Operation Beautiful

I'm sending out a challenge.

I found this website for operation beautiful. I love this idea.

So I'm challenging everyone and anyone who reads my site to go to this site and check it out.

There's also a You Tube video that explains the project: http://operationbeautiful.com/the-movie/

Go check it out and then go put your own notes up.

Challenging Myself

I have given myself several challenges since I started blogging in March. Both for weight loss and in my everyday life. Right now my current challenges are to exercise 1,000 minutes before Labor Day weekend and to complete my daily task list 45 times before Labor Day. The exercise challenge has good days and bad days. I really am enjoying exercising and like the way it makes me feel. I also seem to be fixated on Peanut Butter M & M's and $1 Taco Night at a local restaurant. Those were good tacos. We won't even talk about the M & M's.

My Daily Task List challenge came about because I was writing myself a daily list of the stuff I needed to accomplish but then I wasn't doing any of it. I figured if I made it a challenge then I might actually accomplish stuff. So far, I'm doing pretty good with it. I've got 15 days completed and have 30 left. The weekends are hard cause with Music Man home I never know what we're going to be doing. Once in a while we make plans and they change suddenly, but more often, we just do whatever we want on the weekends. We've been going grocery shopping on Saturdays, and just goofing off on Sundays. I need to make a more relaxed list for the weekends. Maybe just put one or two things on it.

So I'm looking for a new challenge idea for my everyday life. One that I can track here. Being accountable here really helps me. Even if no one reads my blog, I still know it's out there and I have to be accountable to myself. So, now I just need some ideas. Any thoughts?

Time For A New Challenge

Okay so I have decided to challenge myself again. I had already suggested that I make a daily task list and try to complete it. So, that's my new challenge. I hope to complete my daily task list 30 times by July 4th.

That should give me the chance to goof a few times. And it also gives me, Music Man and Miss Goofy the chance to go to San Francisco and help our closest friends, DolphinLady and The Weather God when they move in June. I may make a list for those days but it will probably be something like this:
1) Wake up and spend 5 minutes trying to figure out where I am
2) Realize that I'm at DolphinLady's to help her move
3) Hide under the covers hoping it's just a bad dream (I really don't like moving much)
4) Give up on the fantasy of not helping someone move and drag my lazy butt out of bed
5) Pester Music Man, DolphinLady, Miss Goofy, The Weather God, and our other friends helping in the move until they regret me coming to help in the hope that I will never have to help friends move again
6) Put an ice pack on my black eye (I'm pretty sure one of them will punch me)
7) Give up on number 5 when Music Man reminds me we may need help moving someday
8) Try to be as helpful as possible while secretly planning to make them help us move
9) Eat dinner
10) Go to bed

DolphinLady, you probably shouldn't have read this post. Sorry. I'm just kidding. Love you lots!

Back to my earlier ramblings, I will try to do a daily list and complete it 30 times in the next I think it's 38 days. Something like that. But it will have to start tomorrow as our water was shut off while they fixed a broken pipe earlier and it has just totally thrown my routine off. But that's a whole different story.

If you're looking for a poll...

...then you'll have to look elsewhere cause no one posted any comments! So, I'll try again. Send me your suggestions. No, Music Man, calling and telling me doesn't count. I don't remember them then. I still like the vacuum one. Or maybe cook dinner every night. Maybe eat at home would be better, then I can pawn the cooking off on Miss Goofy and Music Man. Yeah, I like that one.

Well, I worked out this morning so I probably stink from all the sweating I did, so I'll make this short. Send me your suggestions. I need them.

Okay, off to the showers.

Have a great day!