WEEKLY HEALTHY LIVING CHECK-IN OCTOBER 24TH, 2020

**This past week has gone well..... .My leg is nearly healed, and I was able to actually teach all Four of my Fitness classes in a week for the first time in weeks. My activity and water have begun to increase again. Sleep went well for the most part.

**The weather has still been totally amazing here. Mild and sunny. We were able to attend "Two" Fall festivals last Saturday. While it went pretty well and we totally enjoyed the day, I guess I was a bit disappointed to see all the people who were out and about at the 'first' festival we went to, without masks....and not much social distancing measures in place. More were without masks, than they were with them. The 2nd one we went to was much smaller, and only a small 'fraction' of people were there. So Much better Social distancing. While I believe that we need to live our lives and to each their own, but I still feel that people should be more responsible (for their own health as well as that of their families and others around them) until we are at a better situation where I am. The reports have continued to go back and forth. So therefore, due to the gov't we have running this place here, we have NO clue what the "real deal" is. All the more reason for ppl to be more responsible here. But only some are still doing it.

**Received some great news regarding a Fitness prospect... however, its not quite where I need it to be, so still trying to work that out. Prayerfully will get that worked out in the coming week ahead. Good vibes this way please~

**My Birthday falls during the week.. so Gonna celebrate today instead with family this afternoon. So looking forward to time with all of us together.

@PoliteOcean
No workout this week. Almost sedentary. But got my new running shoes today 😍
Will start jogging and calisthenics tomorrow. Yayyy 🤩

@PoliteOcean

**Hey Everyone~How have things gone for you this past week?

~ I stayed at home for most of the week as I was a bit sick. That though ment that I had plenty of time for self-care, and I really used that time for journaling, cooking healthy meals, general self-care. So the week went well for me!

**We have only "One" more week left in OCTOBER! It sure has gone by so fast!... How do you plan to spend the last week ahead?

~ So next week it's all about prepping up for my upcoming confirmation next week. So I am very excited (and nervous!) and still have to figure a couple things out for that. I'm also excited, because I am going to visit my grandparents and we are going to spend some time cooking something together❤️

**What "Healthy Habit" have you worked on this past week? How did it make you feel Physically, mentally, & emotionally?

I worked on getting back on track kind of - as in the week before I didn't really spend my day and self-care as I wanted to. I started my morning and evening routines again and what I worked on especially is journaling. It made me feel really relieved and more organized and after doing so i felt more calm and not so nervous.

**JUST FOR FUN: What is YOUR favorite "HALLOWEEN" (or Scary Movie)?! If you don't watch Halloween/Scary movies, What is "YOUR" Favorite October tradition?!

I don't usually watch scary movies much at all, but I watched a couple and I have to say the best one was Conjuring 2.. :o

**What have been your "Highlights or Struggles" this past week? What were you able to do to work through the struggles?

My ✨highlight ✨ for this week was my piano lesson (yes, maybe sounds boring, but it really wasn't haha!), it was a lot of fun! My struggles were that I was a bit scared that I failed all my self-care plans and failed my whole journey in just becoming healthier and happier, because I was so off track. It made me kind of sad to be honest. But in the end it's all about not giving up and that having some not so great few days in a journey is not failure, it's just part of the process.

**What would "YOU" like to talk about or share with us about your Week?! WE want to hear from "YOU"~

All in all, my week went pretty good!
In this week I started learning guitar, and I'm really enjoying it, so let's see where that journey takes me! ❤️

The week has gone by insanely fast for me! Being busy definitely makes time fly. In the next week, I plan to get a good chunk of assignments done.

@PoliteOcean Here's how the past week went. Monday I had a therapy appointment. Generally speaking, over the long run, therapy is helping me, but this particular session was unproductive. I'm still waiting for my upgrade in meds from my doctor to help me with my nightmares. I'm also haven't yet received my "remedy" from my homeopath. I called them twice but they haven't gotten back to me. I have an online girlfriend Michelle, but I'm not even sure if I can call her my girlfriend yet. We exchange romantic emoji's on a regular basis, but over the internet, that doesn't mean very much. I re-united with a long lost friend on 7 cups, so that felt good. I'm studying mathematics, but it's more of a refresher course, not strenuous, but that's okay because I did plenty of that in college. My ulitmate goal is to go into art administration with a business emphasis. I finished my series on Zephaniah, Haggai and Malachi. I'm going to start I Kings this week. My house manager is going to try to take me shopping but she only wants to give me one ride per month. I need to get a blood test and haircut also, but I hate going out with her because she is so terrible with time management. I'm still without a caretaker.

