Miss Marissa doing fall things

[Devlin]

Came for fitness challenge but on the way learned a lot about pumpkin pies.

As a UK based nerd I have never had pumpkin pie, its just not a thing here. Love a pumpkin spiced latte mind.

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[miss_marissa]

6 hours ago, Devlin said:

Came for fitness challenge but on the way learned a lot about pumpkin pies.

As a UK based nerd I have never had pumpkin pie, its just not a thing here. Love a pumpkin spiced latte mind.

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Welcome! IMO you are not missing much. But it is probably the most controversial pie,

[Harriet]

39 minutes ago, miss_marissa said:

Welcome! IMO you are not missing much. But it is probably the most controversial pie,

 

ARE WE STARTING THE PIE FIGHT UP AGAIN??? WHeeeeee!!! 

[Grumble]

2 minutes ago, Harriet said:

 

ARE WE STARTING THE PIE FIGHT UP AGAIN??? WHeeeeee!!! 

 

No? It's a fact that it's a controversial pie. It's not like she said it's the best or the worst.

 

Also, did you know?

 

A pumpkin pie in the bahamas is $1.50 a slice

A pumpkin pie in jamaica is $3 a slice.

 

These are the pie rates of the caribbean.

[raptron]

11 minutes ago, Harriet said:

ARE WE STARTING THE PIE FIGHT UP AGAIN??? WHeeeeee!!! 

Down with pie fights! UP WITH PIE FLIGHTS! 

 

[Harriet]

9 minutes ago, Grumble said:

These are the pie rates of the caribbean.

You got me. I smiled. 

 

6 minutes ago, raptron said:

Down with pie fights! UP WITH PIE FLIGHTS! 

 

Flights are a GREAT invention that I have only seen here in the USA. Excellent for the indecisive. Or collectors of tastes. 

[Stronkey Kong]

1 hour ago, Grumble said:

 

These are the pie rates of the caribbean.

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

6 hours ago, Grumble said:

 

These are the pie rates of the caribbean.

I've created a monster.

 

 

I love it.

[Scaly Freak]

On 9/12/2019 at 9:38 AM, Gemma said:

the oddly specific blend of cimmanom, nutmeg, clove, and ginger that now pours itself out by tons upon our defenseless nation every year from Labor Day to Black Friday.

 

On 9/12/2019 at 10:49 AM, Harriet said:

Christmas! This is Christmas in Germany. I love Christmas spices! But only at Christmas time. It would be weird to have them in the summer. 

 

In Sweden as well. (Because we shamelessly stole countless German Christmas traditions so we could pretend they were ours all along.)

 

However, the Swedish mix of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger, tastes very different from the American pumpkin spice blends I have been exposed to. The pumpkin version seems a lot more bland somehow, as if it was deliberately made as inoffensive as possible, to make it easier to monetize.

 

Or I'm biased because more often than not the bland spice blend is either in a latte that overpowers everything, or in one of those disgustingly mushy pumpkin "pies" that they sell at CostCo.

 

Not a fan of pumpkin spice.

[Grumble]

15 hours ago, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

I've created a monster.

 

 

I love it.

You haven't created the monster. You merely gave it permission to rampage.

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

21 minutes ago, Grumble said:

You haven't created the monster. You merely gave it permission to rampage.

[miss_marissa]

OK ya'll so I intended to post goals at some point last week, but things got a touch crazy. Sorority recruitment was all weekend of the 7-8 and 14-15 (I volunteer). Then I ended up winning tickets to see the Jonas Brothers! (Squuueee) and saw their concert Tuesday night. And then I got sick over the weekend with a pretty bad cold and just laid around sleeping and feeling garbage.

 

Cool things that happened tho:

• JONAS brothers concert was fantastic. In which I also invited a friend I had not seen in a few years (since I moved) and it was nice to catch up.
• Recruitment went well
• Starting the new position with ES is off to a bumpy start, September is consistently my craziest month of the year, so I'm looking forward to a little more stability and routine with this.
• My ultimate and softball teams are both doing really well. I'm learning a lot with the ultimate team.
• We hooked up the N64 and I've been doing a play thru of Banjo Kazooie <3 (my fav game) I'm not a gamer so it's fun to be better than my bf at a video game  I'm thru the bubblegloop swamp onto freezeasy peak, but not 100% done because I'm a completionist. I will have to go back to get all the notes in Clankers Cavern (#justice4Clanker) and missing 1 jiggy in the swamp, but I gotta get the speedy shoes first (I forget what they are called) from a higher level.
• I am feeling better as of today. 95% of the way to normal
• In my illness I watched thru the latest season of the Flash, I'm 2/3 of the way thru the latest season of Arrow, and I'm up to the crossover event in Supergirl. None of them are good. #helpIcan'tquit #sobadbutIcan'tstop
• Mr J has been off work on vacation for the past 2 weeks or so and so we (mostly him) have been completing a lot of house projects. We did a small retaining wall around a little garden near the driveway and installed some additional shelving in the basement. Also, wall mounted some TVs. I've started gathering the black walnuts to harvest which is a chore and a half, but I'm hoping will be worthwhile for some tasty nuts. 
• With the latest event in Pokemon Go I finally hatched a Farfetch'd and Kangaskhan and filled out my Kanto dex

 

So looks like I'm starting today instead of whenever this was supposed to start. Because of that we are bringing back the crowd favorite Checkbox challenge ☑! 

