Connor (9) arrived back from staying at an aunts with a new version of the board game Monopoly.
This one is the “E-Banking” edition.
Rather than having stacks of cash to covet or spend, each player gets a “credit card” and the banker has a terminal into which the card can be inserted and the balance shown and then adjusted. During the first game, I started to feel uneasy…
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Category: Family
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Monopoly – Good Or Bad ?
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100 Pushups – Week 3 = 🙁
One Hundred Pushups Ended week 2 on a high ! Target was 124 pushups in the week and I managed 144, what a buzz.
My first exhaustion test got me 6 pushups. My second one at the weekend I managed 21 but that was a real struggle. I may have undone myself, this just pushed me into the second tier of effort.
The last set from last week was a total of 46, I managed 54.
The first set of this week the target was 83 (20, 15, 15, 13, >20) I only managed 77 (20, 15, 15, 13, 14). Still a personal best though !
I will persevere with the rest of the week, but I will have to repeat week three :(.
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100 Pushups – Week 1
That’s week one finished, OK it was a day later than planned but I was wiped out last night.
Target for week one was 104 pushups, I managed 114. At the start of the week in my exhaustion test I managed 7 pressups, I finished this set with 15 !
Roll on next week !
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100 Pushups – Take 2
OK This one really didn’t get a chance.
The week I started, I ended up being away from home, then had a stressfull week following that.
I’m starting this again today. Even if I just continually do week one, it will still do me good, right!
Completed day one : Target = 28 Actual = 30 (but I’m sore already !)
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Emma is on Flickr
Emma has finally gotten around to registering on Flickr after years of me harrassing her to!
She has uploaded some of the photos that she took for her photographic exhibition, have a look by clicking on the photo above.
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Calf Strain
After completing the 10K for MND I foolishly stopped my training.
I decided to restart it during the week, I stretched just as much as I normally did. I walked 5 times further for my warm up. I went for 1 mile: jog 4 walk 2. I had a long walk to warm down.
I still managed to pull my right calf !
This was something I had when i was training regularly, the only thing that helped was going for a weekly massage.
I have changed the way that I walk so that I am stretching my calfs more and I feel a twinge with every step, this is helping me slightly but not “fast” enough. I want to get back out and do more.
Any suggestions for “better” or “more appropriate” stretches that I should do?
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School Prize Giving
Both Emma and Sarah were recently recognised for their hard work at school.
They make me so proud!
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Exhaustion Is
- Falling asleep and no one can wake you.
- Sitting on the edge of your daughters bed and falling asleep sitting up.
- Keeling over onto the floor and falling asleep.
- Waking up, not knowing what day it is; and not caring.
- Trying to do 100 pushups; getting into position and falling asleep.
- Making a cup of tea for the caffeine hit and falling asleep before the kettle is boiled.
- Stopping at the motorway services for a snooze on the way home from work.
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Getting Things Done
A happy coincidence, at the beginning of the year, I read an article, I think it may have been on LifeHacker about the concept of a “zero state” inbox. Basically, keep your inbox empty, file all e-mails as soon as they appear and create tasks for anything you can’t do there and the.
Now I realise that this is the basic premis of Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen.
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100 Pushups
I first read about this on JD’s Get Fit Slowly blog, I’m up for it !
The target is, after 6 weeks I should be able to do 100 push-ups.
First day is today!