March Goals

Quick peek at my goals for March.

* Make this cinnamon pull bread for book club Sunday.
* Make these guiness/bailey cupcakes for work the Friday before St. Patrick's Day.
* Read this month's book club book.
* Read a book club book from the past that I never actually read (haven't decided which one yet.)
* Take pictures to do an "Apartment Tour" for the blog. This is also for myself to look back on in the future.
* FIND AN APARTMENT and PACK!!!
* Work on the scrap chevron afghan for Jeremy. (More deets to come on that soon.)

Things I am looking forward to...

* Seeing The Black Keys on the 10th!!!!!
* Looking for and finding an apartment <3
* Daylight Savings Time...longer days!

Here's to a spectacular March

Jamie

February's Goals

Here's a quick recap on how I did with February's Goals.

* Send the package of crafts I am making for my Valentine's Day Swap partner.
Sent...see here.

* Finish one of the books Liz gave me for Christmas, The Mystery of Grace. Finished. I didn't LOVE it but it was a fast read and the core story was good. It was just full of a lot of unneccesary fluff.

* Start and Finish the Book Club book, The Heretic's Daughter.
Started and I am 3/4 through it. I will finish it by Sunday for our meeting.

* Finish Shannon's Birthday Gift.
I guess I was going to make her something?! I decided against it apparently because I ended up giving her a WLD board and markers of her own. Also, a really pretty picture frame.

* Figure out Jeremy's Birthday Presents.
I gave him a tshirt, a flannel, boxers that I painted little things on and a Clutch cd.

* Figure out what I am going to make/give Shannon for her baby shower.
I made her this baby afghan.

Woohoo!! I did pretty awesome!!

Jamie

February Goals

Happy February! I have a few goals set for the month and I wanted to share them with you. It's motivation for me to stick to these goals if I share 'em with you lovies!

* Send the package of crafts I am making for my Valentine's Day Swap partner.

* Finish one of the books Liz gave me for Christmas, The Mystery of Grace.

* Start and Finish the Book Club book (my pick!).

* Finish Shannon's Birthday gift.

* Figure out Jeremy's Birthday presents. I'm pretty sure I have it figured out, I just need to write it down and get it finalized.

* Figure out what I am going to make/give Shannon for her baby shower.

HELP: Shannon is my first friend to have a baby. Besides my step sister, Shannon is the first person I've known while pregnant. I just got the invitation to her baby shower and I am debating on what to make/give her. Should I just get something off the registery? Should I make something?! What do I make?! I don't want to be all presumtuous and give her a baby blanket which is my first instinct. I mean what if she has a family member who makes a baby blanket for her?! Can you have too many baby blankets?! I know that Shannon and her husband JP both really appreciate one of a kind, hand made gifts so that's not an issue. Is it rude to get something not on the registry? AHH!! I need your help friends!!

Thank you and here's to an Awesome February!!

Jamie

Oh yeah...Goals

Half way through the month isn't too late for a recap and a new list, is it? Haha!

September Recap
Read another book of my choosing - I read A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. I loved it and you can look for a review soon!
Get out all of my Fall decor and decorate - done and done!
Figure out gifts for Liz & Kara's bday - check!
Sew together swapped Granny squares - all finished!
Finish the September pick for Book Club - I never got the book and I don't plan on catching up with this one either, it didn't sound very good.
Make 3 more items for my Mystery Project - I didn't make anything =(
Announce my Mystery Project - clearly that didn't happen, it's still in the works though...

Meh I didn't do too well this month, this funk I've been in clearly effected all areas of my life!

October Goals
Read the Book Club book (it's my pick so I HAVE to)
Read another book
Work on and announce the damn Mystery Project already!!
Make my Halloween Costume.
GET A NEW JOB!!!

Not too many goals...just enough though =)

September Goals

I have some big goals for this month as well as some awesome stuff I'm looking forward to, I love September!!

First up are my goals for the month...

Finish the September pick for Book Club.
Read another book of my choosing.
Make 3 more items for my Mystery Project.
Announce my Mystery Project!!
Get out all my Fall decor and decorate my apartment as well as my cubicle at work!
Figure out gifts for Liz & Kara's Birthdays.
Sew together all the squares from the Blogger Blanket Project and the Craftster swap.
Here are a few of the things I am looking forward to this month...

Spending a few days down the shore with my Dad, Lonnie (my step mom), Jeremy, Jessie and Justin (a lot of J's in the group)
Getting my tattoo finished!!!
The first day of Autumn!
and last but certainly not least...My Birthday on the 28th!

