Apr
14
So. It’s spring. We’re a third of the way through the year and I thought it might be a good time to stop and see where we’re at. You know, life- and other-stuff- wise.
1. Our second 100 Day Challenge is done. We have finished our second consecutive exercise challenge of 100 days. It was easier in some respects this time, because we knew what to expect. But also? We have a Wii Fit now, which we used for a number of days. And while it is fun, it’s not necessarily the strenuous exercise we’re looking for or need. So… you could say that for a number of those days we kinda slacked off. Well, I did — BDH lost interest pretty quickly. Still, we did 100 straight days of at least 35 minutes of exercise, and that’s something.
So now, we have to decide what to do for our next challenge. Do another 100 days, this time upping the ante a bit? I’m kind of interested in doing some couch to 5k stuff, so maybe. Do we do a healthy eating challenge? BDH is needing to do something like that, so sayeth his doctor, and doG knows it wouldn’t hurt me any.
We’ll have to think on this a bit.
2. Our Project 365s are still in progress. I have been pretty good about keeping up with my daily photography for both my Project 365 and my photo a day of That Baby. I’ve missed a couple of days, but by and large, I have managed to get a shot every day. What I haven’t managed to do is keep up with posting them. It’s been hard to find the time some days, and others we’ve been too sick or tired or my computer has been ass or whatever. So I have to get caught up. One of these days.
But that sort of ties into…
3. Picture That Baby. We’ve got a wall of photos from our wedding. Not a big wall. It’s on the landing. Beside that, on the stairwell wall, we had said a long time ago that we would post photos of Stinkerbelle. Money being tight has made that challenging. But today, with a sale on at Michaels… yahoo! Frames for the wall! Now, it’s a matter of finding the photos to fill them. Hm, with the thousands upon thousands of photos we have of That Baby, I think it might be possible to find one or two, pick a favourite out of the bunch… So that’s something fun to keep me busy for the springtime, at least.
4. Brighten up. Stinkerbelle has had a bedroom of mostly bare walls all this time. We painted before we brought her home, but we’ve been waiting on a special quilt to be the centrepiece of colour for her room. But that arrived with her birthday, and so now we can begin to make her room more bright and cheery. Also, we have some prints that I have been waiting to put up since before That Baby was even born. Thanks to the sale today, I managed to get frames for them. And I picked out some wooden letters to paint and spell our her name on her wall.
5. Wish listed. We have an ongoing discussion around here about our wish list, and what we’d like to do or buy or whatever. Now we have decided to make the list a concrete thing that we can post and work through and save and plan for. Although not all fun stuff, our list consists of things around the house and yard that would make our home and our lives more pleasant. It may not all come to completion, but if we can get a few things crossed off — a clothesline! gates! stairs! car repairs! — life would definitely be looking up. And the big ongoing project on our list, a massive de-clutter of our house, is one we can do for free… well, except for the call to the junk pickup company.
So. We’ll see how it goes. There’s tons to keep us busy, if nothing else.
And I didn’t even mention the gardens. OY.
