13 - 13 - 17 - 17 - 16 - 16 - 14 - 14 - 50+
45 seconds seconds between each set
"Well?
Did you make it through Week 6? If you did; congratulations - you
should be very proud of your achievements and ready for one final test.
If
you struggled with Week 6 (many people do), no problem, just repeat the
appropriate week and try again. Maybe an extra couple of days rest will
benefit you?"
13 - 11 - 9 - 7 - max
120 seconds between each set
"After week
6 you’re ready for the final test. Take two days off. Eat well and
remember to drink water. Now you should be able to do 20 pull-ups. If
you couldn’t, don’t give up. Start again from week 5 with your new test
result."
So... I am going to leave Pinterest. As much as I have promoted it. They are selling it off bit by bit and it's no longer the site I loved. So I am moving things out from there.
Well... I suppose Blogger won't live forever either. But - Uh. Things happen. Nothing lives forever.
This is Heiroglyph, a Fox series that didn't happen.
Watch
Pufnstuf zaps the world
Murdoch Musteries
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
Carnivae
The Onedin Line
Rosemary & Thyme
Game of Thrones
Castle
Buddenbrooks
Lillie
Cadfael
The Borgias
DaVinci's Demons
Warehouse 13
Perception
Whitechapel
The Librarian
Special Unit 2
Night Stalker
Passions
Alphan
The Others
Todd and the book of pure evi
house of anubis
beautiful creatures
the escape artist
joan of arcadia
the equalizer
the secret circle
Buffy the vampire slayer
Extant
Transcendence
The Bletchley Circle
The Grand
Ripper Street
Father Brown
Miss Fisher's murder mysteries
MacGyver original
Young Indiana Jones
Haven
The Gates
Tru Calling
Dark Skies
Miracles
Eleventh Hour
Misfits
The Nine Lives of Chloe King
Friday the 13th - the series
Watch:
Making History
The Dresden Files
The Cape
EPIC
Hemlock Grove
The following
The Paradise
The Making of a Lady
The Sceret of Kells
FreakyLinks
Awake
Transylvania
Tigre og tatoveringer
I want to see Xena again, the whole series. I'd like to own it.
I need to see Nikita. all three. Movie, copy, series
Against the Wind
An Ideal Husband
Belle
Berkeley Square
Birdsong
Bleak House
Bomb Girls
Bramwell
Call the Midwife
Cranford
Daniel Deronda
Death Comes to Pemberley
Doc Martin
The Duchess of Duke Street
Emma
Father Brown
Flambards
Foyle’s War
Gosford Park
Great Expectations
He Knew He Was Right
Her Majesty, Mrs Brown
Jane Eyre
Land Girls
Lark Rise to Candleford
Little Dorrit
London Hospital
Lorna Doone
Lost in Austen
Mansfield Park
Merlin
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Monarch of the Glen
Mr. Selfridge
Nicholas Nickleby
North & South
Northanger Abbey
Our Mutual Friend
Persuasion
Poldark
Pride & Prejudice
Robin Hood
Sense And Sensibility
Sherlock
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Aristocrats
The Bletchley Circle
The Buccaneers
The Buddenbrooks
The Forsyte Saga
The Grand
The House of Eliott
Murdoch Mysteries
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Onedin Line
The Paradise
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
The Strauss Family
The Way We Live Now
Under the Greenwood Tree
Upstairs Downstairs
When Calls the Heart
Wives and Daughters
Wuthering Heights
The Science of Sleep
Red Riding Hood
Phoebe in Wonderland
Brick
Atlantis - The Lost Empire
Sleeping Beauty
Paprika
To Watch
Uncovered
Sherlock Holmes (RDJ movies)
Whip It
Dean Spanley
Red Riding Hood
Resident Evil series
It's Complicated
Oz the Great and Powerful
Hope Springs
No Country For Old Men
Oblivion
Memento
Captain Phillips
Tin Man
Ringer
Finder
the 10th kingdom
being human
eastwick series
the fades
haven
lost girl
seventh son
Emerald City
Dominion
Time After Time
The Wakewood
Shame
Rigor Mortis
Miss Robin Crusoe
Elementary
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Atlantic (BBC America)
Read 35 Books
Finish the Bingo for 2016
Complete 3 book series start to finish
Read My Own Damn Books (books I own but haven't read)
Participate in the community through Readathons and Buddy Reads
- like Dewey’s 24 hours , AuthorAThon, BorrowAThon, Diversathon & OwnVoices October Readathon.
Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books
1
The Lord Of The Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
2
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
3
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
4
The Dune Chronicles
by Frank Herbert
5
A Song Of Ice And Fire Series
by George R.R. Martin
6
1984
by George Orwell
7
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
8
The Foundation Trilogy
by Isaac Asimov
9
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
10
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
11
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
12
The Wheel Of Time Series
by Robert Jordan
13
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
14
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
15
Watchmen
by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
16
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
17
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
18
The Kingkiller Chronicles
by Patrick Rothfuss
19
Slaughterhouse-five
by Kurt Vonnegut
20
Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
21
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
22
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
23
The Dark Tower Series
by Stephen King
24
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
25
The Stand
by Stephen King
26
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
27
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
28
Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
29
The Sandman Series
by Neil Gaiman
30
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
31
Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
32
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
33
Dragonflight
by Anne McCaffrey
34
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
35
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
36
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
37
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
38
Flowers For Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
39
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
40
The Amber Chronicles
by Roger Zelazny
41
The Belgariad
by David Eddings
42
The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43
Mistborn Trilogy
by Brandon Sanderson
44
Ringworld
by Larry Niven
45
The Left Hand of Darkness
by Ursula K. Le Guin
46
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
47
The Once and Future King
by T.H. White
48
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
49
Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke
50
Contact
by Carl Sagan
51
The Hyperion Cantos
by Dan Simmons
52
Stardust
by Neil Gaiman
53
Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
54
World War Z
by Max Brooks
55
The Last Unicorn
by Peter S. Beagle
56
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
57
Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett
58
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
by Stephen R. Donaldson
59
The Vorkosigan Saga
by Lois McMaster Bujold
60
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
61
The Mote in God's Eye
by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
62
The Sword Of Truth Series
by Terry Goodkind
63
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
64
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
65
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson
66
The Riftwar Saga
by Raymond E. Feist
67
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy
by Terry Brooks
68
The Conan The Barbarian Series
by Robert E. Howard and Mark Schultz
69
The Farseer Trilogy
by Robin Hobb
70
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
71
The Way of Kings
by Brandon Sanderson
72
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne
73
The Legend Of Drizzt Series
by R. A. Salvatore
74
Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
75
The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson
76
Rendezvous With Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke
77
The Kushiel's Legacy Series
by Jacqueline Carey
78
The Dispossessed
An Ambiguous Utopia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
79
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
80
Wicked
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
81
The Malazan Book Of The Fallen series
by Steven Erikson
82
The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
83
The Culture Series
by Iain Banks
84
The Crystal Cave
by Mary Stewart
85
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
86
The Codex Alera Series
by Jim Butcher
87
The Book Of The New Sun
by Gene Wolfe
88
The Thrawn Trilogy
by Timothy Zahn
89
The Outlander Series
by Diana Gabaldon
90
The Elric Saga
by Michael Moorcock
91
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
92
Sunshine
by Robin McKinley
93
A Fire upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
94
The Caves of Steel
by Isaac Asimov
95
The Mars Trilogy
by Kim Stanley Robinson
96
Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
1) Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
2) Dune by Frank Herbert
3) Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
4) Foundation by Isaac Asimov
5) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
6) 1984 by George Orwell
7) Last and First Men and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
8) The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
9) Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
10) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Black Company by Glen Cook
The Broken Empire Trilogy by Mark Lawrence
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore
The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
The Gentleman Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman
Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead
The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Shannara by Terry Brooks
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
Temeraire by Naomi Novik
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Sherrilyn Kenyon Acheron
Gena Showalter Darkest Night
Beautiful Creatures
Karen Marie Moning Darkfever
Christine Feehan Dark Prince
Lauren Kate Fallen
J.R.Ward Lover Awakened
Glass Houses
To The Grave by Frost
Switched Amanda Hoeking
Tempest Julie
Twilight Stephenie Meyer
A Discovery of Witches
Clean by Alex Hughes
Evernight by Claudia Gray
Fated by Benedict Jacka
Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines
Rivers of London
Poison Study b Maria V. Snyder
Rae of Hope by W.J.May
Shadow Falls The Beginning
Jim Butcher Storm Front
A Modern Witch by Debora Geary
Sea Priestess by Fortune?