August Goals Recap

Holy smokes I can not believe it is September!!!

Finish the zombie book I picked up at the library instead of last months Book Club book.  Here is the Zombie book review.


Read THIS months Book Club book.  I wasn't able to get this months Book Club book from the library again due to too many holds. Picking new, popular books to read for the club sucks because it's always so hard to get from the library.


And try to read another book of my own choosing.  The other book I read I looooved so much and I will be posting a review of it shortly.



Save $$ for North Carolina trip next month.  I saved the money but then our trip was cancelled because of stupid hurrican Irene. I was bummed because I love spending time with my family and we were going to spread my Nana and Grandpa's ashes in the ocean. We already have it planned that we will try again next year. The only bright side is that I am able to pay a couple other bills with that loot instead.

Make something for Mom's Birthday.  I made her this adorable baby dragon.
Send to last Blogger Blanket partner.  Done and Done!

Make at least 3 things for Mystery Project. I was only able to get 2 1/2 things finished by the end of the month.

Even though I didn't get EVERYTHING done, I got more than half so I'm happy! 

August Goals

Again...better late than never to post my goals for this month.

Finish the zombie book I picked up at the library instead of last months Book Club book, read THIS months Book Club book and try to read another book of my own choosing.
Save $$ for North Carolina trip next month.
Make something for Mom's Birthday.
Send to last Blogger Blanket partner.
Make at least 3 things for Mystery Project. (I can't tell you guys yet but once I have everything done I will be able to. I am expecting this to take 2 months...Ooooo the anticipation!!)

Have a crafty day kids and let's hope August doesn't fly by as fast as July did. I mean I can't wait for Fall but sheesh...life is going too fast!

July Goals Recap

I know it is already over half way into August but it's still good to reflect on my goals that I achieved last month...

Send to 4 of my Blogger Blanket partners - I actually sent to 5, woot!! That way I wasn't late in sending during the week I was in Florida.

Finish reading The Withes of Eastwick and the new book club book - I finished Witches and if you read my review, you know I hated it!! I never even got to start the new book club book. It is a brand new book and there were over 50 holds on it the entire month at my library (which includes all the surrounding libraries). Since it is brand new and only in hardcover it was too much money for my broke ass. I kind of hate buying books now if I can't get them uber cheap on half.com or Amazon. I did pick up another book at the library though that I just about finished.

Make something for Jessie's Birthday - I made this sweet spoon necklace.

Save more $$ for Florida - I was able to save my goal amount for the whole trip which I'm pretty proud of!!

Figure out what we're doing about Florida (getting there, do while we're there, etc.) - We figured it all out and had an AMAZING vacation, I will be doing a whole separate post just for it!

July was pretty freaking productive in my book!

July Goals

July Goals

Send to 4 of my Blogger Blanket Project partners
Finish reading The Witches of Eastwick and the new book club book.
Make something for Jessie's Birthday.
Save more $$ for Florida
Figure out what we are going to do about Florida (getting there, do while we're there,etc.)

Looking forward to:
Jessie's Birthday (I'm really pushing for a Toga Party!)
Being fully transitioned into my new position at work
Finding out if I got another job (at the same company, just doing different stuff - fingers crossed because being on the phone SUCKS)
Leaving for Florida the 29th!

June Goals Recap

Finish Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the new Book Club book.
Send out Craftster Monster Ninni Swap package.
Plant tomatoes in my topsy turvy! (better late than never)
Save another $100 for FL
Cook more MEALS for dinner.

For June I did pretty good on my goals, only 2 things I wasn't able to accomplish.
Since I went to Renegade and bought a few things, then went to the Allergist and had a bunch of meds to buy I wasn't able to save more money for Florida.
I also didn't plant any tomatoes which I'm pretty bummed about. I don't know if it's too late to plant them now, I need to look into that. I loved having my own tomatoes last year and really would have liked to have them again this summer.

Other than those two things I did everything else, read both books, sent to my Ninni swap partner and cooked actual meals for myself a lot more frequently!
I can't even believe it's freaking July already!!

Have a lovely day friends!

June Goals

Holy Crow I can't believe it's June already!! I don't have too many new or exciting goals, mostly the same stuff but here they are...

Finish Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the new Book Club book.
Send out Craftster Monster Ninni Swap package.
Plant tomatoes in my topsy turvy! (better late than never)
Save another $100 for FL
Cook more MEALS for dinner.
Figure out a Father's Day gift.

A few sweet things I am looking forward to this month:

Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn
Training for and starting my new position at work
Seeing my Dad!

