Daily accountability and check in

Had a ball this weekend. Really enjoyed all of it. Ren Faire weekend 2, and we 'glamped' at Huttopia from Sat to Tue.

loved being in a tent, whiling away an afternoon in a lake (with a same beach!), toasting marshmallows on the campfire, playng board games under fairy lights on the attached deck, and I really loved having electricity, flush toilet, fan, mini fridge, and hit shower intgectent ;-).

GL with new boss, walkin!

*Sand beach

new boss is doing ok, still early yet. Walking a lot more to deal with stress. weight had a tick downward. Made 4 batches of elderberry syrup. Trying to find some people that want some berries so they don't go to waste.

Here! I am here! My mind was wandering all thru July bc of multiple 4-day weekends, and an out-of-town visitor. I've been lost in playing with a spreadsheet for a break challenge for my turtle team, the last week or so. I was just telling a friend about it, in another thread. Want to see? :D I'm telling her about a Bingo Board that we used to play with together, that I've continued working on, elsewhere:

I have been working on perfecting that Bingo board for a few months now, on and off. Whenever one of the weeks for my other challenge featured a Bingo Board, I'd play with it. We're on a 5-wk break right now. One of my teammates adapted a feature of one of my other team's internal challenges (personal exercise goal, personal nutrition goal, and personal self-improvement goal) to a really fun, appealingly-colored color scheme that ties in to her 2025 personal Vision Verse (2025 Vision Verse: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." 2 Timothy 1:7).

I built it out to encompass 12-wks, plus a bonus week, and a summary board for the weeks, with each week featuring a similarly inspired inspo verse from multiple religious and philosophical texts (thanks, Chat GPT), along with one original inspo verse penned by Chatty 5 (the newest model is Chat GPT -5O or however it's written :p). I call it Chatty sometimes, so I called its 'pen name' Chatty 5 for the credit ;-).)

Anyway, I know how we both love checking out new ways to organize ourselves (lol), so you want to see? :D. It's turtle-featured, bc my other team has a tortoise mascot. The Goals board layout inspo is from b3achy's board. The Bingo board is pretty neat, bc both the big board, and the snapshot board above it, 'color themselves in' as you check off a box as completed. The not-so-neat part of these trackers is, I haven't actually filled in many bingo squares yet, bc I was checked out for vaca, then zoomed in on spreadsheeting :p. The new week starts on Wed, so tomorrow (for sure!) I buckle down!

link -  https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1cVh8O0cEgfhBbjQqMCOEkT5mnhHYTf8THKovpEFWs5U%2Fedit%3Fgid%3D945612181%23gid%3D945612181

Cheers, ~ mk :)

Edit - I finally have the structure I want for the Bingo Board, but I haven't turned my attention yet to updating it on our link, bc I was in over my head trying to keep up with 2 teams of challenges :p (and then on top of that, I joined a third team so I could participate in the Atomic Habits read, plus I have my greenie group, which I haven't visited in a week :eek:! ). But I want to, for our bingo link, add add different colors for planned, completed, bingo, etc, and add the dropdown that allows for that. Plus, what I really want, is a 'picker' that will autopopulate my day list, pulling from the bingo boards! heh. All that is in future, tho. I'm happy with what I have, for now.

LOL, well I was in over my head for several weeks, there. I love the weekly challenges the Hogwarts and the BLC communities put together, tho. And I re-joined the FatFit community bc I wanted to participate in their group read of Atomic Habits (except I didn't because I was in over my head, lol). But THIS group, I love Mikey's little band of merry can-do-ers! Even if mikey isn't here so often any more. Something special about you guys, it's always a lift to read in here 💖💥💦💫. I thought a few times about re-joining the 5% challenge, I only tried it for a few weeks in the summer of '23 before I bailed on MFP altogether (for bout 6-8 mos or so), following my left knee (2nd knee) injury. I wasn't in that group long enough to get a feel for how the Community works. Was it just traveling the world, based on miles traveled by your team? How did you choose your team? Are each of the teams kind of different, and do different things?

Cheers~! mk :)

PS - thanks! on the berries!! and on the spreadsheet Xx

another tick down on the scale..

new boss goes out for 2 weeks for training, u know the saying if the cats away the mice will play? oh ya I'm in! lol I see in the stores the Halloween candy being put on the shelves.. who is ready for that? not me. Time doesn't stop for no man/woman.