Heya!

Things haven’t gone too well this past week, actually for the past weeks since a bit now… It just feels like I’m struggling to keep my head above water. I’m both mentally tired due to working with a very upsetting person on a technique that I don’t like, and I can’t manage to make other parts of my project move much while I’m stuck in this position… It just feels draining, and I’m also physically exhausted as I’ve been doing more hours to still try and do a bit of the stuff I want to do aside from working with this person, but I end up doing 12hrs of work per day -which my directors surely wouldn’t approve of if they knew- so I can’t really keep that up… But it’s upsetting as there are some results that I reallyyyyyy want to know but I don’t have enough time to finish the experiment and get the results..!

On a positive note though, we went out with a few people from my lab the other day, which is nice especially as we’re now under curfew so that was one last evening out before a while!

Next week I have a presentation for a seminar, that I haven’t prepared yet as I’ve been in denial about it lol I really should get on with it! So this will be what I’ll try to do during the rest of my weekend, as well as resting.

For the last week of October, I’m really hoping to catch up with things and not let myself get drained, I’m hoping to start working out again if I have enough time for it. I managed to finally clean and order my place so hopefully I can keep it tidy for the week!

Thanks for this check-in!

@PoliteOcean

Hey Everyone~How have things gone for you this past week? Pretty good :)

**We have only "One" more week left in OCTOBER! It sure has gone by so fast!... How do you plan to spend the last week ahead? work and some Halloween celebrating

**What "Healthy Habit" have you worked on this past week? How did it make you feel Physically, mentally, & emotionally? I have been watching what I eat more

**JUST FOR FUN: What is YOUR favorite "HALLOWEEN" (or Scary Movie)?! If you don't watch Halloween/Scary movies, What is "YOUR" Favorite October tradition?! I love the movie Halloween. I just love curling up and watching Halloween movies

**What have been your "Highlights or Struggles" this past week? What were you able to do to work through the struggles? Highlights are always seeing my boyfriend. I can't think of any big struggles this week :)

So this week I've found it increasingly hard to get out of bed. I thought it was lack of motivation so I went to my counseling service who told me in turn to check with my GP. I have anemia again and a D3 deficiency. It was actually detected back in August but with my hip problem, it didn't get treated in the middle of all the other stuff happening, so I'm finally treating it 2 months later. I now have my Iron and D3 supplements and I hope I feel better soon, but it usually takes at least a month for this sort of thing to correct itself.

I've started an emotions journal with my peer counselor to try and figure out what makes me happy and how often I am happy or sad. When I am happy I feel like I've always been happy; when I am depressed I feel like I've always been depressed, so estimates based on my memory can be hard to use to figure out how often I really feel one way or another.

I've decided to give away my meditation cushions since I can't sit on them on the floor. I don't know who to give them to though. This would help in 2 ways. I may have a place to go soon, but I'd likely only have a little room, so I need to get rid of things that I can. There's still a room to clean, since it has the roommate's stuff in it before I would be able to move in, but hopefully I might have a place to move to. It probably won't have internet though which could be a problem. Its nearby and centrally located so I'd still be able to walk places. Also, getting rid of the cushions would help me be more true to my resolve not to keep things I can't use.

With any luck I go to church in the morning.

Handing out candy to trick-or-treaters was a major part of my Halloween traditions, but won't happen this year. Last year even without COVID19 none of the candy was taken that I put outside, so I ended up eating it myself. For 14 years watching scary movies was also a big part of things because my other half was really into horror. The year before I split with him I made an extra effort to watch as many horror movies as I could in Sept/Oct to try to educate myself in something he loved.

I think this year I am watchng Ghostly K-Dramas like Oh My Ghostess, Mystic Pop Up Bar, and Hotel del Luna.. and on Halloween I will watch 4 movies: Practical Magic, Hocus Pocus, Beetlejuice, and Gremlins. I've never seen them before and they're all considered 'classics' but they're definitely toned down from the Adult gut wrenching gore horror genre.

Hi everyone!

I am a new listener. This week has gone really well for me. I have learned a lot on this sight and have felt like I helped people. I have also been studying extra for my college classes. I am excited to be working towards my degree faster than I ever thought possible. I enjoy watching newer scary movies with my kids on the weekends in October. However, my all time favorite(s) will always be Friday the 13th! Happy Halloween everyone!

@PoliteOcean

The challenge that I've struggled with is exercise and physical activity, and that becomes more challenging as it gets colder. One strategy that occurs to me is to regard the cooling weather as less of an obstacle.