[Tobbe]

32 minutes ago, Mad Hatter said:

where you're on your hands and knees and do a body wave getting your face and chest as close to the floor as possible.

 

Sounds like a dive bomber pushup to me

 

 

[Epsilonte]

18 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

One of the things I practiced was a combo we do in our hardstyle class, but without heels, and wow what a difference! With heels I'm basically training with ankle weights, and when they got removed I went flying haha.

Yaaaas, prettiest ankle weights ever.

 

4 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Today I discovered that I can do push-ups! I'm a weirdo who finds pull-ups easier than push-ups, and I've never been able to do more than 1-2 iffy ones. Today I discovered I can do TEN!!! 🤯 Not perfect, but decent enough. I think it's because we do these chest grindy thingies in our warmups pretty much every time, where you're on your hands and knees and do a body wave getting your face and chest as close to the floor as possible. It doesn't look at all like a push-ups but you spend a lot of time in the bottom position of one. So if you've ever wanted to make push-up progressions sexy this is the way. 😄 How cool is that! 

Congrats!!  

I also love your pole updates, they make me want to jump on the pole right away as well. We call this unicorn feeling at my studio (and I guess everywhere else). When you get to class tired and leave super happy and accomplished.  

[sylph]

4 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

 

 

Today I discovered that I can do push-ups! I'm a weirdo who finds pull-ups easier than push-ups, and I've never been able to do more than 1-2 iffy ones. Today I discovered I can do TEN!!! 🤯 Not perfect, but decent enough. I think it's because we do these chest grindy thingies in our warmups pretty much every time, where you're on your hands and knees and do a body wave getting your face and chest as close to the floor as possible. It doesn't look at all like a push-ups but you spend a lot of time in the bottom position of one. So if you've ever wanted to make push-up progressions sexy this is the way. 😄 How cool is that! 

Yay push ups! Good job!

[Harriet]

5 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Today I discovered that I can do push-ups! I'm a weirdo who finds pull-ups easier than push-ups, and I've never been able to do more than 1-2 iffy ones. Today I discovered I can do TEN!!! 🤯

 

Wow on both, actually! Impressive.

[Mad Hatter]

9 hours ago, Tobbe said:

 

Sounds like a dive bomber pushup to me

 

 

Yep those are the ones, but on the knees! I forgot they were a “real” exercise. 😄
 

6 hours ago, Epsilonte said:

Yaaaas, prettiest ankle weights ever.

 

Congrats!!  

I also love your pole updates, they make me want to jump on the pole right away as well. We call this unicorn feeling at my studio (and I guess everywhere else). When you get to class tired and leave super happy and accomplished.  

Indeed 😄 Though admittedly mine look kinda trashy, the my really don’t last very long.

 

Unicorn feeling is a perfect description! Doesn’t happen very often. 😄

 

5 hours ago, sylph said:

Yay push ups! Good job!

Yay! Though push-ups are still pointless in my book. 😜
 

4 hours ago, Harriet said:

Wow on both, actually! Impressive.

Thank you! Nice surprise for sure!

 

Inspired by my push-ups I tested my pull-ups at the office and I could eke out 4! Not bad. Not bad at all.

 

Today I was oh so very close to paint instead of playing games. But then I got curious about what level I was at and before I knew it I started a new run. Oops. And then I went to the office for my final day and farewell dinner. We want to a fancy Thai place and it was soooo good. Very happy! Then we went to a fancy cocktail bar and it was just a delightful evening overall. There’s almost nobody left at the Helsinki office so I invited a bunch of ex-colleagues too so it was really a gathering of mostly my friend friends. 😄

 

Tomorrow might be climbing if I’m awake enough, we’ll see!

[Epsilonte]

Ohhh that sounds like a wonderful day and evening!!  

 

Have fun climbing tomorrow!

[KB Girl]

Congratulations on having your last day  sounds like a good celebration! I love fancy food. The kind you’ll remember 🤩

[Mad Hatter]

22 hours ago, Epsilonte said:

Ohhh that sounds like a wonderful day and evening!!  

