Miss Marissa doing space things

[miss_marissa]

 

1) Taking up space

Still doing the Bigness project so my body takes up more space. But also need to cut because my legs/butt are taking up too much space and jeans are tight. (program is working lol) I did get "behind" from last challenge due to birthday things (just finished W9 this morning). Ideally I'll be into W13 when the challenge ends.

Get through week 12 of the Bigness Project by the end of the challenge (4 lift days/week)

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 10

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 11

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 12

☐☐ Handstands 2x/week, 10 minutes min.

☐☐☐☐☐☐☐ Daily 22 pushups

 

As far as nutrition bit: attempt to follow RP template? This is more of a 'keep yall updated' thing as opposed to formal tracking thing because tracking food makes me anxious and I just want to dip my toes back in that pool. The template is 3-4 meals a day with certain protein, carb, fat and veggie servings (to be eyeballed) and up to 350 cal daily of ANYTHING I'd like to eat. Ideally anything is not Oreos every single day.

 

2) Making things for space

I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I also need to maintain work life balance. This has been a struggle I'm still fighting through. My standard start time is 9 am, 9-7 is 10 hours (with no lunch) putting me at ~50/week. Sometimes I'm in earlier, sometimes I take a longer or shorter lunch. These guidelines should help put me where I need to be.

☐☐☐☐☐ Leave work by 7pm. (6:20 on Mondays)

☐No less than 45 hours/week

☐Go out for lunch 1x/week max

 

3) Clearing space

I have too many things and it is starting to give me anxiety. 3 sessions must include: car, office, home. Bonus points for extra home sessions. (Bonus points are like Who's Line is it Anyway)

☐☐☐ Minimum of 3 decluttering sessions over the challenge. 

☐ Actually take things to sell/donate/trash by end of challenge 

 

4) Also reading comics, but don't know how to space theme it?

☐ Comic a day. Total: 

[RedStone]

Your space is cool. I dig all your spaces.

 

 

 

(I can't believe that there are no pictures of an astronaut reading a comic book in space.)

 

 

[Sloth the Enduring]

Is that the toilet you designed?


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[Gemma]

Great goals, great theme! Bigness project is the awesome. Cool things going on up in your head space!

 

[wildross]

I'd always kinda wondered what a space toilet looks like.

[Emerald_Dragonfly]

1 hour ago, wildross said:

I'd always kinda wondered what a space toilet looks like.

 

 

[Sam Ashen]

Hugh Jass checking in!

 

Hi!

[calanthrophy]

15 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

my legs/butt are taking up too much space

 

15 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

I did get "behind" from last challenge

 

[raptron]

THE PROGRAM IS WORKING! Yussss. Haha.

 

[Gainsdalf the Whey]

The room that toilet is in is way oversized...

[miss_marissa]

March 19-21

1) Taking up space

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 10

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 11

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 12

☐☐ Handstands 2x/week, 10 minutes min.

☑☑☑☐☐☐☐ Daily 22 pushups

 

Wednesday nutrition:

Breakfast: cottage cheese ~1/2cup, few oz blackberries, 2 slices thick bacon, 2 slices toast + pb, coffee + 1 creamer

Lunch: Chicken Salad served on spring mix

Dinner: 2 tacos w/ flour tortillas, cotija cheese, sauteed mushrooms in adobo sauce, roasted squash + peppers, avocado, salsa

Snacks: 1 russell stover chocolate, 1 crappy lemon blueberry poppyseed bar

Maybe missed something but only started halfway thru the day. Next week is probably going to track better. 

 

Also adding another sub-goal here. No alcohol over the length of the challenge.

 

2) Making things for space

I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I also need to maintain work life balance. This has been a struggle I'm still fighting through. My standard start time is 9 am, 9-7 is 10 hours (with no lunch) putting me at ~50/week. Sometimes I'm in earlier, sometimes I take a longer or shorter lunch. These guidelines should help put me where I need to be.

