At this point, both DC and our son-in-law are running fevers and have been since sometime Friday. It didn't stop them (and DC's 2 little nieces) from having a great time at Playland on Friday. They rode pretty well every ride in the Kiddy area, although DC was put out by having to ride an orange carousel horse (oh, the pain).
She's decided that she no longer likes the Giant Slide because the bumps now scare her and she and her 3 year old niece rode the new kids roller coaster and were terrified. We even have the official Playland picture to prove it.
In the picture DC is holding on for dear life and looks very worried. Dear Granddaughter has what almost looks like a temper tantrum face and is clearly an unhappy camper. Hey, they were warned. They both insisted on going anyway. DC says maybe she'll try it again with Eldest Daughter. I think she should just leave it for a year or two.
However, I think the prize for Most Daring clearly goes to Son-in-Law for going to Playland by himself with 3 kids aged 5, 3 and 17 months!
But they came home and promptly spiked high temperatures. I'm still coughing and living in fear of getting the fever, especially when I have to work full time and have no real backup. Well, the first couple of days this week I have a volunteer, but then she's going away for several days. And my Executive Director is also going to be away. Unfortunately, shutting down the office for a couple of days isn't really an option, so I'm really hoping that I'm already as sick as I'm going to get.
It occurred to me the other day that I might be working a lot more hours for the rest of the month but my expenses are going to be higher too. I normally only bus 2 days per week. Now I have to take the bus every day. By my expert calculations that means I'll have 18 extra bus rides (at $1.90 per trip, using FareSavers). That's an inexcapable added expense of $34.20.
Then, there's food. I have to eat at work and we generally don't have leftovers I can take with me (maybe once a week). I already have to leave about a half hour earlier than usual because of taking the bus, so making lunch isn't awfully likely either. That means I'm going to be spending more money buying food at the cafe. I have to try to keep the costs down but I really don't want to be stuck with a slice of pizza every day ($2.99). I just have to be a little more frugal than I was on Friday. After not spending a penny on food on Thursday I had a special sandwich and a coffee on Friday and blew $9.00. I clearly can't do that every day.
Maybe I can aim for 1 day of leftovers, 1 day of making my lunch and 3 days of eating at the cafe (only once more than I usually do anyway). And if I make 1 of the cafe meals either pizza or soup and a corn muffin ($4.00) then I won't be spending a ton more than usual.
Okay, enough about food when I'm fasting! I need to get some sleep so that I can get up at 7 am and take care of the girls if Son-in-Law happens to be well enough to go to work in the morning.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Missing in Action?
Sorry about that. No post last night. Nothing this morning. And yesterday was It Won't Wait Wednesday. So, what happened? Well, this cold, work and taking care of little girls (who are also taking turns spiking temperatures) finally took its toll.
My co-worker left on vacation early (a vacation planned around the appearance of a new grandchild) and yesterday was, ahem, pretty interesting as I couldn't arrange to stay for the day on short notice. Luckily, we had a volunteer who was able to come in and handle the phones.
I have a cough that's moved into my chest, not a great thing when you consider that I have asthma (generally well controlled) and have a history of pneumonia, even though I had the pneumococcal shot several years ago. I don't think I'm as sick as Trent has been over at The Simple Dollar and I'm not at the point where I really need to go to the doctor. However, if I get worse I won't have time to go because I'm going to be stuck in the office (not a good thought).
I obviously need more sleep than usual though. I've been falling asleep early and sleeping until my alarm goes off, when I normally stay up late and wake up anywhere up to an hour before my alarm. This evening I was reading posts and fell asleep for at least an hour while Hubby and DC were at the park!
Probably the hardest thing is that Eldest Daughter is going away on business again from tomorrow until Sunday sometime. That means there will be no free time this weekend when I can try to rest and recuperate. Actually, I believe that she'll be away every weekend this month. On the other hand, she's staying home 3 days next week with the girls when I'm in the office. And then I think the trade shows are over for the next several months.
So, what about yesterday? Did I take care of any outstanding business? Well, the only thing I tried to do was update my passbook. I have a tendency to avoid doing that when I know I'm not doing too well, but that's come back to bite me in the past. So, I was a good girl and tried to update it after work yesterday but I ended up having to take the info on a printout. It seems that at night the passbook feature can't be accessed, but it will give you the same information on a strip of paper. Weird. It was just as well I did, because I ended up putting the couple of items I needed at the grocery store on my credit card so I wouldn't end up risking NSF charges.
Today, on my way home, I finally managed to get the passbook itself updated. I paid Fido their $79.99 this evening. And I transferred $300 from my ING emergency fund into my bank account. I don't like doing it. I didn't want to do it. But it was the right thing to do. It's counterproductive to have money sitting there while my bills are going unpaid or I'm sitting in overdraft. Things will be more normal after my next paycheque (which will have one week of the extra hours I'm working on it). They'll be much better after the following cheque in the first week of September, which will have 2 full time weeks on it. And I'll also be getting my retroactive CCTB payment of just over $700.
I'm proud of myself today for having brought leftovers for lunch instead of buying food at the cafe downstairs. I won't be able to do that tomorrow though because there was nothing left after dinner tonight. And we'll have to eat well tomorrow night and Shabbos lunch because the fast of Tisha B'Av starts when Shabbos ends.
My co-worker left on vacation early (a vacation planned around the appearance of a new grandchild) and yesterday was, ahem, pretty interesting as I couldn't arrange to stay for the day on short notice. Luckily, we had a volunteer who was able to come in and handle the phones.
I have a cough that's moved into my chest, not a great thing when you consider that I have asthma (generally well controlled) and have a history of pneumonia, even though I had the pneumococcal shot several years ago. I don't think I'm as sick as Trent has been over at The Simple Dollar and I'm not at the point where I really need to go to the doctor. However, if I get worse I won't have time to go because I'm going to be stuck in the office (not a good thought).
I obviously need more sleep than usual though. I've been falling asleep early and sleeping until my alarm goes off, when I normally stay up late and wake up anywhere up to an hour before my alarm. This evening I was reading posts and fell asleep for at least an hour while Hubby and DC were at the park!
Probably the hardest thing is that Eldest Daughter is going away on business again from tomorrow until Sunday sometime. That means there will be no free time this weekend when I can try to rest and recuperate. Actually, I believe that she'll be away every weekend this month. On the other hand, she's staying home 3 days next week with the girls when I'm in the office. And then I think the trade shows are over for the next several months.
So, what about yesterday? Did I take care of any outstanding business? Well, the only thing I tried to do was update my passbook. I have a tendency to avoid doing that when I know I'm not doing too well, but that's come back to bite me in the past. So, I was a good girl and tried to update it after work yesterday but I ended up having to take the info on a printout. It seems that at night the passbook feature can't be accessed, but it will give you the same information on a strip of paper. Weird. It was just as well I did, because I ended up putting the couple of items I needed at the grocery store on my credit card so I wouldn't end up risking NSF charges.
Today, on my way home, I finally managed to get the passbook itself updated. I paid Fido their $79.99 this evening. And I transferred $300 from my ING emergency fund into my bank account. I don't like doing it. I didn't want to do it. But it was the right thing to do. It's counterproductive to have money sitting there while my bills are going unpaid or I'm sitting in overdraft. Things will be more normal after my next paycheque (which will have one week of the extra hours I'm working on it). They'll be much better after the following cheque in the first week of September, which will have 2 full time weeks on it. And I'll also be getting my retroactive CCTB payment of just over $700.
I'm proud of myself today for having brought leftovers for lunch instead of buying food at the cafe downstairs. I won't be able to do that tomorrow though because there was nothing left after dinner tonight. And we'll have to eat well tomorrow night and Shabbos lunch because the fast of Tisha B'Av starts when Shabbos ends.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Good Riddance Fido
Have I mentioned how happy I am to have changed from Fido to Bell? I love my BlackBerry. The phone actually works. I don't get cut off every 30 seconds. I have call display, so if I miss a call I can actually call the person back. The email and web access is awesome. I can read my email while I bus to work or while I'm in the elevator (yes, it works in the elevator). I can read all my blogs while I'm at our rural house, without having to pay for high speed access (which would cost just over $35 per month from the only high speed provider in that particular area). I can even log into my Blogger account, type out what I want to say and post it from my phone. (True, it means I have to type with the funky little keyboard but I can do it even if it takes me just slightly less than forever.)
In fact, what I've been doing when I'm at the house is to read my email and blogs on the BlackBerry and figure out what posts I want to comment on. I type up my blog posts in Word on my laptop and save them. Then, when I go to town I can just log on and do what I want to do in a minimum of time. I make the comments I meant to make and post the things I've already written and don't have to spend forever sitting at Safeway. But the key thing is that I'm not tied to being able to get to town. I could be snowed in at the house and still post. The typing would just take me longer.
So I got my final Fido bill. It must have arrived on Friday because there was no mail delivery on Monday but I just saw it today. I had spent about 6 weeks paying off Fido previously but somehow I still owed them around $75 for the previous month, plus about $25 for the portion of the month where I cancelled my service. Okay, I'm getting paid tomorrow. I'll pay the overdue portion and deal with the current month later.
Then Fido started phoning me. First, my BlackBerry rang and, when I picked it up, a recorded message told me to stay on the line for an important call from Fido. Hi, you called me and I'm the one on hold? Still, I held the line because I wanted to finish with them. Two or 3 minutes later the call vanished. My service was still fine so I figure it dropped off on their end. Yeah, that's a good ad for you. You can't even maintain a simple call to someone who can talk in an elevator with her new service.
An hour or so later the phone rang again. This time there was a live person on the phone. True, he had an accent that was so strong I had to ask him to repeat about every second sentence, but it was a human being. I must be coming up in the world. Of course, he wanted to know when I was going to pay them. No, that's not correct. He wanted me to charge the entire amount owing on my credit card right that very second.
I told him that I don't pay by credit card, but by telephone banking and I'd pay the roughly $75 later this week after I get paid. And when would they get the rest? By the end of the month, I said. No, I needed to give a date. I pointed out that I didn't have a calendar in my hand. The bill is due by the 17th. Would I be able to pay by the 24th, a week after the due date. Fine.
He asked me if I was absolutely sure I'd be able to pay it by then. I held my temper and said yes. Then he ordered me to go write it down, both the date and the amount I was going to pay. That was the last straw. I said, "You know, there's a reason why I've cancelled my service with Fido. Thanks for calling. Goodbye now." And I hung up on him. I don't even hang up on telemarketers.
I'm sure they wanted the money as fast as possible because, once you cancel your service, they have nothing to hang over your head if you don't pay. They can't threaten to cut off your phone when you've already gone over to someone else. But the bad attitude was outrageous. That type of insulting manner from their so-called customer service is a big part of why I switched.
Good riddance, Fido. I love my BlackBerry!
In fact, what I've been doing when I'm at the house is to read my email and blogs on the BlackBerry and figure out what posts I want to comment on. I type up my blog posts in Word on my laptop and save them. Then, when I go to town I can just log on and do what I want to do in a minimum of time. I make the comments I meant to make and post the things I've already written and don't have to spend forever sitting at Safeway. But the key thing is that I'm not tied to being able to get to town. I could be snowed in at the house and still post. The typing would just take me longer.
So I got my final Fido bill. It must have arrived on Friday because there was no mail delivery on Monday but I just saw it today. I had spent about 6 weeks paying off Fido previously but somehow I still owed them around $75 for the previous month, plus about $25 for the portion of the month where I cancelled my service. Okay, I'm getting paid tomorrow. I'll pay the overdue portion and deal with the current month later.
Then Fido started phoning me. First, my BlackBerry rang and, when I picked it up, a recorded message told me to stay on the line for an important call from Fido. Hi, you called me and I'm the one on hold? Still, I held the line because I wanted to finish with them. Two or 3 minutes later the call vanished. My service was still fine so I figure it dropped off on their end. Yeah, that's a good ad for you. You can't even maintain a simple call to someone who can talk in an elevator with her new service.
An hour or so later the phone rang again. This time there was a live person on the phone. True, he had an accent that was so strong I had to ask him to repeat about every second sentence, but it was a human being. I must be coming up in the world. Of course, he wanted to know when I was going to pay them. No, that's not correct. He wanted me to charge the entire amount owing on my credit card right that very second.
I told him that I don't pay by credit card, but by telephone banking and I'd pay the roughly $75 later this week after I get paid. And when would they get the rest? By the end of the month, I said. No, I needed to give a date. I pointed out that I didn't have a calendar in my hand. The bill is due by the 17th. Would I be able to pay by the 24th, a week after the due date. Fine.
He asked me if I was absolutely sure I'd be able to pay it by then. I held my temper and said yes. Then he ordered me to go write it down, both the date and the amount I was going to pay. That was the last straw. I said, "You know, there's a reason why I've cancelled my service with Fido. Thanks for calling. Goodbye now." And I hung up on him. I don't even hang up on telemarketers.
I'm sure they wanted the money as fast as possible because, once you cancel your service, they have nothing to hang over your head if you don't pay. They can't threaten to cut off your phone when you've already gone over to someone else. But the bad attitude was outrageous. That type of insulting manner from their so-called customer service is a big part of why I switched.
Good riddance, Fido. I love my BlackBerry!
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
And So To Bed
We left very late, so we didn't arrive back in the city until almost 12:30 am. I've unpacked the car and the cooler and am ready for bed. I almost went straight there without turning on the computer but it didn't feel right to go to bed without at least a short post.
My cold or whatever is worse. I was having serial sneezes on the drive home and I'm sniffling like a maniac. But my throat doesn't seem to hurt any more and I don't feel too bad otherwise.
I had another go at the floor this morning and figured out what was going wrong. I had the boards oriented the wrong way around. I turned them around and they click together much better (though still not perfectly without careful pushing at both ends at once) but it creates more difficulties because now, instead of starting on the right side of the room and adding pieces to the left, I have to do the reverse.
And why is that a problem, you might ask? Because there's an electric baseboard heater on the right hand wall that will prevent me from positioning 3 or 4 of the boards without removing the doggone heater. I also couldn't finish because I need my floorboard puller (which was here in the city) to get the last pieces in each row into place. But it is working now, and the boards I got in place look good. I'm frustrated that I didn't finish so we could put our beds and night table back in place, but I feel pretty sure I can do it next time.
Anyway, that's enough for tonight. I just drove for 4 hours and I have to work in the morning, then come home and have the girls for the day. I need some sleep!
My cold or whatever is worse. I was having serial sneezes on the drive home and I'm sniffling like a maniac. But my throat doesn't seem to hurt any more and I don't feel too bad otherwise.
I had another go at the floor this morning and figured out what was going wrong. I had the boards oriented the wrong way around. I turned them around and they click together much better (though still not perfectly without careful pushing at both ends at once) but it creates more difficulties because now, instead of starting on the right side of the room and adding pieces to the left, I have to do the reverse.
And why is that a problem, you might ask? Because there's an electric baseboard heater on the right hand wall that will prevent me from positioning 3 or 4 of the boards without removing the doggone heater. I also couldn't finish because I need my floorboard puller (which was here in the city) to get the last pieces in each row into place. But it is working now, and the boards I got in place look good. I'm frustrated that I didn't finish so we could put our beds and night table back in place, but I feel pretty sure I can do it next time.
Anyway, that's enough for tonight. I just drove for 4 hours and I have to work in the morning, then come home and have the girls for the day. I need some sleep!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Another Miscellaneous Sunday
I spent quite a while in the garden this morning, pulling out a climbing weed that looks like Morning Glory, except that it has different flowers. It had appeared over the last month or so, climbing all over the chain link fence separating our yard from the neighbour’s.
Hubby dug out a huge stump that was right up against the house. Last year it was a tree that leaned up against the kitchen window and was taller than the roof. He cut it down but it all grew up again (about 3 feet in just the past month), so this time he decided the root had to go.
Originally, my plan for today was to lay the floor in the master bedroom and I actually got the first row together, but I can’t get the 2nd row to click into the previous one! I’ve laid both laminate and engineered hardwood floors before and never had a problem, but they were glued floors. Click flooring is supposed to be easy as pie, much easier than gluing. All I can say is “Ha! Easy, my foot!”
I’ve actually tried with more expensive Torlys click flooring at the Home Show and it was great. This, however, is not expensive flooring. It’s Tundra flooring from IKEA and costs $1.29 sq foot. I don’t know if it won’t go together because it’s cheap or what, but it’s driving me crazy.
I decided I had to leave it for a while and try it again when we get back from town. If I still can’t make it work I don’t know if I’m going to take back the 3 unopened boxes and get a credit or what. I still have to have flooring and I don’t really want to pay $7.99 per sq foot for the Torlys. Who knows? Maybe I’ll come back from town and it will miraculously work! Hey, I can hope.
Anyway, we have a few errands to do in town. We’re already totally out of water (I caught Dog trying to drink out of the toilet, yuck!) and we want some more of a new soft drink we bought the other day. It’s Canada Dry Ginger Ale, but with Green Tea and it’s really good, very refreshing in the heat and soothing on my scratchy throat. Yes, I’m sick. I shouldn’t be surprised. All the little girls have had runny noses and scratchy little voices for days (including my son-in-law’s sister’s kids, also roughly 3 years and not quite one, who were visiting for a couple of days last week). With all that exposure, not to mention all those kisses, I should expect to be immune? But being sick in the heat of summer is doubly unpleasant I think.
We’re heading back to the city sometime tomorrow, but I’m not sure yet whether we’re aiming to leave before lunch or in the late afternoon. Either way I probably won’t post again until tomorrow night.
Hubby dug out a huge stump that was right up against the house. Last year it was a tree that leaned up against the kitchen window and was taller than the roof. He cut it down but it all grew up again (about 3 feet in just the past month), so this time he decided the root had to go.
Originally, my plan for today was to lay the floor in the master bedroom and I actually got the first row together, but I can’t get the 2nd row to click into the previous one! I’ve laid both laminate and engineered hardwood floors before and never had a problem, but they were glued floors. Click flooring is supposed to be easy as pie, much easier than gluing. All I can say is “Ha! Easy, my foot!”
I’ve actually tried with more expensive Torlys click flooring at the Home Show and it was great. This, however, is not expensive flooring. It’s Tundra flooring from IKEA and costs $1.29 sq foot. I don’t know if it won’t go together because it’s cheap or what, but it’s driving me crazy.
I decided I had to leave it for a while and try it again when we get back from town. If I still can’t make it work I don’t know if I’m going to take back the 3 unopened boxes and get a credit or what. I still have to have flooring and I don’t really want to pay $7.99 per sq foot for the Torlys. Who knows? Maybe I’ll come back from town and it will miraculously work! Hey, I can hope.
Anyway, we have a few errands to do in town. We’re already totally out of water (I caught Dog trying to drink out of the toilet, yuck!) and we want some more of a new soft drink we bought the other day. It’s Canada Dry Ginger Ale, but with Green Tea and it’s really good, very refreshing in the heat and soothing on my scratchy throat. Yes, I’m sick. I shouldn’t be surprised. All the little girls have had runny noses and scratchy little voices for days (including my son-in-law’s sister’s kids, also roughly 3 years and not quite one, who were visiting for a couple of days last week). With all that exposure, not to mention all those kisses, I should expect to be immune? But being sick in the heat of summer is doubly unpleasant I think.
We’re heading back to the city sometime tomorrow, but I’m not sure yet whether we’re aiming to leave before lunch or in the late afternoon. Either way I probably won’t post again until tomorrow night.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Goals for August
Let’s see if I can do better with my goals for the month of August.
1. Remain at or under 129 pounds. Okay. I’m conceding to the inevitable here. I’m not going to make it to 120 lbs in time for my birthday but I’m not going to gain any more weight. And that’s final.
2. It Won’t Wait Wednesday Challenge. Every Wednesday I’m going to tackle one or two of those items that seem to sit permanently on my To Do list. Maybe it’s something I don’t particularly want to do. Maybe I think it will take forever or that I don’t have all the skills to complete the task. Maybe I need to look up a phone number or find something first before I can do it. It went well last Wednesday and the 2 calls I made took much less time than I expected. Want to join me? Either comment on my It Won’t Wait Wednesday post each week or post about it yourself and link to it.
3. Post a minimum of 26 times in August (daily, except for Shabbos). I don’t expect to have a problem with this unless working full time for three weeks means that I’m too busy or too tired to post. We’ll see.
4. Go through at least 8 more boxes. I keep plugging away but there are still lots of boxes. This might actually bit a bit tough when I’m working full time but I really want to be successful with this. Just to be clear, I’ll count boxes that I actually go through and empty as well as boxes that physically leave the house in the city (either being given away or moving ones that belong here to the country). If I move 4 boxes to our rural home I don’t have to empty them and put the contents all away in order to count them. That will come later, after another trip to IKEA for more bookshelves.
I’m not trying to give myself too many goals this month, I hope. I know I’ll be busy with the extra hours I’ll be working but I think I can manage this. I have some links (okay, 1 link) to insert in here, but can't as long as I can't access my blog. There's also a problem with additional carriage returns (blank lines) being inserted between paragraphs that it won't let me correct at the moment. I hope to fix this all on Sunday. Fixed.
Review of July Goals
Well, this post is supposed to be my review of last month's goals, but I want to copy and paste things in from my original goal post and I can't pull up my own blog at the moment! I'm not trying to do this from my BlackBerry either. Safeway was out of mushrooms last night so we had to come back here for them and we had 2 or 3 other errands to run in town. I'm not sure what's wrong. I log into Blogger and then try to view my blog. The most recent page appears but a box saying that Explorer couldn't complete opening it and has aborted the action appears and then it closes. Grr.
I don't have a ton of time to play with this because I have to get home, finish the laundry, cook dinner and be all ready for Shabbat in time. So I'll post this for now and will come back to edit this post, probably on Sunday. For now let's just say it was a less than stellar month in regards to achieving my goals.
So, let's try this again.
1. Spend no more than $400 for transportation costs this month. No. I think once again I’m close (but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades). Our total for gas, including all the gas I put in and all of Hubby’s gas from July 18th on is $326.89. Hubby thinks he probably spent another $72 before that but doesn’t have his previous bankbook with him so we can’t confirm it until Tuesday. If so, that would bring us to $398.89, so what’s the problem? This challenge was also supposed to include bus fares and I bought a book of FareSavers for $19.
2. Lose 5 pounds. No. It’s official. I didn’t lose 5 pounds this month. All month I’ve varied between 128, 129 and 130. The extra 3 hours of walking for 2 weeks, pushing the baby in the stroller, didn’t do it. Cutting out almost all the 2 bite brownies didn’t do it. I’m still stuck at 129. I realize that an extra 9 pounds isn’t going to make or break me, but I really wanted to get back to 120 pounds in time for my birthday.
3. Go to the gym at least once. No. Maybe I didn’t lose the weight because I didn’t get to the gym. The only times I ever remembered that I was supposed to go there were times when it was impossible to do so (like after they’d closed for the night). I’m going to have to think about this a bit. Either I need to go and see what it feels like to go without Eldest Daughter or I should look into how I can sell my membership (since I’ve already paid for 18 months in full and have now wasted 8 months!).
4. Post at least 27 times in July and post at least one book review. Yes, sort of. I did post 28 times but I somehow never got around to posting about the book I intended to review. I did review a personal finance book, but I clearly said that it wasn’t supposed to be my review of the month, due to the fact that it was a really old book. But it was a book. On personal finance. And I did review it. I’m going to cut myself a little slack and call this one successful. Hey, I need at least one success!
5. Learn how to upload pictures to my blog. No. Well, I found the box my phone came in, with the cord that connects to the computer and the instruction book. I started to look at it but had to put everything out of reach of the baby and haven’t touched it again.
Not the most successful month in the world (massive understatement). I’m not pleased by my performance. Next month had better be better!
I don't have a ton of time to play with this because I have to get home, finish the laundry, cook dinner and be all ready for Shabbat in time. So I'll post this for now and will come back to edit this post, probably on Sunday. For now let's just say it was a less than stellar month in regards to achieving my goals.
So, let's try this again.
1. Spend no more than $400 for transportation costs this month. No. I think once again I’m close (but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades). Our total for gas, including all the gas I put in and all of Hubby’s gas from July 18th on is $326.89. Hubby thinks he probably spent another $72 before that but doesn’t have his previous bankbook with him so we can’t confirm it until Tuesday. If so, that would bring us to $398.89, so what’s the problem? This challenge was also supposed to include bus fares and I bought a book of FareSavers for $19.
2. Lose 5 pounds. No. It’s official. I didn’t lose 5 pounds this month. All month I’ve varied between 128, 129 and 130. The extra 3 hours of walking for 2 weeks, pushing the baby in the stroller, didn’t do it. Cutting out almost all the 2 bite brownies didn’t do it. I’m still stuck at 129. I realize that an extra 9 pounds isn’t going to make or break me, but I really wanted to get back to 120 pounds in time for my birthday.
3. Go to the gym at least once. No. Maybe I didn’t lose the weight because I didn’t get to the gym. The only times I ever remembered that I was supposed to go there were times when it was impossible to do so (like after they’d closed for the night). I’m going to have to think about this a bit. Either I need to go and see what it feels like to go without Eldest Daughter or I should look into how I can sell my membership (since I’ve already paid for 18 months in full and have now wasted 8 months!).
4. Post at least 27 times in July and post at least one book review. Yes, sort of. I did post 28 times but I somehow never got around to posting about the book I intended to review. I did review a personal finance book, but I clearly said that it wasn’t supposed to be my review of the month, due to the fact that it was a really old book. But it was a book. On personal finance. And I did review it. I’m going to cut myself a little slack and call this one successful. Hey, I need at least one success!
5. Learn how to upload pictures to my blog. No. Well, I found the box my phone came in, with the cord that connects to the computer and the instruction book. I started to look at it but had to put everything out of reach of the baby and haven’t touched it again.
Not the most successful month in the world (massive understatement). I’m not pleased by my performance. Next month had better be better!
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