Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Goals 10/22-10/28/12

Goals 10/22-10/28/12


  • Life

    • Clean/reorganize my craft room.
    • Make living room curtains.
    • Work on Pinterest stuff for Fun Buy The Pound
    • Figure out Social Media Pricing for my design business


  • Money

    • Keep grocery bill to $100
    • Figure out how to keep my self from impulse buying


  • Blog

    • Write 1 product review
    • Write one other piece
    • Announce my blog to Facebook

    Goals 10/15-10/21/12 - Review


  • Life

    • Clean/reorganize my craft room.
    • Make living room curtains.
    • Get my design site up and running
    • Work on Pinterest stuff for Fun Buy The Pound
    Haha, these were ambitious goals.  I'm really glad I got my design site up and going, I wish I could include some of my stuff from work, but I haven't received approval yet.  Maybe I should make monthly goals too for the other stuff.  Should you be in need of social media or design services, please visit akellydesign.com.


  • Money

    • To pack a lunch 
    • Keep grocery bill to $100
    • Try using my 5 dinners 1 hour meal planning menu (hey I spent $15 on it, so I need to make sure it works!)
    • Be better at filling out surveys and watching Jingit - if I'm going to waste time on the internet, I might as well earn some money!
    I did really great at bringing my lunch to work, I do need to work on either portion control or bringing more food, because I get very hungry around 10 and 2...and that leads to snacking...

    I failed at keep my grocery bill down, it was $200...I tried shopping at Walmart, since its suppose to be full of great deals.  I spent two hours wandering the aisles, sometimes having to guess what would be a good subsitute.  I did not think they few cents in savings was worth the energy spent by me and C in Walmart.  Next week I plan on Giant Eagle's Curbside Express.  It costs $5, but I have found in the past that I am less likely to pick up extras.

    We have eaten 3 of the 5 dinners so far.  I'm not so sure on the chicken & dumplings, but everything else has been good.  I really liked the Cheesey Bacon Honey Mustard Chicken.  It really was pretty simple to put everything together.  On Friday night I assembled things while cooking dinner.  I think we will definetly try this out again next week.

    Surveys and Jingit, some days I'm really good, sometimes I have no interest.  Sometimes C decides to help me fill out a survey and makes the survey program mad by pressing an incorrect button.



  • Blog

    • Write 1 product review
    • Write a review of C's parties
    • Write C's party supplies reviews
    • Write C's toy review
    Yay!  I got all of the party reviews done!  I did combine them into two posts, but I think I covered everything.  It was a lot to think about, so much food, toys, and fun.  I will get a non-birthday product review done this week!

    2 comments:

    1. If you have to figure out how to keep yourself from impulse buying, I need to figure out how to keep myself from impulse-sweets-eating... :\

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    2. Haha, I will let you know. So far the best thing for me over the last two weeks is to carry more cash - I have to have $12/week for parking and I want to avoid going to the atm as much as possible, but at the same time not use any cards since its very easy to overspend. Maybe you could find a system like that for sweets (but its so hard this time of year!). I had a co-worker who would only have half a packet of hot chocolate a day as her sweet while she was pregnant (I have no idea how she had this much self control). That being said, during the last 5-6 months of my pregnancy with C I pretty much craved Cream Soda, Butterfingers, and Thai Food everyday.

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