on doing some stretching a little later, cause I realized how tight everything is right now. I didn't do well on sugar yesterday. Stress ate sooooo much chocolate! 🫣 I did vocalize the need to talk about a couple things with D, so it's at least out there and not fully in my head anymore, so that's a good thing. Emptied a bin yesterday too! Found a library book that I guess has been weeded out of their system, and they can't see if it was one I paid for or not, but said I can keep it. Which is cool, but my bookshelf is buried in bins right now, so it'll go into the pile with the other books waiting for their place on the shelf. Acquiring items and growing the party:

Working on a card for a friend's wedding this weekend.

Aaaaaand we have more snow. It's not all that bad, but it's way too cold outside for having just been in the low 70'sF yesterday. That's kinda made my mood a little bleh. Today has been pretty good, but I'm feeling pretty drained. Spent most of my morning getting ready to leave the house, then got to where I was supposed to be watching one of my friends' kids and there was a new bus driver for her school and they were around an hour late in getting home. (I guess the parents of the kids on the bus were NOT happy, rightfully so, and this isn't the first time he's gotten lost/taken a long time to get the kids home.) Other than that, we had fun, but BabyG didn't take her nap. Too much going on around her for her to settle. And was pretty grumpy by the time D came to pick us up. Ate out for supper, which I'm thankful for. Still have some dishes to do that I neglected yesterday, but less than I would've had. Doing okay with sugar this week. Got some clothes taken care of in our room yesterday. Hoping for some sunshine for tomorrow. Maybe my shopping trip this week will be full of excitement as it has been for Ember and Cora:

The weekend was really nice. We went to my parents' for lunch Sunday and a couple young people from church came over too. It was nice to get to know them a bit more. This morning has been pretty good so far. I feel like I'm just getting a really slow start to my week. Taking yesterday as a rest day was really nice.... ....and lined up really well with the Quest Calendar:

Week Two Review: ✔️ Phone usage was down from the previous week! Not by much, but it's a start. Put a new app on there yesterday though, and that was not a good thing time wise.... ✔️ Sugar - 5/7 - Only had a couple poor days where I ate too much sugar. ❌ Boxes - 0/5 - Did not touch the boxes at all. 😕 Really hoping to do better with that this week.

The past few days have been pretty good. Have been enjoying the sunshine and the warmer weather. It's getting colder this weekend though. Today has been good. A bit tiring though. Went to the library and hung out for a while. The librarian who did story time Wednesday was there and remembered BabyG, so that was fun. It was pretty empty aside from a few gradeschool boys playing games on the computers, and BabyG enjoyed running back and forth between the toys in the kids section and D where he was on the computers in the adult section. I don't think I've touched boxes once this week.... Phone time has been a little better since I put on the time filters for the games I have and have been sticking to that pretty well. Sugar intake has been pretty good this week as well. Encountered a boss battle:

Plank hold 🐝

Yesterday was good. Spent most of the day at my parents' with just myself and BabyG, who has recently started saying "baby". I can't believe how big she's getting and how fast time flies!!! Today has been good. Went to the library for story time, baked some bread (white and banana), and finished laundry from yesterday. Didn't get to the boxes I wanted to today, but also know I have to clean the main floor since my sister and her hubby are coming over tomorrow night. My jar of citrus is super close to being vinegar, so I'm kinda excited about that. Just have to figure out what I'm going to use it for. Spent some time outside too! It was in the 50's(F) today, and I'm not ready for the colder weekend. Enjoying the sunshine though! Some more wandering:

Absolutely!!! One fun thing I like about our new library is on the print out for the books I check out it tells me how much money I'm saving by checking out the books instead of buying them. Our trip Monday, with 5 small baby board books, saved us $43!!! BabyG enjoys story time there too! This is sad. 😕 I'm sorry that a place that should be special has been ruined.

