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Hello all. I am back again. So last challenge started to get away from me, and I thought I was doing okay. And then my world was rocked. Most details in the spoiler, but basically, my dad died suddenly at the end of Aug. We had 3 days of life support and that was it as warning. My semester for my school had started on Monday and he passed on Friday. I have been behind the curve ball ever since. I quit crap job (even if they were being asses when I did) but in a way it feels like another loss since I had been there 20 years. No matter what, it still feels like a loss of another family. My current world, is well, out of control. Since the call, my house has been on the back burner, my school has been too. I am pretty much in charge of estate stuff and taking care of my mom who is not okay, while fielding calls from the peanut gallery. I am finally sort of caught up, but taking care of me got thrown to the sideline. New job has been great, and have tried to tell me to go home a couple of times, but I would rather work that sit at home and go crazy since I am stuck waiting to do things until other people are ready. This post isn’t making much sense, and I suppose I don’t right now. But I need to do 4 things right now, and I have no other idea how to do it. A) Care for Agents and Mom B ) School C) Estate D) Care for Bean My dad died being my dad. He was too busy caring for everyone else, working, doing what he could and put himself last. He always thought he had a later. There wasn’t one. So I need to stop this circle, especially with how many people are relying on me. So I am going to keep working, but I need to fit all that into my already filled days. This challenge will be stupid easy, mostly because I can’t do hard right now. I want to go back to where I was even 3 months ago, but that’s not realistic. I have a new job, the Agents changed schools, and now extra pressure that I need to help figure out how we move on from here without my dad. So the hope is, I do the easy stuff. I don’t want to push too hard since the last 10 days have been really bad. Time to get my feet under me and hope I can help where I can. There may be talk of my frustration with all of it. The fact I haven’t even really had time to process doesn’t help. But by taking a few minutes back, to do a dumbed down “you did this before” Challenge, I can get some traction and go from here. So no fun gifs, no fun theme, just me trying to put things back together with superglue, duck tape, string and splinters. Challenge below, same format. I would love to do more than 20, but some days, that may be enough. Any support or reminders to get my act together are more than welcome. Goal Value Description Strength 1 Balance ball crunches 1 Squats 10 1 Wall Sit (sec) 1 Side kicks Do 2 1 Leg lifts 2 1 Reverse sit ups 1 sit ups 1 Knee to Elbows 1 Push ups 1 Balance Ball push ups Flexibility 1 Wrist Extension Stretch 12 1 Upward dog/Child pose 1 Meditating Groot 1 Lord of the dance Yoga (ankle above head) 1 Butterfly 1 Bridge Do 4 1 Ballet/toe Touch 4.00 1 Sitting Fix/Shoulder stretch 1 Warrior 1 1 Warrior 3 (Eagle bird thing) 1 Side stretch 1 Forward bend Life and Family 1 Play with Cats 1 NF time 1 Water the garden 1 Soak up the sun 15 1 Spend time with Agents 1 Harvest 1 Walk the garden 1 Plan 1 Be in bed by 11:30 1 Floss in morning Do 5 1 Floss before bed 1 Work on estate stuff 5 1 One good thing 1 Write one thank you card 1 Homework time daily Fight Chaos 1 Pennisula/Island Clean all these daily 1 Table / Half wall 8 1 Desk 1 Bathroom up 1 Clean off file cabinet Do 2 1 Bathroom down 2 1 Clean off door to basement 1 Clean off Dresser At least 5 minutes per room (at least one) 1 Garage 1 Front room 1 Computer room 9 1 Basement 1 Clean 1 thing in file cabinet do 2 1 Clean off nightstands 2 1 Counter over dishwasher 1 File 1 thing a day 1 Purge 1 thing a day Walking 1 Walk 10500 steps 4 1 Walk 15 minutes a day 1 1 7 hours with 250 steps do 1 1 Walk to Mordor Fuel 1 No eating after dinner 13 1 No stupid sugar 1 Track breakfast 1 Track Second breakfast do 4 1 Track Elevensies 1 Track lunch 1 Take Probiotic 4 1 < 3 bottles of tea 1 Eat Bananas Daily 1 Eat dried Apricots 1 Eat Breakfast 1 Eat Lunch 1 120 oz of water 71 Did I complete 5 minutes in room Total points for day 20.00