Month: February 2015

Walk in Her Shoes – Training Update

It’s now less than 3 weeks to the start of the Walk in Her Shoes Challenge on 16 March. I’ve signed up for the “Gold” level, which is 20,000 steps a day – the same as I signed up for last year. Before I signed up I’d set myself...

Week in review: 16-22 February 2015

This week’s goals: 17,000 steps per day – 6/7 days. Weekly total 137,518 (daily average 19,645) [Private Goal] – 0/7 days Go to bed before midnight (baby steps!) – 5/7 days – 3 of which were 11.55, but it all counts! This week was a quiet week. Still settling back...

Walk in Her Shoes – 4 weeks to go

Now I have my new phone, I can sync my Fitbit to my phone (the app doesn’t have the sync feature on an iPhone 4) and the Runkeeper app works properly so I can track my walks. It also has this cool feature where you can set it to...

Week in review: 9-15 February 2015

This week’s goals: 16,000 steps per day – 7/7 days [Private goal] – 0/7 days Go to bed before 11.30pm – 1/7 days (close on 3 other nights) Monday was a public holiday, so no work and no school. Hooray! Juniordwarf and I made a start on cleaning up his...

12 of 12 February 2015

Thursday 12 February 2015 was a work day and a school day. The routine was a bit different today. 1 of 12 – When I woke up to go for a walk, I had a guest waiting for me in the kitchen. 2 of 12 – I’m using my...

Week in review – 2-8 February 2015

Week Goals: 16,000 steps per day – achieved every day. Gold star for me! What we did: This week was almost back to normal. School went back on Wednesday, and you already know how I felt about that. Juniordwarf was with Slabs on Monday and I went to work....

Project Life – Looking Back (Part 2)

I wrote about at the first two releases of Project Life in my previous post – the original (“Cherry”) edition from 2010 and the Turquoise edition from 2011. (Someone on Facebook reminded me that there had been a previous release of a similar product that Becky Higgins had done...

And so another school year begins

Today Juniordwarf started Grade 3. I don’t know about anyone else who has kids, but these holidays seemed to fly by. Yet even though the holidays have zoomed past us, last year (when we were wishing his Grade 2 teacher all the best for her retirement) seems like a...

Week in Review: 26 January – 1 February 2015

This week started off as part of a five-day weekend. I had a day of leave on Friday, a weekend, a public holiday on Monday and then another day off on Tuesday. On Monday Juniordwarf and I filled in for a presenter who’s taking some time off, at our...