February Goals

Goodness!  Where did the last month go?!  It's literally flown by, but it's been one of the happiest months I've had in a long time.  My divorce was finalized on 1/29/2013, A & I started going back to church and I *love* it, A put in his move-out notice with our apartments, so we're officially moving in together as of 4/1/2013.  Ekk!  :-)  Oh!  And, we bought a new car.  I'll post pictures this weekend.

However, with another new month comes another set of goals.  :-)
Here are my goals for February.

Health

1.  Run a 28 miles... That's only 1 mile per day.  Totally doable.  I *must* start focusing my training for the half marathon in May.
2.  DRINK MORE WATER!  Another *must* do goal!
3.  Limit Starbucks to only one per week.
4.  Cancel 24 Hour Fitness.  I'm paying $50 and working out at home anyways.
Home

1.  Make a minimum of one new recipe for dinner.
2.  Menu plan, and stick to it.
3.  Only go out to eat ONE day a week!
4.  Bring lunch to work a minimum of 4 days a week. 
5.  Create a personal budget and stick to it. 

Personal

1.  Sign up for professional pictures.  Pick a date with Shani. 2.  Enjoy my first Valentine's Day with Alex.
3.  Read two + books for fun.
4.  Accomplish at least 4 items from my 101 things list.

January Goals - Recap

So January didn't go so well... it started off strong, and then school started, and things went WAY down hill from there.  But, in an effort to be honest, here's where my goals ended up...

Health

1.  Run a minimum of 31 miles... That's only 1 mile per day.  Totally doable.  This didn't happen.  I slacked.  I started off strong, ran 8 miles in the first 8 days, and then bam.  Nothing since.  FAIL.
2.  DRINK MORE WATER!  Another fail.  It didn't happen.
3.  No Starbucks for the entire month.  A & I went to Teavana and bought some healthy teas, so I'm going to make it a point to drink that tea for the month, and stay away from Starbucks.  I made it through the first 18 days, which for me was a RECORD!  I've had three chais in the month of January, but coming from drinking one a day, I'd say this was a pretty good accomplishment.  However, since I did have at least one, I'm marking this one as a fail too.
4.  Cancel 24 Hour Fitness, sign up for a new gym membership at LA Fitness.  FAIL!  I'll get to it this week.
5.  Keep up with the UG Challenge(s) for the month.  Another thing I started off strong with, but managed to screw up by the end of the month.  Ahhh!

Home

1.  Make a minimum of one new recipe for dinner.  I'm kind of proud of myself for this one... I've made not only one new recipe for dinner, but 4 new recipes for dinner.  :-)  I need to blog about them.  I'll add that to my "to do" list. 
2.  Menu plan, and stick to it.  I menu planned, but we deviated from the plan, and ate out a lot more than I had originally wanted to do.
3.  Go through closet, get rid of clothes that are too big, and stuff that I just don't wear anymore.  Done!  I managed to go through my closet and get rid of two large trash bags full of clothes.  I took them to Carie to see if she wanted any of the clothes, and donated the rest of them to a donation drive at church.

Personal

1.  Get a massage.  FAIL!  Didn't happen, should have happened, but didn't happen. 
2.  Organize calendar with 2013 Spring school schedule.  Done.  But then again, I'm anal, so who didn't figure that would happen.
3.  Read two + books for fun.  Another thing I accomplished.  I read The Host by Stephanie Meyer and Insatiable by Meg Cabot. 
4.  Accomplish at least 4 items from my 101 things list.  So for my 101 things... I reached a goal weight of 170, Alex & I went to the aquarium, Alex & I bought a new car, and I added three new recipes to my "try 12 new recipes."  I wasn't able to completely mark that one off the list, BUT, I did make progress, so I'm counting that as a success!