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Woo! Time for another challenge! This already come up so soon and technically my challenge started...today! So here we go and let's get this all set up right away! No more being lazy and no more breaks! Just pure awesome to celebrate the greatness that is the revival of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000!!! Hi, I'm BlackTezca and I'm just another Artsy Geeky Amazon in glasses! I have had mistfortune in taking place in such horrible films as my debut in From Lurker to (Newb) Rebel! before continuing to take roles from Roger Corman in various C-movie SciFi plots listed in BlackTezca's Daily Battle Towards A Much Better Year before completely bombing in my latest flick, a supposedly legendary action epic of raspberry proportions BlackTezca's 18th Trail: An Artsy Geeky Amazon will fight! Will sacrifice! And will find a way! That's what humans do! Ooof that deserves some majot riffs from a crew that has experience and talent in tormenting themselves!! Oh last challenge was not that bad,,, Now though I have had my difficulties and challenges, I can still move forward. This week an an awesome movie (or what I hope to be awesome) comes out! Which not only goes well with this challenge, but also with my epic quest. I shall take on sleep, build up my eating and workout habits, power up my immune system, continue to make beautigul artwork, all of these things to march forward to become like my QUEEN! My inspiration! A showing beam of optimism in the pool of cynical, cliche, cookie cutter genre films! MY ULTIMATE QUEST!! MY QUEST WHICH IS...!!! My Main Quest is to be as POWERFUL and BATTLE READY as Wonder Woman Now for all that primer out of the way, let's get going into my awesome quest! A whole lot of crappy movies to watch and make fun of, so let's get the crew together for our united survival against the horrors of terrible films! First off I need some mug in a yellow jumpsuit...like Jonah-...uh oh. *Spoilers* *Spoilers* Details: So for this one, we're gonna start off small and do a challenge where I take some vitamins. I know I have mentioned veggies and I should do that, but I am lazy and I have vitamins in the house that would still do me some good. So this one is all for the sweet sweet vitamins so I can NOT GET SICK AGAIN! Contingencies: In case I go on vacation I'll need to account for this. But I have vitamins in the house so yay!Tracking: I'll be using MyFitnessPal ( username BlackTezca ) with extra accountability done here.Grading: A for Vitamins 5 to 7 days days a week - 10 exp ( 1 Con, 1 Wis ) B for Vitamins 3 to 4 times a week - 5 exp ( 1 Wis ) F for all else However I can't be alone with some phoney baloney guy from Gizmonic institute! It's time for a... Starting off with...!!! Cambot is ready to start rolling! Needs to have enough charge to power on though...Details: If in bed by 11:00 pm, set alarm to 6:00 am. If in bed by 11:16, set alarm to 6:15 am. If in bed by 11:31, set alarm to 6:30, so on, so forth. This is mostly for work days.Contingencies: No Contingencies. Sleep is sleep. Also, sleep policy does not apply on weekends nor holidays.Tracking: Use Fitbit for tracking and update this thread with the total time of sleep as well as when I fell asleep official compared to when I went to bed.Grading: A for 17 to 19 days of enforcement ( 20 pts - 2 Con ) B for 14 to 16 days of enforcement ( 15 pts - 1 Con ) F for all else Gypsy is a large sassy robot, perfect for solidifying my meals! Details: Let's do this again! This time with the sassy, spectacular gypsy to enourage me! Time to eat primalish most of the time! Aim for keeping carbs lowerish and upping my fat and protein! Along with intemittent fasting! LET'S DO THIS THING ONCE MORE WITH FEELING!!! Contingencies: Any visit to my in laws is prime time for disaster...So will be doing cheat days here. Holidays or special occasions can pop up!Tracking: I'll be using MyFitnessPal ( username BlackTezca ) with extra accountability done here.Grading: A for Intermittent Fasting, 9 pm to 12 pm, 5 to 7 days days a week, eating primal(ish) - 25 exp ( 3 Con, 1 Cha ) B for Intermittent Fasting, 9 pm to 12 pm, 3 to 4 times a week,eating primal(ish) - 20 exp ( 3 Con ) C for Intermittent Fasting, 9 pm to 12 pm, 2 times a week, eating primal(ish) - 15 exp ( 2 Con ) F for all else Tom Servo is a smart and smooth robot! If he was a human he would lift! Details: LET'S DO THIS AGAIN!!!! THIS TIME WITH STYLE!!! Once more let's try and up this a notch! If I aim for 5 days a week just focusing on doing short workouts too it still would be good right!? Right! Contingencies: Sickness and travel pretty much. However considering the flexibility here, I should be able to do something! Walking, yoga, etc!Tracking: I'll be tracking the workouts using MyFitnessPal ( username BlackTezca ) and this lovely thread will be updated as well.Grading: A for ANY workout (Kickboxing and Muay Thai included) 5 to 6 times a week - 25 pts ( 1 Sta 2 Dex 3 Str )B for