So I’ve kind of gone a little bit nuts this October, clearly. I’ve signed up for Ocsober, I’ve got my Bikini Body Challenge and my Epic To Do list and now VeganMoFo. Plus I’ve got two jobs and Uni still to juggle, how I am finding the time, I don’t know. But here goes nothing!
Vegan MoFo
What is VeganMoFo? Well… from the ladies of VeganMoFo themselves;
VeganMoFo was originally created on the Post Punk Kitchen, as an homage to NaNoWriMo. Because we do want to write novels, but sometimes cooking gets in the way. So why not combine them!
The idea is to write as much as you can all month, about vegan food. The blog entries can be about anything food related – your love of tongs, your top secret tofu pressing techniques, the first time your mom cooked vegan for you, vegan options in Timbuktu – you get the idea, right?
So I’ll be attempting to post a blog every weekday of October for VeganMoFo – that’s 20 posts! Granted, some of those will be multi-tagged posts, I don’t want you to get sick of me! It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what I’ll be posting about as I kind of fall into fitness/budget/cookie-foodie/single lady Vegan categories. So you’ll probably get a bit of a mix.
The exciting thing about VeganMoFo is that I will end up cooking a heap of recipes from Veganomicon which will contribute to my Epic To Do list. Hooray!
Ocsober
Ocsober is a fundraising initiative that encourages people to give up alcohol for the month of October. The money raised goes to Life Education, the organization behind the iconic educational mascot, Healthy Harold. Ocsober is also an important opportunity to highlight the growing danger of binge drinking and alcohol abuse, particularly among young Australians.
Ocsober raises funds for Healthy Harold and Life Education’s drug and health education programs that support and strengthen primary and secondary schools drug and health initiatives.
The money you raise will go directly to Life Education to teach more children the skills and the knowledge to say “no” to drugs and alcohol.
You can sponsor me by going to my Everyday Hero page. Oscober will also help me with my #25before25 quest to get back into my optimum fitness level & body shape. Multi-tasking!
Bikini Body Challenge
Alright challengers, I had my rest day yesterday, much to my disappointment! I spent a good half an hour in Rebel Sport on Chapel Street and online before work looking at foam rollers, Garmin monitors, gym bags and running shorts so I feel like I still had fitness on the brain. Today I have several classes scheduled for my CB (crazy b*tch) Saturday;
10am – Intermediate 1 Aerial Hoop class
11am – Hoopsations casual class OR Pole Power class
12pm – Polesations casual class
Plus I also signed up for two workshops but they won’t run so that’s an extra 4 hours I was going to spend in the studio that I will now have free.
Yep, I’m officially crazy. Going to the farmers market with my Mum tomorrow to score some fresh produce on the cheap and then I’ll put my weekly meal plan up too. No booze, lots of exercise and an excuse to cook amazing meals… we’re onto a winner!
What insane projects have you taken on in the past/present?
Are you doing Ocsober too?
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Are you keeping track of your body measurements? I’m really curious to see how many inches are lost with this exercise plan, it’s pretty intense.
I do 2 hours of Zumba and 1 1/2 hours of yoga a week but I couldn’t go at all last week because I’ve got gout :-(
I’m really hoping I’m better this week because I hate not going to my classes.
At the moment I’m going on sight but I should take some measurements, I suppose. I think the whole point for me was to feel comfortable with my body in a bikini rather than worry about the number on a tape measure or scale. I do this many classes because I love it so much, and I want to balance with cardio to improve my fitness. I feel better, mentally, when I exercise frequently. I hope you better soon and can get back to it :)
Good luck with it all!
I’m always taking on insane projects (as you term it)…I was just recapping my 2011 so far and you and I seem quite similar, although I most certainly do not have a bikini bod or can pole dance…
I vowed 2011 to be the year that I took back control over my finances. Starting with a debt of ~$14,000 post-Christmas, I set a goal to pay all this off by mid-September – took out a loan to consolidate and paid it all off by August! I have now got goals to save money by the end of the year – $5,000 to start with and then more for my ‘Authentic Euro Adventure’ with my boyfriend mid-next year.
I have also moved house, took on extra work through my uni (marking and sitting on a board for the course I studied – thus, finger in a pie there!!) and have travelled a lot. I also set myself a goal of completing the Melbourne Marathon and have been training for the past 19 weeks to achieve this (and all through the house move, marking, full time work etc).
I figure we only get one chance at life, may as well make the most of it!! :D
See, I definitely can’t add a marathon to my list of upcoming goal achievements!! That is about the debt I have though, but I can’t get a loan which sucks. I agree though, life is short and there’s a lot to do!
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