☑☑☑☐☐ Leave work by 7pm. (6:20 on Mondays)

☐No less than 45 hours/week

☑Go out for lunch 1x/week max

 

3) Clearing space

I have too many things and it is starting to give me anxiety. 3 sessions must include: car, office, home. Bonus points for extra home sessions. (Bonus points are like Who's Line is it Anyway)

☐☐☐ Minimum of 3 decluttering sessions over the challenge. 

☐ Actually take things to sell/donate/trash by end of challenge 

 

4) Also reading comics, but don't know how to space theme it?

☐ Comic a day. Total: 0

No comic reading so far because this week has been BONKERS.

 

Did some long hip stretching last night. Didn't make gymnastics on Monday due to sorority things so hoping for tonight to get some handstands + stretching. For the rest of this week aiming for:

Thursday night: Gymnastics + handstands

Friday: W10D1

Saturday: W10D2 + handstands

Sunday: W10D3 or maybe rest

 

21 hours ago, RedStone said:

Your space is cool. I dig all your spaces.

 

 

 

(I can't believe that there are no pictures of an astronaut reading a comic book in space.)

This is a pretty cool photo though...

 

20 hours ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

Is that the toilet you designed?

I don't recall how that rumor started, but at this point I'm just running with it.

(I do HVAC in space)

 

19 hours ago, Gemma said:

Great goals, great theme! Bigness project is the awesome. Cool things going on up in your head space!

 

This is a great gif!

 

8 hours ago, wildross said:

I'd always kinda wondered what a space toilet looks like.

6 hours ago, Emerald_Dragonfly said:

 

 

 

6 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

Hugh Jass checking in!

 

Hi!

The both of us are Hugh Jass!?!?

 

5 hours ago, calanthrophy said:

 

 

Thank you. I'll be here all challenge.

 

4 hours ago, raptron said:

THE PROGRAM IS WORKING! Yussss. Haha.

 

\o/

[Sloth the Enduring]

Oh... During our engineering unit I tell my students I know someone who designs space toilets. Now I’ll be lying.

[RedStone]

17 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

I don't recall how that rumor started, but at this point I'm just running with it.

(I do HVAC in space)

 

I think we all just want to believe that the Big Bang Theory is real and that we're friends with the characters. Not that I had it in mind you made space toilets, but I had no reason to think you didn't either...

 

 

[Urgan]

 

 

 

[miss_marissa]

March 22

Did not make it to gymnastics as I had to prep for a meeting today and worked at home after dinner. Handstands tonight at the gym to make up for it. Probably only hit 1 session this week. Also forgot next week is Spring Break so no Monday gymnastics :/

Did buy girl scout cookies, so that danger is now present. But apparently the reward she selected for the number of boxes she sold is an American Girl Doll that is an astronaut, which is pretty dope.

 

1) Taking up space

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 10

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 11

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 12

☐☐ Handstands 2x/week, 10 minutes min.

☑☑☑☑☐☐☐ Daily 22 pushups

☑ No booze

 

Thursday nutrition:

Breakfast: 2 slices thick bacon, 2 slices toast + pb, 1 egg

Lunch: Chicken Salad served on spring mix

Dinner: 2 tacos w/ flour tortillas, Monterrey jack cheese, sauteed mushrooms in adobo sauce, roasted squash + peppers, avocado, onion, salsa. 1 had pork

Snacks: 1 russell stover chocolate, 2 protein bites, ~100 cals of ice cream

 

2) Making things for space

☑☑☑☐☐ Leave work by 7pm. (6:20 on Mondays) <- um I left around 5:30, but worked another 2.5 hours at home.

☑No less than 45 hours/week

☑Go out for lunch 1x/week max

 

3) Clearing space

I have too many things and it is starting to give me anxiety. 3 sessions must include: car, office, home. Bonus points for extra home sessions. (Bonus points are like Who's Line is it Anyway)

☐☐☐ Minimum of 3 decluttering sessions over the challenge. 

☐ Actually take things to sell/donate/trash by end of challenge 

 

4) Also reading comics, but don't know how to space theme it?

