Search the Community

Alrighty, then! The past weeks have shown me that when life gets busy, some things just don't work on auto-pilot yet. Like keeping the Sugar Monster in check. Or taking care of myself. Since things will still be quite busy for me in the immediate future, I'll keep the first two goals from the last challenge: 1. Keep the Sugar Monster at bay +2 CON +2 WIS Again I'll aim for 21 out of 42 days without any added sugar / sweets / candy / cake / desserts... As before, fruit and reasonable amounts of honey or maple syrup are allowed. 2. Keep moving +2 STA +2 DEX My KB class will continue until the end of August, so for the time being I aim for 4 exercise points / week: 2 KB classes + 1 yoga class + 1 x practice at home. If the Drill Master decides to really make me work, as he sometimes does, I'll count that too. 3. Get Rosie in better shape +2 WIS +2 CHA And since I'll still be taking care of Rosie, I want to make sure that I spend some quality time with her and not just do her room service. I'd like us to have a little fun together, and maybe even up her current fitness level a little. She is overweight (not sure how much I can change that over the next six weeks), has not much stamina (why would she - before she came to stay with us she had pretty much a quite extended vacation...) and is used to bad posture. So I'd like to work with her at least a bit on both posture and on elevating her fitness level a bit. Depending on external factors (such as weather, horse fly season etc.) I'd like to work with her at least once a week on stamina (lunge line, walks) and once a week on mobility and posture (ground work / work in hand, stretches etc.). But since this is heavily influenced by factors I can't control, I won't grade this goal. I aim for 6 fitness sessions plus 6 posture sessions, but I won't beat myself up if we don't reach that goal for reasons other than my laziness. 4. Keep that old brain working +2 WIS +1 CHA For a while now I've been wanting to brush up my French - which I haven't really used since High School. Which is a looong time ago now, and also seems like a galaxy far, far away. I'd like to make things as easy as possible for this, so I've decided on reading a book we read back then in school. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Ash said she'd be so kind to keep me company with this project. I hope we can fit those 27 short chapters somewhere in these 6 weeks. I'll be reading the German version side by side with the French, in the hope that I won't need to look up every other word and thus take forever reading it... More on grades and stuff will follow later. In the meantime: ALLONS-Y! And of course... WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM???!!!