So… July was pretty crazy. I got in a little incident with my car, subsequently shopped for and purchased a new car, traveled to the mountains, the Springs, the ever exciting O-H(I-O), raced a triathlon, a dip’n'dash, and a half marathon, and hit up three different concerts with friends… what I didn’t do, was a thirty day challenge. I got a bit distracted. I apologize.
But since my blog readership hovers around 30… and that only when I push it to Facebook at the high hours of time-waste (i.e. work hours) and these are personal challenges, I’m not too worried about my ability to re-set the challenge here in August.
Just to fully catch up, in May I tried to go gluten-free for the vast majority of the month. It was kinda awesome (honestly, I could tell a difference from a digestive standpoint, but will refrain from going into details). I have been attempting to keep it up, but goddamn it’s not an easy thing to do at all, and I missed beer. A LOT… and I forget that Soy Sauce has gluten any time I get sushi! So, I might get a renewed focus, but right now, I’m definitely not consistent, and so therefore, am not gluten-free.
June I biked to work at least half of the days of the week. This is probably another reason why the car incident was so frustrating… I would have normally been on my bike!
It’s only a 6 mile route to work, and I often found it rather refreshing to do the bike commute. Sometimes I had to skip it because of plans in the evening that were too far to bike to.
For August, starting on Aug 8th (cause I’m just resetting right now… so it will end on Sept 6th), I’m going to try to only use cash for purchases. I’ll allow my auto-bill payments to stay, and I can pay off my Student Loan and new car payment with my bank account, but all “extra” purchases — food, clothing, going out, etc. etc. will have to be cash. I’m going to set a limit for myself too — more to come on that budgeting process, but I think it will be an interesting challenge. I generally love getting miles on my credit card and don’t often think what it means to put $2 at 7-11 on a card, but I’ll be curious about the new perspective.
