Angel or Devil?
How hard is it to live in an ethical way?
In this section we ask you to challenge us to make certain lifestyle changes each week.
Though the intention is that these changes will lead to better living we are not opposed to attempting anything providing it is legal and technically possible!
In the meantime, we challenge you to do the same, even if only for a day! Let us know how you get on and we will publish the best of them.
Week Ten - Slow as you go...
So after the streanuous activitives of last week, we have this week decided that we need a break so we are going to be taking it slow. No rushing allowed. Hopefully should be a relaxing week of it...
Oh and by the way, if you have gotten this far and you think we are being way to nice on ourselves, give us a new challenge! Just email on angelordevil@thisisnotmy.co.uk (P.S. if your one gets used we will send you a chocolate bar, may not be much, but you might be grateful for it when you get to work and the morning post arrives...)
Previous challenges and results
Mmmm, having just witnessed Ollie eating the paper on a sweet because he was too impatient to continue taking it off, I am thinking that I know the direction this challenge is going to take for him...
Monday
Hmmm I am a little dubious about this one. Don't get me wrong I think its a great idea and is no doubt a very good idea for me. I have always been a little on the manic side, being likened to a monkey chewing on a power cable by some close friends.
Also forever stressing out my Mum with how quickly I used to eat at the table often finished way before the rest had started.
Sooooo this is the perfect opportunity for me to take a breath and smell the flowers along the way of the journey called life that I need to remind myself can be just as much fun on a bmx as a Ducatti!!
In saying that I change the music I am listening to from NOFX to a chilled out track called 3 blocks from Groove St by Yo La Tengo. Look up from my computer have a stretch and take a breath and try to chill....
Tuesday
Had a lovely chilled bus ride to work with Lara (my little bus buddy!). I normally take the tube to work as it gets me there in a entire 15 minutes earlier. But there were no regrets as I rocked up at work 10x more relaxed having laughed all the way with La and finally seeing Abbey road for the first time in three years!!!
I never want to take the tube again, roll on summer so I can get myself a bike!
Wednesday
Not such a relaxing day today. In saying that though I had nice walk with a friend during my lunch break and stood in the sun enjoying our food. But being very overtired today seems to make me rather manic. So I was speeding through my workload at the office and not really taking my time to enjoy it ; )
Thursday
Friday
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I think that anyone who knows her knows that Susie and rushing don't go too well hand in hand. Cool, calm and collected I think she will do pretty well, but the proof is in the pudding...
Monday
My Gran always said - a tidy house brings a tidy mind. Clearly why my mind is a hideous mess of confusion. However, perhaps this is all to change.
I took the time to sort out the house and give it a good tidy (ok - I tidied apart from the HUGE pile of paper that I am leaving for another day - no point in getting overly keen on day 1).
All in all quite a relaxed day indeed.
Tuesday
Hmmmm taking the time to cook is a slow pursuit.
Cooking is not my forte.
Food is mostly just whatever is in the fridge - on a cracker. (You'd be surprised what can go with apple sauce.)
Anyhow - Lara was going to make a big dinner at ours for loads of people and now she can't. Which means that I am. It is fish. I am worried that I might harm them...
Oh dear.
Is it a plus that I have managed the chocolate truffles?
Is it still a plus if I then didn't have time to make lunch so just had chocolate truffles... and for a morning snack... and for an afternoon snack...
Wednesday
Ok so I was in charge of dinner.
I had to make paella and fried squid.
Luckily my mate Soph came round to help me. And then Ollie rocked up. And then Nicola. And we were all cooking and chatting and relaxing - so much so that we might not have actually been paying quite enough attention to what we were doing...
Which meant that by the time the others turned up the three course extraveganza had become a sort of garlicy rice mush in a pan!
But it was hilarious - and tasted great.
Since we were adopting the relaxed approach to cooking it just didn't matter.
Maybe I will cook more.
Thursday
Sleepy.
Is it cheating if I have a snooze since I work from home - or is that just being sensible on this slooooow week?
Had a crazy head bender of a morning and so it would really just be countering that out?
I guess I did also have a relaxed wander at lunch time but only because I managed to lock myself out so had to pop to my friends office to pick up the spare keys.
Still I refused to get stressed or enraged by it and put some classical tunes on and enjoyed the sunshine. Best being locked out of home I've had in a while actually.
(Though perhaps not quite so entertaining as the time we tried to shimmy the roof and jump in through the window. My mate went first and got her trousers caught on the frame - which meant we had to take them off to release her - resulting in her wobbling precariously and screaming in fear - and thus encouraging the neighbours to come and see what the commotion was.
If only she hadn't been wearing G-string...)
Friday
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Without her morning coffee Lara is more like a sloth than
a bouncing bean. (So much so that a flatmate once refused to walk to the tube with her in the mornings because she walked so slowly!) She has been known to skip her morning bus to finish the 7:30 morning Friends episode, so lets see how she does with time management and slowing things down a bit...
Monday
Just thinking, if I am meant to be going slow does that mean that I also have to slow down my typing? I might be here for a while if I do...
Did not do too well today, work was too manic, but it did manage to take me 45 minutes to eat my lunch. Oh, and I know it goes again a past challenge, but does it also mean that I can take a long slow shower???
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
So, I am taking this challenge so seriously, that it has taken me this long to write my angel and devil. My week has been really busy due to the fact that I am the only one on the office with everyone else sick, and tonight is my first night home at a reasonable hour, so I think I am failing this task pretty badly. I think I will now take my time and eat and eat eat my lovely dinner that susie bought and write to you tomorrow.
Friday
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Results of week 9 challenge - Getting active
Results of week 8 challenge - Saving Water
Results of week 7 challenge - Eating seasonal food
Results of week 6 challenge - If you don't ask you'll never get
Results of week 5 challenge - It's all talk
Results of week 4 challenge - Smiling
Results of week 3 challenge - Create things
Results of week 2 challenge - Energy efficiency
Results of week 1 challenge - No meat
