As is the trend in the blogging world, the start of a new year is when we review the year before and make new plans or goals for the new year. I am no different. I reviewed my personal/miscellaneous goals already, but it is now time to review my financial goals for 2017. I’ve been reviewing these every month all year long, so none of these results should come as a complete shock, but it is always good to review and reflect. Continue reading
As usual, I totally underestimated how busy I’d be over the holidays, so I haven’t finished up all my goals review posts ahead of time, like I thought I would, but here we are on New Year’s Eve, so I figured I’d quickly review my goals for 2017 and see how I did… Then next week I can go over what I want to accomplish in 2018.
For 2017 I gave myself 5 miscellaneous/personal goals. I did a review back in September, and honestly, I don’t know that I have too much to add my review right now, but I’ll go over each one anyway… Continue reading
I’m feeling a little like I’ll never catch up on my to-do list items, and so the blog seems to always be the things to get left behind… But it’s time for another financial update and review of our financial goals for 2017, so I have pulled together enough for at least this post… So here’ goes…
Another month of successfully avoiding pulling anything from the human emergency fund. It is still sitting at the happy $10,000 mark.
November was another month of just regular pet expenses, so we were able to add a little to the pet emergency fund. I’m not sure we will get to the $5000 before the end of the year, but it is still moving in the right direction, so I’ll count that as a positive.
Human Emergency Fund = $10,000
Pet Emergency Fund = $3720 (+$225)
This post was supposed to go up yesterday… But, well, I wasn’t that organized… Oh well.
Time is just flying by… Can you believe that there are only 2 months left of 2017?!?
With the ever-present chaos in our house, I’m still struggling to get all the data required for these updates, but let’s just see what we can do with what we have and take a quick look at how we are doing on my financial goals for 2017. Continue reading
After the first week of meal planning, which I wasn’t really sure if it was a success… I took some of the advice I received and continued, though I didn’t concern myself as much with things staying on the exact day they were assigned…
Here’s how things went…
My meal plan in my bullet journal didn’t really get any prettier, but I think it was a bit better laid out…
Monday, I made my dinner plan be “my husband”… He had the day off work, and I had a meeting right after work, so we got him to do the meal plan and cooking. Rather than force him in to cooking a specific thing, I left it open for his creativity/desires. We ended up with BBQ chicken skewers, which were delicious! Continue reading
So, let’s not talk about how I fell off the blogging wagon… again… Let’s just move on, shall we?
Unfortunately, because of the chaos in our house with the renovations, the computer that I have stored my normal spreadsheet with all my financial stuff is packed away in a dark corner of my basement, so I’m going to only be able to give you a partial update here…
Anyway, let’s just get on with it… Here’s a quick partial update on my financial goals for 2017. Continue reading
At the beginning of the year I made myself 5 personal goals. I haven’t done any posts summarizing how those goals are going so far this year, so I think it is high time for me to do just that… So, here it goes…
Goal #1 was to visit with friends and family at least twice per month. I started with this spread in my bullet journal:
Then I moved to my new bullet journal and I never copied that spread over… Well, until now… But I decided to go through my bullet journal and fill in where I did stuff with people that was recorded in my bullet journal (there were probably other things that weren’t recorded, but this is the best that I can do for now…) Continue reading
One of my personal goals for 2017 was to have a focus for each month. I did okay with my morning routine in January, and then I went the other direction in February by concentrating on realistic expectations… But then I didn’t define another monthly focus until June, and then it wasn’t even that successful… July and August went by without any focus… And so we have made it to September… I’m going to renew my attempts at having a focus for the month.
I originally tried having this as my focus for February, but that fell through… So, I have decided to revisit meal planning for my September focus.
I showed various versions of my past “meal planning” when I discussed my weekly spread in my bullet journal, but honestly, I wasn’t very good at it. And, at some point over the past year I stopped writing out a full week of daily layouts on my bullet journal ahead of time, and with that I stopped putting in a meal plan for the week… I still tracked what I was eating, but I didn’t have a place to write down the plan… And then, at some point in July, I stopped even keeping track of what I ate in my bullet journal (I still keep track, but I moved to keeping track of it in an app – MyFitnessPal).
Anyway, this is a long winded way of saying that I haven’t had a weekly meal plan written down in a very long time… Continue reading
I’ve got my work cut out for me this month in keeping up with my blogging promise that I made in my last post. Luckily the first one is an easy one, but I realize I am a day late according to my schedule… I blame the long weekend… It messes with your perception of time… Anyway… here we go… another quick update on my financial goals for 2017. Continue reading
I’ve been neglecting the blogging world lately, but since my financial update posts are always the easiest to write, I figure I can pop in today and do this update, even if I haven’t got any other content going at the moment… so here we go… another quick update on my financial goals for 2017. Continue reading
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