Heidi: Reclaim

[Heidi]

The knee tricks me - it will seem fine and I do stuff, then later it will burn like the dickens.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

Sunday Report

Spent some time off the crutches today.

Walking: 15 minutes

Housechore and lifting : another box unpacked, air conditioner set up

[Hiraedd]

Damn, girl, do you even know how to rest?  Every time I'm online all I see is Heidi= did something else already.  You're setting the bar awfully high for the rest of us....

[Heidi]

Damn, girl, do you even know how to rest?  Every time I'm online all I see is Heidi= did something else already.  You're setting the bar awfully high for the rest of us....

Ha. Not really. I go kind of stir crazy.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

I have been emotionally kind of low, probably from walking - hobbling - without crutches or pain medication for the past two days.

Got some more furniture in place. Knitted. Watched some junk tv. Niw I am going to take an amazingly long bath.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Hiraedd]

HUG

 

Enjoy the bath, and take good care of you, because <3.

 

Also, congrats on being off crutches, and for all you've accomplished so far.  Treating yourself to a break sounds just about right.

[Heidi]

I swear that there has been Something Weird every day since I got the key to the new place. Doorknobs fall apart. Trees fall on the jeep. Twice. The power goes out for four days.

No matter. The power is back on, the knee is mending, and I am continuing to unpack. The number of packed boxes to unpacked ones is about even, and we just unearthed the kitchen stuff.

The dress I knit Vivian while recovering fits her beautifully.

My workouts are still all about moving furniture and books, so some days I feel as though I have been slacking even when I spent over three hours lifting, toting and sweating.

We have been very good about eating at home and only went out twice while the power was out. Also, with the pain medication I was on, I stopped drinking alcohol, and I haven't picked it back up. I can tell the difference in just over a week.

love & peace,

Heidi

[maegs]

Cute outfit! How's your knee taking being off crutches?

[Heidi]

The knse is coming along nicely. I still ice it at the end of the day, and will have to find someone to mow the lawn (in between bouts of rain!) but I am stoked to be mobile again.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

Graeme helped me assemble shelf units, which made a huge difference in the available work space and storage / organization for what has to be the world's strangest kitchen layout. Also, I took a bunch of boxes to the basement and labeled three big boxes for Goodwill. Feeling wiped out, but good about it.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Hiraedd]

Awesome!  Sounds like you're busy taking lemons and making delicious lemonade.  Good on you for kicking the alcohol habit, making so much progress on your house (half unpacked!!) and for taking good care of yourself.  I was thinking about you early this week.  Hope things continue to be good (despite random poweroutageness )

[Heidi]

Awesome!  Sounds like you're busy taking lemons and making delicious lemonade.  Good on you for kicking the alcohol habit, making so much progress on your house (half unpacked!!) and for taking good care of yourself.  I was thinking about you early this week.  Hope things continue to be good (despite random poweroutageness )

Thanks, H! Your encouragement means worlds.

Yesterday I took all the empty boxes outside. They are merely stacked by the house, but they aren't in the living room any more - we can see out the windows! Also, Vivian helped clean the newly revealed floor space, and then Graeme helped move the dining table to its home in the kitchen. It has been great having the settling in process being a family effort.

Today I set up the dish drainer and did a mountain of recently unpacked dishes. Vivian has been awesome with the potty training progress and I am proud as punch.

So far I am on track with the challenge excpet for the specific workout routine, though with the hauling, rearranging and unpacking, I feel spot on with the spirit of it all.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

Back yard mowed. Dinner served. Dishes and laundry done. More empty boxes hauled out of the house and storage stuff taken to the basement. Showers and baths and bedtime, amen.

