Aug 3-Mini Cheesecakes

Short post for now as it is August 6th and catching up on the last few days.

When in Hawkes Bay during the weekend, Mum and Dad had a large supply of lemons growing outside on the lemon tree and also had a container of Lite Cream Cheese in the fridge they needed to be used.

My brain decided to combine the two above mentioned ingredients  together and I ended up asking Ma if I could make a cheesecake, among other items I felt the need to cook.

Mother dearest agreed and after googling for a while, as well as realizing I had made Lemon Cheesecake at some point in the past, I decided to turn it into Mini Lemon Cheesecakes :)

Although they did not quite turn out the way I had wanted, they were delish, not too sweet and really refreshing which was the best part.

Photos are on the parents' camera in HB but will try put one up ASAP.

Day 3 of something new has been achieved :)

August 2nd - MOSN

As I start to write this blog, I am currently traveling on a bus from Waikato to Hawkes Bay and let's be honest here, that journey for me is definitely not "something new" as I have done it many times before. 

We have just pulled up in Taupo and I am struggling to think what my new thing possibly could be for today. After the way my mind worked yesterday while trying to achieve my new thing for the day, I decided that some days I shall actually try and do something new and other days I will just reflect on the day and see what I have accomplished. 

Turns out that the bus trip was one of the longest or at least it seemed that way, in a long time and I got really really bored... So bored that in fact I was staring at my iPod for so long I realised my apps and folders were not all in alphabetical order - weird and crazy I know but this is something that would have previously annoyed the heck out of me. 

So what was my new thing for today? Haha, some will laugh but I did indeed alphabetise not only all the folders on my iPod but all the apps with each folder too :)      Thinking about it, I have previously done a similar thing with all the desktop icons on my computer however I have never gone through and fully put all the folders/docs with each folder (inside the folder), into alphabetical order! 

Another Month of something new - Day 1

Haha, right here we go folks... This month is going to be an adventure and will hopefully be an exciting one rather than just normal life :)

I wanted to kick off this whole month of something new, with a bang today but that just did not happen. It's interesting how life and the reality of everything  can actually change our daily plans. 

Today I thought I would make a recipe (or at least attempt) that I had not made before. While searching online through recipe websites as well as numerous recipe books, I was as usual distracted by what else was going on on the Internet... I had been looking at websites of lists of something new as well and had been going onto a few of the websites I had used as a major reference during the last 3 years - once a teacher, always a teacher. 

While still trying to find a easy but also interesting recipe (which did not use too many ingredients), I also wanted to look up a particular word in Maori so off I went to a common resource from my uni days. Before I even realised, I has spent almost 40 minutes on this website and had been totally absorbed by an interactive Maori Langauge learning tool.

Forget the looking for recipes because while my mind was wondering as it usually does, I had just embarked on my first new thing if August 2013 - not just learning a language but rather doing this through an interactive tool on a website. And if that is not awesome enough, I am pleased to say I actually passed the listening aspect which made a change from Year 11 French!

I love Maori Language and in some ways, I am actually grateful and thankful for starting off my month of new things by building on my knowledge and understanding of this beautiful langauge.

So that is Day 1 completed for you all (and for me) and I look forward to continuing my progress on the website as well as continuous posts throughout the month while embarking on numerous new adventures. 

Another month of something new

Hey folks,

So we all know how slack I am and have been at posting lately... I say I shall try to post regularly and then it totally doesn't happen. It's not like I have that much to keep me too busy from posting yet it still never seems to happen.

A few weeks ago I was talking with a friend and last week I also had a walk down memory lane for a while. During both of these events - the catching up and talking as well as the memory trip, I was reminded of my first year of uni and how exciting that year was. It was literally a year of all things new and undiscovered which was exciting and a real adventure. 

As well as all the usual adventures of moving out of home and beginning university, I had an incredible month of adventure during September 2010. 

Why? 

Well during that particular month, I decided to dedicate each day of the month as a special day to do something I had never done before - a whole month of doing something new each day. Some of my wacky and share worthy moments of that month included painting each of my toenails a different colour (or at least trying to), getting one of my friends to fully curl my hair, listening to music I would not normally listen to and I also believe watching 8 or 9 movies in one weekend made the list :)

Now, how does this relate to my blog post title? 