 

Have fun climbing tomorrow!

Hahahahaa I should’ve known better than to even consider climbing. 😅
 

22 hours ago, KB Girl said:

Congratulations on having your last day  sounds like a good celebration! I love fancy food. The kind you’ll remember 🤩

It was super fun! And the food was delicious!

 

But today is sofa day. 😂

[Waanie]

That dinner sounds great, and I'm glad you got to invite over some of your friends that you worked with earlier .

[Mad Hatter]

12 hours ago, Waanie said:

That dinner sounds great, and I'm glad you got to invite over some of your friends that you worked with earlier .

The best thing about this company really was when I got to hang out with my friends all the time at the office, so I'm glad I could finagle a free fancy dinner out of it. 😄 Our idea of eating out is more along the lines of grabbing a burger when we're stinky after climbing haha.

 

 

Today it was clear my ego needed humbling. 😆 I've been feeling so good about my dancing, and my strength, but today I got flippin' schooled in pole class. 😅 Hard style was very hard, very fast and I felt like I was back in my first class ever. In other words, I got wrecked. I was scrambling to keep up and I couldn't do any of the moves at speed. Some of them I can barely do in isolation. 😬I then had a second class which is typically more chill since on paper it's a beginner class, but I died. That was a lot of cardio. Stupid fun though, this time it's an Aussie style choreo to Whitesnake. Amazing. But I'm just so very deaded. Can I go to bed yet? 

[KB Girl]

You're an adult, you can go to bed whenever you like 😜

Having fun while dying is the best dying kind! 

[Jarric]

Your farewell dinner/night out sounds great. Even better when it's compay-funded

 

[WhiteGhost]

On 10/28/2022 at 4:29 AM, Mad Hatter said:

With heels I'm basically training with ankle weights

Oh, I can imagine.  I can tell he difference even with light running shoes.  I can't even imagine trying to any kind of inversion with clunky heels on

[Epsilonte]

18 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Aussie style choreo to Whitesnake

Lol no wonder you are dead. Sounds fun though  

[Harriet]

18 hours ago, KB Girl said:

Having fun while dying is the best dying kind! 

 

The best kind of fun or the best kind of dying? Edit: sorry, I see you answered this. Yes, yes I agree, this seems like the best way to die.

[Mad Hatter]

On 10/30/2022 at 10:54 PM, KB Girl said:

You're an adult, you can go to bed whenever you like 😜

Having fun while dying is the best dying kind! 

But since I'm, ahem, a responsible adult I also know that waking up at 4 am in the dark fucking sucks. 😆

 

On 10/30/2022 at 11:48 PM, Jarric said:

Your farewell dinner/night out sounds great. Even better when it's compay-funded

Best kind!

 

On 10/31/2022 at 9:07 AM, WhiteGhost said:

Oh, I can imagine.  I can tell he difference even with light running shoes.  I can't even imagine trying to any kind of inversion with clunky heels on

Funnily enough inversions are not too bad. The beginning is more difficult but then the heels help as counterweights. The two moves that are a bitch are fan legs, where you scissor the legs in front of you, which I claim is the hardest beginner move ever. (Fight me @Epsilonte 😜) We also do a move where we start facing away from the pole, then swing the legs in front, turn 180 in midair, then repeat while facing the pole and end up in a drop. My poor abs!

 

On 10/31/2022 at 3:53 PM, Epsilonte said:

Lol no wonder you are dead. Sounds fun though  

And that was the easy choreo! 😅

 

On 10/31/2022 at 5:05 PM, Harriet said:

The best kind of fun or the best kind of dying? 

Yes?

[Mad Hatter]

I haven't forgotten about the challenge. I've been meaning to post my todo list, but it's overwhelming so I'm choosing to stick my head in the sand and play games. Which are also going badly, and I feel stupid, and I don't like feeling stupid. On top of that my head's been invaded by the gremlin horde and my pole sucks, and everything sucks. 

