#10 Yoga

I’ve decided I will never properly get into yoga, but I will admit as a fitness I do see the benefits of stretching.

I never really cared for yoga and it’s peaceful, meditative lifestyle. I am an anxious person so yoga never resonated with my sense of always wanting to do something. Even sitting in silence is a difficult task for me and that just comes from my mind always thinking. In this challenge I was just going to focus on learning yoga poses and just see if I could actually vibe with yoga. Spoiler alert: I didn’t.

Honestly, it wasn’t until I picked up a different fitness hobby that I really learned the importance and value of yoga and how much of necessity it is to stretch out my body. As a fitness I definitely acknowledge yoga, where as before I didn’t care for it much entirely.

I will say that I will never properly get into yoga and I don’t see myself ever doing just yoga for a solid workout, but I will definitely keep in in my routine as it is important to stretch out muscles and make sure the body is okay, especially after a workout.

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#77 Say Yes

I decided to go for a full day of saying yes for this challenge and though I have completed my day of Yes I do think I have to redo it.

Not saying I didn’t say yes all day or anything, but it honestly just wasn’t the chaos I was expecting. It was just oddly calm and when I initially thought of this challenge I thought it would get me out of my comfort zone, but instead it just created a very chill vibe throughout the whole day.

Doing this challenge I did set limitations to the things I would say yes to, since I didn’t want any one make me do something that would be against my morals, but none of that came up.

The day started and I met up with Ashley and from there the challenge begun. Beginning with us asking if we were hungry and ending up at yes and then driving 40ish minutes away to this tiny Asian fusion brunch place that I’m not entirely sure how we found it.

After spending a slightly confused time at this brunch place we ended up wandering and found our way to a book store. We challenged ourselves to find the oddest book titles and though we came across a few, none of them really sparked the “this is the weirdest title I’ve ever seen” feeling. Ended up in the travel section and tried to decide where we should go in the world. If we had the money my guess is if one of us asked to go somewhere we would have bought tickets that moment and driven to the airport. Sadly we aren’t financially there yet in our lives to buy a spontaneous trip at the moment.

Ended up in a record store after leaving the book store and bought Princess Mononoke DVD because we have been talking about this particular Studio Ghibli movie for months and we have yet to watch it.

We said yes to go hunt down some cool street art and ended up in a slightly sketchy area which was then that we decided that this yes wasn’t the right place to be. So we pivoted to driving around for an hour until we found a coffee shop. Talked for an hour about life and such and plans cause I actually haven’t seen Ashley in a few months so we were catching up.

This is when we reached the evening portion of our day and so far the day had been relatively chill. Nothing crazy, nothing intense, nothing really bad about saying yes. In fact our last yes of the day turned out to be eating apple pie while watching Princess Mononoke (side note: why is this movie so popular? What am I missing? I wasn’t really a fan of it….).

I don’t know this Say Yes challenge didn’t really go where I thought it should go mostly cause I think the opportunities and the choices we had that day did not lead to the most exciting Day of Yes. I wanted more. I thought more chaos would ensue. Maybe my personal life is too much in flux and my subconscious wanted the chill and though it was a great day, it was not the day I was hoping it would turn out to be.

Not that it was a bad day, but it’s almost so uninteresting that it just sounds like any other day off. Yes we tried to different places we don’t normally go to and explore different areas, but when you put in perspective the other things we’ve done this challenge falls short at the moment, as I don’t think I fully pushed myself out of my comfort zone.

As for now it is technically completed, but I am not opposed to redoing this one in the future. Perhaps somewhere else where the choices of yes are more upped and where I will be completely out of my comfort zone.

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Adventure

Here’s a list of all the cliché adventure, thrill seeking activities that I’ve decided I need to experience.

Adventure Goals:

Zorbing
- I saw a video on this back when I was 14 and have been curious ever since. Plus, what’s not to like about pretending to be a hamster for a little while.
Sky dive
- Preferably in Moab, cause someone made a very accurate point that it would be like sky diving on Mars. Everything about that sounds awesome.
Parasailing or Paragliding
- My parents said to do it.
Canyoneering
- I wanna repel down sides of mountains and see all the things!
Sailing
- My brother always goes on about sailing, not that he’s ever done it. But I’d like to try it since he always makes it sound exciting. Though I’d go with a professional because I really don’t wanna get stuck in the ocean and die a most horrible death. This one may terrify me the most, but commit?
Zip Line
- I don’t know why, but I’ve never been zip lining. There is this place in Kentucky where you can zip line underground in caves and that sounds wild to me. When I go zip lining I’d like to do it there, or some where equivalent.
Surfing
- Honestly this was Hang Gliding, but then someone was like a friend of mine died this way and I was like never mind that. Then I realized I haven’t been surfing before and that sounds fun. Plus I like the water.
Get scuba certified and go diving
- Never been into it before, but I think it’s time that I go discover what’s great about it.
Bungee Jump
- Someone may need to push me off.
Backpacking trip
- My dad has been talking about this for a little while and I really want to go on a backpacking trip with him. He just recently had a heart attack, so now the want to go is escalating. Right now we are getting back into shape for it and taking it easy with little hikes now. Eventually, he and I both will be in proper shape and then we can do our trip. I’d like it for my brother to be able to join as well so we’d have a family (minus Momma cause we know better) adventure.

