HI. IT’S THE FINAL DAY!! Wowie, what a month! Thank you to my generous sponsors who have got my past my $1,989 goal!! It’s so heartwarming to see all the support, thank you so much ❤️ you’re da best!!!!!! I had started feeling pretty rubbish yesterday afternoon and still today so instead of a physical workout I did some for my mind. I think I’ve been pretty hard on myself mentally this month so I needed to actually listening to my body when it’s pleading for me to rest. So today I actually tried to rest, I put my phone in another room, finished the SYSCA book, had a nap, and made apple cake! I should hopefully be back to normal tomorrow! Thank you again to everyone who supported me through this, it means the world. To our rainbow communities: you are not alone, we are always gonna be here for you ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

Helloooooo! It’s the penultimate day of sweat with pride!!! WOWIE it’s been quite da month!! Today I did more yoga, I really needed it cos I’m so sore from yesterday! Tomorrow there is a double donation thingy up to $26k, and I’m also doing my own double donation up to $500. So if you’ve been lurking and would like to donate your time has arrived! Thank you so much for your support and see you tomorrow for the final day! 🌈🌈🌈 ooh here’s a pic of a sunny Mika from earlier today 😊😊😊

Kia ora! WOWIE we really are almost at the end of June!! Today’s sweat was helping two awesome peeps move house! 🥰🥰 and also waiting 20 minutes in the queue at Kmart 😅😅 today was a good day! Shout out to Anthony for your incredible donation!! Totally made my day! Thank you for all the support everyone and see ya tomorrow for the second to last day!! Ooh and here’s a pic of our new air fryer, very exciting 😄😄😄 byeeeee 🌈🌈🌈

Hiii! IT’S FRIYAY! WAHOOO! Today I slept ok, no proper nightmares, just weird dreams 😅 after dins I made crème anglaise using the leftover egg yolks from the quiche - I thought it was going to make a relatively thick custard but alas it did not 😅 so instead I ended up with what I call custard soup 🤣 after eating (drinking) some of that I realised it wouldn’t be a good idea to have a dance party (I wanted to do an Ed Sheeran Jaini dance party) so instead I did some restorative yoga which I hadn’t done before! To be honest I think it’s not for me but it was good to try 😊 now it’s time for a hot shower and some winding down! Thank you so much for your support and a special thank you to Kelly for your amazing donation! Go you for sweating it out too 😄 ooh and today I wore my SWP sweater which came in da mail yesterday yay!!! Here’s a snap :D it’s so comfy yay! See ya tomorrow 🌈🌈🌈

Kia ora! Today I made a quiche for the first time! Or at least the first time I remember haha 😝 yummy! I did yoga for my sweat for today - it was so good! Now it’s time for some reading 😊 I didn’t take any pics today but here’s what I was baking 3 years ago today! Yummy! 🌈🌈🌈

Halloooooo! What is up guys? Da sky :D it is 6 months til Christmas WAHOOO. I didn’t manage to get much sleep last night, insomnia won 🏆 I got to about 2.30 when my body had had enough, I was feeling very yuck, fuzzy and headachey. So home time it was! Thankfully I had done some sweat earlier in the day, I walked to da shops and got black socks and two jerseys yay! I’m still feeling pretty yuck so that’ll do for today. Thanks for tuning in and for your support, see ya tomorrow 🥰🥰🥰 OMG also thank you so much to Cathy for gifting me this incredible RAINBOW toothbrush!!!!! This made my day wahoo you’re da best! 🌈🌈🌈 ooh and I also forgot to say that yesterday I reached my sweat goal yay!!! :D

Hi! WE ARE 80% THROUGH SWP!!! Isn’t that awesome?! Yay! Today I did a quick 5 minutes of jaini-directed yoga before dins, then later I did a 45 minute yoga session - I thought it was 25 minutes 🤪 it was very good and challenging! Now it’s time for a bit of wind down before bed 😴 thank you very much for all your support, including my fab work hoa mahi - and a special thank you to Desiree for your amazingly generous donation! 🇩🇰❤️ see ya tomorrow for day 25! 🌈🌈🌈 ooh and I didn’t take any pics today so instead here’s a pic of sakura from last year in Japan 🌸🌸🌸😊😊😊

