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  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 18,328 Member
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    🍁🎼🍂🎹🎶🦃🎶🎹🍂🎼🍁
    👷‍♀️👷🏻Building Healthy Habits👷🏻👷‍♀️
    🍁🎼🍂 🎹November 🎹🍂🎼🍁
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    Continuing to consolidate my established daily habits, plus the following new habit, and challenge.

    My November I will ….
    …. After I switch off my devices at 11 pm….
    …. I will do a quick pick up sweep of the downstairs before I go upstairs.
    🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹
    mk1eskqmrqti.jpeg

    🎼🎹November Song Challenge🎹🎼 I will use YouTube videos for the lyrics of songs I don’t know. I might even have a go at some of the songs others post. I love to sing.
    🎤1. The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
    🎤2. Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran
    🎤3. Summertime- Billie Holliday. This was one of my mother’s favourite songs so I know the words. 😂
    🎤4. get knocked down - Chumba Whumba. I had to think long and hard about this. There was a teacher once who told me I would never amount to anything. Can’t remember his name.
    🎤5: Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper
    🎤6. Let's Dance - David Bowie
    🎤7. I’m on the highway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
    8. Lucy in the sky with diamonds- Beatles
    9. My kind of life - Cliff Richard
    10. Bye Bye Love - Simon & Garfunkel

  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 18,328 Member
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    Pleased to see the new members in the group. I hope you come back often.
    @Michaela_LaGata <> I also,practice the 12/12 IF system, aiming for 9pm - 9am fast, although I often fast longer than 12 hours if I have an even later breakfast.

    @Ladybug8882021 <> Retirement is an excellent opportunity to set up a healthy routine. This is a good place to get encouragement for the process. Bravo on the walking Habit you have already started. There are lots of features on Fitbit that can help you reach your goal.

    @themedalist <> Denise, love all the photos of Florence. They bring back happy memories of one of our trips to Italy.
  • 77tes
    77tes Posts: 7,974 Member
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    Day 8 Go Ask Alice
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,109 Member
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    Nov KEY: 📸declutter ⛑LDL⬇️ 🎨create!
    1 📸⬆️🎨 made photo transfers with clear contact paper
    2 📸⛑🎨 carved my first rubber stamp!
    3 📸⛑🎨 “fussy” cut out old bits of watercolor botanicals & Chinese brush painting to use in future collages!
    4 📸⬆️🎨 created large monograms & words in ink & pen! Decluttering is going great. Small laptop neatly completely done!!
    5📸⛑🎨 practiced creating line drawings of orchids! Added more events to our Family Historical Timeline.
    6📸⛑🎨 wonderful time drawing orchids & yellow fog leaves, lettering. Deleting emails.
    7📸⬆️🎨 black & whites mixed patterns piece & printed invaluable pieces I wrote 13 years ago in a creativity class. Still insightful!

    I’m joining the singing, too!!
    🎶Nov 1 “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!”☀️
    🎶Nov 2 “Chim Chim Cher-ee” 🌂Poppins
    🎶Nov 3 “Orinoco Flow” Celtic Woman 🗺
    🎶Nov 4 “Bohemian Rhapsody” Queen 👑
    (Did a ton of research on the lyrics!) WOW!
    🎶 Nov 5 “Under Pressure” Queen & Bowie
    🎶 Nov 6 “Billy Jean” & “Everybody Dance Now”💃 (and yes I did) BTW - apparently I’d never heard the lyrics of Billy Jean 😳
    🎶 Nov 7 “Jackson” Cash & Cash 🎸🛣



    ❤️
  • PackerFanInGB
    PackerFanInGB Posts: 3,351 Member
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    Hi everyone! i hope everyone had a great weekend and is having a great Monday! I had a list of about a hundred things I wanted to do today, but I didn't get to any of them. I decided that visiting my mother and not being in a hurry for anything was priority today so that is what I did. Housework will wait, right? :blush:

    @themedalist I didn't have any miles to add last week. My knees and ankle were really bad and I didn't go for any walks. :frowning: Sorry! You guys had a GREAT Walktober though and I wish I could have contributed more!

