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Ah well. At least you were warned. chances are you might bump into your ex character as undead if thats what you where investigating. That would be my evil twist as a dm

Yeah, it was actually a really fun session. Annoying not to be able to take the character concept to a high enough level for any of it to work, but that's the way the dice roll. Also, I 100% could have run away, rather than trying to be heroic and getting myself killed. Some of the others not so much Yeah, though to be fair there was nothing accidental about this . Posions/curses l/diseases are good when they're interesting - when they just put a road block in the game not so much. I'd take diseases being interesting but not stopping you from playing over realism in that case. Nah, we're level 1. We onew what we were gettibg into when the GM suggested we roll up 2 characters before the game started - this adventure path is notoriously lethal. That said, if I need a new character in a year's time I might resurrect him then, if I can find a thematic way to do it. Or I could just introduce his identical twin

Woke up tired, I seem to be yo+yo’ing between good and bad days energy wise at the moment. Not sure what to do about that, but probubly pacing myself and resting is in order. Glad i went out yesterday though as the cloud has decended and it has all gone grey out there again. Had a miscellaneous crud that needed doing day so lots of driving around. Had a lovely wrap and sweet potato fries in one of my fave cafes overlooking the sea though, which was lovely. pretty burnt out now though so need to rest. getting some quiet recharging time in the afternoon is going well, actually napping is intermittent though so maybe putting more effort i to that would be a good plan. onto reading Minx by julia quinn, which is one of the books is scored yesterday. Its one of her early ones, and not quite the same complexity of plot as the more recent series ive read by her. Enjoying it though as lighter reading is what i need right now. Cant believe its only 2pm. Feels like its 6 in the afternoon right now. Seemingly one of those days that drags on and on today.

Plan for yesterday Listen to praise music✔️ Put lotion on feet✔️ Work✔️ Drink bottle of plain water✔️ Shower✔️ Tidy around chair Tidy around night stand✔️ Start meal planning✔️ Brush and floss✔️ In bed by 10✔️ Plan for today Listen to praise music Put lotion on feet Work Drink bottle of plain water Tidy around chair Make grocery order Brush and floss In bed by 10

Sorry to hear you guys had a partial TPK dude. Any chance of resurrecting you all?

Pathfinder is pretty brutal. It is really easy to kill players accidentally in it as a DM ive been told. we definitely ran away a decent amount playing 2e. Plus the poisons/curses/diseases are not fun and very hard to get rid of.

I actually love this. So many RPGs these days go to such lengths to make character death nigh impossible even with lots of effort, unless it's "dramatically appropriate" (plot armor, much?) so it ends up being a no stakes game going from one place to the other without much challenge and the thrill to go with overcoming said challenge. Life sucks and some times things go wrong, not because you made a mistake but because of a dice roll or something completely out of control. You learn to take the hits, lick your wounds, get pissed off and come back stronger.

Week 3 wrap-up Week 3 was so long ago I don't remember it, and I've talked about most of it anyway, but the final scores were: The cartographer: 3/7 days doing art. Appears this very much dropped off at the weekend. The muscle: 6/7 days kneehab. Saturday was tricky as I was out drinking and eating amazing food for most of the day, but otherwise we're good here.

Pathfiner update I'm super far behind on updating, so let's start with the important stuff! We had Pathfinder on Tuesday night, and we went to explore the cellar of the abandoned house we were in. We found a creepy chair-device use to create undead from the living, but before we could examine it we were attached by a giant, hideous leech creature (a leecher? A leeture?) Our wood kineticist was first in the firing line - the leecher grabbed him immediately, dealing a bunch of damage, and then drained all of his blood in round 2. Meanwhile the rest of us failed a bunch of knowledge checks to identify the thing, but we did learn it was weak to fire. I spent an entire round trying fashion a flaming arrow, before missing it entirely the following round. At this point, in real life, I went to the bar. When I came back our rogue was also unconscious and drained of blood, and the kineticist was losing his final grip on the mortal realm. Trying to be heroic I dragged the kineticist out of the way. Then I stepped up to the creature, turned back to my companions, and told them to run. And then I blew up my mechanical composite bow, in a blast of fire. Funny thing, turns out that this creature wasn't weak to fire . We'd failed that check too. Our druid dragged the rogue away, whilst the creature was busy leeching unlife out of the summoner's shadow companion. To save the shadow, and deprive the leecher of another meal, the summoner pulled out a dagger, cut off his own shadowy hand, and the summon winked out of existence. The kineticist breathed his last, failed his recovery check, and died. Then the leecher turned on me. He rolled a fucking crit, grabbed me, and drained me dry all in one turn. Whilst the druid fled with the rogue's unconscious body, the summoner hung back to try and save me. A brave choice, but a poor one, as the leecher managed to get close enough to him to drain all of his blood as well. So, after session 4 of this campaign, 3 of the 5 PCs are dead and we were quite frankly lucky to escape a TPK. Tune in next week to meet our new characters, I guess!

