CW: 181

Finding it difficult to get back into anything since my dog passed. Behind on school work, so trying to catch up has left no time for exercising. I need to work out a schedule for myself to get back on track.

I do love the idea of the HP Workout Game though.

CW: 181

Finding it difficult to get back into anything since my dog passed. Behind on school work, so trying to catch up has left no time for exercising. I need to work out a schedule for myself to get back on track.

I do love the idea of the HP Workout Game though.

I think making a schedule to follow would be a good way to get back some focus. I know you're hurting right now, and that would make it a little easier to focus on what needs done next, and what the next step in your day should be. I know it helps me when I'm stuck like this. Hang in there, sweetie. It will get better.

CW: 278
HP: 75
OWLS: 5
SPEW/NEWTS: 0

Has everyone done the Harry Potter game this week? What was the movie (or book) you chose (or will choose) and why?

Was going to start re-reading the Harry Potter books today, and do the game, after completing all my tasks today.

Now I have, I'm feeling utterly wretched, all shivery with a sinus headache. Feels like I'm going down with something nasty, which is really annoying.

It's rather a shock, I've got used to feeling healthy all the time! :bigsmile:

Being sick is NO fun! I'm so sorry about that.

The good news is, I'm going to take some time over the next few weeks to make a Workout Game specific for each movie and we can do one once a month or every 2 months, or something!

I found myself disappointed that some things on the list weren't in the movie I picked, but they would have been off the charts in another movie, so I think it would be a lot of fun to draw this out. Especially since we're a Harry Potter group, after all!

I didn't get a chance to try the game, but I thought it was such a cool idea. I'm looking forward to rocking it out next time though.

Hello Gryffs! Checking in :flowerforyou:

Last Monday: 172.4 lbs
CW: 171.7
OWLS: 5
Newts: 0
Spew: 3
House Points 01/23-01/30 = 260pts (total for January 930 pts)

I am looking forward to the Harry Potter games being broken down for the various movies, it sounds like it'd be a lot of fun! I hope everyone is having a great Monday!

Checking in!
cw- 161
owls-5
newts- 0
spew-2
hp-300

Its official Im now in training for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfPij5ABdo

I work for one of the major universities in Northern Ireland and part of my job is organising events for students. One of my team came to me and asked if we could organise a Quidditch tournament and showed me the above link. So its on for March/April! Now just to decide my position..........

Hope everyone is doing well so far this week, everyones arms getting a good workout?

GRYFFINDORS!

I need your input. At least Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff have started doing this, and I'm starting to think it might be a good idea to at least try.

Those Houses have started using a spreadsheet on Google Docs so that they can all go to a link, enter their own numbers, and save the Head of House more time for actually participating and thinking of challenges and doing normal life stuff.

You all know how hard of a time I've been having getting back into a routine and sticking to it. To be frank, the time it takes (and the motivation needed to start it each week) to record all your numbers and post all the results is daunting and a huge hurdle for me each week. I LOVE our little House and our group, but I think I need something to help take the load off a bit.

Now, what I'm thinking we try is this:

I'll set up a Google Doc spreadsheet where we will all go and enter our weights and House Points and OWLs/NEWTs/SPEW points for the week. It won't calculate the totals as a group, because I'll just do that real fast after all the numbers are entered. I'll still send out reminder messages when needed, but YOU would be responsible for entering your OWN stats into the chart.

Since everyone will be able to go in and view everyone's progress whenever they like, I'll stop posting the charts each week, and skip right to announcing the Prefects and stuff. The weekly challenges would stay the same (in the blog).

You would all still be MORE than welcome to keep posting in the Common Room thread to brag about the progress you're making or get support. Actually, if we implemented this system, all your update posts would count as SPEW, too. You'd just be entering it yourself so I don't have to separate the numbers from the SPEWing

What do you guys think? Do you think this would be something you're willing to do once we get the kinks out?

Absolutely!! We have started doing that for the Twilight Challenge as well. It works just fine and saves a bunch of work for one person.

sounds good to me!

Sounds good to me

I'm in, I think it's a good idea.

I saw Woman in Black last night and it was really good and really scary. Daniel did a great job!! Harry has grown up nicely.

I saw Woman in Black last night and it was really good and really scary. Daniel did a great job!! Harry has grown up nicely.

I really want to see that! Glad to hear good reviews.

I want to support him, but I don't love scary movies I'm glad he was good in it, tho! That makes me proud.

Weekly Check in

CW: 163 (up 1.5 pounds though I'm not really sure how)
OWLS: 35
NEWTS: 35
SPEW: 3
HP: 560