2 months down! I am finding that monthly goals are the way to go for me, even if I am not accomplishing all of them, they stay on my mind and I like the quick turnover and the ability to change them up because life changes and goals change, also my mind just changes a lot.
Here's a picture of my pretty little idiot, Chelsea.
Here's a picture of my pretty little idiot, Chelsea.
February Goals:
- No new library books & read the ones I have
Pass! I didn't get to them all because I have a problem with borrowing too many, but I read what I could and returned the rest.
- Meal plan and stick to grocery budget.
Fail-ish - We meal planned all but one week I think, but still went over the grocery budget. I know I could 'stick to' the budget if I increased the budget, but I don't want to. There has to be a way to spend less, we spend way too much for just the two of us. It is going down steadily but I still want to be under the amount I've set for us.
- Read all netgalley books with published dates that have passed.
Fail-ish - I was way too overzealous with this one, no way I could have read all my library books and all my netgalley books, but I still made a sizeable dent. As of right now, I have 5 books that have passed their published dates.
- Gym 3 times a week.
Fail - I have some excuses - I was sick, it was my birthday, I dislocated my knee... but there were plenty of days nothing was wrong and I was still lazy.
- Paint my nails twice.
Pass - I painted them twice the same colour, but it counts.
- Try to limit book purchases to not at the library books only.
Pass-ish - I technically purchased 2 books on sale that the library also has, plus I pre-ordered one in a paperback that the library has in hardcover (I own the first 2 in a series in paperback and normally I don't care about matching, but for some reason this time I do) however in all of those cases, I used a gift card I got for my birthday so does it count? Does it?
- Limit eating out/bad (but awesome) food to already planned events.
Pass-ish - Didn't eat out except for pre-planned birthday events. I probably had some bad food at home a few times, but it was birthday month so that was a stupid goal anyway.If we are friends on Instagram then I've shared a million times how Millie loves the pig rug in the kitchen (me too Millie, me too) and she loves it so much she doesn't care if you need to stand on it to, say, do dishes. It's adorable. This could be only adorable to me but I don't care. So I'm sharing.
March Goals:
- Try to limit book purchases to not at the library books only. Even if I'm not reading library books this month, I don't need to be buying books if the library has them.
Also, just a quick reminder to anyone who wants to link up with us - tomorrow is the next What's New With You link up.
- Read all netgalley books with published dates that have passed. Same deal as last month. I will catch up one day!
- No library books. I need to start working on books I own, but when I have library books (or netgalley or kindle unlimited) I feel a need to read those first because of deadlines/value for money, but then I just keep getting/borrowing more, and I never get around to reading the books I own. So that's my focus this month. I might have a library book come in that I've been waiting for, but besides that, no library books!
- Meal plan and stick to grocery budget. Will this ever not be a goal.
- Gym 3 times a week.
- Go back to kickboxing at least once.
- Try to limit book purchases to not at the library books only. Even if I'm not reading library books this month, I don't need to be buying books if the library has them.
- Catch up on blogs. I am caught up on emails, but now I need to work on blogs.
- Try one new recipe from a cookbook.

I always love February because it's my birthday month, but I don't like it as much here because it's cold and winter-y. So I'm okay saying goodbye to February and hello March. I'm thinking I should just change my birthday to a summer month while I live here, which will be the forseeable future. I can have two birthdays? Yeah?
Do you have a favourite cookbook? I have bought a couple recently but I want to build my stash.
Do you have a favourite cookbook? I have bought a couple recently but I want to build my stash.