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HELLO FRIENDS After months of feeling like a binbag of old mashed potato perpetually falling down a grimy up-escalator in a dimly lit subway station, I am BACK and FANTASTIC and so very ready to completely obliterate the next six weeks. GOAL ONE: SWIM - Three hour-long swims a week - As many laps full-speed as possible with good form - Record that junk. - Bonus: go swim in the sea so that snorkelling gear I bought can be tested out GOAL TWO: CREATE FRUIT SNOW LIKE SOME SORT OF TROPICAL ICE GOD - Prepare lots of delicious, delicious kiwi, pineapple, mango, blah blah blah - Freeze it in convenient bags - Every day, put some in the juicer and watch as the magical blades of death turn it into fruit snow - Eat the fruit snow - Do not put rum in the fruit snow unless it's a Friday night. GOAL THREE: 1500KCAL A DAY - YOU HAVE DONE THIS MANY TIMES BEFORE - SHUT UP - DO IT - NO MORE - NO LESS - NOT RUM - NO GUESSING - WRITE IT DOWN - WEIGH IT UP - STOP WHINING - AAAAAA GOAL FOUR: STOP TALKING ABOUT GOING OUT TO DO MARINE SCIENCE, GET OFF YOUR BACKSIDE, AND GO DO SOME MARINE SCIENCE - WHAT TIME IS IT - I'M STILL AT WORK - NOT RIGHT NOW - BUT LATER - Go to the sea, conduct a basic benthic quadrat survey by taking photos along a line transect, and calculate the diversity of the visible organisms along that transect. - I don't care if the data can't be used for anything - I don't care if I can't actually identify the organisms perfectly - The point is, it is really irritating listening to myself banging on and on about all the things I want to do, and then watching myself sitting down and knitting in front of the telly, watching Blue Planet and dreaming. Dreaming is for when you are asleep. Go DO SOMETHING. AAAAAA. Points Available: 1: +2 STA, +1 STR 2: +4 CON 3: +4 CON 4: +2 WIS, +2 CHA Smart goals? - Uncomplicated - Quantifiable - Achievable - nothing I haven't already shown I can do before. Just got to avoid getting lazy. Further motivation: - Mama wants a drysuit - Mama is too fat for a 5ft 3 drysuit - Mama is too short for a fits-round-my-fat-bits drysuit - Mama is not willing to pay for a custom drysuit - Mama also wants a reasonably priced 7mm wetsuit. Monitoring: - I found my gold star stickers - Nothing beats a big paper chart with gold star stickers. THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN.