November and December Goals

November Goal Review

1.  Finish moving stuff out of my parents' house.  Fail  I'm making strides in the right direction, but I'm not there yet.  I think I need to break down goals more next month.

2.  Stay in my $250 grocery budget. Fail.  And I've lowered my budget for next month so it may be an uber fail, but I'm going to keep trying.

3. Earn 2 Amazon gift cards through Swagbucks.  Fail.  Man this is starting to look pathetic...

4.  Stay in my $100 eating out budget.  Pass. Okay.  I went $2 measly dollars over.  Its close enough and considering I usually round up to the nearest dollar I was probably actually under.

5.  Get up to 91 books.  Fail.  Totally.  Not even up to 80 yet.  I don't know if I'll make it to 100 this year. 

6.  260 minutes of Pilates/Exercise.  Pass!!  Wooooooooooooo!!!!

7.  Keep up at least weekly posting on my craft blog. Pass  I did 4 posts, I think that counts :)  

December Goals

1.  Get the guitar and extras, Itunes gift card, and the doll up on Ebay.  I may list these myself or I may take them somewhere for them to list it.  I want them gone though!

2.  Take 4 boxes to goodwill.  I have a milk crate and a box of the same size that I've been using to transport stuff to goodwill and I want to fill each up twice and take it to goodwill from the stuff at my parents' house.

3.  Meet my 100 books goal!  I'm thinking I need to start listening to audiobooks at home in place of my TV watching and then I might be able to meet this.  I also may pick some shorter books :D

4.  310 minutes of Exercise.  I'll probably focus on Just Dance 2 here, but I'll likely get in some Just Dance 1 and hopefully some pilates. 

5.  Revamp my Budget.  There are two main things I need to change with my budget.  First off, I think I need to switch it to running from the middle of one month to the middle of the next.  This is because I put everything on my credit card and pay my card off each month so I think my budget month should match my credit card month.  Secondly, I get a sizable raise when I complete my degree mid-December so I need to sdjust my budget for the new income and to start paying off my loans (even though they don't come due until June)

I think 5 goals will do it for this month.  I'm less focused on specific portions of my budget partially because I expect to screw up with it being the holidays and partially because I need to revamp the budget.  We shall see how this all goes!