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Dark Lover by J.R.Ward
Fracula by Bram Stoker
The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
Pride Mates by Jennifer Ashley
The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore
Twilight
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood
Phantom Nights - John Farris
Dark Matter b Michelle Paver
Heart shaped box by Joe Hill
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
Ghost Writer
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Carnacki the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories by M.R.James
The House of Lost Souls by F. G. Cottam
the shining by stephen king
the picture of dorian gray
the phantom of the opera
the legend of sleepy hollow by washington irving
The Haunting of Hill House
Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson
H.P.Lovecraft at the mountains of madness
Stephen King It
Clive Barker books of Blood
Laird Barron the Imago Sequence
House of Leaves by
Caitlin R. Kiernan the Red Tree
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
the Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Haunted by Chuck Palahnick
Thomas Harris the Silence of the Lambs
psycho by Robert Bloch
Poppy Z. Brite Lost Souls
Ray Bradbury From The Dust Returned
The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
The Graceling Realm series by Kristin Cashore
The Patternist or Seed to Harvest series by Octavia E. Butler
The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
The Kushiel's Legacy series by Jacqueline Carey
The Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Queen of the Tearling trilogy by Erika Johansen
The Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones
N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance Trilogy
David Anthony Durham Acacia Trilogy
1. The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
2. The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
3. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
4. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks
6. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
7. Discworld by Terry Pratchett
8. The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
9. The Sword of Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks
10. Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett
11. The Riddle-Master Trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip
12. Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
13. Gentlemen Bastard Sequence by Scott Lynch
14. The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
15. Liveship Traders Trilogy by Robin Hobb
16. The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
17. The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind
18. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
19. The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. LeGuin
20. The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
21. Raven’s Shadow by Anthony Ryan
22. The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence
23. A Land Fit For Heroes by Richard K. Morgan
24. Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
25. The Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan
26. Malazan Book Of The Fallen by Steven Erikson
27. The Black Company by Glen Cook
28. Elemental Logic by Laurie J. Marks
29. The Chronicles Of Amber by Roger Zelazny
30. The Avalon Series by Marion Zimmer Bradley
31. The Merlin Quintet by Mary Stewart
32. The Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore
33. The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock
34. Redwall by Brian Jacques
35. Temeraire by Naomi Novik
36. Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
37. The Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan
38. Prince Of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker
39. Dragonlance by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
40. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson
41. The Powder Mage Trilogy by Brian McClellan
42. The Once And Future King by T.H. White
43. The Bartimaeus Sequence by Jonathan Stroud
44. The Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake
45. The Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix
46. The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
47. The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
48. The Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron
49. Dreamblood by N.K. Jemisin
50. The Riftwar Cycle by Raymond E. Feist
51. The Magicians Trilogy by Lev Grossman
Tales from the Flat Earth by Tanith Lee
The Last of the Renshai by Mickey Zucker Reichert
The book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Tamora Pierce The Song of Lioness Quartet
Anne McCaffrey Dragonriders of Pern
Eddings the Belgariad and Mallorean series
Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain series
'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' by Robert M. Pirsig
'The Prince' by Niccolo Machiavelli
'To Kill a Mocking Bird' by Harper Lee
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' by Ernest Hemingway
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
'The Age of Innocence' by Edith Wharton
'Palace Walk' by Naguib Mafouz
'Crime and Punishment' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe
'Fathers and Sons' by Ivan Turgenev
'Animal Farm' by George Orwell
'All Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque
'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy
'Reminiscences of a Stock Operator' by Edwin Lefèvre
'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' as told to Alex Hayley
'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer
'Beowulf'
'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse
'Why I Write' by George Orwell
'The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' by Frederick Douglass
'King Lear' by William Shakespeare
'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes
'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner
'Night' by Elie Wiesel
'The Master and the Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov
'The Brothers Karamazov' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
'Julius Caesar' by William Shakespeare
'On the Origin of Species' by Charles Darwin
'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu
'The Epic of Gilgamesh'
'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac
'The Oedipus Trilogy' by Sophocles
'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury
The complete works of Chekhov
'I, Robot' by Isaac Asimov
'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens
To me this is obvious. It's NaNoWriMo. A LOT of people have "write a book" on their bucket lists, and this month is the month to do so. Just remember one thing: for you to have written a book, it just have to be a book, it doesn't need to be good, have any literary value or get published or anything. Just write 50.000 words.
If you want to have it published, self-publishing counts.