Wow, yeah, that sounds really full on. I'd like to give something like that a go - I appreciate that sticking a blindfold on for a few hours is not the same as experiencing what it's like to live as a blind person, but it sounds like it would still be a thought-provoking experience. Yeah, it's a fair point, I shall try not to get too hopeful. It's just such an usual presentation of symptoms, I'd like to get more than contradictory guesses from different physios. That would be great, thanks so much for the offer. So at the moment, physio exercises are: - single-leg, bent-leg calf raises - 1x20ish - single-leg squats, focusing on glute engagement, straight back, knees not tracking past toes - 1x12ish Doing that every day is easy, I mostly do them betweent sets at the gym, and as it's only 1 set of each it doesn't take long if not. The call I had with a different physio to book the MRI suggested doing them less than daily (maybe 3x per week), but doing 3-5 sets. I haven't implemented that yet; would need to find a good way to fit it in. Unrelated, the single leg squats are definitely doing something even with low volume, because my pistol squats have improved about 500% in the last 2 months. I also decided last weekend to try and do some ankle exercises when I've got free evenings sat on the sofa - specifically these ones from GMB: https://gmb.io/feet/ . So far I've only done them twice, but it feels like even a couple of times per week they might be useful. I've also noticed that doing the ankle circles whilst weight bearing on the ball of my foot seems to aggravate the same area of my knee as running, which is interesting. My gym coach has got me doing eye focusing exercises, which are in theory 20 seconds 3x per day (actually doing 1-2). In terms of general exercise, I'm in a crossfit-style gym Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri (1 hour each), and I go cycling Tues, Sat, Sun (probably 2 x 40 minutes and 1 x 90-120 minutes). I also go bouldering Wed and Sat, for anywhere between 1 and 3 hours of chilled-out climbing.

Hey all. I am so stressed out. Ex landlord is being an absolute WANKER. trying to get 2.5k off us now. WTF. i want to put all his windows in. I hate him. I am trying to not let it affect me too much but my head is banging. I have 4 meetings this afternoon plus some essay work to do for someone. I am desperate for alcohol or drugs to numb things. But i am 10 months sober today, so i guess i should stick at it. x

Hmm, my lists are long, but i fear that is a combination of my deluded optimism and breaking things down to the tiniest of steps so’s I can cross off more items and get that sweet dopamine hit 😂 but I picked up the listing habit from YOU sal so i fully support you getting back to list mode! This week - lifting has been good, general activity has been great (walking, biking, dancing, water running), work productivity has been meh (largely treading water just keeping up with meetings etc while other stuff piles up ominously), and tracking food has fully fallen by the wayside. I think I’ll focus on a smaller amount of things today, just (1) food prep so i have some high protein lunches and snacks around, (2) get as far as i can today finalizing and submitting a paper, (3) put away my laundry!! There are some other tasks too, like keep the pets alive and entertained, brush my teeth, fix dinner for me and kid 1, but I got those.

Enjoy your time in France!!! 👍

Is it done? Is Houseguest finally gone???

The assistance band I got for the chin ups is also useful for doing some sort of standing shoulder flies (basically pulling the band directly upwards with both hands to shoulder height, with elbows out/up - feel free to let me know the real name!) Cycled to the shop and did a walk after work. Met a friend for dinner/drinks so def over calories for that meal, but sensible in the day. Got home just before 10:30pm but obv took me a while to get ready for bed, though light was off for 11pm. Yesterday:🍔 0pts 🏃‍♀️ 5pts 🚲 5pts 🚶‍♀️5pts 🌞 5pts 🦵 5pts ➰ 5pts 🛏️ 5pts Total: 700pts

Have a lovely holiday

Thursday, 18 April Fitness: I left work around 20:00, which makes it a 12 hour workday. Add walking back home and it felt like I didn't have enough time for everything I wanted to do. Which kinda pissed me off, so I smartly used that anger to actually fuel a workout. Between that, dinner and a shower, I slept like a baby and this fancy new sleep tracking app I downloaded out of sheer curiosity seems to agree. As far as the workout is concerned, I stuck to 5kg dumbbells, dropped the reps to a minimum and extended my rest time between sets from 10 to 15", which apparently allowed me to do better. Media Production: Listened to the album of the day while at work and typed out my comments, so all I had to do after work was actually set up the video, add the music and make the IG post.