    I'm enjoying researching songs and playing them loud while I sing and dance around the house to them! Great idea!

    November's Daily Focus and Anti-Procrastination Missions:
    Nov 5 Small Daily Focus: Clean refrigerator and countertop next to it near back door. :star:
    Anti-Procrastination Mission: Drop off donate boxes and bags at Bethesda :star:

    Nov 6 Small Daily Focus: Going through old mail and separate recycle vs shredding :star:
    Anti-Procrastination Mission: Shred papers in basket :star:

    Nov 7 Small Daily Focus: Grocery shopping and clean inside fridge :star:
    Anti-Procrastination Mission: Fold, iron and hang clothes (3 baskets) :star:

    Nov 8 Small Daily Focus: Spend time at mom's and keep her company today, just be in the present :star:
    Anti-Procrastination Mission: Go through stack of magazines by chair :star:

    Nov 9 Small Daily Focus: Clean produce in fridge for easy grabbing and for "salad bar fixin's"
    Anti-Procrastination Mission: Go through shoes in BR and Coat closets for donate/keep/throw

    Nov 10 Small Daily Focus:
    Anti-Procrastination Mission:

    Nov 11 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 12 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 13 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 14 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 15 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 16 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 17 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 18 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 19 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 20 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 21 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 22 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 23 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 24 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 25 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 26 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 27 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 28 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 29 Small Daily Focus:
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    Nov 30 Small Daily Focus:
    Anti-Procrastination Mission:

    Songs:
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    Nov 1: Yellow Brick Road 🎼
    Nov 2: 867-5309 / Jenny 🎶
    Nov 3: Summer of 69 🎵
    Nov 4: You're so Vain 🎼
    Nov 5: Brown Eyed Girl 🎶
    Nov 6: Uptown Funk 🎵
    Nov 7: My Maria (Brooks & Dunn) 🎼
    Nov 8: Red, Red Wine (I think that's the name?) 🎶
    Nov 9: Hey Ya
    Nov 10: "Say Something" by A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera


  • texasgardnr
    texasgardnr Posts: 2,660 Member
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    awww, @PackerFanInGB, of course I do not mind you also doing the "Small daily focus" and "Anti-procrastination mission" in November!!! It certainly has been helping me be more focused so far this month. The idea came to me because we were finally able to have my daughter and some of her friends over on Saturday for pizza and to play games. It helped me focus on something specific each day which jump-started me to do some additional tidy/ cleaning each day and, like you said, everything wasn't left to the last minute scramble 😓😖😱 to get it done... as it so often happens to me. We had a really fun time together!

    I am going to continue with this since another of our adult children is coming to visit at the very end of November, this time it is one who lives out of state so he is staying for several days. I need to keep up with what I have done so far and focus on getting the guest bedroom cleaned out since I have been using it as a "storage-room" or the place to put things that I am not ready to make a decision about. ⏳😵❓.
    I just read your list thus far and there just might be some good ideas for me that I just might be able to borrow over time 😁🙃.

    I am so sorry to read that your knees and ankle were really bad and that you were not able to go for any walks. Hugs 💗💐.

    I'm really enjoying reading all of the songs 🎵 that everyone is finding/ singing! Many of them bring back different memories of one sort or another that I have forgotten about. Or just the fun of the song itself, which I also had forgotten. Thank you!