Well during this month (August 2013), I have again decided to do a month of something new each day so hopefully it will happen and I shall be able to continue posting on here... Who knows, I may even get 31 days worth of posts but will see how we go.

As well as posting about my adventures, I shall try to include photos where possible :)

So for now, I shall go and write the post for 1st August 2013. - My first day of something new for this year. Clearly I am off to a great start as I am writing this on 2nd August!!!!!

I shall make up for it, I promise.

If anyone has any ideas of things I can do during the month, let me know and will see how I can fit it in somehow.

That's all for now,

From the constant traveller Kath, somewhere between Tokoroa and Taupo.

Wahoo!

Just went on and checked the stats of my blog - just out of interest! 19 page views just in one day yesterday - I don't know if blogger.com is just making those stats up or not but it most certainly made me feel 100% more awesome than I was already feeling. 

For those people following the blog and following the posts of the 30 Day Shred (when I actually get around to publishing them... whoops), please feel free to comment on the blog - somewhere at the bottom of each individual blog post I do believe. 

When people comment, it shows that I am not just typing everything to the endless amount of cyber friends that read this, or not just typing and having a blog floating out there somewhere for aliens to read - aliens... pfft, whatever Kath... get back to your point please!

Your comments, love and support show me that I am actually typing something useful for others and also helps me to remember to keep typing (NOT GIVE UP) and keep moving forward. 

So yea... read, comment, ask a question, show interest and tell me what ya thinking/what is helpful/what is not/what you like etc.

Would love to hear from you all!

Toodles xx

Day 2 before the workout....

Written before doing the shred workout of the day...

Today, all day I have been in pain - every time I went to raise my arms, moving my legs, keeping my arms in one position for too long, reaching for things and having a painful shoulder, every time I went to stand up, all over, most of the time today I have been in pain. Because of the pain, all day I have been putting off doing the shred workout for today. 

While putting off the workout, I decided to google quotes about pain and suffering combined with giving up/not giving up. I came across this quote and it really made me think....

"Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must; 
just never give up." 

-Dean Karnazes 

For me in my life previously, as sad as it sounds and as much as I hate to say it, giving up has always been an easier option - I dream big dreams, set goals (which in the end I realise are not as realistic as I thought) and as soon as things do not go the way I want them to, I feel like taking the easy way out and giving up. Either that or I freak myself out so much that I either end up doing things just to get it over an done with or freak myself out so much that I am just too terrified. 

Seeing this quote and thinking about this quote made me realise even though im aching with pain, even though everything hurts, even though right now I can't imagine completing this goal that I have set... I've done it once before and I am going to do it again. Even though it seems so unreachable, the finish line for the goal is right there - I just need to run when I can, walk when I have to, crawl if I must and not give up to get to that finish line. 

Each day in this shred workout is a goal in itself - each 30 minute workout that I get through is most certainly a milestone. 

This whole marathon/half marathon that i've said im going to do - flip its going to be a beast and a half (or half a beast) but just as I have decided I am going to do with my shred workouts, I will run, I will walk and I will even crawl if I need to but I will do this half marathon!

Shred take 4 -Day 1

Hey Folks,

It's Fitness Feldon Girl here and boy oh boy is it great to be back in the land of fitness posts via the internet... Last time I clogged up everyone's news feeds on Facebook by doing extremely long posts after each workout so this time I've decided to hit the blogosphere and blog it out instead :)

So welcome to the end of Day 1 of the 30 Day Shred. 

Dude, who has heard the whole thing about worthwhile things in life being difficult to reach or get to? Haha, they certainly weren't kidding with that one. 

Day 1 today was just as horrible as I remember it being the previous three times I have attempted to do it. i guess for all those out there reading this and wanting to be inspired to do the Shred, that previous sentence sure does not help at all - in fact it is probably the furthest thing away from help.

Pretty much today sucked and I also sucked.....

• pain
• lack of endurance
• back to the physical challenge of level 1 etc

At least I got through it and Day 1 is done so i'm that much closer to completing it all over again - YAY!

Piece of advice for today....

• I as well as others know how hard it is and today was even harder to get back into it however I did what I needed to - with a few breaks in between but got there in the end...