May Goals Recap

I'm pretty satisfied with everything I got accomplished this month!


I really need to get better at cooking myself meals. I go through spurts where I will cook lots of awesome meals but right now I am in a total rut. I think it might have something to do with the swaps. All I wanted to do when I got home was work on these projects. Cooking seemed like such a waste of time. I've just been eating lots of pasta, soup, mac & cheese, nothing exciting. Do you have any awesome easy and cheap recipes? Or do you follow any foodie blogs? I think I only follow one but it's all desserts, I need more meals!

Also, May freaking FLEW by!!

May Goals

So ladies and gents...let's see what I have on my To Do list for this lovely month of May!

Finish old & new book club books. (I really need to get caught up!!)
Finish and send out 2 swaps. One from Craftster and one from Swap-Bot.
Save another $100 for FL
Eat more fruit!
Cook more MEALS during the week. (I've been in a rut of just eating pasta, mac & cheese, soup, etc.)
And last but not least - pass my Licensing Test so I can move into the Health Sales Deptartment!!!

I also wanted to mention all the awesome things I am looking forward to this month, it's going to be a busy one!

VNA Sale this weekend!
Artstar Craft Bazaar in Philly next weekend!
Getting a tattoo May 23 by Jesse!! It's going to be massive...well massive for me, my whole right rib cage...eeekk!! It will be nothing but pure badassness, I promise you!
Camping in Lake Erie with Jeremy Memorial Day weekend and hopefully seeing the Lake Erie Monster, Bessie, HA!!


This is going to be an AWESOME month!!

I hope everyone is having a lovely Monday so far!

April Goals Recap

Well hello May, you sure snuck up on me! Here is a quick recap of my April Goals. I didn't get everything done but I'm pretty satisfied.

Clean out under my craft table - DONE
(I even cleaned out my whole car & trunk while on the cleaning spree!)
Dye Curtains - DONE
(I wanted them purple but they're more like a lilac, I'm not in love with them but they'll do.)
Finish Old & New book club books - Sort of DONE
(I finished the old one and am 3/4 done with the new one.)
Save another $100 for FL - DONE
(I'm so close to the amount I want to have saved before we go, YAY!)
Finish Bunting - have blog Giveaway! - DONE
(You can enter the Giveaway here!)

Fix Car! NOT DONE =(
I have to order the part now and womp, womp it's a whole long story but it has to be done by the end of May because I need to get my car inspected. I wish someone would invent teleportation already, I am not a fan of cars!!

April Goals

So I learned last month that I made way too many goals for myself so this month there will be a lot fewer. Some are carried over from March but here they are...

April Goals Clean out under my craft table Dye Curtains Finish Old & New book club books Fix Car! Save another $100 for FL Finish Bunting - have blog Giveaway!

This is almost half of what I had last month so I have no excuse!

March Goal Recap

I'm a couple days late but I just wanted to give a quick recap of what I accomplished out of my March Goals list. Not everything but I'm pretty satisfied with what I did get done. Everything in red I did not get done so obviously those are now on my April list!

March Goals
Paint Lindsay's Piggy Bank
Clean out 3 dresser drawers
Clean out/organize the closet
(I ended up with 2 garbage bags full of stuff to donate!)
Try 2 new recipes
(I actually tried 4!)
Get a plant for my apartment
(Isn't he so cute?! He's a philadendron.)
Save $100 for Florida
(I saved more than double, woot!)
Clean under craft table
Dye Curtains
Finish next Book Club book
(I'm about 2/3 done.)
Fix Car!!!
Workout 4 hours a week

So on to April! It is dark and rainy and scary here right now, a storm is brewin'!

March Goals

I've been in a funk the last week or so. I don't know what it is but I have zero motivation to do anything. All I think of is everything I want/need to do which then stresses me out...and leads to more funk (and not the fun Earth, Wind and Fire kind of funk. No, this is more like that gross toe jam kind of funk.) So last night I sat down and made a list, are you surprised? I'm sure you recall a few mentions I've made about my affinity for lists. I think this is something I may do monthly now since I was already thinking of things I need/want to do in April!

March Goals
Paint Lindsay's Piggy Bank

Dye Curtains
Clean out 3 dresser drawers

Clean out/organize the closet

Clean under craft table
Try 2 new recipes

Finish next Book Club book
Fix Car!!!

Workout 4 hours a week

Get a plant for my apartment

Save $100 for Florida

So that's them. I can't decide if it's a lot or not but whatevs. I am going to try my best to complete them all in the 3 1/2 weeks left this month.