1.11 World Vegan Day - Independence day of Antigua - Vinegar day - Cook for Your Pets Day
National Author's Day
National Calzone Day
2.11 Deviled Egg Day - International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
National Bison Day - Plan Your Epitaph Day
3.11 National Housewife’s Day - National Sandwich Day
Independence day of Dominica, Panama and Micronesia
4.11 - National Candy Day
Job Action Day
King Tut Day - Check Your Blood Pressure Day
National Tonga Day
5.11 National Doughnut Day - National Love Your Red Hair Day
Bonfire Night, Guy Fawkes Night
6.11 National Nachos Day
Marooned without a Compass Day
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
7.11 National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day
International Stout Day
8.11 National Cappuccino Day - National STEM/STEAM Day
Cook Something Bold Day - Dunce Day
World Urbanism Day
9.11 National Scrapple Day - Microtia Awareness Day - National Louisiana Day
Go to an Art Museum DayChaos Never Dies Day
Cambodian independence day
10.11 National Forget-Me-Not Day - National Vanilla Cupcake Day
International Accounting Day
National Pupusa Day
Sesame Street Day
11.11 National Sundae Day -
Pepero, Pocky & Pretz Day
Remembrance Day - Veterans Day
Singles Day 1111
Independence days of Angola, Poland
St. Martin
12.11 National French Dip Day - National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day
National Happy Hour Day
World Pneumonia Day
13.11 National Indian Pudding Day - World Kindness Day
14.11 National Pickle Day - National Spicy Guacamole Day
World Diabetes Day
Operating Room Nurse Day
15.11 National Bundt (Pan) Day - National Philanthropy Day - National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day - National Recycling Day
Day of the Imprisoned Writer
16.11 National Fast Food Day
International Day For Tolerance
Have a Party With Your Bear Day
Icelandic Language Day
17.11 National Baklava Day - National Take A Hike Day - National Homemade Bread Day
World Prematurity Day
World Peace Day
18.11 National Princess Day - National Vichyssoise Day - Mickey Mouse's Birthday
Occult Day
Independence days of Latvia, Morocco and Oman
19.11 International Men’s Day
World Toilet Day
Women's Entrepreneurship Day
20.11 National Peanut Butter Fudge Day - National Absurdity Day
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Beautiful Day - Universal Children's Day
21.11 National Gingerbread Cookie Day
Great American Smokeout
National Rural Health Day
World Television Day
22.11 National Cranberry Relish Day
Go For A Ride Day
Lebanese Independence Day
23.11 National Cashew Day - National Eat a Cranberry Day - National Espresso Day
International Survivors of Suicide Day
24.11 National Sardines Day - evolution day - All Our Uncles are Monkeys Day
Bosnia and Herzegovina Statehood Day
25.11 National Parfait Day - Shopping Reminder Day
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Suriname Independence Day
World Television Day
26.11 National Cake Day
Mongolia National Foundation Day
27.11 National Bavarian Cream Pie Day - National Craft Jerky Day - Pins and Needles Day
28.11
National Day of Mourning
National Family Health History Day
National French Toast Day
Thanksgiving
Make Your Own Head Day - Red Planet Day
29.11 Electronic Greetings Day
National Lemon Cream Pie DaySquare Dance Day
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
30.11 National Personal Space Day - National Mason Jar Day - National Mousse Day -
Computer Security Day
Saint Andrew's Day; Scotland's day
Another week is over, and it's Saturday, the evaluation day. It's especially fitting today, because it's the "Evaluate Your Life Day".
So... what went right? What went wrong?
For me nothing much went right, almost all went wrong - about this challenge, that is.
I haven't been doing any exercising the whole October. It shows. I most certainly cannot do the splits, and I still cannot run one minute, not alone 25 minutes, as you can, if you have been good and doing what you should have done.
I haven't seen one Disney movie this October (but I have already seen all the Disney animated feature films, so...) I had a personal goal of watching and reviewing a scary movie every day of October, but it all got to a screeching end with Valentina... I just can't... violence against children is not OK. And I can't just hop over that movie and continue with my list.
I have been working on my Halloween, but it's has mostly been thinking. You know by now that I'm good at thinking. That's why I'm hoping YOU keep on doing what I say and not what I do, because I'm mostly just talking :-D If you DO what I say, YOU will reach goals and do things. Like, YOU have been saving for the trip you are going to take this year. I haven't, so when YOU buy the ticket and take the plane (or train, boat, what ever it is you take) and go to places and experience things, I will be at home moping and brooding and yearning and pining and wishing I had done what you did.
I haven't taken one photo. I haven't even dug out my camera from the storage room. Bad me. I suppose I will just be here moping and all that while looking at all the amazing photos you have taken about your adventures. :-(
What I have done is I have been on Duolingo every day for three months now and earning points. I'm not doing badly. Of course, I don't think one learns languages through Duolingo, but - something I learn.
Seafood Bisque Day
You could learn to cook this. It's not difficult, but it sounds fancy, and might be something that becomes your signature dish. Unless, of course, you dislike seafood like I do :-D
13 - 13 - 17 - 17 - 16 - 16 - 14 - 14 - 50+
45 seconds between each set
"Well? Did you make it through Week 6? If you did; congratulations - you should be very proud of your achievements and ready for one final test.
If you struggled with Week 6 (many people do), no problem, just repeat the appropriate week and try again. Maybe an extra couple of days rest will benefit you?"
There is a little error in the text... right now it says that the Straight Edge people don't use drugs, tobacco, alcohol, some won't use even caffeine, prescription drugs or animal based foods, but they engage in promiscuous sex. Now, I'm not a member of that community, so I don't know, but I think abstaining from promiscuous sex sounds more fitting... National Pasta Day
Write a list of 10 things YOU can do RIGHT NOW (or today, this week, this month, this year - as soon as possible) to eradicate SOME poverty. If you can help ONE person out of poverty, it's good.
(don't just follow my list. I'm pretty stupid when it comes to money, and gullible.)
- donate to some organization that provides poor families with livestock or bit of land
- support microloans (do it wisely though. Educate yourself first.)
- sponsor some child through education
- teach someone to read
- start a club in your neighborhood, to teach kids to think economically, use money wisely and save money to fund their goals and dreams. A lot of children have never even touched money, and most certainly haven't ever used any or decided how it is to be used.
- teach yourself out of the poverty mindset, so that you can get rich and give more to help others out of poverty
- donate money to organisations and programs that provide water and education to poor countries
- teach someone to cook and to do it frugally and economically (you are also someone, if you don't already know how to do this.)
- instead of giving money to beggars and homeless people, give them work.
- only buy locally produced items. Choose small, local companies and workers when you need something, like when you are going to eat out, don't go to a chain restaurant, especially a multi-national restaurant chain.
Make your own liqueur. It's not difficult.
You take the fruit you want, cut it in pieces (fruit or herbs or vegetables or flowers or what ever it is you want) and let it steep in good quality vodka for at least a week, preferably more.
You make a single syrup - with any flavoring you want. (That is, if you want to make caramel flavored liqueur, you make caramel syrup. You drain the fruit from the alcohol and mix the alcohol with the syrup. That's it.
(And if you want cream liqueur or egg liqueur, this is when you mix in the eggs or cream or milk or what ever it is you want to add.) You can also put the sugar in with the alcohol and fruits, and let that steep for a week or more. Shake it a little every now and then. And that's it.
Global Cat Day - Feral Cat Day
Go help at your local cat shelter, any which way you can is good. You can donate work, time, money, cat food, items... some cat shelters even accept things they can sell second hand. If you have time and inclination, adopt a cat. Old cats and black cats are the least adoptable, so if you really love cats, adopt an old cat.
World Food Day
Donate some money to feed hungry people. You might not be able to teach someone to fish, but you could donate someone a farm animal, so that they can become self-sufficient that way. I keep saying "go buy someone a goat", but maybe that's misleading, because these different organizations who will get your goat to the needing family might not be getting them a goat. Because they choose an animal(s) that will most benefit the family in the circumstances they are living. It might be a donkey or a couple of hens or something. Goats are not the best option in every situation, and not even allowed in all places.
Shave your head. Especially if you are a woman. All women should
realize that their womanhood and femininity isn't attached to their
hair. Give the hair to Locks of Love or some other charity that collects
hair to make real hair wigs to cancer patients.
You could also learn to
make wigs, or hair jewelry.
Watch Snowwhite and Lilo and Stitch - both with a notable bald character
It's the International Top Spinning Day
It's new week with the physical exercise. It is the week 7, but - of course - you do the week you're on, and not week 7.
And the God rested... and so do we. No pull-ups, pushups or running today. But you are almost there... only a couple more weeks to go and you will have reached two big goals on your bucket list!
I do hope you keep stretching and maintaining your splits. I don't. I didn't even get there. :-(
And yes, I do feel like a failure. After all, I am.
But... is it really that big a thing? Why do I feel bad for failing? Why do I want to give up? Why do I believe I will never be able to follow any lists or keep my promises to myself or commit or complete anything? Just because I have never done it, it doesn't mean I never will.
Just think about a kid learning to walk. First they can't even stand on their own. When they start learning, they fall all the time. They have never walked in their lives. They just see big people around them walking and climbing and running and hopping. It would be so easy to think "well, they are exceptional, or I am, exceptionally bad at this. It will never work. I'll just give up and be carried the rest of my life".
No. They don't think like that.
So why do I?
When did failure become a thing?
But, not you. You don't fail :-) Or if you do, you just get up, brush off the dust and try another way of doing the thing. (And "the thing" here for me is committing, keeping doing it, following the list every day... I have learned that it work best if I do it the first thing in the morning, or one of the first things. If I leave it for "later", it won't happen.)
But - today there are still things to do. It's not all rest. :-)
National Savings Day - National Freethought Day - National
Farmer’s Day - National Gumbo Day - Spain's National Day - World
Arthritis Day
13 - 13 - 15 - 15 - 12 - 12 - 10 - 30+
45 seconds between each set
"Surprise, surprise, it's time for another exhaustion test. Week 5 was a tough one, and if you've made it this far, you're getting close to reaching your goal. If you're able to perform more than 45 consecutive pushups, feel free to move on to Week 6. Couldn't quite manage 45? No problem, just repeat the week and you should be ready to go after another three workout days. Good luck!"
