{"id":439,"date":"2010-09-29T22:47:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2010-09-29T22:47:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:47:21","slug":"cant-stop-thinking-about-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"can’t stop thinking about “challenges”"},"content":{"rendered":"

if you’ve known me for awhile, you might remember some of the challenges i’ve made for myself in the past (baking bread once a month to learn how to work with yeast; the aids ride–400 miles on a bike in 5 days; the 365 days of getting rid of stuff (okay, that one petered out about halfway through); eating vegan once a week, etc.) and lately, i’ve been setting all of these ridiculous hypothetical challenges for myself in my head and then feeling guilty that i’m not doing all of them simultaneously.\u00a0 so i thought i’d list some of them here and have you all vote for which challenge you think would help me to find more of a sense of balance between working\/being a mom\/being a grad student\/being a creative person\/and being a healthy person.\u00a0 they are, in no particular order:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 not eating out for a whole month<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 blogging (on at least one of my blogs) at least once a week through the end of the year<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 going to bed no later than 11:00 every night<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 exercising at least 3 times a week\u00a0 (i have SO fallen off of the exercise wagon and I can really tell a difference)<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 doing this 30-day yoga challenge<\/a><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0 being allowed to only check google reader while riding the stationary bicycle<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0 no more than one sweet treat per day (yes, this would be a challenge.\u00a0 pitiful, isn’t it?)<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0 absolutely no tv (or google reader) until all of my homework is done for the week<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0 carving out time to craft at least once a week<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 forbidding myself to take on any challenges that are doomed to cause me huge guilt if i don’t make them work–at least until I’m out of grad school or until Gabriel is sleeping through the night.<\/p>\n

please vote for ONE in the comments section below.\u00a0 thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

if you’ve known me for awhile, you might remember some of the challenges i’ve made for myself in the past (baking bread once a month to learn how to work with yeast; the aids ride–400 miles on a bike in 5 days; the 365 days of getting rid of stuff (okay, that one petered out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riftraft.jayandcarissa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}