My Goals for This Year – Week 45 of 52

1. Get Organized. 

I am slowly working on building my yard sale stash for next year and I need to clean up the rug hooking hooking mess I made yesterday from cutting wool strips. Other than that, my whole house is organized. Lame, I know. You’d think it would make me happy. To have a clean and organized home. But let me tell you, it’s overrated.

I need a name for my little glass chicken. Any ideas?

2. Run, walk or crawl a Marathon, half marathon, 10k, and 5k race this year.

I’ve mapped out a route for my upcoming marathon. Now I just need to drive it and see if the mileage is correct and pick a sunny day to walk/jog it.

3. Remodel our Master Bathroom, Master Closet and Monkey Boy’s Bathroom.

4. Finish Every Room in Our House.

Working on it. And seriously, now that I’ve got a chair in the family room…. technically the house doesn’t need anything else. I would like to still find a smaller dining room table and a fiddle leaf tree though and hang a few more things on the walls.

5. Turn Spare Bedroom into a Cozy Home Office Space for myself.

6. Create a Vegetable Garden.

Poor Pinky. She says she feels a little exposed and wants to know if I can find her some clothing to wear during the winter months. 🙁

7. Build a Path into the Hillside for Easy Access to the Upper Garden.

We built a fence instead.

8. Limit my personal spending to $100 a month.

So. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Guess who “bought” 2 free pairs of socks at Kohl’s this week? Ummmm, that would be ME!!! I went to spend my $10 off a $10 purchase coupon that came in the mail the other day and I was hoping to find something useful I could give away as a Christmas gift.

I walked around for a few minutes looking for something for the HH and was thinking about getting him a henley shirt for $12.99 {which would have cost me $2.99+tax out of pocket} when I came upon the sock section. I could feel my heart beating faster as I noticed the 50% off socks sign and nearly let out a little squeal when I found a 2 pack of heavy boot socks on sale for $10.00!!!

Well, let’s just say I marched right up to the register and handed over my coupon to the cashier. I got out my debit card fully expecting to pay the tax on the free item and was shocked when she told me I owed nothing. Nada. Zilch.

So guess what the HH is getting for Christmas? Socks! 🙂 I think they’ll go nicely with the small bottle of soy sauce I picked up for him last week. Bahahahaha.

About the soy sauce… 2 years ago I bought a giant jug of soy sauce from Costco. We still have about 2″ left in the container and everytime I serve rice for dinner he makes the obnoxious comment “why we can’t have a normal sized soy sauce bottle like everyone else.”  So I told him he better watch out or I’m going to buy him a little bottle of soy sauce for Christmas.

Weird. I know. But when you’ve been married for over 20 years…. This is what happens. You find joy in giving your husband free socks and a bottle of soy sauce for Christmas. It’s the American dream I tell you.

So far in November I’ve spent $9.46

In October I Spent $128.19
In September I Spent $28.73
In August I Spent $27.29
In July I Spent $50.82
In June I Spent $6.00.
In May I Spent $26.50.
In April I Spent $18.46.
In March I Spent $42.44.
In February I Spent $32.52
In January I Spent $84.33

9. Purge… Weekly. Find 10 things each week to donate to the thrift store. 

Done and slowly building my pile for next year.

10. Read 1 book a week. 

I don’t know about you but I am itching to plant something right now. I’ve decided to go through my copy of The Year Round Gardener and glean some ideas. I don’t mind working outside when the weather is cold… I just wish there were more things I could grow this time of year.

11. Slow Down.  Do one thing for myself each week.

Lately I’ve been waking up super early and to get my blog work done and settling down with Lucy in the early afternoon to watch a movie {or two} and work on my primitive hooked rugs. Yesterday and the day before we watched Kate Winslet in the Mildred Pierce miniseries. It was a little racey in some parts {I covered Lucy’s eyes don’t worry} but it was interesting.

After the miniseries was over I did a little research and found out it was an adaptation of an old 1940’s movie with Joan Crawford also titled Mildred Piece. Joan Crawford won a Best actress academy award for her role in the film. So now I have to watch the old version. 😉

To be totally honest though, Joan scares me. Have you ever seen Mommie Dearest? Let’s just say there’s a reason we don’t have wire hangers in our house. S-C-A-R-Y.

12. Canning

I haven’t canned anything in a few weeks but I do have some new recipes I’d like to try.

Did you set any goals for this year? If so, how are they coming along?

~Mavis