I never made it official here on the blog, but the way I’m doing new year’s resolutions this year is to pick a different thing to focus on each month. That way, I won’t be torn into a million different directions like I usually am with resolutions, but at the same time I’ll be …
January has come and gone, quicker than almost any other January has ever passed for me, it seems. Usually, January seems to be a gloomy month that drags and drags, but this year, I was pleasantly surprised that I got through it without too much doom and gloom. (The lack of snow and all this …
One week into January’s spending freeze, and I’m somehow already broke. I know exactly why, of course– You see, my school district does this thing that I HATE where they pay us much earlier than normal “to help with the Christmas expenses.” Normally, I get paid the last day of each month (as …
I think I wrote down once that December was a time for excess and that January is a time for paring down. It seems it happens every year—after the decadence of overeating, overspending, and over-receiving, I am ready come the new year for eating healthier, spending less, and downsizing. This month I want …
(all photos taken on our recent Kanab/Arizona trip, where I crossed two things off my life’s bucket list) Back in the summer, I wrote a post all about how, after a massive life revelation, I was spending far too much time worried about “goals” and not nearly enough time worrying about “habits.” From that time …
I’ve been thinking a lot about my new year’s resolutions and my monthly goals lately (probably because I’m pretty much failing miserably at many of them), and for many weeks now, something has just felt OFF about them. I couldn’t pinpoint it at first, but during my run this morning (and during my post-run …
After my humiliating goal attempts in February, I was determined to make last month count. And I don’t know if it was the determination that came from having achieved so very little the month before or if it was the coming out of the sun and springtime weather, but I kicked BUTT in March on …
