This November I Will....
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Nov 16, 17, 18 📸⛑🎨2
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Day 19 - song that makes me think about life - “A Hundred Million Miracles” from Flower Drum Song2
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@77tes, thank you for the reminder of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole‘s rendition of Over the Rainbow. Such a lovely remake of this great song. Pretty sure there’s a ukulele in my future. So happy you’re putting in your retirement papers!
@jamcnewman, I’m glad you downloaded BitGym! It’s been so helpful to me. I’ve always been a regular exerciser, but now I enjoy it so much more because I get to walk through and cycle through these beautiful, exotic locations. And it’s also helping me deal with all the darkness. Every evening I spend 20 to 30 minutes cycling in a warm and sunny place. Sometimes the beach, sometimes another locale. But always someplace warm and sunny. Last night it was the turquoise pools in the limestone valleys of Wadi Shab, Oman. Getting a 20 to 30 minute sunshine break at night makes a big difference. The light lamp also helps.4 -
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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.
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🎼🎹November Song Challenge🎹🎼
I’m really enjoying researching these songs. It’s bringing back a lot of memories.🎤11. The age of Aquarius🎤18. I’ll be with you in apple blossom time - Jo Stafford
🎤12. Scarlet Ribbons - This was one my Mum sang when I was a child.
🎤13. I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates - Mungo Jerry
🎤14. I had the time of my life (from Dirty Dancing (In retrospect 😂)
🎤15. Babyface -Little Richard (original by Art Mooney and his orchestra)
🎤16. White Christmas- Bing Crosby
🎤17. It takes two, baby - Tina Turner and Rod Stewart (I sang this with another teacher and several others teachers as a backing group at a Christmas Concert for our pupils one year. There is a video of it somewhere 😂)
🎤19. Living Doll - Cliff Richard
🎤20. Terry - Twinkle (this was the song that lead me to adopt my name as a teenager.)
21. Hey Micky - Toni Basil
22. Moving on up - M People
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This made me smile and is on point with our musical theme:
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Frank Sinatra’s “Young at Heart” is one of my favorites and one of my go to songs when I need a pick me up. I couldn’t agree more with the sentiments of the song! I’ve been playing it on my guitar which makes it extra special.
Hope you enjoy it!
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Day 21 - I’ll Take You Hime Again Kathleen - it’s a family favorite.
@themedalist Young at Heart is a fun song.
Here’s my tracker- working hard on those essays
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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.
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🎼🎹November Song Challenge🎹🎼
I’m really enjoying researching these songs. It’s bringing back a lot of memories.🎤11. The age of Aquarius🎤22. Moving on up - M People
🎤12. Scarlet Ribbons - This was one my Mum sang when I was a child.
🎤13. I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates - Mungo Jerry
🎤14. I had the time of my life (from Dirty Dancing (In retrospect 😂)
🎤15. Babyface -Little Richard (original by Art Mooney and his orchestra)
🎤16. White Christmas- Bing Crosby
🎤17. It takes two, baby - Tina Turner and Rod Stewart (I sang this with another teacher and several others teachers as a backing group at a Christmas Concert for our pupils one year. There is a video of it somewhere 😂)
🎤18. I’ll be with you in apple blossom time - Jo Stafford
🎤19. Living Doll - Cliff Richard
🎤20. Terry - Twinkle (this was the song that lead me to adopt my name as a teenager.)
🎤21. Hey Micky - Toni Basil
23. Always look on the bright side of life – Eric Idle
24. These are the days of our lives - Queen
https://youtu.be/oB4K0scMysc
color=green]Daily Habits Update - November 2021 [/b][/color]
Mon: 🦄 Tue: Wed: Thu: Fri: Sat: Sun:1. Log ALL CI/CO (Daily)
2. Stay under goal (Daily)
3. Balance macros/micros (Daily)
4. Hydrate adequately (Daily)
5. Choose healthy snacks (Daily)
6. Steps > 7500 (Daily)
7. Stretch before/after workouts
8. 15+ minutes Cardio > 5 days a week
9. 15+ mins Strength > 5 days a week
10. 15+ mins Flexibility > 5 days a week
11. Active hours > 6
12. Practice self-care (Daily)
13. Stay up to date with accounts (monthly)
14. Mindfulness Practice/meditation ((Daily - morning/evening)
15. 1 > 15 mins Declutter sessions (Daily)
16. Be creative
17. Purchase essential items only
18. Read > 1 book from 'to read' pile
19. Complete > 2 ongoing craft projects (monthly)
20. Learn something new
21. 11pm - Switch off devices
22. Clean up sweep of downstairs (daily)2 -
Day 22 - A song that keeps me moving forward - "pick Yourself UP" is a favorite
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Nov 19, 20, 21, 22
Mostly did most of them.
2 days sentimental, 2 days final reorg of fabric & art mediums 📸📸📦📦
1day higher sat fat 🫀🫀🫀❌
1 day no “actionable” art, but lots of pondering how to finish a piece 💭🎨🎨🎨
Nov 21, 22
Began daily fiction writing ✍️ ✍️
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Daily fiction writing - super cool 😎 @MadisonMolly20170
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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.
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🎼🎹November Song Challenge🎹🎼
I’m really enjoying researching these songs. It’s bringing back a lot of memories.🎤11. The age of Aquarius🎤22. Moving on up - M People
🎤12. Scarlet Ribbons - This was one my Mum sang when I was a child.
🎤13. I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates - Mungo Jerry
🎤14. I had the time of my life (from Dirty Dancing (In retrospect 😂)
🎤15. Babyface -Little Richard (original by Art Mooney and his orchestra)
🎤16. White Christmas- Bing Crosby
🎤17. It takes two, baby - Tina Turner and Rod Stewart (I sang this with another teacher and several others teachers as a backing group at a Christmas Concert for our pupils one year. There is a video of it somewhere 😂)
🎤18. I’ll be with you in apple blossom time - Jo Stafford
🎤19. Living Doll - Cliff Richard
🎤20. Terry - Twinkle (this was the song that lead me to adopt my name as a teenager.)
🎤21. Hey Micky - Toni Basil
🎤23. Always look on the bright side of life – Eric Idle
🎤24. These are the days of our lives - Queenhttps://youtu.be/oB4K0scMysc
🎤25. Country Roads - John Denver
26. Blue Skies smiling at me - Willie Nelsoncolor=green]Daily Habits Update - November 2021 [/b][/color]
Mon: 🦄 Tue: Wed: Thu: Fri: Sat: Sun:4. Log ALL CI/CO (Daily)
5. Stay under goal (Daily)
6. Balance macros/micros (Daily)
7. Hydrate adequately (Daily)
8. Choose healthy snacks (Daily)
9. Steps > 7500 (Daily)
10. Stretch before/after workouts
11. 15+ minutes Cardio > 5 days a week
12. 15+ mins Strength > 5 days a week
13. 15+ mins Flexibility > 5 days a week
14. Active hours > 6
15. Practice self-care (Daily)
16. Stay up to date with accounts (monthly)
17. Mindfulness Practice/meditation ((Daily - morning/evening)
18. 1 > 15 mins Declutter sessions (Daily)
19. Be creative
20. Purchase essential items only
21. Read > 1 book from 'to read' pile
22. Complete > 2 ongoing craft projects (monthly)
23. Learn something new
24. 11pm - Switch off devices
25. Clean up sweep of downstairs (daily)1 -
Daily fiction writing - super cool 😎 @MadisonMolly2017
Thanks @77tes
8”it’s something I enjoyed awhile back & really by chance I began again a few days ago. So fun!!2 -
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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.
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🎼🎹November Song Challenge🎹🎼
I’m really enjoying researching these songs. It’s bringing back a lot of memories.🎤11. The age of Aquarius🎤26. Blue Skies smiling at me - Willie Nelson
🎤12. Scarlet Ribbons - This was one my Mum sang when I was a child.
🎤13. I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates - Mungo Jerry
🎤14. I had the time of my life (from Dirty Dancing (In retrospect 😂)
🎤15. Babyface -Little Richard (original by Art Mooney and his orchestra)
🎤16. White Christmas- Bing Crosby
🎤17. It takes two, baby - Tina Turner and Rod Stewart (I sang this with another teacher and several others teachers as a backing group at a Christmas Concert for our pupils one year. There is a video of it somewhere 😂)
🎤18. I’ll be with you in apple blossom time - Jo Stafford
🎤19. Living Doll - Cliff Richard
🎤20. Terry - Twinkle (this was the song that lead me to adopt my name as a teenager.)