    Nov 1: Small daily focus: kitchen counters & cabinet doors ✅
    Anti-procrastination mission: put away my folded laundry ⭐
    Nov 2: Small daily focus: right side of the Living Room ✅
    Anti-procrastination mission: sort and put away DH's laundry (sock 🧦 load) ⭐
    Nov 3: Small daily focus: cleaned & decluttered area off the kitchen by back door ✅
    Anti-procrastination mission: potted up the rooted cuttings ⭐
    Nov 4: Small daily focus: cleaned/ polished the Living Room furniture ✅
    Anti-procrastination mission: cleaned the back sliding glass door ⭐
    Nov 5: Small daily focus: laundry: towels ✅
    Anti-procrastination mission: Dust and tidy the computer desk ⭐
    Nov 6: Small daily focus: back porch ✅
    Anti-procrastination mission: cleaned the counter in the hall bathroom ⭐
    Nov 7: Rest Day for daily focus
    Anti-procrastination mission: My DH and I visited my brother to bring him the new 2022 planner I bought for him ⭐
    Nov 8: Small daily focus: The floor and baseboards in the master bedroom ✅
    Anti-procrastination mission: washed a small decorative tablecloth ⭐

    🤠🌺
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,109 Member
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    Nov KEY: 📸declutter ⛑LDL⬇️ 🎨create!
    1 📸⬆️🎨 made photo transfers with clear contact paper
    2 📸⛑🎨 carved my first rubber stamp!
    3 📸⛑🎨 “fussy” cut out old bits of watercolor botanicals & Chinese brush painting to use in future collages!
    4 📸⬆️🎨 created large monograms & words in ink & pen! Decluttering is going great. Small laptop neatly completely done!!
    5📸⛑🎨 practiced creating line drawings of orchids! Added more events to our Family Historical Timeline.
    6📸⛑🎨 wonderful time drawing orchids & yellow fog leaves, lettering. Deleting emails.
    7📸⬆️🎨 black & whites mixed patterns piece & printed invaluable pieces I wrote 13 years ago in a creativity class. Still insightful!
    8 📸⛑🎨 monograms with florals, moved a few things around on my b&w mixed media place. I may add the eventual monogram design to the piece. Deleted more emails

    I’m joining the singing, too!!
    🎶Nov 1 “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!”☀️
    🎶Nov 2 “Chim Chim Cher-ee” 🌂Poppins
    🎶Nov 3 “Orinoco Flow” Celtic Woman 🗺
    🎶Nov 4 “Bohemian Rhapsody” Queen 👑
    (Did a ton of research on the lyrics!) WOW!
    🎶 Nov 5 “Under Pressure” Queen & Bowie
    🎶 Nov 6 “Billy Jean” & “Everybody Dance Now”💃 (and yes I did) BTW - apparently I’d never heard the lyrics of Billy Jean 😳
    🎶 Nov 7 “Jackson” Cash & Cash 🎸🛣
    🎶 Nov 8 “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”

    ❤️

  • 77tes
    77tes Posts: 7,974 Member
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    Day 9 - A song that makes you happy- “Picnic Time for Teddy Bears.” My husband heard me singing “Go Ask Alice,” and my husband said that sounds like that song you used to sing with the kids when they were little and we figured out that he meant the Teddy Bears song. We sang it together and enjoyed the sweet memories.

    But I don’t think the two songs sound at alike. 🤣
  • everydaywechoose
    everydaywechoose Posts: 270 Member
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    @77tes Its so true how music can take us back to a place and time where it becomes so tangible you can almost taste it.
  • everydaywechoose
    everydaywechoose Posts: 270 Member
    edited November 2021
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    Day 8 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎵 Fav song about drugs, booze, and sex. >:) 😈
    ROCKSTAR BY NICKLEBACK
    I love love singing this one...of course while turning up the speakers and rocking the whole house:)
  • 77tes
    77tes Posts: 7,974 Member
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    Day 10 - a sad song “Eleanor Rigby.”
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,109 Member
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    Lost my post - tomorrow!
  • jamcnewman
    jamcnewman Posts: 4,191 Member
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    Nov 1 Goodbye yellow brick road (Sara Bareilles)
    Nov 2 A thousand years (Christina Perri)
    Nov 3 Brighter than the sun (Colbie Caillath)
    Nov 4 I forgot that you existed (Taylor Swift)
    Nov 5 Uptown Funk (Bruno Mars)
    Nov 6 Faith (Lake House Dive)
    Nov 7 My Life (Billy Joel)
    Nov 8 The A Team (Ed Sheeran)
    Nov 9 Can’t Stop the Feeling (Justin Timberlake)
    Nov 10 Gravity (Sara Bareilles)