This is copy and paste from my challenge I am skimming through a diet book that I read before "You Can't Screw This Up" by Adam Bornstein. I find it super helpful. It's very pragmatic. He has a whole list of menu items that you can from restaurants that are good, filling, but not super high in calories. One of the ideas he spoke about was from James Clear (habit guru) When you are struggling with a goal a question to ask yourself is "How can I make this easy?" I did that when , at the beginning of the week, I was worried I would fail at my diet goal. I realized that I was worried I would go over my calorie goal. So, I decided to cut my calorie goal by an amount that I thought I could do. The author, Bornstein, also talks about how it is good to step outside your comfort zone, but you don't have to leap. You can keep one foot in your comfort zone, and one foot out. When we stretch too far in dieting, is when we tend to get burnt out. And you don't have to stay there. You can slowly up it. Applying this to my calorie goal, I can up the deficit slowly. Which makes sense. I feel like sometimes it takes a while to get in the groove. And adding, because after I read Harriet's post, I remembered this: One thing he suggests is a shorter time frame for diet. And then staying at maintenance for a bit and letting your body adjust to it's new set point. I thought this was interesting since a few of us were going to try that method

Somehow missed your update. This is a great plan, and I am glad it is working for you.

Today was a good day. In the morning, I joined a couple of friends for chatting and scrapbooking. Then we went and met some other ladies for lunch. We ate at Cheesecake Factory . For the win, I had preselected something from the skinnylicious menu (tacos!) so I stayed within my calorie budget. Not tempted to have cheesecake, since my stomach and that much dairy do not get along. I came home and had some chicken. The nutrition guide said they were enough chicken for 30 grams of protein, but to me, the tacos seemed pretty light on actual chicken. Then I went for a walk in the sunshine. After dinner, hubby and I went for another walk, I have over 10,000 steps. I am skimming through a diet book that I read before "You Can't Screw This Up" by Adam Bornstein. I find it super helpful. It's very pragmatic. He has a whole list of menu items that you can from restaurants that are good, filling, but not super high in calories. One of the ideas he spoke about was from James Clear (habit guru) When you are struggling with a goal a question to ask yourself is "How can I make this easy?" I did that when , at the beginning of the week, I was worried I would fail at my diet goal. I realized that I was worried I would go over my calorie goal. So, I decided to cut my calorie goal by an amount that I thought I could do. The author, Bornstein, also talks about how it is good to step outside your comfort zone, but you don't have to leap. You can keep one foot in your comfort zone, and one foot out. When we stretch too far in dieting, is when we tend to get burnt out. And you don't have to stay there. You can slowly up it. Applying this to my calorie goal, I can up the deficit slowly. Which makes sense. I feel like sometimes it takes a while to get in the groove. My motivation right now is to look good in my shorts. I tried on several pairs of shorts, and they were too small. I want to look good in them by summer. I've talked before at how I sorta feel guilty for having an appearance goal. I know weighing less is healthier, but that seems so abstract. Fitting in my shorts for summer feel like a nice goal. Not too hard, but a bit of a push.

Thanks, Yes, I've had some wonderful walks

2024 - Year of Progression Word of the Year: Consistency Sleep: 10 Hrs Water: 2/4 Meals: 7:00am - Coffee, biscuits 8:30am - Coffee 11:00am - OJ, Egg whites, toast, greens drink 1:30pm - Diet Soda, sandwich, chips 3:30pm - Pre-workout 6:00pm - Turkey meatballs, pasta, salad 8:30pm - Cereal Fitness: Lift Day Language: 1 Portuguese Lesson 1 Spanish Lesson 1 Japanese Lesson Reading: 0 min Meditation: 5 Min Notes: Another Lift Day done. Training Notes: 2 Positives - - increasing on lifts - shoulder is getting better 1 Negative - - need to increase range of motion on shoulder

I'm re-reading a fantasy romance series by Rena Marks. The job frustrations have faded considerably, which support the theory I formed back on Tuesday, that the frustrating incident on Tuesday was actually very minor. It just became that famous very last drop that cause the water glass to spill over. I'm trying to learn from mistakes I've made in the past, when I "managed" stress by hiding from it, and self-medicated with ice cream and whiskey. shockingly, this doesn't actually make the stress go away. Gym again tonight. I is leg day!

😍 With diamond teeth? Toxic fumes breath weapon? I want in on this boss fight!