☐ Comic a day. Total: 0

still no reading

 

17 hours ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

Oh... During our engineering unit I tell my students I know someone who designs space toilets. Now I’ll be lying.

Well...I worked on a thing designed to collect water in zero gravity. Which has applications similar to those in toilets? 

 

2 hours ago, Urgan said:

 

This gif is delightful. What's it from?

[Stronkey Kong]

[Urgan]

7 minutes ago, miss_marissa said:

This gif is delightful. What's it from?

 

Portal 2! A most excellent game of the physics/puzzling variety that is the best from story to characters to mechanics. 

 

 

[CourtnieMarie]

yussss! let's jam! in space!

 

also... curious about what 100 calories of ice cream looks like...

[elvenengineer]

Hello! Here for cool space things like space pants

[miss_marissa]

On 3/23/2018 at 12:52 PM, Brogo said:

We have instant messenger at work and I have this doggy floating in space and it says "I have no idea what I'm doing" as a gif

 

On 3/23/2018 at 12:54 PM, Urgan said:

 

Portal 2! A most excellent game of the physics/puzzling variety that is the best from story to characters to mechanics. 

 

 

Nice! I played that game 1 time. 

 

On 3/23/2018 at 1:02 PM, CourtnieMarie said:

yussss! let's jam! in space!

 

also... curious about what 100 calories of ice cream looks like...

GOOD MOVIE!

I bought a 6 oz thing of ice cream at the grocery store and only ate a few bites before realizing I didn't really want it and put it back in the freezer. The whole thing was 240 calories.

 

On 3/23/2018 at 3:08 PM, elvenengineer said:

Hello! Here for cool space things like space pants

I ripped my space pants and have yet to replace them!

 

March 23-25

Workout Friday evening squats + handstands. Also watched the Shape of Water which I enjoyed quite thoroughly.

I've also not really been posting my numbers on weights here because I've been too embarrassed at how low they were after injury and through my loooong recovery process. For a while I couldn't even squat to parallel, and over this program I've broke parallel. And this week I squatted #95x12 for 3 sets and then a 4th set of 10 reps. It's not the most weight I've done for that many reps (I think I've managed #135 for 10, but not sure about 12 rep sets). But it honestly wasn't too difficult. And reps were snappy and pain free  Next week bumps to 5 sets of 12-15, which I will try to complete all at 95#.

This has me itching to get back on a powerlifting program, but I am honestly very nervous about lifting heavy again. 

 

Saturday I slept til nearly noon. And then took a nap. Laid around watching movies and reading comics all day <3

 

Sunday went to PoGo community day at the zoo with Amdhiel and her sister. Caught many Bulbasaur. Also got pizza for lunch. After, cleaned the place with Mr. J and then went to the gym for upper body vertical push/pull.

AND!!!!!!! Mr. J came with and walked on the treadmill for the entire time (~50 minutes) and he asked me to start waking him up in the morning when I wake up so he can keep doing that.   

 

1) Taking up space

☑☑☐☐☐ Week 10

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 11

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 12

☑☐ Handstands 2x/week, 10 minutes min.

☑☑☑☑☑☑☑ Daily 22 pushups

☑ No booze

 

Don't recall most of my nutrition over the weekend, but I'll try:

Friday nutrition:

Breakfast: some combination of bacon, 2 slices toast + pb, eggs

Lunch: Chicken Salad served on spring mix

Dinner: pizza - papa murphys herb chicken Mediterranean 

 

Saturday: 

French toast

moar pizza

 

Sunday

pizza

pizza

pork roast, onion, potato, carrot

 

Sprinkled throughout are girl scout cookies and a few chocolates. Today is when the "serious" tracking begins.

 

2) Making things for space

☑☑☑☑☐ Leave work by 7pm. Good here Friday and 4/5 on the week.

☑No less than 45 hours/week  - Right at 45

☑Go out for lunch 1x/week max

 

3) Clearing space

I have too many things and it is starting to give me anxiety. 3 sessions must include: car, office, home. Bonus points for extra home sessions. (Bonus points are like Who's Line is it Anyway)

☐☐☐ Minimum of 3 decluttering sessions over the challenge. 

