Category: habits

Walk In Her Shoes – Day 7

Well, this is it – the end of a journey that started back in January when I signed up to do CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge for the second year. Since then I’ve been gradually increasing my daily step goal from 13,000 in January to 25,000 for...

Tassievore Eat Local Challenge Week 2: Grow something

I used to live in my vegetable garden. I’d quite happily spend all weekend in there, get totally engrossed, completely lose track of time, and occasionally even get something to eat from it. Then we moved back to Tasmania, had a child and my passion for gardening disappeared into...

Week in review 9-15 March/Walk in her shoes update

This was the last week of my training for CARE Australia’s Walk In Her Shoes Challenge. Tomorrow (16 March) is the start of the challenge, and I’ll be aiming to do 25,000 steps a day every day for the next week. The training hasn’t been part of the challenge....

Week in review 2-8 March 2015/Walk in her shoes update

Last week’s goals: 21,000 steps per day: 7/7 days (average 22,900 steps a day) Go to bed before 11.45 pm: 6/7 days This week has been another busy training week for Walk in Her Shoes. I’m excited to have reached (and exceeded) my fundraising goal of $500, so a...

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...

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...

Week in Review: 19-25 January 2014

Monday was the last day of our holiday. We took a short walk through the forest at the back of the hotel before we left. The rest of the day we spent driving home and feeling a bit frustrated that we were stuck in the car on the day...

12 of 12 January 2015

Today was Monday and I was in Hobart for work. The forecast was a mostly sunny day, 15 to 24 degrees. 1 of 12 – One of the new habits I am trying to get into (I’m not calling them resolutions because we all know we don’t stick to...

Week in review – 5-11 January

I was back at work all week. Because it’s school holidays I don’t have to work school hours, and I can put a full day in. I decided to work longer days while Slabs is on holiday so that I can have few of days off later in January....