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This challenge will be almost a replay of the previous one for me. During this challenge I will have a 2 weeks vacation which I will spend skiing, hiking and visiting my parents and family. I want to keep the daily practice also those time, but if instead of doing my kata I end up rolling on the floor with the kids, I will consider my deal done for the day (both handstand and kata). Daily rain The only part where I succeeded was the daily kata practice, which I will make "more difficult" this round. This time I am raising the bar to 5 kata or 10 minutes of single techniques (or short combinations) practice + 2 CON, + 2 DEX, + 2 STA The roots in the sky Same as previous challenge, every day I am dedicating 5-10 minutes to handstand + 2 DEX, + 1 STR Seeds I am re-adjusting the teaching side of this challenge: it should depend only on me if I can succeed or not, not on my students. I am reserving 30 minutes 4 times each week (but the 2 when I am on vacation). If nobody show up I have the books of Trias Sensei (founder of Shuri ryu) to read, to strengthen my knowledge of the theory behind the stile + 2 CHA, + 1 DEX, +1 WIS Changing leaves (life quest) Last time I failed in getting in touch with a local lawyer, so here it is +2 WIS As last time, there is a spreadsheet for me to track my activities

Hellooooo!!! OMG I have MISSED you all and am SO excited to be back!! (running around the room [forum] giving everyone hugggsss!!!! This is challenge #3 for me. Challenge 1 - fizzled, but learned to love NF community Challenge 2 - awesome, but life pulled me away from my NF family support system Challenge 3 - going to be the best yet! I am so ready to roll and have kept super active working out between challenges which is a huge victory for me - I'm doing it because I want to do it and it makes me feel good (whoa - this is what people talked about and I was like, "yeah right, feels real great" and I'm finally there too!!). I am not changing my goals a great deal from last time - just tweaking them to fit the things I have found that are working for me. While I feel the last challenge went great - I wasn't as successful as I was shooting for, so the goals still haven't been fully accomplished. 1. Diet: Paleo - (learning from last challenge continues) [con 3 | wis 1] make large amounts of meat on Mondays (my day off) to be used for the rest of the weekwell planned meals (do this on Sunday/Monday) laid out for the weekkeep snacks at work and bring my lunch (this is a huge need if I’m going to be successful)try 1 new recipe/weekconsider 65% success 2. Fitness: Swim 3 days/week *with the option to change to other cardio* [dex 2 | sta 2] Swim on Monday, Thursday mornings, and Saturday after January 17 (can't swim now - just got a new tattoo (my first)!!!!)keeping track of laps and time swamthis is to get in shape while preserving my joints so one day I can runAlternate activities: SKI (soooo happy to live in snow when I'm skiing!!), elliptical, walk, TurboFire DVDsrecord activity on my battle log 3. Strength: Bodyweight Workout 2 days/week [str 2 | con 1] I would LOVE upper body strength and sexy armsAssisted pull ups (today 7/5) goal 10/10Assisted dips (today 8/4) goal 10/10Planks (today 50s/20s) goal 90s/30sFocus on good formbuild reps up SLOW so I don’t re-injure my rhomboid muscle strainUltimate goal for later challenge – real push-ups and pull-upsrecord activity on my battle log 4. Life Level UP – help organize & run a fundraiser [wis 2 | cha 2] My 5 yr old daughter's friend (and our next door neighbor) was just diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumorvisit her caringbridge site if you like http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/evahoabyThis is my level up because I will be spending an enormous amt of time on it and I know I'll ignore any other goal I set hereI will kiss a$$ on this one because it means so much to me so in a way it feels like an "easy" goal. I am already emotionally drained because this family is close to me and I cry every time I think of sweet Eva (and her family) going through the worst situation a parent can imagine. The benefit will be done in 3 weeks. I'll think about other life level ups to add on then.Okay. Crying at work. Again. Boo. (shouldn't be doing this at work in the first place ) It is so weird how many times I thought of all of you during the past few weeks when I wasn't stopping in to update. I would sort of shake my head to clear it when I would be driving to work wondering if my friends were doing okay here - just seems sort of crazy that a virtual community could get to be real people that I care about! [And special thanks to Laurelye for coming to find me!] Can't wait to come check out everyone's goals and meet all sorts of new friends!! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!! BE AWESOME!!! Ohh... starting stats: weight: 242lbs (lost 9lbs overall since challenge 1) height: 5'7" waist: chest: hip: