Spookyfoot Joins the Crystal Gems

[spooky]

I really enjoy your motivations and inspirations. Definitely brings a smile to my face when I read them!

 

Also, your food. I think Rachael Ray would have to give it the YUM-O seal of approval.

Aww thank you, that means a lot. They help me set the tone for my day <3 I'm glad they make you smile, smiles are awesome

 

and FOOOOOOD is the best! I have fun posting pics here, especially when I make something yummy and healthy. Glad you enjoy them I'll be making barley risotto stuffed peppers later this week

[spooky]

Gratitude: 

I am grateful for getting ahead on my NaNo Schedule

I am grateful for laughter

I am grateful for all the hilarity I get to read here

I am grateful for an awesome hair day, my hair looked great to day and I didn't even do anything. Those are the best days.

I am grateful for learning to find the positive in tough situations

I am grateful for working on positive self talk

I am grateful for learning to let go

I am grateful for seeing my sister

I am grateful for listening to my body and taking a nap

I am grateful for learning to be gentle with myself

[spooky]

Week 1, Day 1

Steven: 

+100 Positive Self Talk, +100 Nap, +100 Sat Outside, +100 play with a cat, +100 Gratitude

Greg: 

+100 NaNo, 2680 words today, 5008 words total

Amethyst

+100 Pilates + 200 4 servings of veggies, +100 accurate tracking, +100 under calorie goal 

Pearl:

+100 To Do, +100 Tao Te Ching, +100 Read in Pale Fire

Garnet:

+100 Daily Inspiration, +100 Meditation, +100 1 minutes of mindful awareness, +100 Deep Breaths

 

Total Points: 1800

Combo: Greg's Van 

Points out of Weekly goal: 1800/7000

[petefeet]

I ended up taking a nap because daylight savings time (that's my answer and I'm sticking to it ) Why else would i be so sleepy??

 

Mercury in retrograde?

[petefeet]

Gratitude: 

 

I am grateful for an awesome hair day, my hair looked great to day and I didn't even do anything. Those are the best days.

 

 

I'm like that everyday!!! <g>

[spooky]

Mercury in retrograde?

Well I know what I'm saying next time I take a nap

 

I'm like that everyday!!! <g>

*turns green with envy*

[spooky]

Daily Inspiration: 

 

57

If you want to be a great leader,
you must learn to follow the Tao.
Stop trying to control.
Let go of fixed plans and concepts,
and the world will govern itself.

The more prohibitions you have,
the less virtuous people will be.
The more weapons you have,
the less secure people will be.
The more subsidies you have,
the less self-reliant people will be.

Therefore the Master says:
I let go of the law,
and people become honest.
I let go of economics,
and people become prosperous.
I let go of religion,
and people become serene.
I let go of all desire for the common good,
and the good becomes common as grass.

 

"Hope is like the sun, which, was we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us" 

-Samuel Smiles

 

"Standing on the bare ground- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space- all means of egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all"

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

-Og Mandino

[spooky]

To Do:

 

Morning: 

Wake Up 

Coffee

Inspiration

To Do

Meditate

Walk

NaNoWriMo

Banana Bread

 

 

Afternoon:

Lunch

Weights

Errands (nope not happening today)

Feed Cats

NaNoWriMo

Pale Fire

Zen Mind

 

Evening: 

Dinner

Walk

NaNoWriMo

Relax

Gratitude

Meditation

Sleep 

[spooky]

Today's Doodlie Mini is saying three things we are good at when it comes to health and fitness, here are mine: 

 

1. I am good at sticking with my challenges, even when things get tough or go awry

2. I am good at coming up with healthy and delicious meals

3. I am good at making time for myself, everyday 

 

(that last one is only since I started NF, so thank you <3)

[spooky]

Yay I got to all the stuff on my list this morning. Over 1000 words written today, will get more in for my later sessions. I like to break it up a bit. But so far so good with Day 2. Just focusing on one thing at a time

[spooky]

Gym. It happened. I totally went hard. Even my mom (whose trainer nickname is the Marquis de Sade, no I am not joking) commented that it was a tough workout. She has no setting other than hard but it's good because she pushes me. And for the last circuit I pushed myself. Just have to hold onto that pride.

 

Now it is raining which is such a treat in Southern California and it's perfect weather for writing. I'm going to get to at least 7000 words today but If I can get to 8000 so much the better. I have the time

[spooky]

Word count: 7097

 

Gunning for 8000. I can do this! 

 

Also of note: a ridiculous decrease in snacking since I started NaNo. Which tells me most of my eating was bored eating. So maybe I should keep working on a novel all of the time

[Snarkyfishguts]

YESS!!! That's excellentn NaNoWriMo progress! Keep up the great work! Also awesome to hear about your crazy hard workout and embracing your MIGHTINESS. 

 

 

It appears I've fallen very behind on your thread. I'm going to go catch up now.   HIGH FIVES for your awesome day!!

[ElemHH]

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

-Og Mandino

 

I love this one.

[sassyfrassy]

Boredom eating is the worst enemy to have. I find that it sneaks up on me when I least expect it (or want it!) and ugh. THE WORST. I have been trying to make myself feel busy when that comes around. Other times, I just give in ... but try and search out the best snack I can. Sometimes the hunt just makes me lose interest all together! LOL

[spooky]

I love this one.

Thanks Elem, I do too! I love the idea of planting seeds to harvest, and how our small daily actions add up

 

YESS!!! That's excellentn NaNoWriMo progress! Keep up the great work! Also awesome to hear about your crazy hard workout and embracing your MIGHTINESS. 

 

 

It appears I've fallen very behind on your thread. I'm going to go catch up now.   HIGH FIVES for your awesome day!!

 

Thanks Snarky! I'm doing some word wars right now with a couple of other nerds in chat and it's really helpful and fun I am working to embrace my might! Love how you put that.

 

No worries for falling behind, things get crazy! All that matter is you're here now <3

 

Thanks for the support <3 <3 <3

[spooky]

Over 8500 words and still going  

[Ensi]

Over 8500 words and still going

 

Look at you goooo!!

 

Loving your challenge, Spooky Building goals around cartoons is a great concept!

[spooky]

Boredom eating is the worst enemy to have. I find that it sneaks up on me when I least expect it (or want it!) and ugh. THE WORST. I have been trying to make myself feel busy when that comes around. Other times, I just give in ... but try and search out the best snack I can. Sometimes the hunt just makes me lose interest all together! LOL

IT IS. INSIDIOUS BEASTIE. Writing really helps, I think because it keeps my hands occupied so I can't just shove food in my mouth Sometimes searching out the best snack you can is really just the only thing to do! Wise words indeed <3

 

Look at you goooo!!

 

Loving your challenge, Spooky Building goals around cartoons is a great concept!

LOOK AT THIS WRITING TRAIN GO CHOO CHOO^META          wait what?

 

I'm having lots of fun writing so it's going well

 

I don't know if I know of any other way to build my goals except for around cartoons

 

So happy to have you here, Ensi <3 <3 <3

[spooky]

Gratitude: 

I am grateful for getting a lot of work done on my novel

I am grateful for a great workout today

I am grateful for having fun writing

I am grateful for banana bread, yum!

I am grateful for laughter

I am grateful for awesome pets

I am grateful for progress, not perfection

I am grateful for a new day to start again

[spooky]

Week 1, Day 2

Steven: 

+100 Positive Self Talk, +100 Sat Outside, +100 play with a cat, +100 face treatment, +100 bath, +100 Gratitude, +100 Play with a cat

Greg: 

+275 NaNo, word count so far: 9327 :D  (decided it's 100 points per every 1667 words, I did more than double that so I get 175 extra points , this counts as 3 things from this list (I rounded up okay!))

Amethyst

+100 Walking +100 weight training, +100 Accurate tracking, +100 under calorie goal

Pearl:

+100 To Do, +100 Tao Te Ching, +100 Read in Pale Fire, +100 Read in Zen Mind

Garnet:

+100 Daily Inspiration, +100 Meditation, +100 Deep Breaths, +100 Mindful of Body Tension

 

Points: 2175 (175 extra for fry bits)

Combo: Garnet's Gauntlets

Total Weekly Points: 3975/7000

 

That Greg Universe hair flip though.....

[SomeGuyFromScotland]

What's the plan for the end product of your NaNo, Spooky? Is it purely for your own amusement, or are you thinking about doing something with it?

[Terah]

Oh wow, look at you go! You are killing this challenge, keep it up

[spooky]

What's the plan for the end product of your NaNo, Spooky? Is it purely for your own amusement, or are you thinking about doing something with it?

It's kind of both! I am definitely having fun writing it, but I do intend on heavily editing it so I can build a writing portfolio of pieces of shop around I see this as getting a head start on MFA grad school, which in the States is basically an excuse to write a couple of years (though of course there are classes and workshops). 

 

Oh wow, look at you go! You are killing this challenge, keep it up

Thanks Terah! I'm really having fun this challenge and the system seems to work really well for me, it gives me good balance in my days

[Shello]

 

I don't know if I know of any other way to build my goals except for around cartoons

 

 

I love this about you, Spooky!  

 

You are really killing it.  Going beast mode in your workout and in your writing.  

 

I have no idea if this is an appropriate gif for beast mode.  I don't watch this show but this looked particularly 'beasty'