    Loving this!
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 18,328 Member
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    🍁🎼🍂🎹🎶🦃🎶🎹🍂🎼🍁
    👷‍♀️👷🏻Building Healthy Habits👷🏻👷‍♀️
    🍁🎼🍂 🎹November 🎹🍂🎼🍁
    🍁🎼🍂🎹🎶🦃🎶🎹🍂🎼🍁
    Continuing to consolidate my established daily habits, plus the following new habit, and challenge.

    My November I will ….
    …. After I switch off my devices at 11 pm….
    …. I will do a quick pick up sweep of the downstairs before I go upstairs.
    🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹
    🧹🧹
    mk1eskqmrqti.jpeg

    🎼🎹November Song Challenge🎹🎼 I will use YouTube videos for the lyrics of songs I don’t know. I might even have a go at some of the songs others post. I love to sing.
    🎤1. The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller
    🎤2. Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran
    🎤3. Summertime- Billie Holliday. This was one of my mother’s favourite songs so I know the words. 😂
    🎤4. I get knocked down - Chumba Whumba. I had to think long and hard about this. There was a teacher once who told me I would never amount to anything. Can’t remember his name.
    🎤5: Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper
    🎤6. Let's Dance - David Bowie
    🎤7. I’m on the highway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
    🎤8. Lucy in the sky with diamonds- Beatles
    🎤9. My kind of life - Cliff Richard
    🎤10. Bye Bye Love - Simon & Garfunkel
    11. The age of Aquarius
    12. Scarlet Ribbons
    13. I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates - Mungo Jerry
    14.
  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,109 Member
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    Nov KEY: 📸declutter ⛑LDL⬇️ 🎨create!
    1 📸⬆️🎨 made photo transfers with clear contact paper
    2 📸⛑🎨 carved my first rubber stamp!
    3 📸⛑🎨 “fussy” cut out old bits of watercolor botanicals & Chinese brush painting to use in future collages!
    4 📸⬆️🎨 created large monograms & words in ink & pen! Decluttering is going great. Small laptop neatly completely done!!
    5📸⛑🎨 practiced creating line drawings of orchids! Added more events to our Family Historical Timeline.
    6📸⛑🎨 wonderful time drawing orchids & yellow fog leaves, lettering. Deleting emails.
    7📸⬆️🎨 black & whites mixed patterns piece & printed invaluable pieces I wrote 13 years ago in a creativity class. Still insightful!
    8 📸⛑🎨 monograms with florals, moved a few things around on my b&w mixed media place. I may add the eventual monogram design to the piece. Deleted more emails
    9 📸⬆️🎨 stamping numbers & postcard words, deleted a lot more emails

    I’m joining the singing, too!!
    🎶Nov 1 “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!”☀️
    🎶Nov 2 “Chim Chim Cher-ee” 🌂Poppins
    🎶Nov 3 “Orinoco Flow” Celtic Woman 🗺
    🎶Nov 4 “Bohemian Rhapsody” Queen 👑
    (Did a ton of research on the lyrics!) WOW!
    🎶 Nov 5 “Under Pressure” Queen & Bowie
    🎶 Nov 6 “Billy Jean” & “Everybody Dance Now”💃 (and yes I did) BTW - apparently I’d never heard the lyrics of Billy Jean 😳
    🎶 Nov 7 “Jackson” Cash & Cash 🎸🛣
    🎶 Nov 8 “100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”
    🎶 Nov 9 “la bamba”
    ❤️
  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 18,328 Member
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    👷‍♀️👷🏻Building Healthy Habits👷🏻👷‍♀️

    🍁🎼🍂 🎹November 🎹🍂🎼🍁

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    [b]The new system will not let me edit my previous post. I had to copy and paste from the previous post.[/b]

    So this is supposed to be the new improved MFP.

