30 Day Challenge: Day 27

I know Day 27 of my challenge was meant to be yesterday but I only met half my target so I decided to try again today. And I exceeded my 20 minute target between skipping, jogging, pilates and hula hooping. 

Controlling the Darkness

I really hadn’t been feeling like myself the last few days. On paper I should have been happy: high grades in college; interesting job that I love; lots of new friends. Yet somehow I felt sort of… empty inside, like there was something missing.

30 Day Challenge: Day 26

Met my target for day 26 of my fitness challenge with twenty minutes of walking and jogging. Tomorrow I’m gonna be playing dodgeball though so something different anyway. Here’s hoping my face doesn’t act like a ball magnet anymore though!

30 Day Challenge: Day 25

Day 25 of my challenge and I’m happy to say I’ve exceeded my 20 minute target between speed walking (always speed walking from the bus station lol), skipping and hula hooping. And glad to see the nice weather has returned and hopefully will stick around long enough for a bike ride later on in the week

Newton’s Laws of Motion and their Relevance to Everyday Life

One of my lovely readers suggested a post about Newton’s laws of Motion and their relevance to an inactive person becoming more active. I thought it was an awesome idea so without further ado, here it goes:)

30 Day Challenge: Day 24

Not sure what happened last night, but I’d been in the middle of writing a post when my laptop froze on me and when it eventually unfroze, I couldn’t connect to the internet. It seems to working better now so hopefully that won’t happen again.

30 Day Challenge: Days 22 and 23

Okay so I haven’t been able to log on for a few days but I have still been doing my fitness challenge and I met my 20 minute target for days 22 and 23 with a lot walking. I know I said I’d try something a bit more intense than walking soon,

30 Day Challenge: Day 21

Day 21 of my Fitness Challenge finito and I did meet my 20 minute target, mostly by speed walking. No better motivation to walk fast/run slowly than when you’re rushing to get a bus (managed to catch it with just one minute to spare. What can I say- I like to live dangerously. Some people get thrills out of bungee jumping and skydiving; I get mine out of leaving the bus last minute.

In the Tearoom

Never doubt the kindness of strangers. I know I had a post not too long ago with the same opening line (and coincidentally a similar title), but it’s true- the kindness of total strangers never ceases to amaze me.

30 Day Challenge: Day 20

I totally forgot to update this yesterday but anyway- met my fitness challenge target for day 20 with over twenty minutes of speed walking. Summer was nice while it lasted… that one week of it…

Steps on the Road of Becoming an Optimist

Someone called me an optimist the other day; that’s new. I used to be the most pessimistic person I knew (quote: “It’s a nice day outside? Ughhh now I can’t stay inside all day and play computer games. Total mega sadface!”). Yikes! :P When I started this blog, I planned on changing that and I believe I finally have obtained a positive attitude.

So I thought I’d post some steps I took in the road of developing a more positive attitude:

30 Day Challenge: Day 19

Day 19 of my Fitness Challenge today and very happy with how it’s going. I’m trying to make the most of this beautiful weather since it’s not often we get it this nice in Ireland, so I went for a twenty five minute cycle in the country side, followed by a short five minute walk and later on I’m hoping to go for a swim back at the pier.

30 Day Challenge: Day 18

I explained in my other post the reason for not doing my Fitness Challenge earlier in the week. Anyway back on track now so all is well. I spent most of my day in a windowless lab so the first thing I wanted to do when I got home from work was to enjoy the gorgeous weather

Finding My Place

Okay so I know I haven’t logged in for a few days but it’s been a random sort of week. I couldn’t do my fitness challenge at the start due to “unforeseen circumstances”, though to be fair I’m not sure how unforeseen said circumstances were;

30 Day Challenge: Day 17

Not sure how, but I seemed to have gotten my days mixed up again; I was sure today was Day 17 of my fitness challenge but it was actually yesterday. Nevertheless, I exceeded my 20 minute target by ten minutes today with a mixture of skipping, jogging, pilates and hula hooping