Hello! It’s day 23 yay! One more week to go :D today’s workout was a HIIT kickboxing workout by emkfit! It was super fun, I forgot how much I like kickboxing workouts! I had planned to do my sweat earlier in the day but alas I had a tension headache which took a few hours, some panadol and a nap to eliminate. Sad! But that’s ok! Now it’s time to wind down, methinks a rainbow paddle pop is in order :D ooh also da organisers for sweat with pride suggested that we post on our socials why we signed up so I will do that soon! See ya tomorrow punks 🥰🌈 ooh also here’s a photo from da other day, so pretty! 😍

Kia ora!! I realised that since my nightmares have come back full force rather than da mild, more manageable version, I’ve needed to actually try and get some proper, no alarm actual sleep. I got a proper wake up call the other day when I just couldn’t stop crying and I couldn’t pinpoint any particular reason, my mood was just very low - a nothing can help sort of low. The only thing that helped was having a nap from crying myself to exhaustion! I needed a sort of reset I guess. So today was the day! I woke up around 7 from a nightmare, then fell asleep until 9 when I said bye to Russell, then slept again till 11.30. That was just what I needed! Then for my sweat for today I did a whole lot of housework - vacuuming, cleaning da bathroom, cleaning those random splodges in the kitchen which would bother me but I’d never get round to cleaning, dishes, and laundry - yay for fresh sheets! I listened to music da whole time and sang along, that was nice 😊 then I made a treat toy for the cats 🐱 and now I’m gonna have a chill rest of the day and tomorrow I’ve got the day off tomorrow for an extra long weekend 🥰 wahoo! Thank you for listening and for your support, see ya tomorrow for day 23 🌈🌈🌈

Hellooo!! Happy winter solstice! ❄️ it’s officially all down hill from here :D today I did some more yoga with Adriene! The cats were very keen on watching her dog Benji 🐶 now it’s time for some switch methinks :D yay for the long weekend! 🥰🥰🥰

Kia ora!! Mānawatia a Matariki!! 💫💫💫 today’s sweat was a combo of going up and down mitre ten aisles, grocery shopping, and putting up insulation film! My arms are quite sore from ringfit so thought I’d let those activities take charge for today :D also yay we are two-thirds through da challenge!! Thank you so much for your support 🥰 see ya tomorrow! 😊 here’s a pic of a sleepy Zoey (same) 😴

Hiii! WAHOO it’s Thursday! Today I did RingFit before dinner - it’s a game I have on da Switch where you do exercises to beat monsters and try and beat the dragon! That sounds pretty blazed so here’s the official description: “With the Ring-Con in hand and Leg-Strap equipped, it's time to set out on a fitness-filled quest! Explore a fantasy adventure world to defeat a bodybuilding dragon and his minions using real-life exercises in Ring Fit Adventure, a fitness video game for Nintendo Switch! Jog in place to traverse grass-swept plains, do overhead shoulder presses to attack enemies, and strike some yoga poses to refill your health meter.” 🐉 seeee I was not making it up 😁 unfortunately I can’t do the jogging part of the game as it super aggravates the compartment syndrome, but I did mini games which was fun! Although they were harder than I remembered, and it wasn’t till the end that I realised I was playing on the hardest mode OOPS. But that’s good! Yay I’m glad I feel better than I did yesterday! Also WOWIE MCZOWIE everyone fundraising for Sweat with Pride have collectively raised a total of $733,768 so far! Isn’t that incredible? 🥰🥰🥰 thank you to you for supporting me on this journey, it’s been so awesome so far :D and shoutout to Gina for her amazingly generous donation!!! See ya tomorrow for Matariki! 💫💫💫 ooh also today’s pic is one of my fave mugs - I love a good pun 😁

Halloooo. I was super exhausted from da training so by the time I got home I was feeling a bit dizzy and dull 😓 so today we had a break from da sweat but I’ll make up for it! Thank you to Tejal, Anya, and a colleague for your amazing donations over the last couple of days! 🥰 see ya tomorrow, here’s a pic of Zoey looking after me (kind of) ❤️

