DJ Trippy T: Chooses Her Own Adventure!

[DJtrippyT]

Today went pretty well. I wound up working at home and got a little domestic rangering done as well At gym I decided I didn’t feel like doing upper body strength because it’s boring and did a workout called triple 3 instead; it was hard but I felt good about it. 

 

ETA: I ran out of my prepped breakfast stuff so I made a turkey wrap sandwich and ate it for breakfast (deli turkey, fig jam, goat cheese and dried cranberries with this maple-bacon vinegrette I found ay the store wrapped in a tortilla) and lunch was some skirt steak I grilled last night diced and made into a wrap with ranch dressing. I’m becoming quite the connoisseur of wrap sandwiches. 

 

 

[DJtrippyT]

Also, still no twitter. This has been my most successful habit break ever. 

[DJtrippyT]

OMG SO SORE

[DJtrippyT]

I'm wrapping up week two tonight because I want to stay away from the computer tomorrow.

 

These were my micro-goals for this week, with the results underneath

 

- I will shop today for my breakfast food and lunch food so that I have it in the house.

- I will prep my standard breakfast (hard boiled eggs and black beans) so that it is ready for the next three days

 

I did both these things, and I did great with breakfast until that supply ran out on Thursday morning. For week three I will make enough breakfast to get me thru Thursday, and then Friday I will eat some sort of protein goodness when I run out of eggs. I am switching from beans to sweet potatoes because beans every day destroyed my lower intestines and I never want to see a black bean again at this point. I made enough today to last all week.

 

- Come hell or high water, I will pack a lunch every morning before I leave the house, and I will keep a PB&J sandwich pre-made in the fridge for emergencies. 

- Sandwiches are totally acceptable for lunch, even though bread is not super nutritious, because an imperfect packed lunch is vastly superior to a bought lunch.

 

I worked at home all this week except one day, so this wasn't really an issue, but I will continue to do this week three as I build a nutritious lunch habit. I will also pack the makings of a protein shake.

 

- I will have my bike clothes clean and ready to go

- I will organize my bike accessories tonight, so that I'm not looking for things

- I have the times for the rides in my calendar, with alternate times in case of bad weather

- I will research TWO new rides on my side of town, so that I can cut my travel time to rides.

 

Well, the prep part of this went okay, but...

 

I'm going to add to this that I'm going to break the training down so I know what the milestones are (ie I have to be able to ride 20 miles by end of January, I have to be able to hike 5 miles by end of february, I need to start handstands) so I stay on track. That is not actually a chore, just some enjoyable fiddling around with numbers tomorrow afternoon. It appeals to my OCD side. 

 

I did not get to this but will do it by Monday. It's not super urgent. My bike goal for week three is 30 miles total, not counting stationary bike.

 

I also suplexed my twitter addiction, kneed it in the back while it was down, and then tossed It out of the ring so @DarK_RaideR could stomp on its face. 

 

I feel like I am building these habits nicely, so I will add two small, new habits to them this week. (I'm sorry if the habit-building is a bit boring.)

 

Week three's micro-goals: all of the above, plus:

 

I will download an instructional podcast on Spanish and listen to it in the car and cue up a Spanish instruction page on my phone for when I'm bored. This replaces my twitter addiction with something useful.

 

I will hit 6,000 steps a day. This isn't hard, but putting a number on it means I'm more likely to remember to do it.

 

I will focus on my nutritious lunch, and avoid drive thru food. I will enforce this with the same draconian measures that I used to break my twitter habit; if I eat drive thru, I have to donate to a certain re-election campaign. There are plenty of other options for food on the go, I'm just being lazy when I eat drive thru. I'm not sure if I ate any this week but last week when all the drama went down it was pretty bad.

 

That's it. Honestly, if I can keep my nutrition on track for two meals out of my day, it would improve my health more than any other thing I can do.

 

And lastly,

 

I will listen to one Phil Collins song a day

 

heh heh heh

 

 

[deftona]

After all that hard work I think it's unfair to routinely punish yourself with Phil. 

[DJtrippyT]

4 hours ago, deftona said:

After all that hard work I think it's unfair to routinely punish yourself with Phil. 

 

This one is an exception to the “Phil Collins cover songs rule” rule. It’s particularly insipid. 