🎤21. Hey Micky - Toni Basil
🎤22. Moving on up - M People
🎤23. Always look on the bright side of life – Eric Idle
🎤24. These are the days of our lives - Queenhttps://youtu.be/oB4K0scMysc
🎤25. Country Roads - John Denver
🎤27. Crazy - Patsy Cline My mother used to sing this for my father. After she died, he would often ask me to sing it for him.
28. Swinging on a star - Bing Crosby
29. The little drummer boy - Bing Crosby and David Bowie. I love this version of an old childhood favourite
30. I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
Habit Tracker... 3 days left 😂color=green]Daily Habits Update - November 2021 [/b][/color]
Mon: 🦄 Tue: 🦄 Wed: 🦄 Thu: 🦄 Fri: 🦄 Sat: 🦄 Sun:5. Log ALL CI/CO (Daily)
6. Stay under goal (Daily)
7. Balance macros/micros (Daily)
8. Hydrate adequately (Daily)
9. Choose healthy snacks (Daily)
10. Steps > 7500 (Daily)
11. Stretch before/after workouts
12. 15+ minutes Cardio > 5 days a week
13. 15+ mins Strength > 5 days a week
14. 15+ mins Flexibility > 5 days a week
15. Active hours > 6
16. Practice self-care (Daily)
17. Stay up to date with accounts (monthly)
18. Mindfulness Practice/meditation ((Daily - morning/evening)
19. 1 > 15 mins Declutter sessions (Daily)
20. Be creative
21. Purchase essential items only
22. Read > 1 book from 'to read' pile
23. Complete > 2 ongoing craft projects (monthly)
24. Learn something new
25. 11pm - Switch off devices
26. Clean up sweep of downstairs (daily)2 -
Focusing on calories, steps, macro/micros, sleep, low stress
Writing, Art & Decluttering will be back, but decided I had to get my weight back in the 150’s. Roughly 1-2 lbs left to go.
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Hi everyone! Here’s my November wrapup:
I didn’t do as much picking up as I had intended, but that’s OK. I did get a new paper shredder and I put it to good use shredding documents that I had been saving until we could safely discard them.
But my real progress this month has been in bringing more light into my life. I love my new light therapy lamp and use it twice a day. I notice a real energy boost as I sit next to the lamp first thing in the morning sipping my coffee. I now have a similar light at my office and I use it twice a day.
I’m also bringing more light into my life by using BitGym in the evening. Now, when it’s pitch black outside in the late afternoon or early evening, I’ll take 20 or 30 minutes and cycle slowly on my elliptical while I get magically transported to someplace warm and sunny. With a large screen monitor and with headphones on, I really feel like I’m someplace else. Walking on the beach. Cycling through a sunny field. Or meandering along a stream. I love that I can use this app to get an extra dose of sunshine whenever I want.
I will post the December challenge tomorrow night. I have really enjoyed our musical focus this month!
Hope you are all doing well!
—Denise
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Focusing on calories, steps, macro/micros, sleep, low stress
Writing, Art & Decluttering will be back, but decided I had to get my weight back in the 150’s.
Nov 27 🎉 stopped eating nuts until scale is solidly in 150’s.
Nov 28 🎉
Nov 29 🎉
Nov 30 🎉159.5
More fabric & lace dyeing 🎉 and a lot more Decluttering/straightening!
Happy to see the scale responding.
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November close out 🎵🎶🎵 💛
Chorus has been back in rehearsals — in earnest for our Messiah performance for family only at the Cathedral next Tuesday. So much rehearsing and practicing alone. My voice was ready as I didn’t stop singing when rehearsals had to be halted — kept on singing every day during November during the song challenge. ♥️
Sometimes my song choices made me so very sad and brought me to tears (many times). I think that sadness needed to come out. It has been such a stressful and anxious time. I am singing Carols every day now and watching more carefully how sad I am making myself. There is enough sadness — I don’t need to go looking for it.
