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Last challenge I had a revamp mid-way through when I realized I'd misjudged the demand of my side quest. Big ol' duh on that one. Of course selling and moving is huge. In my defense, we pushed up the time frame a lot. Like by over a year. Once the idea was out in wild we kinda decided to chase it. So packing and moving overtook continuing education as priority. Easy enough. But this last week was a doozy. A major cold, then a huge allergy reaction to spring in general... Felt well, ran 6 miles easily for the first time, then somehow I contracted the plague. Yep, that plague. Tested positive yesterday, the day after the run. So far I'm just a little run down, but not any different from what I'd expect after last week. Fingers crossed it stays that way. That's what's up as of today. Let's look forward instead. This side quest; selling this house and buy another. We plan to transition where we live this weekend. We move to my parents place for the foreseeable future while we sell this house asap and then have some actual money and no contingencies to find a new house. I'm not concerned about living with my parents for a bit. They respect the roommate situation, not the parent/child situation. Here's the challenge. Learning how to apply all the skills I've learned through my main quest challenges to this side quest. I feel like the tutorial didn't sufficiently cover 'how to use this fancy magic or artifact in a highly unusual and specific situation.' Therefore the goals this challenge are deceptively simple. House stuff: - move living situation. Mostly this isn't too hard. Just need to keep clothing and toiletries available. Move MrC's wfh setup. The hardest part is move the sidekicks 🐶 🐱 - continue to move stuff out to the various basements available to us. Sometimes people are very generous like that! This is mostly a time challenge as all the basements are about an hour away. -get house on the market asap keep myself on track: -maintain the progress I've made reducing meat from my life and general nutrition upkeep. This could be a bit interesting. Breakfast and lunch will need to be on point since dinner will be a bit beyond my control, though not bad. Mom is good about balanced meals. -maintain fitness. Different challenges in that I'm losing my pull up gym and a great park for running. We'll see what happens. I had to put my DB Hero's Journey aside last week and this week. I will jump back in when I am able to do so safely. -Don't drink more! I've worked so hard to reduce alcohol and don't want to backslide. If I do it right, mom will follow my lead. other happenings: -wedding 2.0 on May 21 -try to find a house when we can -start my machine tech apprenticeship in earnest No points this time around. I don't know how I'd assign points! Instead I will do a simple checklist in my planner and try to keep up here as I can.

Ayup. Not a damned clue. I suspect I'll just be rambling. Maybe crosspost my workout logs in here from my battle log. But since I got tossed into FUNemployment last week, my brain is just focused on surviving. For the moment, I made a few key decisions on how to tackle my current predicament. One, I still need to watch what I eat - my goal is to be below 200 pounds or 15% body fat by the time Camp rolls around. Totally doable. So eat well, work out. Goal is two workouts a day, barring either a heavy workout (read: Stairs) or holding back because of an injury-feeling thing. Two, I need to get some adulting out the way. Like getting my car inspected. You know. The car I've been saying get inspected for like, 8 challenges now. I also need to clean the apartment and prepare for a new roomie, and cleaning my room would be great. Three, the actual job hunting is going to be a bit more lax this time. I burnt myself out job hunting last time, looking/hunting for 10 hours a day most of the time. So I'm going to tackle it one search engine at a time. Exhaust them for things that look interesting, and then call it a day. My goal is to keep sanity moving. Not burn out. And maybe come out in a better, slightly more stable place than before. Oh, and get a bunch of aikido classes in. Or maybe the phone call I have scheduled on Friday is a job offer, and I don't even really need to worry about this stuff. Like I said. No idea what's going on. -------- Some Guidelines to follow for myself during the challenge: -Two physical activities per day -At least one productive Adulting task -Drink at least 4L of water during normal work hours, excluding water consumed during/immediately prior to working out -Eat ~1300 calories prior to aikido