Photography challenge/lesson for today:
- Bokeh (It is pronounced "bok-eh". It's a real Japanese word and should be pronounced in Japanese, and it's not difficult. Don't say bo-key or bow-keh or anything like that.)
- portrait (not selfie)
- metering modes
- scales
- oily reflections
Bathtub Day - National Frappe Day - National LED Light Day - National Inner Beauty Day
Watch The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I have a feeling we have jumped over a week somewhere... it's week 6, but I'm on week 5 on pushups... hmm... Well, you received the link, and had different start position than I, so you should be on right week .-)
It's time to test your max, again, and adjust your training program.
5 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
rest 60 seconds
The Photography lessons/challenges today are:
- Silhouette
- Recreate Your Favorite Painting or Photograph
- And then, ISO...
- Tackling depth of field
- Flowers in ice
(You can either weigh the flowers down, or froze them in steps - if you first pour in water to fill the container 1/3 of water, put the flower in, let it freeze, the ice will keep the flower anchored so that it won't float when you fill the container and freeze it. You get all of the flower encapsulated in ice without having it weighed down.)
A flower frozen in ice cube by Danil Nevsky - Stocksy United
Every Saturday you are to take a look at the week that has passed, and see what went right and what went wrong.
Do you keep stretching every day to keep your splits?
Have you been doing the pull-ups and push-ups?
Have you been running three times a week? It's not even every day...
Have you been doing the daily challenges?
Are you working on your Halloween costume and the costume party?
Did you start saving for the trip and have you saved any money?
If not, why not?
What would you want to have achieved this week?
What are you going to do differently the next week?
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It's balloons around the world day
- send a message in a balloon
It's world teachers' day
- send flowers and cookies to your teachers
It's Apple Betty Day
- make Apple Betty
It's Get Funky Day
- learn to dance 70s funk
Watch Wreck-It Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Internet
St.Franciscus and world animal day
read Dr. Dolittle
Taco day
ship in a bottle day
Kanelbullens dag. Kanelbulle is Swedish for cinnamon bun. We don't frost our cinnamon buns. They are ooey gooey delicious anyway. I actually prefer them this way.
learn about the intelligence and emotions of farm animals. They are more
like us than you'd think.
Then make the choice to either not eat meat
or see that the meat you eat is from farms where animals are treated
well and butchered as humanely as possible. You have the power as the
consumer and customer.
It's the Batik Day
Learn to make wax batik
It's also the International Day of Non-Violence
Study the philosophy and tradition of non-violence.
It feels a bit odd not to stretch for splits any more... though you shouldn't stop, just because September and the 30 days to splits challenge ended. I mean, you need to keep stretching to keep being able to do the splits. :-D
World Vegetarian Day - Independence days of China, Cyprus, Nigeria,
Palau and Tuvalu - International Coffee Day
Learn a new vegetarian
recipe. You could try making the impossible burger.
Choose a country, learn more about it, cook something they eat there
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
Walk 400m (or 3 minutes)
Jog 800m (or 5 minutes)
For the photography "challenge"
- take a self portrait.
- take a photo inside your home
- learn about the exposure triangle
- write an essay about why you want to take photos and why do you want to get better at it.
- take a photo of a water drop
Last day... If you have been good (and I haven't), there's a lot of things you can cross over from your bucketlist today.
If you haven't been good, remember that this is the first day of the Jewish year, and you can start over. You can start over any way. Just remember how it feels not having done what you were supposed to do, and promise yourself never to let yourself feel like that again.
Keep your promise.
You don't need me to tell you what to do.
I have posted the list of national days, so you can make your own list, so that you can't do what you are supposed to do, because I haven't posted anything for the day.
You don't need to follow my list at all. Make your own list of things that can be completed in one day, and just do it. Do it the first thing in the morning, if you can. Don't procrastinate. Don't push it forward and think you can do it later. Yes, you can, but you won't. We both know it.
Also, choose some things that need more days to be completed, like learn to play an instrument or run 5K or so, and write in your everyday to do list a step on the way to that goal.
And keep saving money to achieve your goals that require money to be completed, like travel and bungee jumping and going to a restaurant. Don't think about the money as something you could use in case of an emergency. See it as if you had spent it already and it doesn't exist.
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So, today is
Hot Mulled Cider Day
Mud Pack Day - give yourself a clay mask.
and International Podcast Day. Either start a podcast or listen to your favorites :-)
The splitsstretch
today is 1-5 + 30. Today's "stretch" is standing split.
Remember that when it comes to 100 pushups and 20 pullups, you don't necessarily follow the same schedule I do. You need to check up your own form and choose the plan that fits you!
