Bean Sidhe Vs Chaos - Growing and Fighting Zombies

[Bean Sidhe]

Last challenge went well. I saw data points that tend to make me believe I am making progress. I feel better and the house is coming along. Will it be in a magazine tomorrow? Uh no, and probably never, but the way I am working towards it, it is less likely to make me embarrassed if someone comes over unannounced, or it gets in my way while doing things.  Plus as I realized last night, I am no longer playing catch up with school, I am ahead by almost 2 weeks in one class and well on time with the other. This means, I really am starting on an even playing field.
 

Am I where I would like to be? No. But I am trying to focus on getting there. My path is becoming clearer, and while it is still fairly overgrown with shrubs and trees and hard to see, it’s getting better.

 

I made it through the rebuilding process. I have a fairly strong foundation now. I am drinking my water and I am doing my exercises. So, while I can’t for the life of me come up with fun names for my goals or a way to geek them out with gifs and things, I am going to make it simpler and focus on the task at hand. Gifs can come later in the posts for fun and well and break in the “Man, Bean updated another novel” posts.

 

Which, I am also going to try and update with a table this time. I am getting tired of the novels too.  I am also going to have 2 parts again since that worked well last time to remind me I am not exactly doing nothing over here and when I did my final update, it showed me how much I really have done. So expect that too.  

 

 

I lied. I am going to have a theme for my goals or rules as I will call them this challenge. They are stolen from Zombieland since it sounded like fun for once. The challenge for me starts on 10/17/17 since I am too tired to start it today.

 

 

RULES:

·         Rule 1: Cardio: (1 pt) – Since I am hitting my step goal on all the days but weekends, I am increasing my goal to 10500 steps. Hopefully this will also force me to work a bit harder on the weekends.

·         Rule 2: Double Tap (2 pts) – This is to double Tap the sugary sweets that keep appearing. I don’t need them. I get 2 points if I completely avoid them, one if I had just 1.

·         Rule 3: Beware of Bathrooms (1pt):  This one comes down to the keep it clean. I have gotten better about a good chunk of the house, but I can check the downstairs bathroom daily too. Or at least the vanity

·         Rule 8: With Your Bare Hands (1 pt): So bad name, but generally, keep working on my exercise and do a new exercise the basic burpee. The mini last challenge showed me how bad I am at them. I am hoping to get 25 of them by the end of the challenge.

·         Rule 11: Use Your Feet (1 pt) –I would like to aim for 15 minutes a day of walking. Be it outside in the world (which is preferred) or inside on the treadmill since the weather is starting to get a bit unpredictable.

·         Rule 13: Shake it Off (1pt): My carpal tunnel from 10-15 years ago has started to raise its ugly head. So I need to start doing some exercises and stretches to ward it off. I can’t find any of my old PT info on it, but I did some looking and I will be trying to work on the Wrist Extension Stretch at least once a day.

 

·         Rule 14: Always carry a change of underwear (1pt): Laundry is getting done, but not folded and then I get children in the morning complaining they have no pants, no underwear, no sweaters. This should help cut down on the “lack of pants” problem.

·         Rule 17: Don’t Be The Hero (1 pt): – The Agents need special time too. By making a point to spend time with them, I almost kind of get to be their hero. Maybe. OR I lie to myself that works too.

·         Rule 18: Limber Up (1 pt) : Continue my stretching. It is fixing things and I need to keep it that way, especially when sitting all the time. Add a new stretch (which is the one I will be counting) is called Knee to Chest. Hopefully it helps (if I can get my knees to my chest).

·         Rule 19: Break it Up (1pt):   This will be my conquer chaos goal. I am going to leave it at 3 locations. If I do more, great, (and I will probably leave the stars as extra incentive), but I need to spend at least 5 minutes working in that room a day. Since the weather is turning bad, I will be doing my bedroom instead of the garage, along with the computer room or the basement.  

·         Rule 22: When in Doubt, Know Your Way Out (1 pt): – In this case it means know what has to get done, what should get done and what can wait if it’s getting late. A plan is SO important in my life, I need to make sure I am making it.

·         Rule 27: The Buddy System (2 pt) – For my partner, I am recruiting all of you here at NF. You will be accounting systems when I don’t update and I will be there to remind you that you’re someone’s kid too. (This may have made more sense in my head)

·         Rule 32: Enjoy The Little Things (1pt): This is my favorite rule from the entire movie. I need to take a minute to enjoy. To remember the good things going on and not the bad. So I will be posting 1 good thing that happened each day. This way, it should help me keep the trolls in my head in check.