Creative

I’m going to have to get creative with this list…. Yeah lame pun. Was worth it.

Creative List:

Master a classical piano piece
- I’ve been playing the piano since I was a kid and it’s embarrassing to say how much I actually suck at it. This has been something that I have already been working on and it’s something that I have always loved, but have just never been good/patient enough. Also, I’m talking full mastery of this piece, not the easier version just to say I did it. I want the difficult, fast paced piece that will literally make me scream in anguish, but will be totally worth it. This was originally 5, but I don’t want to get stuck on a number. Right now I just want to focus on a piece that I love and if I continue to learn more I’ll be thrilled. But for this goal I’d like just to have one under my belt.
Make a table top game
- I love board games, card games, dice games, just games. Therefore, I want to make my own table top in its entirety. I want to have a box on my shelf of my game and be like “yeah, I made that.”
Build a game table (Looking at you Brother)
- As much as I love my board games I have nowhere awesome to play them. My dear brother of mine came up with the idea to build this table a year or two ago and it has yet to happen. I’m going to choose to believe it will happen before I’m 30.
Finish a full art journal
- With all journals I get about 20 pages in, then forget about it and then start a new one. So for this I want to have a journal and fill it completely up, but writing all the time is difficult (read: she says as she’s writing a blog post). To counter that I am starting an art journal (read: I am so not artistic) that will be full of randomness and maybe some art (read: it won’t be pretty).
Paint a picture
- I’m not a strong painter, but I’d like to go to a Canvas and Cocktails so I see myself doing this one day. Plus, it’s not like the picture needs to look good…right?
Scrapbook
- My parents have all of the family and childhood photos just stacked up in a closet still inside the Walmart developed photo envelopes. Never been touched, just there. I’d like to go through all of it, maybe with my family and get them all in photo albums. I secretly wanna be Leslie Knope, so I’m going to make this goal focused on making a cool scrapbook.
Learn calligraphy
- The videos of calligraphy are always so cool and calming and pretty. I wanna learn the ways.
Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake
- This is a smidge drastic and extravagant. I was thinking like Cake Wars, but maybe not exactly like Cake Wars. They go all out and they know what they are doing (ish) and I am not nearly skilled enough. I just wanna decorate a cake that looks awesome at least once in my life though. Think a less extreme Cake Wars cake for the beginner level cake lover.
Learn ballroom dancing
- Who doesn’t wanna dance like a classy boss?
Learn to Play Recuerdos de la Alhambra
- For those of you who don’t know this song it is a classical guitar piece that I’ve recently developed a fascination for. Fun fact I don’t know how to play guitar besides Wonderwall by Oasis and this seems like something completely random that I want under my belt.

Health and Fitness

Look it’s the first section of my goals list.

Let’s be real, everyone should have health and fitness goals. It’s a factor in life that’s super important and directly correlates to how you live your life.

Health and Fitness Goals:

Know over 25 go to healthy recipes
- Get some knowledge and build an arsenal of healthy meals. Criteria to meet the goal is food that I have cooked over 5 times. I try plenty of recipes only to never make them again.
Clear skin
- I have struggled with severe acne for the past 10 years and I’m at a point in my life where it affects me more than I’d like to admit. I am actively working on this and have dermatologist appointments set up this month. So, hopefully this will actually be completed way before I turn 30.
Find a fitness activity to be passionate about
- Over the years I have tried a lot of things, but nothing that I have committed to fully and stuck with for longer than 6 months. I want to find something that I will love and will want to do for the rest of my life.
Get to and maintain a 59 kilograms weight
- I’ve decided this will be my goal weight because let’s be honest who doesn’t have a goal weight. Also, side note I don’t actually use kilograms on the daily it’s just I have yet to figure out how to change my scale and I’ve grown to like seeing my weight in kilograms now.
Keep consistent pace on a full run
- This is just gonna take practice, practice, and more practice. Eventually I’ll get there!
Dance every day for a Month
- This was originally run 100 days in a row, but I’ve since learned that I don’t want to risk injury just to get to 100. So now I have changed that goal to just a month and seeing as I’m not a strong runner, I’d rather not go over board and just focus on my pace. Hahaha! I’d run about 15-20 days every other month and then I would just stop. Then you know what? It dawned on me: I HATE RUNNING. And I just can’t convince myself to do it everyday, just not my thing, so I’ll just focus on running for #5 on this list. So now I’m swapping running with a different cardio: dance. Which includes flailing around for 30 minutes like an idiot. I sense this goal will make my mindset much happier than running ever did.
Do another OCR
- I did a Tough Mudder 2 years ago and absolutely loved it and would like to get another one or a different obstacle course race under my belt.
Complete P90X
- I have a feeling this is going to take multiple tries…
20 Consecutive Push Ups
- Push ups will be the death of me.
Yoga
- I don’t know why I’ve never been the biggest fan of yoga, but I feel like everyone does yoga. I suspect there is something there that I am missing and I would like to find out what that is.

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