Steadily climbing the mountain, enjoying the view along the way

KajiKita

Awww … aren’t you lot lovely 😊🤩

Thank you @beanielou, @redofromstart, @Willow1983
Yes, @PennysIntoPounds , cutting myself some slack has to be my theme for a while - I’ve had some realisations over this break that has shown me that my perfectionism is actually part of my shadow aspect and can be a negative drag on me - I want to ‘walk my path more lightly’ 😊
Welcome to my fellow climbers; @debtfreewannabe321, @beckstar1975, @Twolabsandacat - I think with @Greying_Pilgrim on the team as back up crew we are going to do well! 😊🤩

Started the day well with yoga and some light hand weights in the kitchen, whilst waiting for the kettle to boil. The yoga is starting to show up - I’m a tiny crumb looser and I can feel a difference in my strength of posture (PiP I am doing wussy sit-ups with you!! 😊😉). The weights and the chair squats however, which I haven’t done for months, oh dear … so weak! I will keep going and by the time I go back to work that will have improved as well. 💪

8.7K steps done. I got out for a little walk which wasn’t very far but was straight after lunch to help burn off the carbs from that meal. I have also had a packet of frazzles, two fig rolls, three orange matchmakers and a mince pie, before you think I’m being too virtuous! 😉

The big thing for me today was getting my bedroom cleaned (took a while! 😳) and I have rearranged my ‘altar space’ - I don’t do a daily service any more, but it was nice to clean it and set it up again with new intention (certain elements got shuffled further back, so they are honoured but not dominant iyswim, other things that represent what I want my life to be have been pulled forward - like a 3D vision board, maybe 😊). Pulled out c. 10 books for selling or CS, the rest are stacked in a way that I can see them properly so I know what I have there to read. The whole room has been DUSTED! This includes the sweet hand painted glass shade on the main light that was filthy - does anyone else find that you forget about light shades and you aren’t prompted to clean them because the LED bulbs last so long now …?? 🤔😂😉

Continued with some more of my new tapestry but also started a new craft project. I’m making wrist warmers (simple stocking stitch tubes - I don’t want them to come down over my thumb) for working in the garden. I’m making them out of cheap acrylic yarn I have in my stash so they they will be easy to wash / quick to dry. I’m using bright pink, soft violet and pale green-blue yarns. This is the most creative thing I think I’ve done since I was a child 😊

Couple of surveys done in the midst of the above. Earned about a £! 😉😂

A good day 😊

KK

Greying_Pilgrim

CCW007 said:

KK and the climbers, love it!

CCW007 - I was listening to R2 Bob Harris's "Sounds of the 70's" when I first read your comment - so, "KK and the Climbers" - that is a 1970's Disco Pop group right there...... 🤣  Move over aBBa - we got this...... 🤣

Greying X

KajiKita

Greying_Pilgrim said:

CCW007 said:

KK and the climbers, love it!

CCW007 - I was listening to R2 Bob Harris's "Sounds of the 70's" when I first read your comment - so, "KK and the Climbers" - that is a 1970's Disco Pop group right there...... 🤣  Move over aBBa - we got this...... 🤣

Greying X

Love it! 😊 

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Sounds a grand day 😊

You'll beat me at wussy situps attempts soon just like you've done at books read in 2025 😂
What's your technique and aim for chair squats? I could really do with improving the muscles around my chronic pain condition knees but everything I ever try just makes them worse! 

I fully read your snacks list to the tune of The 12 Days of Christmas 

ladybird1106

Oooo I’ll be reading along, I’ll be that person whose standing pretending to looking at the view but actually trying to breath and stopping myself from collapsing in a big heap.
love 🐞

Four_Seasons

Please can I join I am a lot older but will try to not hold you back x

KajiKita

PennysIntoPounds said:

Sounds a grand day 😊

You'll beat me at wussy situps attempts soon just like you've done at books read in 2025 😂
What's your technique and aim for chair squats? I could really do with improving the muscles around my chronic pain condition knees but everything I ever try just makes them worse! 

I fully read your snacks list to the tune of The 12 Days of Christmas 

I only just beat you on the book reading, and my big surge of books read happened during a particularly intense time of building admin for you …

Chair squats - there is a an old fashioned, wooden with padded seat, dining room chair, in the kitchen that is there for people to come in chat to the cook, or for the cook to take a load off during activities such as reducing …
I sit on the front edge, so my sit bones are only just on the pad, make sure that my lower legs are vertical (90 degrees to my thighs), then lean my upper body forward with my head up and push up through my heels as much as possible. I tend to move my arms forward as I go up as well. I don’t go to locked knees, just till my pelvis can swing forward a little, then I sit down again - usually not fully, but so I can release the tension in legs etc - I keep the leaning forward, head up posture. Yesterday I did 10 and that was enough! I don’t normally go beyond 20 - at that point I start holding a small hand weight. 

Does this ^^ make sense?

KK

KajiKita

ladybird1106 said:

Oooo I’ll be reading along, I’ll be that person whose standing pretending to looking at the view but actually trying to breath and stopping myself from collapsing in a big heap.
love 🐞

We’ll be leaning on each other then, catching our breath! 😉😊

Four_Seasons said:

Please can I join I am a lot older but will try to not hold you back x

Of course you can! 😊 And age is irrelevant in this. It’s spirit and enthusiasm for life that counts on this climb 😊❤️

KK

SandyShores

I'll be following along in the background @KajiKita.  I've just set myself a target to pay off a £200k mortgage in 5 years (god loves a trier comes to mind).  Although bearing in mind a little over 10 years ago I never thought we would even get back on the property ladder, I'm definitely hopeful.  Anyway good luck and enjoy life while you achieve it - which I'm sure you will!

KajiKita

SandyShores said:

I'll be following along in the background @KajiKita.  I've just set myself a target to pay off a £200k mortgage in 5 years (god loves a trier comes to mind).  Although bearing in mind a little over 10 years ago I never thought we would even get back on the property ladder, I'm definitely hopeful.  Anyway good luck and enjoy life while you achieve it - which I'm sure you will!

Thank you

It is completely unknowable, what opportunities will come our way. The thing is to recognise them when they do appear and grab them quick before they fade ...

KK