Kia ora!!! Today was JAINI’S FREESTYLE DANCE WORKOUT DAY WAHOOO!! I added 6 songs to a new playlist and got dancing in my room 🥳 here’s a screenshot of da playlist! 🥳 it was so fun! I haven’t done that in years! I’m grateful for this challenge getting me off my butt and having fun :D it seems that I have escaped whatever sickness has been lingering so far - I feel totally fine at the moment so fingers crossed it stays that way tomorrow! We have an all day training day so I’ve baked lemon crinkle cookies to share WAHOO 🍋🍪🥰 ooh also tomorrow is double donations day yay!! 🥳 thank you so much for your support and see ya tomorrow 🩷🩷🩷

Hi! I started off the day well but then by lunch I was getting sick! :( so I yeeted home to avoid spreading any sickness around. I had gone to get some stamps in the morning so that was my sweat for today, best not to overdo it methinks! Hopefully I’m not proper sick, I love this challenge! See ya tomorrow ✌️🌈

Hiiiii! It’s Sunday funday wahoo! Omg and half way through the challenge yay!! After dins I did a Pilates dance workout by emkfit to Wicked!!! It was difficult 😅 but I did it yay!! Now it’s time to get stuff ready for work tomorrow :D here’s a pic of the yummy rhubarb and apple cake made by my sister and Mom! So tasty 🤤 thank you for your support and see ya tomorrow! 🩷💚🩷💚🩷

Kia ora! It’s da weekend yay! Today’s sweat was gardening! We put the planter box together and planted lettuce, spring onions, strawberries and silver beet :D yay! Afterwards I went to go read and found Mika in my oodie 😅 I mean his oodie 😹 see ya tomorrow!! 🩵

Hewoooo. Today started off bad, I had pretty bad nightmares again and the cats woke us up by fighting at 1am 😅 and then when I got on the train I realised I’d lost my necklace 😓 so I posted on the community facebook pages but felt like it was lost forever. And then I tried to distract myself but I just felt sick on the train like it was a bus! So sad. BUT. Before I yeeted to da team meeting I found out someone had found it yay!!!!!! Isn’t that amazing! I frequently (well, always) lose hope in the world, there is so much going on and it feels like we’re just little specks of dust sometimes and that everything is bad and we’re just caught in this perpetual badness cycle that won’t ever end. But this gesture gave me some hope which is nice 🥰 and as of now we’re officially $888 away from reaching my goal which is AWESOME!!! Yay!! Thank you so much ☺️ back to sweating, because of the bad start to the day I was feeling quite stressed and tired all day, and all my usual coping techniques went out the window (I should really write them down and put them in me wall-e). So by the time I got home I was not looking forward to exercising at all. But I went on YouTube anyway and found a fabulously titled yoga with Adriene session called Yoga for Seasonal Affective Disorder and that was just what I needed! So that was my sweat for today, hopefully I get a break from the string of bad sleep so I feel more energised for the weekend. Oooh and the other sort of sweat today was a few of us went for a break to get a cupcake from a new store that opened!! I got a Hawke’s Bay peach one, so yummy 🤤 and a mango one for Russell! Here’s a pic along with a choccy from a colleague 😊 thanks for tuning in and see ya tomorrow 🌈🌈🌈

Yooohoooooo. It’s day 12! I slept through both my alarms, my brain was stuck in silly nightmares again! I didn’t have time to have brekkie at home so the train ride was a bit 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 ah well. After work I went to get pizza with my brother and sister! That was approximately 18 minutes of walking to get there, plus a few more to get back home so I think that’ll count for today 😊 I was pretty tired all day but at least it’s Friday tomorrow wahoo!! Thank you to Yassasvie and Anna for your donations today, you’re amazing!! 🥰 it’s so incredible to reach over $1k, I feel so happy and grateful for all the support 💜 ooh and here’s a pic of a nice quote from the SYSCA book I’m reading! See ya tomorrow! 🩵

YO! I had pretty bad nightmares last night so I worked from home, sad cos I like to stick to my schedule! But that’s ok. For today’s sweat I did another Yoga with Adriene video, this time one for tension relief! I’d been feeling pretty tense all day so that’s what I needed 😊 wahoo! Thank you for all your support, we’re over 1/3 through the challenge yay! Today’s pic is a pic of Mika sleeping on Zoey 😹