ANY workout (Kickboxing and Muay Thai included) out 3 to 4 times a week - 20 pts ( 2 Dex 2 Str ) C for ANY workout (Kickboxing and Muay Thai included) out 1 to 2 times a week - 15 pts ( 2 Str ) F for all else Crow is different! Creative, snarky, dramatic, and different! Details: Crow is awesome and so artistic! Thus time to use him for my art quest! Expect to see some beautiful work here! Included sketches since I am trying out a brand new art program (Medibang!) which has some awesome brushes that look really similar to pencils! Nice! Makes me wanna sketch out a few things and stick with that, especially when I start doing commissions! So much fun here . Contingencies: The usual! Friends being in town, going on possible trips else where, etc. Can't bring my computer everywhere!Tracking: I have an art Tumblr and I also have DeviantArt (WATCH ME FOR ACCOUNTABILITY). I shall use those and this thread to keep track. Grading: A for Arting and Sketching at least 30 minutes 3 to 4 days a week - 20 exp ( 2 Cha ) B for Arting and Sketching at least 30 minutes 1 to 2 days a week - 10 exp ( 1 Cha ) F for all else I have all my robot pals, some mug form Gizmonic insitute and all of the fi;ms rounded up for insults!! Let's check out what I'm starting off with metric wise!! Starting Measurements: Date: 05/30/2017 @ <TBD> Weight: <TBD> ***Body Fat***: <TBD> Waist: <TBD> Waist @ Navel: <TBD> Hips: <TBD> Neck: <TBD> Chest: <TBD> Left Bicep: <TBD> Right Thigh: <TBD> Wrist: <TBD> Forearm: <TBD> Time to riff some movies and keep my sanity with my robot buddies! Let's move on to this nightmare world of known as my 19th challenge!! *** ***Awesome Summaries Index*** Week 1 Summary Week 2 Summary Week 3 Summary Week 4 Summary Challenge Summary

Last challenge the first few weeks went pretty decently. Then I got the flu. Like THE FLU. Like, a week on the couch drinking tea and shaking my fist angrily at the sky kinda flu. However, it was a chance to spend time catching up on my favorite MST3k episodes when I wasn't curled up in the fetal position stuffing cough drops into my face. If you haven't seen it, Space Mutiny is probably one of the top 3 (ok, MY top 3) MST3k episodes of all time (right behind Mitchell and Soultaker). Describe it, I just can't, so here. Watch this: And revel in Smash Lampjaw's endless amazing list of meathead names. Since I've returned to WA I've been working out at Globogym. No, really. If you read The Historical Annals of Bro-ness mine would be listed as the Ur-bro-gym. Just last week I heard one bro call another bro--who was doing curls a mere foot from the mirror--"pump daddy", for what I suppose were obvious reasons. It's Bosu shrugs and non-ironic muscle tees as far as the eye can see! And in a way I love it: the pure, shameless bro-ness of it all, so I've named my challenge accordingly. Quest: Be more meathead. You know, get strong and all that. Because when in Rome. This is pretty much a continuation of my last challenge, which has been all strength-based. Eat. Meat and vegetables. And whey. Since I've been doing crazy things in the last couple months like getting more sleep, meditating, working out regularly, and generally taking better care of myself, I've noticed that rather magically (dashing?) my usual late afternoon sugar cravings have kind of... disappeared. This is a great development, so I want to keep on track. +1 point for every day that consists of Paleo + Whey. Total points possible: 42 Train: Lift heavy stuff 3x per week. I'm still on a 12 week Starting Strength cycle (week 5 I believe?). Lifts as of this challenge: Squat - 80. So yeah, let's talk about this. Why am I squatting 80 and benching 75? It's taken a good month of trial and error, but I think it all boils down to hips that are weak as hell. My glutes aren't activating, leaving me to rely wholly on my quads while squatting, which is only making my generally anterior tilted posture even worse (not to mention causing some very uncomfortable hip pain coming out of the bottom of the squat). As a result I've been doing lots of body weight glute activation exercises and this does seem to be helping. Bench - 75 Deadlift - 145 Press - 60 Total points possible: 16 (why? I'll be out of town for two workouts. But I'll be working out. Story below.) Sleep: In bed by 10. Bam. Total points possible: 42 Repeat? This is the bucket for my sundry life goals that are on the plate for this challenge. -- I want to finish 3 books, per usual, so one point per book. -- I'll also be heading out in a week or so to Mt Rainier for a four-day backpacking trip with a good friend of mine, which is why I'll be missing two lifting days. It'll be around 50 miles total. Four points for finishing. And you know... -- Lastly, I've been spending some time ramping up on iOS (as a long time platform engineer this is a change for me) so I'd like to publish at least one app on the app store before the end of this challenge (worth 5 points). Total points possible: 12Each goal will be weighted to 25% of the total.