 

1) Read the equivalent of 1 comic book or 1 book chapter per day. 26 days left in challenge, but I'm going to round this up to a nice even 30.

☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   

 

2) Do the equivalent of a workout every day for the rest of the challenge. I did day 16 today

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

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36 37 38 39 40 41

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3) nutrition thing, but I gotta run for now and I've delayed long enough posting this biznass

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

Those are good goals. I'm glad you had so much fun in spite of being sick. 

[Deckard Gainz]

15 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

We hooked up the N64 and I've been doing a play thru of Banjo Kazooie <3 (my fav game) I'm not a gamer so it's fun to be better than my bf at a video game  I'm thru the bubblegloop swamp onto freezeasy peak, but not 100% done because I'm a completionist. I will have to go back to get all the notes in Clankers Cavern (#justice4Clanker) and missing 1 jiggy in the swamp, but I gotta get the speedy shoes first (I forget what they are called) from a higher level.

 

I love this game. I too am a completionist, and I think I got REALLY close with this one but never quite got all the notes. I wonder if I still have a save file on my cartridge...

[Harriet]

16 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

I've started gathering the black walnuts to harvest which is a chore and a half, but I'm hoping will be worthwhile for some tasty nuts. 

 

I had to google black walnuts to see what they are and why they take so much work. Somehow I thought you would just pick nuts up off the ground and eat them, like a giant bird. Now I know better.

Get well soon. 

[Raxie]

Omg Banjo Kazooie!!!! <3 <3

 

I got trapped in the Arrowverse for a while but I did finally manage to drag myself out of it.  It's so bad. But so damn watchable and bingeable what the heck?!

 

What are you reading?

[Mike Wazowski]

Oh man, sorry to hear you've been sick, guess it's going around in warrior land right now! 

 

And woo, check boxes!!! Definitely deserve an air horn.

[miss_marissa]

On 9/25/2019 at 6:28 PM, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

Those are good goals. I'm glad you had so much fun in spite of being sick. 

Thanks me too

 

On 9/26/2019 at 10:08 AM, Deckard Gainz said:

 

I love this game. I too am a completionist, and I think I got REALLY close with this one but never quite got all the notes. I wonder if I still have a save file on my cartridge...

I had a save file in the game, but it's been SOOOO long since I played I restarted because I was garbage. Mr. J was VERY impressed by me humming all the music and how quickly I beat the first level entirely lol

 

On 9/26/2019 at 11:17 AM, Harriet said:

 

I had to google black walnuts to see what they are and why they take so much work. Somehow I thought you would just pick nuts up off the ground and eat them, like a giant bird. Now I know better.

Get well soon. 

They are a PITA!

For those who are too lazy to google, they grow in a green husk. So you must collect the nut-balls and remove the husks with your hands. But they contain dye so be careful to wear gloves and clothes you don't care about. Then they must be rinsed multiple times to remove any lingering husk meat. Then dried/roasted for a few weeks to really mature the flavor.

FUN TIMES

 

23 hours ago, Raxie said:

Omg Banjo Kazooie!!!! <3 <3

 

I got trapped in the Arrowverse for a while but I did finally manage to drag myself out of it.  It's so bad. But so damn watchable and bingeable what the heck?!

 

What are you reading?

lol Arrowverse is so bad, but at this point I figure I am so close to the end I might as well stick it out? At least until Crisis.

 

I recently started Everfair by Nisi Shawl and then also my extended backlog of single issue comics of various characters and stories.

 

1 hour ago, Mike Wazowski said:

Oh man, sorry to hear you've been sick, guess it's going around in warrior land right now! 

 

And woo, check boxes!!! Definitely deserve an air horn.

 feeling much better now thanks.

 

 

1) Read the equivalent of 1 comic book or 1 book chapter per day. 26 days left in challenge, but I'm going to round this up to a nice even 30.

☑☑☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   

Read 2 issues last night of Justice League.

 

2) Do the equivalent of a workout every day for the rest of the challenge.

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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Did Day 16 Wednesday and then Mr. J had family in town until today. I plan to double up this evening. Has been a nice visit with his family. They love our new home and we had a nice time and they brought some lovely stuff for the house.

 

3) still unsure of what nutrition thing I want this to be, will pull something together over the weekend. Also, likely to add a 4th because WHY NOT. 

[CourtnieMarie]

I was also going to comment on arrowverse but you cleared it up with the hashtags  that's probably where I'm at with The 100

 

nice goals!

[miss_marissa]

On 9/27/2019 at 3:46 PM, CourtnieMarie said:

I was also going to comment on arrowverse but you cleared it up with the hashtags  that's probably where I'm at with The 100

 

nice goals!

It's really just yikes. 

