Create-Your-Own Adventure November Challenge: Stickers Deadline!

[romancednovels]

Week 4

@romancednovels

• Update Spending Tracker every Friday
• Complete at least one item on my November goals list a week
• Move in a meaningful way everyday (walks, yoga, weights, etc.)

Spending: $452
November goals: mailed post card, grocery bill under budget, and added goal of calling foundation repair folks.
Movement: step count was up, push up and sit up count was up

Feeling alright.

[romancednovels]

Woohoo!!!

[romancednovels]

Not bad!

[nnls]

Check in. I did no further declutterjnf in week 4 and instead drank a lot of alcohol and was hungover.

[krmit]

I had wine on Thanksgiving but was otherwise booze-free this week.

[Msnoid]

Week 4:
Exercise:
walked 3 times for total of 2.5 hours
biked 2 time for a total of 1 hour
And that’s it. I could definitely feel how my sleep is affected by the lack of activity.

Duolingo: I practiced every day, though I only hit 30 minutes of practice 4 days.

[HaH]

Week four check-in: tracking went well; going into the garden every day took a nosedive over the weekend with acute illness. Ah well.

[Elle]

I am such a homie drinker. And thankfully doing the challenge means a lot of garbage avoided

[plainjane]

challenge complete. I didn’t actually take a step outside yet because I was in socks and it is raining, but I opened the door and took a deep breath of outside air, and I’ll probably go out this afternoon.

[flan]

Week 4 check-in: I met my stretch goal of working on the software development course for at least 15 minutes 20 days in November!

[romancednovels]

Hi @flan ! I’m afraid of bullet journaling because my handwriting is chicken scratch and I tend not to keep a consistent habit for more than 3 months but I like your tracking methods! I adopted a similar one in my catch-all journal for this challenge. Thanks for the inspiration. I won’t post a picture due to said chicken scratch but (hey!) It worked for my purposes

[flan]

@romancednovels

I’m afraid of bullet journaling because my handwriting is chicken scratch and I tend not to keep a consistent habit for more than 3 months but I like your tracking methods! I adopted a similar one in my catch-all journal for this challenge

Aw, don’t be afraid! Also, stickers and stamps can go a long way if you’re into that sort of thing! I’m also an on-again off-again kind of bujoer, but then if I skip some months I don’t feel bad about wasting a dated section of a planner since in a bujo I can just move onto the next blank page!

[romancednovels]

Stickers make everything better!

[anomalily]

cough cough

Clear Cat Planner Stickers

[romancednovels]

[katscratch]

Final check-in:

I did end up having two drinks on my birthday - a premixed Manhattan with luxardo cherries that a friend left on my doorstep, and a can of wine that was fermented with coffee beans. They were delicious.

No sugar except for birthday treat baked by me: check.

No caffeine after half caf in the am: done until today, ha. Very sleepy today and didn’t even think about it until I was halfway through a cup.

[diapasoun]

@diapasoun

Goals (er, starting tomorrow, when my work should get calmer):

• Normal running schedule
• Normal walking schedule
• Return to better using-up-our-veg habits
• Keep knitting
• Finish three books

week 1

Running: two runs, as per normal
Walking: Double daily walkies, as per normal
Veg: Made list of veg on the fridge (fuck, why have I not done this before?) and am using up said veg decently so far
Knitting: Continues apace, but really wish I were magically faster
Books: Finished The Tomb of Atuan , got literally six others on the burner because I’m insane – focusing on Sense and Sensibility and English Villagers of the Thirteenth Century

week 2

Running: Three runs, as per usual, and as per usual the weekend run that doesn’t start at 7a but instead at 9a is the easiest.
Walking: Back to the normal walk schedule, even with some rain yesterday.
Veg: Fridge list remains extremely useful. We did clear some stuff out of the fridge, which was helpful (ugh, we just really got behind on everything in October), and now we’re re-set to a sensible veggie life.
Knitting: Continues apace.
Books: Same focus and making some progress at least.

week 3

Running: 2 runs down, about to go on my third in a little bit
Walking: Yep, pretty much continuing apace
Veg: We’re in a good place. I am continually amazed at the awesomeness of the fridge list. Bless the fridge list.
Knitting: A little slow but still making progress.
Books: Finished Sense and Sensibility and have made some decent progress in English Villagers . I think I need to get some damn short books on my docket soon, though, I need the palate cleansing/omg yay look I finished a thing vibes.
Spirituality: This wasn’t originally on my list, but it was still something that had been falling off my radar. I really kicked this back into gear this week – 6 days of ritual + contemplation.

Week 4:

Running – wha? I fit four days of work into three days and then spent an entire day cooking. I completely dropped this.
Walking – half marks. I did my evening walks but didn’t do my morning walks, because crazy work + cooking.
Veg – used up a bunch, we need to go bonkers on squash right now though.
Knitting – significant progress.
Books – significant progress.

[Panda]

@Panda

A new week, a new update…although the update content is about the same, lol
-5 minute stretch breaks every up: yup, still good
-Getting outside during the workday: hmmmm no comment (although I only had two workdays this week, so that makes it better?)
-Books read: 3/5.
-Keep exercising outside: check! Even deliberately trompled in snow a couple times
-Knit magical never-ending scarf: still never-ending, still making progress

An addendum to my Week 4 update: I finished two more books, so my books read total is now 5/5! I didn’t finished the dratted scarf, but I made progress on it, and everything else was a success, so I’m calling this a win.

[Candygirl]

@Candygirl

Sigh.

1. I want to do an hour of exercise (ideally get back to walking in the morning and getting my step count back up).
2. 30 min a day on any given house project.

And these can be increased if a day gets missed due to life getting in the way, because you know it will.

I feel like I should have a sword and a fancy hat in this pursuit due to the title.

Week 4 check in - while I haven’t gotten my step count up, out of 25 days of the gym being open I went 20 times this month.10 yoga classes and 10 swims. I have been able to increase my swim speed of sloth to turtle and in turn increase my distance. As day 10 of yoga tonight I was able to touch my toes twice. I have done outdoor walks and golfed. I’m happy I have gotten a routine of scheduling an activity and sticking with it at the gym, and it justifies my membership because I better be using it if I’m paying for it.

House projects - probably not as successful as I wanted, it I got stuff done or started. I started painting my stair bannister today instead of waiting to get it in on the last day 120 minutes (taping and painting). We cleaned the gym, cleaned the house, some yardwork. Could I have done more? Totally. But I got stuff done or started.

[Greyweld]

Final check in:
I drank alcohol one pre-planned day of the month. I had 3 beers on that day. Most months I could easily have 20 or so beers in a month. Pretty happy with that, and don’t really have any desire to drink tomorrow just because I’m “allowed”.