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A battle log, a b-log, blog: A Bringing Actual Thoughts To Life Entity on Living Online Grounds – of life, universe and everything (how I plan getting past the 42-mark). In other words a Respawn Project (but that doesn't sound like much fun to me). Somewhere in the deep archives of Nerdfitness there is a 2-3 year-old-introduction post. But since this is a story of new beginnings, I'll start rewriting a introduction: My tale started in 1990, about ten weeks early. When I was a kid I wanted to be a ballerina-artist-jockey-acrobat-composer-phototographer-martial-artist. But my body never handled excercice well, or anything else for that matter, and I probably still have the under-age record for pneumonia and bronchitis survival in Norway (which is were I'm from, by the way). Fast forward to spring 2014. Things got so bad I could barely think, let alone finish a degree at the University (or god forbid tell anyone I couldn't finish - the irony, I know). So eventually this somehow led to a coeliac diagnosis.Turns out I wasn't lazy, nor crazy, just malnourished . Bummer. And this is probably why body/mind had been screaming for as long as I can remember. So, this year I am turning 25. And I want a life. A life of joy, sparks, friends, connection, movement, art, and dancing-around-being-plain-silly. All the things I never got. Now is a good time as ever. And my goal for now is simple: not having 2015 as my worst year ever, and thus far it looks pretty bright. How I am doing this: 1) Avoiding evil gluten that is hiding bloody everywhere. 2) Finding new and old friends 3) Doing more of the things I love, but haven't done in ages because unlimited amounts of meh!. 4) Mapping other foods I must avoid for the time being, hoping to get them back into my life soon. 5) Making sure I get enough rest/sleep/down-time. 6) Practicing honesty, through nonvoilent communication. 7) Celebrating as many small wins as I possible can! 8) Working smarter, not more, with all-the-things-i-should-and-sometimes-love-doing 9) Exploring new things; food, interests, walks, games, gluten free beers and more. 10) And joining Nerdfitness, this time for real! This will be a place of jotting down, rambling and musing. Making notes to self about what works and does not. Perhaps not your usual battle log, but it will be mine:) In the long run I hope making it an entertaining read. Good luck on your journeys everyone!

Hi fellow Druids! During the last challenge I made a fundation of three good regulair habits; meditating every day, doing yoga at least three times a week, and writing through stuffs that is going on in my life. I'll keep doing this. However, this challnge I'll be focusing new things. Unstuckifying things that correspond with my work-in-progress plan of 2015: Unicycle: I've got the most awsome boyfriend ever, Mr. Piouscat, and last year he gave me a unicycle. And I've not mastered it yet. No, I downright s*ck at it, because I've not put down the work. This have to change, spring is here and what is more awsome than riding a unicycle? How: getting up on Lalaith (yes, that's her name) every single day (except from when I am house sitting at the end of this challenge), and do what I can. This will earn me three sparklepoints (***) Upside down: This is to some degree a metaphor for doing new things and building habits. The 21th of April will mark the start of this year's Summer holiday (sometimes you just have to love the world of academia), which will mean a lot of time for trying new things and catching up with friends and family. This year has been crazy busy, so I've barely had time for people. On the other hand I want to work with my inversions, yoga-wise. Because they are playful beasts in many ways, and bring new perspectives. I love handstands, headstands, shoulderstands and pretty much anything that turns the world (and it makes me clean the appartment more often, as breathing in piles of dust is slightly overrated). Anyways, my goal is to master Flash Prep (one leg up) by the end of this challenge. This a-symetrical pose is a real challenge for balance, (upper-) body strenght and awareness. AND I think working towards it will help my unicycling. How: Adding (some kind of) inversion to all my yoga sessions. This might be playing with a handstand or simply doing a Dangling (standing forward fold) in a yin sequence. Adding (at least) the flash prep hands to my "formal" three-times a week practice. Working towards 90 sec. side planks on each side. Doing all of these will add three sparke points (***) for each time practiced. Ukulele: starts April 21. The story of my beloved ukulele is pretty much the same as with the unicycle. Seriously, picking it up every day (and make sure it at least stays tuned) does make a big difference. Three sparkle points (***). University: starts April 21. Next year I'll start working on my MA theisis. And I need to re-take a class. This means that even though school is out, doesn't mean it's over. At least 10 min of dedicated work every day will do. This might mean brainstorming, writing emails to professors, banging head against the wall, or pondering about the inner workings of logistic regression. It's all good. Gives three sparkle points (***) Underground: starts April 21. I am a photographer (no, not my day job but never the less a photographer). And I love the darkroom, I love prints, I love printing! Both digital and the more old fashioned way. The darkroom fasilities of the Student Photography Club is under ground;) Goal: Work with printing at least four days a week. Gives three sparke points (***) each for each day. Bonus Any of the things from my past challenge gives one sparke point (*), e.g. meaning that a good yoga session will earn four points (****). For clarification: My goals are pretty open, by any means, and are based around a minimum of requirement rather than reaching some maximum of perfection. This is mainly because of past experiences with goal setting, and by now I know what works (for me) and not:) Right now I do yoga at home, sometimes guided by audio (soundcloud), video (mat2mat or youtube), making my own sequences or freeflow. Styles: strala, forrest and the occational yin I'll do the calculations later for max/min grades etc later:) . All kinds of encouragements, advices, cheering, smilies, likes, hugs and lurking are equally welcome . – Including words (in any language) starting with the letter U (I'll start: underfundig , one of many Norwegian words for stange Good luck everyone!

Hi! I'm Wolf. I had a short-lived career in the Druid Guild ages ago. But life happened, and I sorta quit the internet (yes, it is possible). However, now I'm here. And even though this challenge is ending soon, I'd rather join the rebellion pack, than running away into hiding (because of the shame of coming waaaaaay too late to a party). Collecting sparkle points part 1: Meditate every day. I did it for like a year and a half, and somehow managed to get rid of that habit. Now, it's time for a restart. Collecting sparkle points part 2: Practicing yoga at least three times a week. Only Forrest yoga or Strala yoga give sparkle points. Non negotionable. Collecting sparkle points part 3: Developing my own Very Personal Ads/Friday Chicken tradition. Meaning writing and thinking things through at least twice a week, which is pretty useful for lots of reasons. This time around I won't be doing the level/grades/stats thing. So yays! I'm here. And this is one step out of many on my trying-to-get-my-life-back-with-coeliac journey. And seriously, I want my life back. Or transforming it into something I can be proud of. On a side note, all of this will help supporting my MA in political science. 'Cause studying all day does not keep a person fit nor focused. Wish me luck!