Asha Phoenix

A warm cup of peppermint tea for me, please.

I've also made it to Rivendell (July 24th). Haven't been on the forums in a while though. Hoping to hang out here more come next challenge.

Stacked push-ups 🐝

Elbow plank arm raises 🐝

side bends 🐝 side lunge with toe - I did 10 and then BabyG needed something and forgot to go back to them.

So far the only books I've actually finished this year are children's board books. 😅 Oh, the joys of having a little one! I think one of my favorites that gets read often is called The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen. It's such a cute book and currently the only one that holds BabyG's attention.

60 knee to elbow 🐝

side bends 🐝 Was a nice "I don't really want to workout" motivator!

I did a thing!

I mentioned this on my challenge thread, but I need to take a break from challenges for a little while. This challenge kinda fell apart on me and I'm hoping that just taking time to reset will help. Planning to pop in here every so often. Hope y'all are doing well.

Doing alright. I'm not terribly busy, but trying to do anything with any goals has been major bleh.... I'm thinking I'm just going to call it quits and just take a break from challenges for a bit and regroup. I'll still probably pop in here and there, and might use my battle log a bit more, but won't be here as often.

It's been a crazy few weeks. 😕 I'm hoping to get back into things soon!!! Maybe play some catch up with the prompts and the BOOM! Wave of pictures! 😂 ......that was funnier in my head.... lol

Week Eight prompt: PUP

Love it!!!

Last week was a little crazy. It was really nice to visit with family, but in ways it was a bit stressful and we're glad to be home. I've been taking this week to catch up on sleep and decompress from last week, so challenge things haven't really been on my mind a whole lot, but I have been reading a little and I've been on top of my vitamins, so yay! My drawing has really been slacking the past few weeks, but I'm hoping to get back into it soon. I have picked up crocheting again recently though, so that's been fun.

Thank you! It was a nice visit, but we were definitely ready for home at the end of our trip! I've been reading Billy Graham's autobiography. I've enjoyed it so far, though I'm thinking I might need to find the end of this chapter and put it on pause for a little bit. There's a book a friend and I might be going through together soon and I don't know if I currently have the time/mental capacity to be going through multiple books at the same time. lol

Thank you! So far the trip has been good. We got some really nice visit time with Grandma this evening. Last night we went up to watch the superbowl (American football game) with D's dad and grandparents on that side. BabyG has been a bit shy this time, but seems to be warming up a bit.

Nope. Broken for me as well

I might be a little MIA for week one..... We're taking a trip to visit extended family on D's side. His grandma isn't doing too well and we're hoping that she's in her right mind when we visit.

New Challenge is up!

New Challenge is up!

Goals: ✏️ - This will be an ongoing goal/quest throughout this year. I'm working on the Inktober52 prompts as they come out weekly. Assuming I remember to put it here, I'm planning to share my art, but if it's not on my challenge thread, it will be here. 📘 - Adding a reading goal to help with finishing a big book I started. I'm listening to an audiobook here and there, but I've been enjoying a physical copy of an autobiography. It's a decent sized book and my goal is to finish it by the end of March, so we'll see what happens. 🧹 - Have a space I'd like to get organized, so I'm working on a list to check off throughout this challenge. ----------------------------------------------------------

Copied from first challenge: Challenge Wrap Up: 📵 - I'd like to really limit my screen time and focus more on spending time with different hobbies and things. Especially since we're hoping to have a house this year (2023) and I'll have more responsibilities around the house than just taking care of our little space. Things went pretty well with this until I switched over to my new phone and I have no clue how I'm actually doing with screentime, but I'm pretty sure it's more than I want it to be. Planning to find a better way to work on this in the coming weeks. 🍬 - I would also like to limit my sugar intake. It's been really bad, especially with the holidays. Eventually I'd like to work on junk foods in general, but figured I'd start slow. Didn't do terrible with this. Most weeks I only had a couple days where I had more sugar than I had planned for the day. Counting that as a success! ✏️ - This one is more of a "sidequest" type goal, but I'd like to check the Inktober52 prompts whenever they're posted and see if that's something I plan on participating in this year. I had planned on it this past year, but ended up not doing it. If I decide to participate, I'd like to work out a plan for what that will look like. Been keeping up with the prompts so far and I've been posting the pictures of my art over in the Inktober52 thread that a few of us have been using. It's been fun seeing how different everyone's art is depending on how they view the prompt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall, I think things went pretty well this challenge. I think my biggest thing I'd still like to work on is having a good spot to set my phone while I'm not using it so I'm not on it as much.

A strong cup of coffee for me, please!

Hope you feel better soon!