 

Shield, sneaky, fat, wizard and mad gremlin, yep got the whole set.

 

Ate a bunch of candy and now I feel less like crying, so that's something. Now I'm gonna go and sleep it off.

[KB Girl]

Definitely not trying to be offensive, but perhaps it’s that time of the month? It always helps me feel a little better to at least know wth is going on. 
Hope the sleep helps 😘

[WhiteGhost]

2 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

Funnily enough inversions are not too bad.

I was imagining straight arm, straight leg inversions when I said that, but yeah that makes sense.  I feel it most on font/back levers, or pretty much any move where you have to hold your legs out away from you parallel to the floor.

 

2 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

my head's been invaded by the gremlin horde

Maybe time to focus on slaying gremlins rather than the spire   glad the candy helped

[Mad Hatter]

9 hours ago, KB Girl said:

Definitely not trying to be offensive, but perhaps it’s that time of the month? It always helps me feel a little better to at least know wth is going on. 
Hope the sleep helps 😘

I wouldn't know, hadn't had a period in years! Thank you IUD. 😄 Or maybe I should say, thank you for your service, I'm getting it removed next week. 😬 Wee bit nervous! But I feel like now that I'm getting old it makes sense to get a better picture of what's going on hormonally. 

 

9 hours ago, WhiteGhost said:

I was imagining straight arm, straight leg inversions when I said that, but yeah that makes sense.  I feel it most on font/back levers, or pretty much any move where you have to hold your legs out away from you parallel to the floor.

 

Maybe time to focus on slaying gremlins rather than the spire   glad the candy helped

For sure! I'm not sure why but out of the gazillion grip types in pole straight arm inverts is not really a thing.

 

Slaying gremlins is part of slaying the spire! 😄 I'm telling you, this game translates so much to real life.

[Mad Hatter]

Ok rearranging this challenge because it doesn't make sense as it is. Hey that's goal 1 on the list! 

 

The Ironclad - It's important to make decisions based on what's in front of you, rather than acting on auto pilot. Just because something worked once doesn't mean it will work next time. This goal is for accountability and not disappearing and reevaluating daily what's working or not working and what I need to do next. I need it more than ever because tomorrow is my last work day before hobo life™!! We're keeping this.

 

The Silent - One can use many strategies to achieve victory, the important thing is to keep things open before locking yourself in to one. To explore my options and interests I want to read more. I have a pile of library books that are mocking me, I'd like to read daily. We're keeping this too, but I'm letting the library pile go. I don't have spare brain required to read hardish books. Ahem since I'm using it all on StS. This is fine. And all the books are available on kindle anyway. The books I will however miss and soon won't have access too are my art books. I'm going to read/look at the pictures to prime myself for painting later.

 

The Defect - Once you have a strategy that works, you want to really focus to make it scale. Currently I'm all into pole, and lately I've finally started to level up! I want to lean in to it more and do something to improve my dance near daily. Uggh yes I'd still like to do this, though I'm getting very hesitant about performing in the christmas showcase. I did promise my teacher I would when I stopped looking like a goblin in heels, and while it's true for some choreos all of the new ones are hard and I don't think I can get them show ready... But let's keep this goal tentatively in place. 

 

The Watcher - Just as the watcher balances wrath and calm, I have to balance short term and long term wants. I've been living very much in the short term, but now that I'm starting the hobo life™ I need to get things ready for travel. I need to make a list of things like canceling my flat, getting rid of stuff and then, well, deal with it. I now have a list and I don't like it.  Not everything is meant to happen this challenge, but I need to make a good dent in the list. And the halloween costume I need to make like right now, which is clearly the reason I'm procrastinating on NF.
 