 

 

[DarK_RaideR]

14 hours ago, DJtrippyT said:

I also suplexed my twitter addiction, kneed it in the back while it was down, and then tossed It out of the ring so @DarK_RaideR could stomp on its face. 

[Xena]

Loving the extreme motivation of the election campaign donation!

[DJtrippyT]

On 1/18/2020 at 6:45 PM, DJtrippyT said:

I will hit 6,000 steps a day

 

Well this got off to a good start!

 

 

[DJtrippyT]

2 hours ago, Xena said:

Loving the extreme motivation of the election campaign donation!

 

 

[DJtrippyT]

Aside from the fact that I would cut my finger off with that circular saw about 8 laps in, this is absolutely fascinating, if somewhat insane.

 

 

[Mr_Willes]

On 1/19/2020 at 3:00 PM, DarK_RaideR said:

 

This has to be a Dutch trick!

[DJtrippyT]

This week I am slow to gain traction. I have a cold (minor, but annoying) and I haven't worked out since Sunday. Mostly it's just fucking with my sleep.

 

- I have eaten my proper breakfast daily

- I did my training breakdown and set my milestones. This week it pays off to have a long-term goal; if I miss my targets this week it's not that big a deal, but if I was working on a short term goal (lose 50 pounds in 30 days or something) I'd be wroth with frustration.

- I am practicing my spanish. Wherever I go for my dive certification I will need it, so I'm starting now. Plus I've always wanted to be fluent in a second language.

- no drive thru food

- no twitter

 

Goals not met:

 

- I ate out lunch both Monday and Tuesday because I was craving soup (see head cold, above)

- haven't made 6,000 steps daily since Sunday either.

 

I have it on reliable authority that this is @deftona 's favorite song, but don't tell people.

 

 

[DJtrippyT]

8 hours ago, Mr_Willes said:

 

This has to be a Dutch trick!

 

 

I'm sure I saw someone do this with a bicycle in Amsterdam.

[DJtrippyT]

gaaaaaaah I just put my pitch in to go full time with the adventure race people and I feel sick. I doubt they'll go for it but I wanted to take a shot.

 

 

[deftona]

gaaaaaaah I just put my pitch in to go full time with the adventure race people and I feel sick. I doubt they'll go for it but I wanted to take a shot.
 
 

Woo! Fingers crossed!

[Tanktimus the Encourager]

35 minutes ago, DJtrippyT said:

gaaaaaaah I just put my pitch in to go full time with the adventure race people and I feel sick. I doubt they'll go for it but I wanted to take a shot.

 

 

Nothing ventured nothing gained. I'm proud of you. 

[Mr_Willes]

12 hours ago, DJtrippyT said:

gaaaaaaah I just put my pitch in to go full time with the adventure race people and I feel sick. I doubt they'll go for it but I wanted to take a shot.

 

You will profit from this! One way or another, remember what i said when you realize that!

[DJtrippyT]

9 hours ago, Mr_Willes said:

 

You will profit from this! One way or another, remember what i said when you realize that!

 

Well, at least I'll know what direction to NOT go in if I don't get it.

[DJtrippyT]

Just in case anyone thought I was a Johnny-come-lately Phil Collins obsessive, this came up in my Facebook memories today 

[DJtrippyT]

Yesterday was a difficult day. I am still doing really well with my new breakfast habit, as well as my no-twitter policy and staying away from fast food. My lunch habit is proving difficult. I keep forgetting to plan ahead for my day and I ate out lunch 3 times this week, plus I missed all my workouts until yesterday. Although I am blaming that on having a cold; I don't have a lot of energy to spare and I don't like smearing my germs all over the equipment. It seems rude. I'm also eating a lot of comfort food.

 

So on the good side, solid breakfasts, controlling negative news inputs, not eating garbage food. I worked out last night and tried to burn off my bad mood by doing overhead press and flipping the tire. That went well. Then I met some friends for dinner. From these fragile threads I will construct a successful week.

 

 

I had done a general invite of a mix of people to go out for dinner - I'm trying to be more social and I don't really like having people at the house - and only two people came and they didn't know each other, so I was really worried that it was going to be awkward and stiff, but they are both into photography and knew some of the same people, so we all talked up a storm and it actually was kind of brilliant. It helped that I ordered deep-fried pickled jalapenos as a starter because they were tasty but also hilariously dangerous (no two were the same heat) and that broke the ice. I was so stressed out about it, though. I won't have much social mana to spare today.