☐ Actually take things to sell/donate/trash by end of challenge 

Did some cleaning, but no decluttering. I think one area I'd like to tackle at home is the movies and bookshelves. We'll see. We both have a lot of old school stuff that we don't want to get rid of as a "just in case" thing because old notes aren't replaceable. But they also, aren't super useful right now.

 

4) Also reading comics, but don't know how to space theme it?

☑ Comic a day. Total: 2

Saturday and Sunday.

[Sam Ashen]

28 minutes ago, miss_marissa said:

We have instant messenger at work and I have this doggy floating in space and it says "I have no idea what I'm doing" as a gif

 

Over here, I have had Kerbal Space Program for about a week or so, but have still not managed to make a Kerbal puke.  They must have some incredible fortitude!

 

So far, the biggest things I have managed were:

1. Forgetting to get rid of the SRB stage - and the dead weight of the rocket was too much for the parachute.

2. Making a casule do a very rapid zero-G spin in space.

 

Next up is making a capsule escape gravity with no idea how to retrieve my Kerbal!

 

33 minutes ago, miss_marissa said:

Today is when the "serious" tracking begins.

 

I'm feeling those feels!  I have been taking a break from MFP for kind of weight too long!

[CourtnieMarie]

3 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

Did some cleaning, but no decluttering. I think one area I'd like to tackle at home is the movies and bookshelves. We'll see. We both have a lot of old school stuff that we don't want to get rid of as a "just in case" thing because old notes aren't replaceable. But they also, aren't super useful right now.

this is real hard. i have refused to get rid of my VHSs and DVDs mostly just because but also I call them "decoration"

 

the school stuff on the other hand, I definitely will just toss unless there's more space in the notebooks to be used. maybe try coming up with scenarios where the old notes would be useful and then decide how viable those scenarios are?

[Sam Ashen]

16 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

the school stuff on the other hand, I definitely will just toss

 

20 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

We both have a lot of old school stuff that we don't want to get rid of as a "just in case" thing because old notes aren't replaceable.

 

I tried my best to keep all my textbooks, but went through so many moves.  I have most of the essential ones.  I never know when a textbook comes in handy.

 

Notes?  I'm not sure what those are.  If I ever took notes in school, I threw them away at the end of class.

 

EDIT:  Wait!  I remember!  Notes were what I wrote to that girl I liked.  Back in those days, we did not have cell phones and there was no such thing as text messaging.  Some of us were just starting to discover email.

[miss_marissa]

23 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

Over here, I have had Kerbal Space Program for about a week or so, but have still not managed to make a Kerbal puke.  They must have some incredible fortitude!

 

So far, the biggest things I have managed were:

1. Forgetting to get rid of the SRB stage - and the dead weight of the rocket was too much for the parachute.

2. Making a casule do a very rapid zero-G spin in space.

 

Next up is making a capsule escape gravity with no idea how to retrieve my Kerbal!

 

 

I'm feeling those feels!  I have been taking a break from MFP for kind of weight too long!

Never played! But as you know I'm not much of a gamer

 

23 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

I'm feeling those feels!  I have been taking a break from MFP for kind of weight too long!

I'm actually pretty comfortable body comp wise. And weight wise also, except for the fact that I know losing weight will help with some BW exercises. I actually stepped on the scale for the first time in a while and was 154 with clothes on. So... about the same as a year ago? Maybe 1 kilo higher. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

20 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

this is real hard. i have refused to get rid of my VHSs and DVDs mostly just because but also I call them "decoration"

 

the school stuff on the other hand, I definitely will just toss unless there's more space in the notebooks to be used. maybe try coming up with scenarios where the old notes would be useful and then decide how viable those scenarios are?

We have Gamecube and PS2 games and don't own either of those systems.... But they are not decoration, just taking up valuable under the bed space.