Yesterday was a good day. Our church has recently moved to two services, so everyone is still getting used to that, but it's been going pretty smoothly so far. D had a thing in the afternoon, so BabyG and I hung out while we waited, and I got some time to work on my cross stitch while she slept. Today has been a good day. D has the day off, so we went to the library this morning and hung out for a while. Really enjoying that, and hoping we continue to frequent the library. Did some exploring today:

Week One Review: ❌ Phone - screen time was up from the previous week, so that's not a great thing, but I think I know what the culprit was and I'm going to try to limit my use of the new game I put on my phone. ✔️ Sugar - 6/7 - Did really well with sugar! Either had none or only a small amount all but one day, which was a day that I indulged cause emotions. ❌ Boxes - 1/5 - Apparently, I didn't touch the boxes as often as I thought I had..... Got through quite a bit the day I did work on them though, so I'm not overly torn up about that.

It was so nice!

Looks like some great goals! How have they been going? Screen time is a difficult one for me too. Similar goals as you for that one this challenge.

Yesterday was good. I didn't get to boxes, but went shopping and packed for an overnight at my parents'. Spent the evening with our small group. It was really nice to see people, and it was nice to see the fam afterwards. Glad that mom and my brother are feeling better. Today has been good. Found out this morning that dad wasn't feeling good after he went to bed last night, so hoping he doesn't have what mom and little bro did. Because of that though, morning plans changed and my sister didn't come over. (Understandable, since she and her hubby live with his parents and her mom-inlaw has a weakened immune system.) D and I ended up getting a date morning because of the change of plans, which was really nice. We went to breakfast and the library. Poor BabyG got a pretty late nap though. Haven't had much sugar today, and will check on phone time closer to when I go to bed. Ember and Cora have started their adventure:

It's been a good couple days. Phone usage has been more than I would like it to be. Though, I think I'm going to have to go in at some point and look at how things are split up, since I use it for things like music and stuff that I don't want to count towards my usage time. Today has been pretty good. Didn't go shopping this morning because I woke up to snow and just decided to go tomorrow instead. Hopefully we don't get more snow, cause I'll just have to deal with it at that point.... Got through a couple boxes today and put a couple more in my room to sort through. Finally feel like I'm making some progress on that. D's dad asked about coming up next month, and I'd love for that to happen, but that also means that I need to have that room somewhat organized/cleaned out before then. Got a couple days of leveling up:

Not sure where they came across it, but I had seen @Artemis Prime and @Cheetah talking about it in the Discord server, and I guess looking back now I see @Sylvaa had mentioned it prior to that as well. It's been a lot of fun! They have calendars from '21, '22, & '23 as well. I don't know if they have physical copies of those still, but you can get the PDF version.

Today has been a good day. Got some dishes done, and made a pot pie for supper. Did well with sugar today, but didn't get to the boxes. Picked a character to use for the rest of the year:

I was about 1.5 weeks behind before Saturday, and played catch up. It was fun to spend more time with it than the small time each day, but I think going through it as fast as I did made it so I didn't get a good feel for the last two characters and didn't connect with them super well.

Elbow plank arm raises 🐝 Get-ups 🐝

I've started keeping a small trash bucket in my vehicle to help with cleaning and longer trips where trash would otherwise end up in unwanted spaces. It's helped a lot with cutting down on the unwanted trash in the vehicle.

Finished listening to Unbroken a few days ago. Really enjoyed how it was written. The reality of everything that happened was eye-opening, and the end brought some tears to my eyes. As heavy as the topic could be sometimes, there were definitely parts that made me laugh.

Ah, yes....speaking from relatively recent experience, toilets with teeth are awful monsters! Squash that monster before it grows!!! 😂

It's been a decent week so far and I'm happy with my sugar choices so far this week. Aside from either yesterday or the day before when I kinda binged on sugar cause emotions. Got through some smaller boxes in the extra bedroom, which felt good. BabyG had a rough night last night. It's been a bit of a bummer of a day, but it's not been awful. We were planning on going to my parents' tomorrow, but most of them are sick rn, so we're staying home. Maybe we'll go outside or find a park or something. Idk. Finished reading Unbroken yesterday and started a new audiobook. Caught up on the Quest Calendar and working on making a custom character: