Goals

Relationships:

• Spend more time with the people who matter
• Continue counseling

Health & Wellness:

• Try circuit training, and to keep myself honest...chronicle my efforts here on the blog
• Cut down on simple carbs (including alcohol)
• Try to stick to a REAL FOOD diet
• Get my meds figured out

Financial:

• Dave Ramsey's "baby step" #1 (save $1000)
• Debt snowball (focus on credit debt) - get AMAZON paid off (I hate that place...they own us...along with Costco and the insurance companies and our house)
• Buy used (everything except food and household products...my jeans - sorry, not giving up my Silver's...underwear/socks...and shoes)
• Try individual allowances
• Buy Financial Peace University? (we have GOT to start learning about investment and retirement...seriously)

Career & Work:

• Ummm...yeah...it's summer vacation, folks...I got nothin' here...maybe naps? At the end of July I have a week-long workshop and in August, I'll start reading.

Writing:

• Backup all old blog writing
• Keep up with weekly writing schedule

Reading:

• Life is a Verb Patti Digh
• Hands-free Mama Rachel Macy Stafford
• The Church of Dead Girls Steven Dobyns (FINISHED)
• Unwholly Neal Shusterman
• Slow Family Living Bernadette Noll
• The True-Blue Scouts of Sugarman Swamp Kathi Appelt (with my son)
• Becoming a "Wiz" at Brain-based Teaching (Marilee Sprenger)
• 52 Things Kids Need from a Mom
• 52 Things Husbands Need from Their Wives
• Dry Augusten Burroughs (FINISHED)
• Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs (FINISHED)

Projects:

• teacher and student planner (FINISHED)
• get pictures printed for pets album
• running album
• Japan trip scrapbook
• Las Vegas trip scrapbook
• finish kit (FINISHED)
• book project

Home & Garden:

• finish weeding and moving plants around
• clean carpets (FINISHED)
• clean rugs
• clean one room every other day (throw out as much as possible and clean all the nooks and crannies) (FINISHED)