Darkfoxx 61.5: Holiday Edition

[darkfoxx]

 

 

This is a short cycle, but I’m determined to roll into this new year on track.

 

At the start of this challenge, I’ll be on vacation celebrating my 40th(!!!) birthday with friends in a place I never imagined I’d actually get to visit. I plan to OD on junglescapes, Insta-worthy healthy food, yoga, boutique shopping and (hopefully) some culture.

 

While I’m put, my goal is to maintain or increase my yoga schedule (a solid 2x a week - hoping for 3), and look into which other classes I might want to get into. Word around the campfire is that more friends are moving on, so I need to do what I can now to mitigate that shit.

 

I will also continue to try and not eat like an asshole, aim to finish at least 1 more sewing project, will continue working on dog training, and hope to spend more time outside and off my couch. It is the “good” season, afterall. It would be a shame to miss it.

 

Holiday 2019, let’s do this! 

 

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

I'm intrigued to find out where you'll be for your birthday.

[Stronkey Kong]

[Harriet]

Hello! Are you going to a jungle that has snow on? 

[darkfoxx]

7 hours ago, Harriet said:

Hello! Are you going to a jungle that has snow on? 

That would be awesome, but I can’t think of a jungle that has snow - Nope, no snow, but I am packing up and heading off to Bali. Pics most certainly to come! 

[Aquarii]

1 hour ago, darkfoxx said:

That would be awesome, but I can’t think of a jungle that has snow - Nope, no snow, but I am packing up and heading off to Bali. Pics most certainly to come! 

 

That sounds amazing o.O I have heard so many great things about Bali.

[Echoceanic]

1 hour ago, darkfoxx said:

That would be awesome, but I can’t think of a jungle that has snow - Nope, no snow, but I am packing up and heading off to Bali. Pics most certainly to come! 

 

Yay, hope you have a lot of fun.

[NeverThatBored]

Have fun on your trip!! 

[darkfoxx]

I have to remind myself that I’m not on vacation yet.

 

Monday

 

Yoga, grocery shopping that maybe I shouldn’t have done because when am I making all this dinner?, dog trainer came and we talked through where we have had successes, which things have gotten worse, and have come to the conclusion that things really aren’t that bad.

 

Tuesday

 

Wore my skirt out to breakfast, went to yoga, walked the pups home from daycare - where they diagnosed Odin with some sort of fungal infection — eew — which we need to have addressed before bringing him back. Good thing we have a vaccine scheduled the morning of the day we drop the babes off; poor little man may have to be in quarantine all week, but such is life.

 

Christmas also visited our house and the lights are pretty. 

[Terra]

Your skirt turned out beautiful.  Have fun in Bali!!!

[miss_marissa]

beautiful skirt!

[Loveable_Bouncer]

Gorgeous skirt!! What had you direct more on working on sewing projects, I missed what kind of happened.

 

Whoot for amazing b-day trip. Bummer for the pup getting sick, but aww the days. Glad the training is going more positive for them. 

 

Bummer some of the friends are moving on, but see no worries on making it work.

 

 

and finally.... following

 

 

[Raxie]

Ooooh Bali!!! Definitely on my bucket list.  Damn girl have so much fun!

[darkfoxx]

On 12/5/2019 at 11:41 AM, LovelyBouncer said:

Gorgeous skirt!! What had you direct more on working on sewing projects, I missed what kind of happened.

 

Whoot for amazing b-day trip. Bummer for the pup getting sick, but aww the days. Glad the training is going more positive for them. 

 

Bummer some of the friends are moving on, but see no worries on making it work.

 

 

and finally.... following

 

 

I needed something to do that was a project and exercised some creativity, so I picked up a sewing machine. Knitting had gotten too annoying, and I’m not trying to amass 9 quintillion crafts and their supplies at the moment, so sewing - and only sewing useful things - while learning to do it properly - it is!

 

next project is dog jackets - I found an adorable pleated number with a collar that I’m loving. Debating whether to get DH to print the pattern at work or wing it. 
 

im leaning toward living dangerously. 

[darkfoxx]

Thanks guys for the skirt love - Im really pleased with how it turned out. 

 

And I’m off! I’m at the airport, it’s 1am, and I just downed too many mini sandwiches. 
 

Now to hydrate before all of my moisture is stolen mid-flight.

 

ill probably be slack at posting this next week - shocker - but I’ll be back! 
 