                         Total points overall : 15

 

 

Part B:

            Life is not slowing down for me to get myself under control. So I need to do all of this while doing everything else. I am sure more will come up as I think about it, but here is the top level stuff. These are things I know must be done between now and when challenge ends:

 

 

Things that have to get done this challenge:

• Get my challenge posted
  • Sort out Challenge info
  • Figure out start date for the challenge ( I may start early)
  • Update bullet journal
  • Get challenge set up in journal
  • Set up grid/table/something (excel)
• Finish preparing to bring plants in over the winter
• Spend time with Hubby's family that is coming into town
• Halloween costumes
  • planned
  • Create/build acquire
• Halloween Party at Youngest school
• Help at Youngest’s school
• Parent teacher conference week Eldest
• Parent Techer conference Youngest
• Clean out beds for garlic
• Compost beds for garlic
• Plant garlic?
• Girl scout Sleep over
• Decide when to pull the garden
  • Pull last of garden in back
  • Pull garden in front
• Make a Proper List of doom
• Make Calendar of world for Agents in November
• Start Christmas lists for Agents
• fix my car's glass hinges (stupid things rusted)

 

 

 

 

[J3NN]

I'm here! I love your theme! Love that movie and the rules are great guidelines for life, Zombies or no.

 

Let's see what happens this time, go get em Bean!

[Wobbegong]

Here and following!

 

Very, very curious about your rule numbering system. 

[fleaball]

Lurking!

[Bean Sidhe]

9 hours ago, J3NN said:

I'm here! I love your theme! Love that movie and the rules are great guidelines for life, Zombies or no.

 

Thanks, I was writing my challenge and trying to come up with witty titles for the goals. Rule 1 Cardio got stuck in my head, and I decided to see if I could make them all work. Who know I could

 

9 hours ago, J3NN said:

Let's see what happens this time, go get em Bean!

 

This is it exactly. I was actually kinda sad this wasn't a rule I could use.

[Bean Sidhe]

7 hours ago, Wobbegong said:

Here and following!

 

Very, very curious about your rule numbering system. 

 

Thanks for following.

The rules are from a movie called Zombieland where this nerdy kid comes up with rules to survive the zombie outbreak. I pick and chose which rules I wanted (and how they worked with my challenge) since things like "wear Seatbelts" didn't really apply.  Besides, in the movie the rules are kinda given to you randomly.  Not going to lie, I really kinda love the movie because it is a good "Shut the brain off" type of movie.  Oh and Bill Murray is in it, as himself.. well until that joke went bad. Full set of rules (not the ones I found, but they are easier to read) are in the spoiler.

 

Spoiler

 

[Bean Sidhe]

7 hours ago, fleaball said:

Lurking!

 

Glad to have you, You are always welcome here.

[zeroh13]

I've never seen Zombieland, so I'm just going to pretend I know what's going on. But nice goals! You've got this!

 

[Bean Sidhe]

27 minutes ago, zeroh13 said:

I've never seen Zombieland, so I'm just going to pretend I know what's going on. But nice goals! You've got this!

 

 

That is fine, have them be rules instead of goals is probably as far as I will go with the theme. I am not that creative

[Wobbegong]

4 hours ago, zeroh13 said:

I've never seen Zombieland, so I'm just going to pretend I know what's going on. But nice goals! You've got this!

I'm in the same boat. But it looks funny, maybe I'll watch it!

 

And thank you for the rules list, that cleared everything up beautifully! <3 Sounds like a fun way to do a challenge

[Bean Sidhe]

5 hours ago, Wobbegong said:

I'm in the same boat. But it looks funny, maybe I'll watch it!

 I will warn you, it can get a bit gorpy, but one of the best scenes is gorpy and funny at the same time. *squeak*

 

5 hours ago, Wobbegong said:

And thank you for the rules list, that cleared everything up beautifully! <3 Sounds like a fun way to do a challenge

 

Glad I could help. I think it might be neat. And it gives me an excuse to watch it again. because there are days, I really am Columbus (The geek who survived becuase he didn't really like people).

[Bean Sidhe]

So long story short (and not something I really want to talk about).

This was my life last night

 

 

And while I know you all are willing to support me if I wish ti talk about it, I don't.

As a result, I am postponing my challenge to officially start Thursday maybe.

 

So, how was everyone else's nights last night.

[zeroh13]

18 minutes ago, Bean Sidhe said:

So long story short (and not something I really want to talk about).

This was my life last night

 

 

And while I know you all are willing to support me if I wish ti talk about it, I don't.

As a result, I am postponing my challenge to officially start Thursday maybe.

 

So, how was everyone else's nights last night.

*hugs*

 

Last night I was just exhausted. So, I got a few things done, but not as much as I wanted.

[Bean Sidhe]

5 minutes ago, zeroh13 said:

*hugs*

 

Last night I was just exhausted. So, I got a few things done, but not as much as I wanted.

 

I think yesterday in general was just like that.

*hugs*  (and thank you for the hugs. I needed that. I am feeling a bit weak since I can't fix anything that blew up last night).

[J3NN]

So long story short (and not something I really want to talk about).

This was my life last night
 
 
And while I know you all are willing to support me if I wish ti talk about it, I don't.

As a result, I am postponing my challenge to officially start Thursday maybe.
 
So, how was everyone else's nights last night.

Hugs too.