    My November I will ….

    …. After I switch off my devices at 11 pm….

    …. I will do a quick pick up sweep of the downstairs before I go upstairs.

    🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹

    🧹🧹🧹

    🎤10. Bye Bye Love - Simon & Garfunkel

    11. The age of Aquarius

    12. Scarlet Ribbons

    13. I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates - Mungo Jerry

    14.

  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,109 Member
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    Nov 10 📸⛑🎨🎶 Enya “boadicea”

    10 min email deletion

    sat fat very low- finally 🎉🎉

    10 mins -> 45 working on art piece

    a great day

    the secret: I was easier in myself. Rested a bit. I’ve been pushing myself too hard, I think

  • TerriRichardson112
    TerriRichardson112 Posts: 18,328 Member
    edited November 2021
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    🍁🎼🍂🎹🎶🦃🎶🎹🍂🎼🍁

    👷‍♀️👷🏻Building Healthy Habits👷🏻👷‍♀️

    🍁🎼🍂 🎹November 🎹🍂🎼🍁

    🍁🎼🍂🎹🎶🦃🎶🎹🍂🎼🍁

    I highlighted my previous post and copied pasted it. I could then edit it

    It’s a bit more cumbersome but it’s doable. I haven’t figured out spoilers yet

    BBCode doesn’t seem to work any more.

    You can highlight words and it gives the option to

    bold italic strikeout different font

    Can’t figure out the link yet

    My November I will ….

    …. After I switch off my devices at 11 pm….

    …. I will do a quick pick up sweep of the downstairs before I go upstairs.

    🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹

    🧹🧹🧹

    🎼🎹November Song Challenge🎹🎼 I will use YouTube videos for the lyrics of songs I don’t know. I might even have a go at some of the songs others post. I love to sing.

    🎤1. The Yellow Rose of Texas - Mitch Miller

    🎤2. Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran

    🎤3. Summertime- Billie Holliday. This was one of my mother’s favourite songs so I know the words. 😂

    🎤4. I get knocked down - Chumba Whumba. I had to think long and hard about this. There was a teacher once who told me I would never amount to anything. Can’t remember his name.

    🎤5: Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper

    🎤6. Let's Dance - David Bowie

    🎤7. I’m on the highway to heaven - Led Zeppelin

    🎤8. Lucy in the sky with diamonds- Beatles

    🎤9. My kind of life - Cliff Richard

    🎤10. Bye Bye Love - Simon & Garfunkel

    🎤10. Bye Bye Love - Simon & Garfunkel

    🎤11. The age of Aquarius

    12. Scarlet Ribbons

    13. I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates - Mungo Jerry

    14.

    15.

  • themedalist
    themedalist Posts: 3,215 Member
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    Oh my, @TerriRichardson112 I haven’t thought of Mungo Jerry’s “I’ve got a brand new pair of rollerskates“ in years! Thanks for the blast from the past.

    I am just loving the songs you all have selected. There are some that I’m adding to my guitar database, so that I can practice them. Some I haven’t heard before and that makes it fun to go to YouTube and check them out.

    I’ve been working on tidying up every evening, but I thought of something even more pressing for me to focus on: bringing more light into my life. The shorter days really get to me. I miss sunlight and always look forward to December 21 when the days start to become longer again.

    I’m doing two things to bring more light into my life. I purchased a light therapy lamp, aptly named the “Happy Light”. And I’m using it twice a day, morning and night. Still too soon to say if I notice a difference, but I do like the bright light.

    i’m also using BitGym in the evening to travel someplace bright and sunny. Escaping the dark and cold for even 20 to 30 minutes makes such a difference and I love that I’m cycling on my mini elliptical and getting some exercise while I’m doing these beautiful tours. If you use cardio equipment, I can’t recommend BitGym enough. It’s definitely made me enjoy exercising more!

    This week I went and explored Crete and it was bright and sunny the whole time. Lovely!

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