 

Weekend summary

 

Friday worked some in the evening. Saturday, did a bit of meal prep, cleaning, yard work, etc. A bit more work. Then lots of reading, TV and relaxing. Sunday woke up super early to go to Walk for Autism Speaks in cold, rainy, windy weather. Home in the afternoon for a bit of hanging with J. & some stretching. Then back to the sorority for Sunday night meetings.

 

Also, played more BK. I played thru Freezeezy peak and got all the notes and all the jiggys except the one that requires the shoes that I don't have yet. Had to play the stupid lightbulb cruncher game like 4 times before I finally beat it. I think I'm roughly halfway through the game, maybe a little shy of that. 

 

1) Read the equivalent of 1 comic book or 1 book chapter per day. 26 days left in challenge, but I'm going to round this up to a nice even 30.

☑☑☑☑☑   ☑☑☑☑☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   ☐☐☐☐☐   

The book I am reading right now chapters are super short (like 4 pages). So I'm going to consider 15 pages in the book = check mark. Which I get 3. And then also 4 issues more of Justice League. I have such a backlog ughhhh

 

2) Do the equivalent of a workout every day for the rest of the challenge.

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

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36 37 38 39 40 41

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Did days 17&18 Friday evening, then 19 Saturday and 20 Sunday. Took this morning off because I am a bit sore, and also today is cardio and I have ultimate tonight, so I didn't want to do cardio in the morning and in the evening, mostly because I didn't want to shower twice. Might still do it tonight? Might not.

 

3) nutrition goal?So I thought about this a lot over the weekend and I feel kind of in a dilemma. 

Spoiler

I'm at the point where I am content with where I am, but also want to make a change to take things to the next level. But I am not sure what that should be. I went back to take a look at some goals I had written at the beginning of the year and absolutely zero of them are nutrition related. One of them is a "sober month".

I don't particularly want to count things. And I spent about 6 months before the house craziness writing everything down, but then doing nothing with that to analyze or change any of my habits. 

I don't really want to do paleo, but I would do a paleo ish. Like eliminate dairy and do less sugars.

I mostly just don't want to do too much tracking/counting because I'm worried about getting trapped in a destructive cycle.

But my weight has been on an increasing trend, in a not great way, but not awful either. I've gained about 5 lbs/year over the past 4 years. Which there is nothing wrong with that, I'm still pretty comfortable in my body. But I've noticed especially since the wrist injury, where my activities have taken a different turn my BF% is creeping up and clothes fitting a bit different. Mostly want to ensure I don't have to buy a new wardrobe.

I also know I've let a lot of bad habits creep back into my routine. Drinking at home multiple nights a week. Unhealthy snacking + desserts. Too much fast food (blaming J on this one)

I'd like to get things back to a bit more of an autopilot type situation. Maybe have a few healthy, easy to make meals on rotation. Some frozen meals I could easily heat up ICE, and 1 or 2 more complex meals to make. Breakfasts also need to be more consistent. About half the time it's just a shake.

 

*SIGH*

so I think maybe I answered some of my own questions with that ramble.

 

 

My 4th goal will be to do my fall capsule before the end of the challenge. I think my colors will be mustard yellow, olive green and a deep/dark red (I guess maroon? more brown than purple).

Plus vests on vests on vests on flannel. with black & brown base.

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

Sounds like you need some sort of meal planning service. I just got back on the one I used a few years ago, and am loving it again. I got the "30 minute meals" dinner plan.

[Scaly Freak]

3 hours ago, miss_marissa said:

3) nutrition goal?So I thought about this a lot over the weekend and I feel kind of in a dilemma. 

 

 

Suggestion: Figure out what that elusive next level should be, before you start making changes. It seems like it would be mentally easier that way.

[CourtnieMarie]

11 hours ago, scalyfreak said:

 

Suggestion: Figure out what that elusive next level should be, before you start making changes. It seems like it would be mentally easier that way.

agree!

 

Spoiler

would you be opposed to buy new clothes that fit better if you had been or do lose weight?

 

if you decide you want/can afford a meal service, I've fallen in love with hungryroot. ~10min prep times, lots of veg. it was so worth it when i was visiting my dad in the evenings and Spouse needed to cook and now we're hooked. we get it every other week.

 

what book are you reading with such short chapters?

[raptron]

A good ramble can reveal plenty of insights. I haven't done many meal prep services, but I have started to shortcut my cooking and haven't noticed any negative impacts as a result. I'm eating more couscous and quinoa instead of rice or longer prep grains because they're like 5-10 minutes to cook. I do lots of veg stir-fries that aren't that exciting but cook really fast. If I'm running late or just need to eat something RIGHT NOW, I usually have canned fish on hand (tuna and/or salmon) that I can mix with all sorts of things and be happy eating. 

 

Auto-pilot options on the back burner would be just great to have around. 

 

Also it's basically soup season (well.. soon), so that's a nice big prep and freeze option to consider.

[Scaly Freak]

1 hour ago, raptron said:

If I'm running late or just need to eat something RIGHT NOW, I usually have canned fish on hand (tuna and/or salmon) that I can mix with all sorts of things and be happy eating. 

 

Mix with mayo, black pepper, dried chives, shredded cheese, and spread mix between two slices of bread. Grill. Yum.