 

 

Today I am working from home and trying to go skate at four; it will depend on how the day goes and how tired I am. Not very adventurous.

 

These people stole my challenge title! But the article was good if you want to read it.

 

https://www.eater.com/young-guns-rising-stars/2020/1/15/21057033/kalisa-marie-martin-jamaica-runaway

 

[Xena]

On 1/24/2020 at 9:44 AM, DJtrippyT said:

plus I missed all my workouts until yesterday. Although I am blaming that on having a cold; I

 

You are generally very solid on getting your workouts in. This legitimately sounds like you needed some rest.

 

On 1/24/2020 at 9:44 AM, DJtrippyT said:

 I worked out last night and tried to burn off my bad mood by doing overhead press and flipping the tire.

 

Nice!

And good job on trying to get some friends together. That is an odd kind of anxious feeling when you hope your friends will like each other. Glad it worked out!

[DJtrippyT]

Today’s adventure looks a little disorganized so the first step will be putting this in some sort of rational order

[DarK_RaideR]

I dunno, it makes perfect sense to me

[DJtrippyT]

Since "update Nerd Fitness"  is on the to-do list...

 

Wrap up for week - was it three? it was three. god, I really need @Xena to help me keep track.

 

- I will shop today for my breakfast food and lunch food so that I have it in the house.

- I will prep my standard breakfast (hard boiled eggs and black beans) so that it is ready for the next three days

 

Breakfast habit: OUTSTANDING. I overboiled my eggs, which was a little tragic, but I like the sweet potato/hard boiled egg combo and it makes me feel properly nourished and is easy in the mornings, since it's pre-cooked. I've also found I can make enough for four days without the eggs getting squicky.

 

- no twitter

- no fast food

 

Also outstanding! I know I keep gloating about how I dropped twitter like third-period french, but I am just so pleased with myself about it. I really do feel like I got some time/mental health back.

 

- Come hell or high water, I will pack a lunch every morning before I leave the house, and I will keep a PB&J sandwich pre-made in the fridge for emergencies. 

- Sandwiches are totally acceptable for lunch, even though bread is not super nutritious, because an imperfect packed lunch is vastly superior to a bought lunch.

 

This habit is taking some time to get traction, so it will be my primary habit-building goal for the week. I was hoping to add another nutritional habit this week, but I want this locked in before I pile more on top layer on a new skill.

 

- I will have my bike clothes clean and ready to go

- I will organize my bike accessories tonight, so that I'm not looking for things

- I have the times for the rides in my calendar, with alternate times in case of bad weather

- I will research TWO new rides on my side of town, so that I can cut my travel time to rides.

 

got a bike ride in on Sunday! The weather was grisly, 50 degrees and drizzly (that probably sounds like heaven to @Sloth the Enduring right now) so I really had to fight the urge to stay in and not ride, so I was really pleased with myself for doing it. I still have to find an east side place to ride to save drive time.

 

I will download an instructional podcast on Spanish and listen to it in the car and cue up a Spanish instruction page on my phone for when I'm bored. 

 

Estoy practicamo mi Espanol, gracias.

 

I didn't get 6,000 steps a day, so that will also be this week. I want each week's habits firmly entrenched before I move on. 

 

I took pretty much the whole weekend off - I had to do some work emails yesterday, but for the most part I just chilled out and read and did some mild gardening. I really needed it - I don't think I realized how stressful the last couple of weeks were until I finally took the lid off and looked in the pot, so to speak. 

 

The only new habit I plan to add this week is some downtime in the mornings and a short meditation break in the afternoon. I am constantly wrestling with the fact that I seem to need more downtime than other people - just some quiet time to stare into space - and I don't know if that is actually the case or if everyone else feels like a wind-up toy all the time, but I've made a decision to accomodate it, rather than fight it all the time. It doesn't take a lot to keep me on an even keel, so I'm just going to make the time. 

 

I listened to a LOT of Phil Collins. It was awesome. I'm kind of done with it now. I will torture you with one of my other favorite songs of the moment.