Again a Saturday and time for reflection and a look back at the past week and the month - because there's only three days left of this September.
How has it been?
Before we go there, let's remind us of what should happen today.
It's the National Good Neighbor Day; do something nice to your neighbors.
Watch The Great Mouse Detective or Lady and the Tramp, both with good neighbors
It's Strawberry Cream Pie Day. So - of course - make and eat strawberry cream pie. Now, it's September and I don't think one should eat strawberries this late in the year. They are summer fruits. But - let's make strawberry cream pie.
It's also the International
Poke Day.
The split stretch today is - the split. 1-5 and the split.
Now... let's get back to the review of the week.
I haven't done anything. :-( Oh, except we celebrated the Autumn Equinox in Monday. But I haven't run, done pullups or pushups or stretched, so I'm still at nothing.
I have excuses... oh, boy, do I have excuses... some of them are really good, like the fact that my fibromyalgia has been acting out and I haven't even got up from the bed. That's why some of this weeks installments have been posted day after - which you know if you have been following my blog and this series.
I am very displeased with myself. :-(
I would so like to be able to do the splits and at least one pull-up, push-ups I can do, but... not 100.
Well, well, no use wallowing in self-pity and accusations here. It doesn't change anything. I'll do better next time. I'll start again, from the start.
I had problems last month, partly because the "national day" based goals don't feel like goals. I would want it to be a bit more challenging than "making and eating pigs in blanket while watching a movie about a pig, in a blanket, on the "national pigs-in-blanket day"". I mean, that sounds like fun and I am going to do that, but I'd rather cross "climb a mountain" from my bucketlist than "bake brownies". Especially when I'm far more advanced in baking than that.
Partly because I'm lazy and apathetic and don't do anything. :-(
It would be nice to hear from you, but as far as I know, I'm the only one who even knows about the existence of this blog, and who reads it. So, as far as I know, I'm talking to myself...
Anyway... I am going to have a couple of themes here for October.
1) Reach a goal on many bucketlists.
2) Prepare for Halloween/Samhain
3) Month name based challenges, like Inktober, Socktober, Rocktober, Stoptober, Gosober, Snacktober, Spooktober, Dogtober, Frocktober...
4) Breast cancer awareness
5) Prepare for National Novel Writing Month
A challenge for this month is to become a better photographer.
A lot of people want to do a 365 photo challenge. So - let's make it happen! Find at least 5 different October photo-a-day challenge prompt lists online - not difficult - and pick one prompt each day. The first thing in the morning, you go take the photo.
You don't need to use the "good" camera, or take "good" photos, just take the first camera at hands, and take a photo, and post it online. This is about getting the habit in, teaching yourself to commit.
Now you have the rest of the day free to take any photos you like, spend the rest of the day trying to capture the perfect photo, potter and play and be artistic and professional. Just get the photo-a-day out of the way. If you do this every day, in the end of October, you will have posted 31 photos. To be able to tick off the "365 photo challenge", you just have to repeat it 11 times.
Also, special for October, for me, is that it's Inktober. I want to draw and ink a superheroine every day of October; to become better at drawing and to fix some problems I have with some superheroines...
This is the month before Halloween, and a lot of people want to do
Halloween things, so I will be having some such themes going on.
One
thing on a lot of bucket lists is "attend a masquerade party". Why not
arrange one and invite your friends? You could even have a potluck if
you don't have that much money. You could also go and crash a masquerade. Put on your best costume and take some alcohol and a couple of bags of chips with you, and you'll most likely will be more than welcome. :-)
So - use this month to make your costume. That will also get some things off your list.
We will also be watching the rest of the Disney animated feature films this month.
01.10 World Vegetarian Day - Independence days of China, Cyprus, Nigeria, Palau and Tuvalu - International Coffee Day
Learn a new vegetarian recipe. You could try making the impossible burger.
Choose a country, learn more about it, cook something they eat there Learn to appreciate coffee
Watch Mulan
02.10 world farm animals day - international day of non-violence - batik day
learn about the intelligence and emotions of farm animals. They are more like us than you'd think. Then make the choice to either not eat meat or see that the meat you eat is from farms where animals are treated well and butchered as humanely as possible. You have the power as the consumer and customer.
Learn to make wax batik
Study the philosophy and tradition of non-violence.