Kia ora! Today was brrrr so I worked in my oodie for most of the day (from home! But wouldn’t it be incredible if we could really wear whatever we wanted at work?). After work I did a core exercise to the song Delicate (track 5 on reputation 🤓) and that was hard! I would like to work on more core muscles mainly so it doesn’t hurt to do dishes, apparently they’re related 😅 then we had dins and then I did a 28 minute “OG 2000s emo punk rock” dance workout by emkfit! That was fun, she had a Good Charlotte song from ages ago and it made me remember when I was 15 and being like, “yeah, I don’t wanna fall in love either” 😹 now it’s time for a hot shower and bed and more reading yay!! Toodles 🩵 OOPS I didn’t take any pics today so in lieu of that here’s a pic of what I was doing exactly 5 years ago today 🤪

Hiiii! Today was a busy day at work, I like to try and get outside during the day at least once but that didn’t happen! And I guess cos my brain was working overtime I burned through all my food really quickly so I got pretty hungry. After work I met up with my sister (she got me pocky sticks yayayay!!) and we caught the bus to Petone - it was very full and stop start-y- not good for ye old tum tum 🤢 so once we got to Petone we got off as soon as we could! We then walked to Animates to get pet food for Mika - he has anxiety so needs special food ❤️ so that walk was my sweat for today! I am still feeling quite lethargic from da weekend so I didn’t do more once I got home, but I did start reading a book my Mom and my sister got me! I have a hard time just picking up a book and actually reading it (no problem adding them to my collection though hehe 😜) so this was a big achievement for Jaini. Wahooo! I’ll see how I feel tomorrow and try and do something more active than the past few days. ALSO I feel so grateful to everyone for their donations! Thank you to Abby and Jeremy for yours!! We’re almost up to $1,000 which is amazing and so heartwarming 🥰 thank you for your support!! Goodnight and see ya tomorrow punks 😎😎😎🌈🌈🌈

Kia ora anō! It’s Sunday which should equal fun day but Jaini was super exhausted. I just felt like laying in bed and rotting and melting into nothingness 🫠 I was very tempted to do so but I knew I’d be grumpy at myself and feel worse if I did that, so instead I wrote a list of housework to do for today’s sweat and got cracking! I listened to Ed Sheeran’s new song on repeat 😁 it’s called Sapphire and he sings in Punjabi for a bit which is so cool!!! 😎 anyway I hope I feel better tomorrow, I feel pretty rubbish still but we’ll get there! For now, it’s bed time (if Zoey lets me sleep!). See ya tomorrow! 💜

Hello! It is freezing today! I definitely needed a chill day today after some rubbish sleep. I caught da train to Wellington and walked to Unity Books and got some postcards yay! And then continued my walk to high tea with two friends! It was so yummy, I had 5 cups of tea 🫖 one was called Nan’s apple crumble, one was peachy, one was minty with lemon balm, and another was a cacao chai! And then I had Nan’s apple crumble again - so good 🤤 we have a tonne of lemon balm growing at home plus mint, so perhaps I’ll try brewing some fresh tea on the weekends! 😊 see ya tomorrow ✌️🌈❤️

IT’S FRIDAY!!!! Yay! 🌈 today was pretty tiring work-wise (in a by 2pm I was like “when is the next express train?” way. Guilty.) so I’m glad the work week is done! Man, I was so not wanting to do any exercise once I got home though. I hurt my elbow from jumping from joy when Russell told me my oodie arrived! And then once I was in said oodie it was so snuggly and warm and I wanted to turn into a cat and just sleeeeep. But then I was like YO JAINI you made a promise so you are gonna stick to da promise unless you actually need rest. And I was like aww do I have to? I could just melt into my oodie instead…but alas, I went through YouTube to find a dance exercise video that would give me enough motivation and then I came across emkfit who I’ve forgotten all about!!! I love her videos cos she teaches you two dance moves at a time and gives you low impact options too! 💃 and GUESS WHAT? EMKFIT HAS AN ERAS TOUR DANCE WORKOUT VIDEO!! Da best exercise for me is when I don’t know how much time is elapsing and where there’s enough for my brain to think about to distract me from impending doom. So this was perfect!! I think she had the OG now-not-stolen version of Shake It Off and that was so good to listen to again!!! So I did that and that was fun and now I’m gonna make a hot choccy wahooo! And get back into my oodie 🥳 thank you for reading and your support! I’m looking forward to tomorrow 😊 ooh also here’s a pic of da oodie IT’S CARE BEARS 🥰🥰🥰

Hii hii hii! It’s day 5 wahoo! My informal challenge for today was chopping and peeling sugar cane from my Mom and little sister - success yay! Thanks Mom and Millie 🥰 I made scones for work tomorrow, then did yoga with Adriene again, this time “Yoga for Overthinking”. It was a challenging one, with some bicycle movements at the end! Afterwards I played some ukulele, I’ve been playing on and off for a few years (actually, I’m thinking perhaps since 2016? That was almost a decade ago, Jaini 😅) and it’s always nice to get back into it! I played Stick Season by Noah Kahan, Free Now by Gracie Abrams and Sparks Fly by TayTay 🥰🥰🥰 the ukulele is such a happy instrument! It feels really nice having an exercise routine cos it really makes me value the other time I have more! 🥳 thank you for your support, and a massive shoutout to all my sponsors so far: Vimal, Lise, Katie, Jiten, Vinay, Millie, Mom, Kat, Cathy, Fran, Sara, Pippa and Ricky, and Russell for your donations ❤️ you are all so awesome!!! See ya tomorrow aka FRIYAY! 🌈🌈🌈 ps here’s a pic of the pawpaw we had after dins - yummy!

Hiiii! Today is day 4 yay! I realise that my blog posts aren’t showing any paragraphs despite my best efforts, so apologies - but on the bright side, that’s what the inside of my brain looks like all da time (CHAOS) so you’re also welcome 🤪 After some digesting dinner I did 21 minutes on the rowing machine. I listened to the latest Gone By Lunchtime podcast episode by The Spinoff (highly recommend) and honestly I kept checking the display thingy to see how many minutes I had left! Classic rookie move, next time I shall hide it from sight. On to the next paragraph! 😅 actually I don’t have too much to say, except that tomorrow will probably be a yoga day wahoooo and I also want to fit in some ukulele jamming. I listened to Stick Season by Noah Kahan today and I forgot how much I love that song, so that’ll be on the list! 🥰 Thank you again for your support, it means the world. Here’s an adorable pic of Zoey to show my appreciation ❤️ PS hallooo to my little sister who’s been waiting all day to read dis ILY 🌈

Kia ora!! It is day 3 yay! I’m working from home today so today’s exercise will be walking downhill to the supermarket which is about half an hour away. We are almost out of coffee and tragically out of rainbow paddle pops (my fave treat at the moment) 😅 Sorry, I also don’t mean to be all woe is me (I’m so glad about deciding to do this challenge 🥳) - but I thought I should mention that I was diagnosed with compartment syndrome 2 weeks ago. I will hopefully get it sorted with some surgery soon. Unfortunately the pain from it means I can’t do all the exercises I’d like to, which is while you might find what I’m tracking is on the more mild end! Interestingly downhill walking is way more painful than uphill is because of it, but the lure of paddlepops (and meeting up with Russell at the train station) is a great incentive :D plus with everything that is going on in the world with the attempts to strip rainbow rights it does feel good to be helping to counter that in a small way. So thank you for your support and see ya tomorrow 🌈 P.S. Mika and Zoey say hi 👋

What is up guys, it’s ya girl here. I woke up so tired today, nightmares are really not fun! My original plan for today was to go on the rowing machine but my body was telling me to take some rest, so I tried to listen for once 😅 I ended up doing some housework while listening to TayTay (omg it’s so good being able to listen to her OG songs again yay!!!) and then in the afternoon I had a quick nap which was interrupted by me shouting myself awake (nightmare #2, sad). I was still feeling not that great so I thought I needed a chill activity for today’s challenge. So I set up my new candle (thank you Lise and Vimal ❤️), put the heater on, and found a yoga with Adriene session called “Yoga For When You Are Spiralling”! 🌀 It helped a lot, I feel a lot less fuzzy now wahooooooo! I’m not sure what I’ll do tomorrow, I’d like to find a dance workout that isn’t too high impact - we shall see! Thank you for your support, see ya here tomorrow 😄

Hallooo! Today’s the first day WAHOO and I started off with 21 minutes on the treadmill. My legs didn’t hurt yay! I’m so lucky to have such a pretty view ft. Zoey! 🥰🥰🥰