 

I've already cleaned/purged a few times, getting rid of more stuff slowly each time. I sold a few textbooks a few months back and have 4 more a friend was interested in for his kids that I'm holding onto until my next trip back to Indiana. Most of the books I reference are at work, which helps. But still have a printer box full of binders/notebooks and 1 or 2 bookshelves full of stuff between the 2 of us. I could definitely recycle most of it. Or at least much of it that was from the early years of college: basic calculus, physics, etc that would be easy to replace, compared to something like say the 4 books I have on rotordynamics that I use.

 

3 hours ago, Sam Ashen said:

 

I tried my best to keep all my textbooks, but went through so many moves.  I have most of the essential ones.  I never know when a textbook comes in handy.

 

Notes?  I'm not sure what those are.  If I ever took notes in school, I threw them away at the end of class.

 

EDIT:  Wait!  I remember!  Notes were what I wrote to that girl I liked.  Back in those days, we did not have cell phones and there was no such thing as text messaging.  Some of us were just starting to discover email.

LoL! I probably should have thrown away more as I went. But some of them have been surprisingly useful in my career. Most of them I can probably dump though.

A few of us were discussing having cell phones in school on Tuesday because Koo's oldest has one but the boys don't. I got a cell phone when I got my driver's license, but didn't text because it was $10/month for like 30 texts or something ridiculously low that I had to pay my parents. Also, phones were so bad back then that my battery usually lasted long enough to turn the phone on, make 1 call to my parents and then it would die. If I was lucky I could get 2 calls lol It was also my mothers "recycled" phone I was using so she had a few years of use on it before I got it.

 

March 26

No gymnastics, cancelled for Spring Break. I want adult spring break.

Went to the grocery store instead and then the gym for glutes and delts.

On the menu for this week:

Breakfasts: eggs, turkey sausage, toast and then oatmeal once I run out of bread

Lunches: bag salad kit + slow cooker chicken, leftovers of dinners if appropriate

Dinners: 1) Salmon burgers + potatoes + salad 2) Italian crispy chicken in tomato sauce + collard greens 3) chicken + veggie tostadas

Snacks: 350 calories of whatever I want. 99% sure that whatever I want will be girl scout cookies.

 

1) Taking up space

☑☑☑☑☐ Week 10

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 11

☐☐☐☐☐ Week 12

☐☐ Handstands 2x/week, 10 minutes min.

☑☐☐☐☐☐☐ Daily 22 pushups

☑ No booze

 

Only did 13 pushups, but recalled this morning and promptly did them right away.

Glutes and delts at the gym last night. Upper body push/pull this morning. 

 

Nutrition:

Breakfast: 1 egg, 1 egg white, 1 toast w/ pb, 2 bacons

Lunch: leftover shakshuka, 1 egg worth + tons of sauce, veggies (spinach, potato, peppers) and feta

snack: 1 taco on flour tortilla w/ mushrooms, squash, peppers, onion, 1/4 avocado, and cheese

Dinner: BCAAs, pork roast ~20g?, potatoes, carrots, onions

 

2) Making things for space

☑☐☐☐☐ Leave work by 7pm. Left around 5:45, but got in earlier than my normal time

☐No less than 45 hours/week

☐Go out for lunch 1x/week max

 

3) Clearing space

I have too many things and it is starting to give me anxiety. 3 sessions must include: car, office, home. Bonus points for extra home sessions. (Bonus points are like Who's Line is it Anyway)

☐☐☐ Minimum of 3 decluttering sessions over the challenge. 

☐ Actually take things to sell/donate/trash by end of challenge 

 

4) Also reading comics, but don't know how to space theme it?

☑ Comic a day. Total: 2

No reading. It was a pretty busy night, by the time I finished everything it was already like 10 pm. I probably should have read though because I had a hard time falling asleep. This morning was rough.

[Urgan]

5 minutes ago, miss_marissa said:

No gymnastics, cancelled for Spring Break. I want adult spring break.

 

Adult Spring Break = you still go to work, but all the fun stuff is closed for the week so yay less to look forward to.