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)
Nov 11 Narrow Daylight (Dianna Krall)
Nov 12 Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)
Nov 13 Vienna (Billy Joel)
Nov 14 Everything (Michael Bublé)
Nov 15 Angel From Montgomery sung by Bonnie Raitt (originally by John Prine)
Nov 16 Your Song (Elton John)
Nov 17 Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
Nov 18 House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
Nov 19 Caledonia (Dougie MacLean)
Nov 20 Chandelier (Sia)
Nov 21 Jack & Diane (John Mellencamp)
Nov 22 Someone Like You (Adele)
Nov 23 What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
Nov 24 Invisible Touch (Genesis — first band I ever saw perform live: loved them!!!)
25 Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince)
26 How long will I love you (Ellie Goulding)
27 Mercy (Shawn Mendes)
28 She Used to be Mine (Sara Bareilles)
29 Down By the Sally Gardens (Rankin Family)
30 Tomorrow will be kinder (The Secret Sisters) or Rise Up (Andra Day)1 -
@jamcnewman I’m so glad that you have carols and Messiah practice to cheer you. I’m going to the Messiah sing-a -long with my daughters. They usually go with my sister, but she has moved to another state and can’t visit for the sing-a-long, so I get to enjoy it even though I’m not a musician.1
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@jamcnewman I’m so glad that you have carols and Messiah practice to cheer you. I’m going to the Messiah sing-a -long with my daughters. They usually go with my sister, but she has moved to another state and can’t visit for the sing-a-long, so I get to enjoy it even though I’m not a musician.
How wonderful! I hope you will have a lovely time with them there. ♥️1 -
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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.
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🎼🎹November Song Challenge🎹🎼
I’m really enjoying researching these songs. It’s bringing back a lot of memories.🎤11. The age of Aquarius🎤26. Blue Skies smiling at me - Willie Nelson
🎤12. Scarlet Ribbons - This was one my Mum sang when I was a child.
🎤13. I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates - Mungo Jerry
🎤14. I had the time of my life (from Dirty Dancing (In retrospect 😂)
🎤15. Babyface -Little Richard (original by Art Mooney and his orchestra)
🎤16. White Christmas- Bing Crosby
🎤17. It takes two, baby - Tina Turner and Rod Stewart (I sang this with another teacher and several others teachers as a backing group at a Christmas Concert for our pupils one year. There is a video of it somewhere 😂)
🎤18. I’ll be with you in apple blossom time - Jo Stafford
🎤19. Living Doll - Cliff Richard
🎤20. Terry - Twinkle (this was the song that lead me to adopt my name as a teenager.)
🎤21. Hey Micky - Toni Basil
🎤22. Moving on up - M People
🎤23. Always look on the bright side of life – Eric Idle
🎤24. These are the days of our lives - Queenhttps://youtu.be/oB4K0scMysc
🎤25. Country Roads - John Denver
🎤27. Crazy - Patsy Cline My mother used to sing this for my father. After she died, he would often ask me to sing it for him.
🎤28. Swinging on a star - Bing Crosby
🎤29. The little drummer boy - Bing Crosby and David Bowie. I love this version of an old childhood favourite
🎤30. I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
Habit Tracker...
color=green]Daily Habits Update - November 2021 [/b][/color]
Mon: 🦄 Tue: 🦄 Wed: 🦄 Thu: 🦄 Fri: 🦄 Sat: 🦄 Sun: 🦄5. Log ALL CI/CO (Daily)
6. Stay under goal (Daily)
7. Balance macros/micros (Daily)
8. Hydrate adequately (Daily)
9. Choose healthy snacks (Daily)
10. Steps > 7500 (Daily)
11. Stretch before/after workouts
12. 15+ minutes Cardio > 5 days a week
13. 15+ mins Strength > 5 days a week
14. 15+ mins Flexibility > 5 days a week
15. Active hours > 6
16. Practice self-care (Daily)
17. Stay up to date with accounts (monthly)
18. Mindfulness Practice/meditation ((Daily - morning/evening)
19. 1 > 15 mins Declutter sessions (Daily)
20. Be creative
21. Purchase essential items only
22. Read > 1 book from 'to read' pile
23. Complete > 2 ongoing craft projects (monthly)
24. Learn something new
25. 11pm - Switch off devices
26. Clean up sweep of downstairs (daily)1 -
Congratulations everyone for a successful & very fun/engaging month💕🌸🎉💪🏻😄3
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