November Goals

November Goals

Oopsies, we are almost half way through the month, but we have already been working towards our goals for November and here’s what they are:

Teal-

1. Basically because my last month’s goals are a continuing struggle I am rolling all of those forward as well and will keep working on it.

2. You might have figured out by now that that room I was working on 2 months ago is the room the baby is going to live it when she gets here. I NEED to clean that completely out so that the construction guys can come in and replace all the walls and ceiling and I would like that to get taken care of by the end of this month. So FOR REAL this time, GET THE BACK ROOM CLEANED OUT!

back bedroom

3. Choose a new paint color and fabric for the kitchen. They are coming in to remodel the kitchen within the next 3 to 4 weeks and I really want to learn how to make Roman shades for the 4 windows in my kitchen. It is too ambitious for me to say I will actually make the shades this month, but the goal is to get everything ready for them.

Beth –

1. Stop letting your car be a gym bag! I am not even posting a picture of this because it embarrasses me and no, Teal, will not take a picture and upload it here. 🙂

2. Yoga twice a week!

3. READ!! This month I’m going to need to read 3 books in order to catch up!  The book club selection for November is Ladies’ Night by Mary Kay Andrews.

ladies night

source

4. Buy fabric for the master bath and make another DIY window cornice!

Joint Goal –

  • Have pictures done and Christmas cards from Kate ordered!!  Who doesn’t love supporting local? Kate is a Dallasite that is an awesome graphic designer, so we can’t wait to work with her to design Christmas cards for each of us this year!
October Report Card

October Report Card

Let’s just get straight to the grades here….

Teal –

1.Log food in myfitnesspal EVERYDAY. You should follow me! I will follow you, we can keep each other accountable! I am teal0996 on there. 

B: pretty half and half here and this will continue to be a goal!

2.  Wake up 4 mornings per weekday and workout, even if it is just 30 minutes. Choose 1 day to take off.

C: on the waking up but A on the working out 4 times a week! I have been having issues waking up, I had a week of time where I kept waking up at 1:30am and was up for about 3 hours so getting up at 5:30 was not going to work. I seriously hope this gets better and has only happened a few more times. I have either gone at night or done my yoga videos at home!

3.  Prep meals. I use to do this religiously and haven’t… hence the Mexican food twice in one day!

B: Sorta? I didn’t prep like I used to, I more or less bought the stuff and took it all to work and made my lunches there. However, I would do that and decide I didn’t want to eat any of it and ate other things instead on some of the days. I did make one run to Fuzzy’s and one run to Quiznos (which I left on top of my car as I drove off). Other than that I did pretty well with this!

4.  Minimum of 64oz of water daily. I need more because I am so active but I am not even getting 64… must fix.

A+: Pretty much nailed this thanks to my ginormous Buccees’s cup and the 800 water bottles at work!

bucees

5.  If I am going to eat a cookie it can only be 1 and when I say cookie I also mean any other sugary treat that I feel like I can’t live without.  Just 1, not 4, not 7, not the entire box, just 1. I say this because if I say absolutely no to these treats I really will eat them all.

B: Well I can say I really didn’t eat any cookies, I did eat ice cream and Peanut butter M&M’s shhhhhhhhh but even with that said I have done much better on the sweets part. That was what I wanted to eat for a while, all bad things. The sight of asparagus one day made me gage and my usual salad for lunch was gross. I am having to employ a ton of will power here but it seems to be getting better!

 [Side note: isn’t it kind of funny to see this last goal now that you know Teal is pregnant??]

Beth – 

1.  Pretty much since I’m in that book club now and I have a reading goal for this year on goodreads.com I’m just going to make y’all read every month about my goals.  I’m super pumped because the third book in the Divergent series comes out this month and I canNOT wait to read it! :)  So this will at least be one of my two books to read this month.

F: A big giant F for this one.  I did not complete any books this past month. WHO AM I?!?! I started both Serena and Allegiant, but haven’t finished either. So disappointed in myself. *hangs head in shame*

2.  I’m still working towards an organized home… :)  Will I ever accomplish this? I have a collection of boxes in three different places right now and my goal is to go through them, throw things away and either put the leftovers in the attic or some other place they can live.

C-: I’m going to go with that grade because there were 5 boxes total and I cleaned out 3 of them. Ugh, I need to get rid of more stuff!  I also feel like this will never stop being a work in progress for me.

3.  This goal basically let’s you know I did not meet a goal last month, so again this month I shall make a window treatment for at least one of the three windows in my house I have fabric to do said project! I’m going to do it!

A+: I DID IT! Like I said I have three windows I was needing (and wanting) to make window treatments for and follow in my sister’s DIY steps from her blog.  I have one not very wide bathroom window that I had forgotten to get fabric for, one kind of regular width laundry room window that I had fabric for and then one large kitchen window that I have fabric for.  I went with the medium size project here and got my laundry room window accessorized with it’s very own cornice and thanks to Brent for helping this shorty hang it up!  I’m now re-thinking if a cornice for our kitchen window is really the way to go.

cornice

4. Yoga! Is it annoying that I keep just repeating goals?! I really want to make sure I’m getting in yoga during my marathon training because I know it’ll be soooo beneficial come December 8th when I’m taking on those 26.2 miles at Dallas Marathon!

B-: I went four times. Haha, hooray, for that number not being 0.

How did your October goals go??