Diary of a Patchwork Adventuress

[Haloquin]

AIM: To be strong enough for adventuring as soon as it's safe. And by adventuring I mean leaving this 5 mile stretch of coast and visiting friends & a museum or art gallery or something. 

 

GOALS: 

Core strength for travel, walking, & carrying luggage. (with partially healed chronic back problem.) Specifically: 

- can sit for 3 hours without spasming

- can walk for an hour on easy terrain

- can carry rucksack & kit in that time

 

Mood Boosting: I'd like my magic back please. 

 

I've given myself permission to play with fun things without guilt this year, with the tag #diaryofanadventuress on twitter so I can share about it... I want to build a character for this. 

 

Just for fun: let's publish a novella. Why not? Then I can do a livingroom book tour for it. 

 

ACTION PLAN:

 

Sooo... 

 

1. Back to a basic bodyweight training. 

 

2. Daily walking (min: a mile/20mins) 

 

3. Research herbs for mood to add to soup. Then a soup recipe. Then make soup. 

 

4. Find podcasts to listen to while I walk/train. For research! And to encourage walking. 

 

5. Rename my mp3 player "Nevyn"? Gandalf? Another guru type name?  Phryne. So I can learn from an adventuress. 

 

6. Play with the Adventuress character and a backstory for her... 

 

Oh! And...

 

7. Make a plan for my trip, whenever it might come. Maps, itineraries, packing list... Finding all my travel gear again... Can't have an adventure without kit. 

 

Maybe if I make it a "performance artwork" and document it I'll keep at it? 

 

DAILY CHECKLIST 

[] Bodyweight training (exercise) 

[] Walk (time) 

[] Herbal activity (research/test/use) 

[] Adventuress Prep (podcast/backstory/trip planning) 

[Haloquin]

DAILY CHECKLIST 25/1/21

💖 Santes Dwynwen's Day! 💖

 

[/] BW training (squats & arm rows) 

[/] Walk (2.5 miles, plus food shop) 

[/] Herbal activity (bought mint, ginger, & turmeric) 

[/] Adventuress Prep (podcast picked & character concept) 

 

Training podcast - rewilding

https://paw.princeton.edu/podcast/pawcast-paul-wapner-91-reviving-connections-natural-world 

 

Walking podcast - Welsh language learning, and fairytales:

https://paw.princeton.edu/podcast/pawcast-maria-tatar-71-scholarship-fairy-tales-and-folklore

 

Character: "Lady" Foxy Quin

Steampunk/fantasy/anthro

(Loosely inspired by the character of Phryne Fisher... So my mp3 player shall now be called Phryne.)

 

A were-fox ex-thief that got injured and came into some money at the same time. Doesn't like to talk about the details but it was probably nefarious. Is now trying to make good & see the world. Skills include card magic & cartomancy, rudimentary palmistry, lock picking... (All things to practice!) 

 

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Notes: feeling down so finding updating this helpful as a reminder I'm taking action. 

[Haloquin]

DAILY CHECKLIST 26/1/21

 

[] Bodyweight training (planking - 55s) 

[/] Walk (1 hour/3 miles) 

[/] Herbal activity (made firey things: decoction of ginger, ginger sweets, and red soup because... I'm missing the sunlight, basically.) 

[/] Adventuress Study (Welsh lang podcast) 

 

I'm using "Say Something In Welsh" to get my conversational Welsh off the ground. As I live in Wales it would help! (Plus: being bilingual is cool, in Britain, anyway.) 

 

And today's podcast (for cooking with) was on the book Lost Connections, about cultivating happiness, by two herbalists:

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-witches-garden/cultivating-happiness-a4UvYi-6NGn/

[Haloquin]

DAILY CHECKLIST 27/1/21

 

I've been oversleeping but woke earlier than usual today, so that feels good. Been for a walk and there's FIRE soup for lunch! 

 

[X] Bodyweight training (rest day) 

[/] Walk (1 hour) 

[/] Herbal activity (testing ginger/buying supplies/learning about tinctures) 

[/] Adventuressing (researching crypto zoology & modern fairy sightings on podcast: http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com) 

 

 

[Haloquin]

DAILY CHECKLIST 28/1/21

[X] Bodyweight training  

[/] Walk (1 hour) 

[/] Herbal activity (peppermint) 

[/] Adventuress Prep (Welsh lang learning /character development) 

[Haloquin]

DAILY CHECKLIST 29/1/21

 

[/] Bodyweight training (squats) 

[/] Walk (35minutes) 

[/] Herbal activity (ginger decoction testing) 

[/] Adventuress Prep (Welsh lang learning /story plotting) 

[Haloquin]

DAILY CHECKLIST 30/1/21

[/] Bodyweight training (60s plank) 

[/] Walk (2 miles) 

[/] Herbal activity (ginger) 

[/] Adventuress Prep (Welsh lang learning /story plotting) 

 

Have the outline for the start of the tale... Involving amnesia and a new start, a mystery, a homecoming which isn't quite as it seems, and a touch of magic. 

 

(Edited because I forgot I actually did do a Bodyweight thing! Planking!) 

[Haloquin]

DAILY CHECKLIST 31/1/21

 

[] Bodyweight training

[/] Walk (2 miles) 

[/] Herbal activity (thyme for breathing) 

[/] Adventuress Prep (Welsh lang learning /podcast about creating and finishing projects) 

 

This podcast has a really inspiring idea right near the start. Anyone doing something creative is bound to have imposter syndrome because what we're doing has not been done before, so we *are* I posters, at least until it's finished. 

 

https://perell.com/podcast/seth-godin-writing-every-day/

 

And I'm up to lesson 4 of the Welsh classes, which is twice as far as I've gotten before, so that's really good. 

[Loveable_Bouncer]

Hope you are getting to your goals to be able to have an adventure!