O, and I forgot to mention that yes, I have been successful in the stash goal as well. Very tired, but feeling on track again for the first time since March.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

Forty-five minutes of mowing the front and side yards. Ready for some knitting and maybe a nap.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

Pilates and abs while watching Vivian in the bath:

Leg lifts 12

Leg pull-ins 12

Crunches 12

Air Bike 12

V-ups 12

Inner Thigh Circles Left, 20

Inner Thigh Circles Left, backward 20

Single leg pulse, left 12

Double leg pulse, left 12

Inner Thigh Circles Right, forward 20

Inner Thigh Circles Right, backward 20

Single leg pulse Right 12

Double leg pulse Right 12

Marching Plank 12

love & peace,

Heidi

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

Mid-challenge Report:

I have been solid about my goals, if a bit creative in their scheduling and implementation. Yes, I am counting lawn mowing as walking. Frankly, the air conditioner and shelving units are as heavy or heavier than most of my deadlift routines, and my toddler easily outweighs any of the dumbbells I use at the gym. The house is coming together, even if some parts still look like an episode of Hoarders. I am Very Intimidated Indeed about the back room, and the dining room has kind of stalled this week.

I'm on track with stashing cash, with a bonus of having not touched the proceeds, despite moving expenses and unexpected power outages. Bedtime continues to be my most difficult piece. Doing housechores has been increasingly easy as the house order is rdstored. Cooking is still a bit of a grind to get started, but we have stayed on track, and the kids have been very helpful on this front.

Rock climbing is scheduled for the Second Saturday in July, in the hopes that my knee will be able to do a baby climb.

The Druid goal has been more meditation in ghe evenings before bedtime and the the unwrapping-unknown-things from boxes yoga poses. So far I have done both of these regularly, and not just once a week.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Hiraedd]

WOW, Heidi, you are doing so much more than "reclaiming" this challenge -- you're heading off into some wild blue yonder as well, going above and beyond.  Well done, my friend.  Well done.

[Heidi]

WOW, Heidi, you are doing so much more than "reclaiming" this challenge -- you're heading off into some wild blue yonder as well, going above and beyond.  Well done, my friend.  Well done.

Thank you for the love and encouragement!

Today was a rest day. We had Chinese for dinner, played a lot, and took shelter in the air conditioning - it was a good day for slacking.

I did the dishes and now am knitting before bed.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

Dishes are washing, spent 30 minutes hauling boxes, swept the living room floor and front hallway, made and served lunch and played outside with Vivian.

Feet up for now while waiting to hear back from a community development guru about when we meet this week to discuss the community center.

[Heidi]

I put a load of laundry in and hauled more boxes and unpacked while Vivian slept. The living room is far from perfect, but at least it is really a *room* now and not a packed-to-the-ceiling storage unit.

love & peace,

Heidi

[JediNickD]

Mid-challenge Report: I have been solid about my goals, if a bit creative in their scheduling and implementation. Yes, I am counting lawn mowing as walking. Frankly, the air conditioner and shelving units are as heavy or heavier than most of my deadlift routines, and my toddler easily outweighs any of the dumbbells I use at the gym. The house is coming together, even if some parts still look like an episode of Hoarders. I am Very Intimidated Indeed about the back room, and the dining room has kind of stalled this week. I'm on track with stashing cash, with a bonus of having not touched the proceeds, despite moving expenses and unexpected power outages. Bedtime continues to be my most difficult piece. Doing housechores has been increasingly easy as the house order is rdstored. Cooking is still a bit of a grind to get started, but we have stayed on track, and the kids have been very helpful on this front. Rock climbing is scheduled for the Second Saturday in July, in the hopes that my knee will be able to do a baby climb. The Druid goal has been more meditation in ghe evenings before bedtime and the the unwrapping-unknown-things from boxes yoga poses. So far I have done both of these regularly, and not just once a week. love & peace, Heidi

 

 

Great job!  Rangers need to be flexible with the ability to improvise.  You are certainly living up to that.  Keep it up!

[Heidi]

Had a great meeting with a community organizer who loves the plan and can help with getting in touch with desperately needed angel funding.

Sleep has been awful these last couple days, but I have stayed on track with house chores.

Ethan and I worked on a jigsaw puzzle and the boys and I played Pachisi.

love & peace,

Heidi

[Heidi]

Dishes washed, laundry going, and a midmorning cuddle time with Vivian.

Happy Friday.

love & peace,

Heidi

[maegs]

It looks like the house is really coming together! Who plays the cello?

[Heidi]

The cello is Graeme’s.

The living room is whole, but there's plenty left to do in the rest of the house. It's intimidating, but I'm celebrating my victories.

love & peace,

Heidi