Work Towards Goal #18

I didn't expect to make any progress towards goal #18 (wearing makeup for a month) since I've been really tired and busy.


But a friend on a forum introduced me to Laura Geller makeup and linked to a sale on a new set. It came with all the basics to get started, so I couldn't resist.

Ever since, I've been playing around with different makeup combinations. It's really versatile makeup, and I feel pretty when I'm wearing it.

So far it's been perhaps 9 days. 9/30!

Slight Progress on Goal #48

I ended up clearing off the dining table after I took my shower because it was just ridiculously cluttered. I also gave it a nice polish and cleaned off the runner that my mom gave me for it. It looks cute-ish now.

Please ignore the study in the background -- that room is a temporary storage area at the moment until we can finish moving things around in here.

The next step towards making our dining table appealing to use is getting placemats so we don't wreck the wood by eating on it. I absolutely love the runner, and we have pillows in the living room part (we have a small one-bedroom apartment, so the living room and dining room are one big room) to tie the parts of the room together. I want placemats that don't clash with the runner, and they also need to be somewhat small (it's a very small table, if that's not obvious from the picture) and washable.

For the time being, I present: progress!

October Goals

I'm a little late on these, but without further ado: the October goals!

Jay and I just got ourselves a new camera, so we're going to get some nice pictures of us (#8), hopefully. His mom really wants some pictures of us, since she never sees us, and I feel like I'd want to have them, too.

I really want to get my new desk (#47). The old one is too small and also I worry about breaking it if I have too many heavy things on it. It's a "secretary desk" (like the one to the right of this paragraph) and the part that folds down is the part that I have to put my laptop, books, and everything on. I don't think it's strong enough to hold the pressure, and I really like the desk so I don't want it to break. If I do get my new desk, I'm going to move the current one out next to the front door to use it as an organizer / storage desk.

While I'm rearranging, I might as well fix the dining table (#48). Right now, we literally never eat on it. We use it as a catch-all for everything when we first get into the apartment. But when I move the desk out, I'll have a new, better-organized place for mail and such, so we won't be tempted to use the table that way. I'm also going to move the chairs around so we can face out the window, and get some place mats so we don't damage the table.

I'm going to retry #76, not missing work. I could use the stability of income for making a budget (#55). I also don't want to be in trouble for missing shifts and all that.

September

So September didn't actually go well.

I imagine that the problem was mainly stress-related. I had way too much on my plate. I knew that going into it, but I had thought that I could handle it. I guess not particularly.

I am now very behind in most of the "every day" or "every week" goals. This is ok, given my rule definitions, but it will be hard to catch up on the ones like the daily WiiFit (#19). I guess on my days off I'll be doing literally hours of WiiFit!

I did manage to have lengthy, meaningful conversations with a few new people (#7), thanks to my night job as a security monitor. The two people that I counted were Alicia, a new RHS employee who I worked with a few nights in a row, and Meghan, another new employee. Good stuff. This also made me realize that this goal is a little awkward in that it makes me have some criteria for what is a worthwhile conversation, since I'm literally forced to have lengthy conversations with some people, but it doesn't mean I'm being social or getting to know them. So on that goal, I'm only counting personal conversations that were not forced by work.

A "daily" goal that I did manage to keep up on was my "walking" goal (#34). This is because I literally have to walk at least that much to get to even one of my jobs. Adding in classes, going shopping or out to eat somewhere, or even just having to catch the slightly-further-away bus means that I usually triple this at least.

#26, finding a primary care doctor, was accomplished on September 2. I found a lovely woman who is just a short bus trip away and takes my insurance! Couldn't be happier about that. Now if only I had time to go make an appointment and start getting everything else moving, that would be wonderful.

My other monthly goals for September, however, didn't go as well. My kitchen is still as messy as before, and I didn't attempt #44 or 45 (re-organizing kitchen cabinets and cleaning the fridge, respectively). I also blew off work a few times, messing up goal #76. It wasn't even the way I expected myself to mess up the goal -- I skipped my day job, which I considered highly unlikely. I also never got to the bank to merge our accounts (#56).

I completed a goal that wasn't even on my monthly goal thing -- I got a new vacuum! I got a refurbished Dyson which will be arriving at the end of October. I'm very excited to finally have a vacuum that I don't have to go over and over and over the same spot with to get the rug clean. I bought it through Amazon on September 25.

So all in all, as stated, it wasn't a very good month. I'll be doing my October goals tonight.