I did a 20 minute neck and back yoga stretch.
I made shrimp tacos.
I tried to write my"shift" scene last. The a-mazing scene between the mentor and heroine where she had a mind shift after a failure​ and realized she does have what it takes to accomplish the mission. Except that on paper it was less amazing and more forced, unnatural and uninspiring. But I tried and now I can edit.

Not a very exciting night really, but it worked. Made me forget about work for a while....

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[Wobbegong]

3 hours ago, Bean Sidhe said:

As a result, I am postponing my challenge to officially start Thursday maybe.

 

So, how was everyone else's nights last night.

You start whenever you're ready. No judgement here. 

 

Last night I spent several hours grinding only to realize I was putting my effort into the wrong thing. So now I have to start over. At least I know the proper way forward now. 

[Bean Sidhe]

7 hours ago, J3NN said:

Hugs too.

*hugs* Thanks. I kinda need them. that and a distraction from stuff, thus the "How was your night" thing.

 

7 hours ago, J3NN said:

I did a 20 minute neck and back yoga stretch.
I made shrimp tacos.
I tried to write my"shift" scene last. The a-mazing scene between the mentor and heroine where she had a mind shift after a failure and realized she does have what it takes to accomplish the mission. Except that on paper it was less amazing and more forced, unnatural and uninspiring. But I tried and now I can edit.

Not a very exciting night really, but it worked. Made me forget about work for a while....

 

Sounds great to me. I mean you stretched and then had yummy food then had time to let your brain do something fun. Even if it didn't come out the way you wanted, it still was a "Lets do this fun thing" moment

[Bean Sidhe]

5 hours ago, Wobbegong said:

You start whenever you're ready. No judgement here. 

 

I know, I am more doing this for myself. NO one cares if I start early or not. But with things the way they were last night, I was not going to make it. I did however track (before things went boom) and I had 9 out of 15. So not too bad for not really trying.

 

5 hours ago, Wobbegong said:

Last night I spent several hours grinding only to realize I was putting my effort into the wrong thing. So now I have to start over. At least I know the proper way forward now. 

Dooh, hate when that happens. I hope today goes better

[fleaball]

Sending hugs and lots of duct tape to fix the things that went boom. Bacon-patterned duct tape. Because bacon. 

[Bean Sidhe]

3 minutes ago, fleaball said:

Sending hugs and lots of duct tape to fix the things that went boom. Bacon-patterned duct tape. Because bacon. 

 

Thanks.  Duct tape might help.

Although you can keep the bacon. I have never liked the stuff. But I will take any help right now.

[J3NN]

Hope today's a better day. 

[Bean Sidhe]

7 hours ago, J3NN said:

Hope today's a better day. 

 
Lol. That is great.

Yesterday was better than I was afraid of. So that is good but thanks for thinking of me. That is just funny.

[Bean Sidhe]

OKay, so yesterday was unofficial, but I still tracked and I got like 9 out of 15 points without really working on anything. Things didn't get as bad day 2 as I was afraid, and it looks like one of them will work out. The other got handled and wasn't as costly as we were worrying.

So Today I start the challenge. The kids thing tonight is cancelled, so I have a normal quiet night to start on. So thats where things are. Things are better, not great, but better.

Today is day 1.  So time to do this.

[Bean Sidhe]

OKay, so due to the chaos, my house has been neglected, including the items I had last challenge to clean daily. That gets fixed today, I am going nuts trying to find space to make a sandwhich.. UGH

[Bean Sidhe]

Rule	Points
Rule 1: Cardio: Go Farther (1 pt)	1 (Total Steps: 11,306)
Rule 2: Double Tap (2 pts)	2 (No Sugar)
Rule 3: Beware of Bathrooms (1pt)	1
Rule 8: With Your Bare Hands (1 pt)	1 (I did 3)
Rule 11: Use Your Feet (1 pt)	1
Rule 13: Shake it Off (1pt)	1
Rule 14: Always carry a change of underwear (1pt)	1
Rule 17: Don’t Be The Hero (1 pt)	1
Rule 18: Limber Up (1 pt)	1
Rule 19: Break it Up (1pt)	1 (did all 3)
Rule 22: When in Doubt, Know Your Way Out (1 pt):	1
Rule 27: The Buddy System (2 pt)	1
Rule 32: Enjoy The Little Things (1pt)	1

 

So copying that over from a word doc almost worked. 

Yesterday went well, It was a weird day that involved finding a home for a lost German Shepard (he was so lovable) and realizing my shoulder pain was from something dumb. So I am feeling better, I got a ton done, and my Enjoy the little things was finding the home for that dog.  I do wish we didn't have to had gone out last night to replace the thing hurting my shoulder (my bra) but I am glad we did. However, it ruined our whole "We get to be home and like relax" evening. Oh and I took a quiz and got a graded assignment back that both raised my grade in the one class that really kinda needed it. So that was a good thing too.

So yeah, not a bad day. Today is clean and get ready since FIL comes tomorrow. Wish me luck, hes been a bit... grouchy lately at me and I am not sure why.