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October was really busy, but fun and awesome. Fall has arrived!
Here’s the link to my October Goals post:
Ready?
Here we go!
- Donate blood. — Did not accomplish.
- Celebrate several birthdays! — Accomplished!
- Celebrate Mary Lauren & Jeremy’s wedding! — Accomplished!
- Celebrate Nick & Savy’s wedding!! — Accomplished!
- Write at least 400 new words for my 2012 NaNoWriMo attempt. — Did not accomplish.
- Write at least two blog posts on home improvements. — Semi-Achieved.
- Make / purchase photo canvases. — Did not accomplish.
- Attend Hampton Comicon! — Did not accomplish.
- Finally start moving items from my parents’ house to ours. — Accomplished!
- Keep our kitchen table clean! — Did not accomplish.
- Update my TBR. — Accomplished!
- Be a successful co-hostess for the October PEO meeting. — Accomplished!
- Write some snail mail! — Did not accomplish.
- Celebrate Halloween! — Accomplished!
- Enjoy Little (Lane) when she visits for a week! — Accomplished!
- Order the Desert Mist Diffuser, and more Savvy Minerals makeup! — Semi-Achieved.
Here’s the breakdown!
Donate blood. — Did not accomplish.
- My iron level was just 0.1 away from qualifying. Needless to say, I’ve been taking my liquid iron supplement with breakfast every single day since!
Celebrate several birthdays! — Accomplished!
- We celebrated my mom’s birthday at the beginning of the month with a big party – Dad, Al, me, Debbie D., Karen, Michaela, Kathy, Perry, and Lucy!
- We pulled off the most epic surprise for Mia at Nick and Savy’s rehearsal dinner – She had no clue until we got halfway through singing “Happy Birthday.” It was awesome!
Celebrate Mary Lauren & Jeremy’s wedding! — Accomplished!
- Mary Lauren and Jeremy tied the knot on Saturday, October 7th. It was a beautiful ceremony!
Celebrate Nick & Savy’s wedding!! — Accomplished!
- Here’s the Adventure Time post I wrote about our fantastic weekend at the Vardaro Farm: Adventure Time: Scottsburg, VA Edition (Round 6 – The Bengdaro Wedding!)
Write at least 400 new words for my 2012 NaNoWriMo attempt. — Did not accomplish.
- There were too many other things going on this month!
Write at least two blog posts on home improvements. — Semi-Achieved.
- Here’s the Getting Personal post I wrote about our home improvements: Getting Personal #90: Home Improvement, Part 1.
Make / purchase photo canvases. — Did not accomplish.
- One of these days, hopefully before the end of the year, this will happen!
Attend Hampton Comicon! — Did not accomplish.
- We decided not to go – We’re waiting for Tidewater Comicon 2018!
Finally start moving items from my parents’ house to ours. — Accomplished!
- This finally happened on Saturday the 21st. My mom was so happy, she was dancing!
Keep our kitchen table clean! — Did not accomplish.
- This just didn’t happen.
Update my TBR. — Accomplished!
- Here’s the post I wrote about my updated TBR: Getting Personal #89: Fourth TBR Recap.
Be a successful co-hostess for the October PEO meeting. — Accomplished!
- I co-hosted the meeting at Susan’s house in Virginia Beach. The grapes I brought were the biggest hit!
Write some snail mail! — Did not accomplish.
- Again, too many things going on this month.
Celebrate Halloween! — Accomplished!
- We celebrated Halloween at Kathryn & Tim’s “Stranger things are coming” party on the 21st!
- We’re passing out candy to the neighborhood kids tonight!
Enjoy Little (Lane) when she visits for a week! — Accomplished!
- We thoroughly enjoyed the party at Tim’s house last Friday night. You can’t go wrong with good food, a roaring fire pit, and s’mores!
- Last night, I went to a wooden door hanger painting party at Mrs. Cindy’s house. We had a blast! I didn’t get home until after 10:00 p.m. Mine is three pumpkins with fall leaves. The best part – I can paint a snowman on the reverse side later!
Order the Desert Mist Diffuser, and more Savvy Minerals makeup! — Semi-Achieved.
- This is going in my November order. I can’t wait!
Final Thoughts:
- I was able to put Accomplished next to eight out of 16 goals! Woohoo! Since this month was really busy, I’ll take it!
- The two goals that were Semi-Achieved: I’m happy about these.
- The six goals that I did not accomplish: This was slightly disappointing. But, I knew that I was being extremely ambitious with 16 goals! More to do in November!
What about you? Did you have any goals for the month of October?
Come back tomorrow to see my November Goals!
Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂
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This is a neat idea. I’ve written down my goals both long and short term, but I love how you keep track of it… might give it a try.
Thank you so much! It’s really helped me, and I enjoy writing the posts.