Watch Dinosaur
03.10 Techies day - Virus Appreciation Day - Germany's Independence day - Boyfriend's day
Learn something about your computer and technology so that you can fix some common problems that arise
Learn something about viruses that make you appreciate them
Celebrate the Germany by eating something German and watching a German movie
Celebrate your boyfriend if you have one as if it was his birthday
Watch Meet the Robinsons
04.10 St.Franciscus and world animal day - Taco day - ship in a bottle day - kanelbullens dag
bake cinnamon buns
read Dr. Doolittle
make tacos
build a ship in a bottle
Watch Big Hero 6
05.10 balloons around the world day - world teachers' day - Apple Betty Day - Get Funky Day
- send a message in a balloon
- make Apple Betty
- send flowers and cookies to your teachers
- learn to dance 70s funk
Watch Wreck-It Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Internet
06.10 badger day - national noodle day - plus size appreciation day - mad hatter day
- wear a mad hat
- eat noodles
- watch Phat Girlz, The Nines, Pitch Perfect, Hairspray, Fried Green Tomatoes
Watch Alice in Wonderland
07.10 Bathtub Day - National Frappe Day - National LED Light Day - National Inner Beauty Day
Watch The Hunchback of Notre Dame
08.10 World Octopus Day - National Fluffernutter Day - American Touch Tag Day - National Pierogi Day
Watch Little Mermaid
09.10 Fire Prevention Day - Moldy Cheese Day - National Leif Erikson Day - World Post Day - Curious Events Day
Watch Pinocchio
10.10 National Angel Food Cake Day - National Cake Decorating Day - World Mental Health Day - World Porridge Day
Watch Sleeping Beauty
15 layers with pink and blue forget-me-nots and blue, runny frosting
11.10 International Day of the Girl Child - National Sausage Pizza Day
Watch Cinderella and Frozen
12.10 National Savings Day - National Freethought Day - National Farmer’s Day - National Gumbo Day - Spain's National Day - World Arthritis Day
Watch The Princess and the Frog
13.10 National Train Your Brain Day - National Yorkshire Pudding Day - Navy Birthday - National No Bra Day
Learn to solve Sudokus and other such puzzles; and puzzle cubes
Make a puzzle cube like Devil's Knot
Watch Atlantis: The Lost Empire
14.10 National Dessert Day - Be Bald and Be Free Day - International Top Spinning Day
- Shave your head. Especially if you are a woman. All women should realize that their womanhood and femininity isn't attached to their hair. Give the hair to Locks of Love or some other charity that collects hair to make real hair wigs to cancer patients. You could also learn to make wigs, or hair jewelry.
Watch Snowwhite and Lilo and Stitch - both with a notable bald character
15.10 National Cheese Curd Day - National I Love Lucy Day - National Grouch Day - World Maths Day
Watch Beauty and the Beast
16.10 National Liqueur Day - Global Cat Day - Feral Cat Day - World Food Day
- make liqueur
- go help your local cat shelter
Watch Reluctant Dragon and Tarzan
17.10 National Edge Day - National Pasta Day - World Trauma Day - Wear something gaudy day - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Watch Aladdin
18.10 National Chocolate Cupcake Day - Azerbaijan independence day - Bad King John Died on this day
Watch Robin Hood
19.10 Seafood Bisque Day - Evaluate Your Life Day
Watch Hercules
20.10 International Sloth Day - National Youth Confidence Day - National Brandied Fruit Day
Watch Moana
21.10 National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day - National Reptile Awareness Day - count your buttons day - apple day
Watch Tangled (and then learn more about the chameleons)
22.10 National Make a Dog’s Day Day - National Nut Day - National Color Day
Watch 101 Dalmatians
23.10 National Boston Cream Pie Day - National Mole Day
Watch The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
24.10 UN Day - National Bologna Day - World Polio Day
Watch The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under
25.10 Greasy Food Day - Chucky The Notorious Killer Doll Day - Sourest Day - Punk for a day Day - International Artists Day
Watch Make Mine Music
26.10 Howl at the moon Day - Mincemeat Day - Pumpkin Day - Mule Day - Austrian Independence Day
Watch Pocahontas
27.10 The International Teddy Bear Day - National American Beer Day - National Black Cat Day
Have a teddy bears' picni
Watch Bolt and Brother Bear
28.10 Animation Day - Chocolate Day - Plush Animal Lovers' Day - National Internal Medicine Day
Watch Fantasia and Fantasia 2000
29.10 National Oatmeal Day - Hermit Day - World Stroke Day - Turkish Independence Day - National Cat Day
Watch Frozen
30.10 Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression - Checklist
Day - Candy Corn Day - Haunted Refridgerator Night - Create a Great
Funeral Day
- write your "white book" - your wishes about your funeral
Watch The Lion King
31.10 Caramel Apple Day - Magic Day - National Doorbell Day - Knock Knock Joke Day - All Hallow's Eve
Watch The Sword in the Stone the first thing you do in the morning, because you won't have time later. Tick the "Watch All Disney Animated Feature Films from your list.