Spoiler

Flat

• Bedroom
  • Crashpad
  • Wardrobe
  • Books
• Living room
  • Clothes and hats
  • Electronics
  • Hobby stuff
  • Books
  • Filing system aka overstuffed drawer of paperwork
• Recycle furniture
• Repair or trash clothes
• Kitchen
  • Cupboards (incl the one above the kitchen)
  • The stuff around my desk
  • Books
• Bathroom
• Basement
• New plant homes if they're still alive
• Cancel home insurance
• Cancel electricity or is that automatic?
• How long’s my resignation period for my flat?
• Move CSN monies

 

Travel

• Travel insurance
• Where do I register my address?
• US Visa?
• Covid booster
• Flights to somewhere

 

Misc

• Do I want to buy a work laptop?
• Driving license? Probably not.
• Glasses
• Work expenses
• Buy shoes
• Hairdresser
• iPhone storage
• Halloween pole costume

 

 

The Slime Boss - Non-goal I just wanted to squeeze in something something painting and just look how squishy this slime is. This one I'm culling, because it's just ain't gonna happen right now, I'm in the wrong headspace for it. New goal is to only play StS when I'm not tired/careless so I can maybe suck less. And when I do I have to sit at my desk.  I think these heuristics will help both with the other goals and my gameplay. 

 

 

 

 

[Mad Hatter]

Costume done, filming maybe done? My teacher is going to see if she can edit together the good bits from where people didn't fuck up. But if not we'll try again.  I don't think I performed very well, but it was very, very fun and I'm honestly amazed at the lack of interest in this class. It was advertised as a heels class with a horror theme and apparently that's not a thing people are into? I'm not even a horror person myself but I thought it was super fun exploring a somewhat different type of movements and trying to be creepy.

 

Also loved making the costume! And by making I meant stabbing an old skirt to death and covering myself with scraps. And by old I meant a skirt I sewed myself when I was a bridesmaid and it was really, really pretty fluffy silk and tulle number. It got tonnes of compliments to the two weddings I wore it to, and it also felt really nice to wear, it had a lovely weight to it. And now it's a butchered mess and killing  the nicest thing I ever made was immensely satisfying. 

 

My friends were climbing at a nearby gym so I popped in to say hi before class. It was quite painful to just hang out and not climb.  But worth it. 

[Harriet]

On 11/2/2022 at 9:18 PM, Mad Hatter said:

I haven't forgotten about the challenge. I've been meaning to post my todo list, but it's overwhelming so I'm choosing to stick my head in the sand and play games. Which are also going badly, and I feel stupid, and I don't like feeling stupid. On top of that my head's been invaded by the gremlin horde and my pole sucks, and everything sucks. 

 

 

Sorry about the slug/scatter brain. It's the worst. Not sure exactly why the mental readiness comes and goes but it sure does.

 

On 11/2/2022 at 9:18 PM, Mad Hatter said:

Ate a bunch of candy and now I feel less like crying, so that's something. Now I'm gonna go and sleep it off.

 

Is today any better?

[Mad Hatter]

4 hours ago, Harriet said:

Sorry about the slug/scatter brain. It's the worst. Not sure exactly why the mental readiness comes and goes but it sure does.

 

 

Is today any better?

Just a blip! And it was neither slug or scatter really, just a few gremlins showed up for a few hours and todo lists plain suck so there is that. 😜Also pole dancing is hard, especially in heels (you have to deal with two apparatuses instead of one!) and the game’s hard too. It’s all good.

 

Today is ok… I’ve been feeling suuuper low energy and cold and I really, really hope I’m not getting sick! I’ve got plans for the weekend so my immune system better not fail me. Was quite productive in the morning though, I threw away a couple of bags of stuff, and I marked out a space on the floor to simulate various sizes of storage space. I really, really wish Helsinki had the same service as in Stockholm where they’d take your stuff, price it, take photos and sell it for you. It was completely no contact and so so good.
 

I also started off playing StS at my desk, got frustrated, and then I’ll admit I played one or two runs in bed. But only after I had dealt with all the decluttering so could be worse.

[Harriet]

1 hour ago, Mad Hatter said:

Today is ok… I’ve been feeling suuuper low energy and cold and I really, really hope I’m not getting sick! I’ve got plans for the weekend so my immune system better not fail me.

 

Ah, best of bug-fighting-off to you.