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February Goals

• Spend less than $220 on Pennsylvania trip nope. Went over by $17.01, but much closer than I expected.
• Pay $450 to student loans check! Paid $525.88. I got a little overzealous and instead of saving my tax return, paid most of it to loans. There are worse ways to use it, I suppose.
• Run 50 miles NOPE. Because of my knee injury I stuck to more low-impact or strength-only workout.
• Go to restorative yoga regularly well… I went once. It’s one more time than I had been going.
• Run Wine Lovers under 35 minutes (pass since it was rescheduled to March 1)
• Do my knee and hip PT exercises five times a week nope. I pretty much knew this one was doomed from the start.
• Bring lunch four times a week check. The fact that I did this but still went almost double over my restaurant budget tells me I have a real problem…
• Return gifts etc. that I’m not using check, finally. There’s one thing that didn’t go back but it was a shirt that was $5 so at this point, I might just keep it.
• Do laundry every week check. It was definitely a fight because my roommates are not the best at removing their stuff from the dryer (or transferring from washer to dryer in a timely fashion at all…) but I did it. And now I want to get rid of even more clothes.
• Stick to my budget NOPE NOPE NOPE. Really I was doing great until the end of the month when some pretty serious stuff happened with a friend which involved a lot of alcohol and Chinese food. (And some sad impulse shopping on my own part.) Next month will be better. I did track my spending very closely this month which gave me a lot of insight into what’s going on, so I feel really good about having a handle on my money.
• Improve work social media presence check. Before I even got around to doing anything proactive about this, I found out that we are in the top buildings for social media in the country. Sweet. I did end up putting together a social media plan, most of which was regarded as un-usable, but hey… I tried.

March goals

• Speed work once a week
• Run MJ8k
• Pay $500 to student loans
• Collect outstanding invoices
• Find one extra income stream
• Clean out my Dropbox & organize digital life
• Mail in my Direct Debit forms for any accounts not using them, contact AES to see about rate reduction
• Apply to ten jobs
• Bring lunch four times a week
• Only eat out with someone else
• Go on a shopping ban & pantry challenge
• Start saving for a car
• Bring clothes to Goodwill/consignment
• Watch House of Cards
• Build professional portfolio

I feel like I have a lot of goals for March, but they are for the most part small things that I just don’t get around to doing without listing things out. For about two months I’ve had bags set aside to bring to Goodwill and I just haven’t ever bothered to drag them down to my car, I meant to do a pantry challenge in February and felt so busy like I couldn’t meal plan or anything… so those are the kinds of goals I want to focus on in March.

Thank God the spring is coming, right?!