 

 

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

Happy pre-birthday and enjoy your trip!

[Raxie]

Looks like you are having an amazing time on your social media!!! So happy for you.

[darkfoxx]

On 12/10/2019 at 10:58 PM, Raxie said:

Looks like you are having an amazing time on your social media!!! So happy for you.

I had such a great time, despite not doing everything on my itinerary (most notably, no yoga and no volcano hiking). 
 

Bali was amaze, and Ubud was the best. DH and I would happily settle there for awhile at least. We missed the tropics; apparently that climate makes both our bodies happy, despite the heat.

 

Suuuuuuper quick and not at all comprehensive pictorial (for something better, check out my Insta @gastography)

 

 

[darkfoxx]

And vacation food: 

[darkfoxx]

Also: Happy birthday to me.

 

Today marks my 40th trip around the sun.
 

My life doesn’t look like anything I’d envisioned - even at the turn of my last decade. 

 

In my 30s, despite or because of trying, I came to a few realizations about relationships, the world, and how I fit into it; and worked on a few things internally and externally. My last 10 years were about getting active (and reaching thus far peak fitness levels before learning all about the joys of repeated injury recovery), stoping struggling so hard with the things about my body I don’t like, finding a more comfortable balance in my relationships, and finding peace with change.

 

As I move into this next decade, my focus is on rebuilding good physical habits in a way that I find joy (currently yoga and that’s about it), continuing to strive for peace with myself (right now that’s looking like balancing my brain’s need for order with eating what my body needs to feel good), continuing to let go and just be (easier said than done with anxiety issues at the ready to trip at the drop of a hat), nourishing my brain in place of working (and being okay with that), continuing to work on my relationships, and (re) finding peace in stillness. Consciously taking space to find bits of joy. Allowing the bit of inner peace I had found at the tail end of living in the US back into my life. 

 

Last year’s big 365 project was taking pictures of all my meals and reporting them here.

 

This year I think I can serve y’all better by getting back to my hype train roots. When I was at my forum best, I absolutely never did things in half measures. I hit the gas, then drilled the floor out so I could get more. I miss that me.

 

Be prepared for a 365 yoga project (plus still meal pics, because you guys seem to find them useful).

 

I may do dailies; I may do weekly collages - we shall see - but I will be doing a mixture of classes, 15 minute flows, working on particular poses, and “bed yoga” on the days I forget all of that and am lying awake worried about failing my challenge. All are valid; all are acceptable. 

 

That’s it for now - a formal challenge coming when it’s time; after y’all’s decade has reset too. 

Unfiltered, unposed post yoga and lunch selfie with greasy post-vacation hair and zero makeup but a little mascara. This is how I’m rolling into my 40s:

 

Dammit. Can’t get the image to rotate.

 

Not too shabby, even sideways. 

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[darkfoxx]

On 12/16/2019 at 5:04 PM, Tanktimus the Encourager said:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks! 

[darkfoxx]

Since Monday:

 

Yoga class

Birthday dinner somewhere schmancy 

 

Morning yoga

Coffee group

Doctor checkup

Walk back home in the rain with the pups

 

Seated yoga because my knee was barking and I knew I’d spend all afternoon on marble

Shopping and chatting with a girlfriend
Wanting to go participate in National Day celebrations, but feeling too lazy and still too tired from the trip - so celebrating with a burgundy and white eye makeup look instead. 

 

 

[darkfoxx]

Yesterday

 

Not much during the morning but putting laundry away and tidying 

 

Nasi Goreng version 1 for breakfast and lunch

 

Slow & strong yoga class

 

Walked there and home in the chill, and yes I’m considering a windy 71F chilly given where I live

 

Popcorn for dinner since DH wasn’t hungry for more than wasabi peas and I’m out of eggs to top my Goreng and didn’t want to put the effort forth to make my “emergency” pantry meal of chili tuna, pasta, some form of concentrated sauce, frozen peas & nutritional yeast.

 

 

 

[darkfoxx]

Friday

 

Lounged about

 

Finished my Nasi leftovers in a burrito with curry ketchup

 

Odin discovered yoga 
 

Went grocery shopping for game night

 

Rice crackers for lunch because I felt hella bloated

 

DH wasn’t hungry for dinner again, so I had leftover chicken & rice with a little butter & Bombay sandwich chutney 

 

More rice crackers while watching Nailed It! on Netflix