2025 Goals | Q2 Review

It’s time to do a review of my 2025 Goals. Something I like to do during the halfway point of every year is to take stock of the goals that have seen no movement and decide if I want to revamp them. I decided to do so for a handful of these goals, and I’m feeling much more inspired to complete them now! This is your reminder that goals can be fluid and you can choose to let go of the ones that no longer suit you.

HOME

1) Itemize everything in my home. Burn through one candle every month. I am changing this goal because I am just not going to itemize everything in my home. I’m just not! I will take videos if a hurricane threatens and deal with the aftermath if the worst ever happens. Instead, I’m bringing back an oldie but a goodie: burning through one candle every month. I love collecting candles, but I am so bad at lighting them! This goal makes sure I get into that routine.

2) Buy a new area rug, coffee table, bookshelf, and throw pillows. On track! In Q1, I bought a new area rug and in Q2, I bought new throw pillows.

3) Move to a two-bedroom apartment. No progress made. My lease is up November 1st, so this will be a Q4 goal.

4) Stick to a weekly cleaning routine. Gah, not really. I complete the most pressing tasks every week (laundry, vacuuming the floors, wiping down the bathroom), but I’m not sticking to my weekly routine like I wanted to.

5) TBD Declutter one space of my home every week. This is asking a lot of me, but if I’m going to move at the end of the year, then I need to start the decluttering process now. I am pretty good at decluttering regularly, but now I need to declutter with an eye toward packing and moving my stuff. (And this can be as small as decluttering one cabinet or bin!)

ADULTING

1) Change my primary email address. In progress. I have changed over a few accounts to my new email address.

2) Spend 50% less in online takeout from 2024. My goal is to spend less than $100 a month in online takeout. I have been failing BIG TIME.

• January: $78.38 ✅
• February: $205.51 ❌
• March: $173.07 ❌
• April: $131.79 ❌
• May: $172.49 ❌
• June: $179.77 ❌

3) Pay off my LASIK bill. Complete! This was only possible because I got a bonus this year.

4) Save $3,000 in my emergency savings. In progress. Last month, I set up an autodraft to my emergency savings fund of $25 every Friday. While it’s very unlikely I will be able to save $3,000 by the end of the year, at least I’ll get to half of my goal.

5) Complete the “I’m Dead. Now What?” book. No progress made.

HEALTH

1) Improve my posture. No progress made. I need to get better about doing posture breaks and stretching exercises, but let’s be honest, this goal has fallen to the wayside as I deal with my slew of health issues.

2) Lose 20 lbs. I’m down 15 lbs from the beginning of the year!

3) Move my body every day. Nope. I work out regularly (at least 4 workouts a week at the gym), but I don’t move my body as much on my non-gym days.

4) Work on my daily routines. Blah, no. This remains a struggle.

5) Be able to do a sit-up without help. In progress! I am getting better, but I am just in awe of people who can just plant their feet on the floor and do a sit-up without needing all that much momentum. I definitely need to use my legs for momentum in order to do a sit-up. I’m working on it!

HOBBIES

1) Read one 500+ page book every quarter. (2/4)

• Q1: The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (★★★☆☆)
• Q2: Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (★★★★☆)

2) Go to at least 6 Silent Book Club meetings. Download and organize all of my photos on Facebook. I am finding it very hard to sync up my schedule with Silent Book Club, so I’m going to abandon this goal in favor of a new one. I want to download and organize all of my photos on Facebook (dating back to 2006, when I originally got my account!) so that I can officially delete my account for good.

3) Read 125 books. (61/125) I am 6 books behind, so we’ll see how things go with the second half of the year.

4) Remove all the spammy links that have been added to my blog. I believe this is complete, but I need to go through some recent posts and make sure.

5) Complete the Taylor Swift reading challenge. (18/25) Easy, peasy! I’m still fulfilling these prompts by the books I choose myself (so maybe I chose a very easy reading challenge for myself?), but we’ll see how easy it is to knock off those last 7 books!

FUN

1) Watch four movies – one from 1987, one from 1988, one from 1989, and one from 1990. (1/4)

• 1987: Dirty Dancing (loved it!)

2) Take a trip to London. My mom and I are spending the first week of October in London, so this will be completed in Q4.

3) Watch the entirety of these series: Suits, New Girl, and a TBD series. Try my hand at three different baking recipes: cookie dough cupcakes, a three-layer cake, and some kind of pumpkin treat. Okay, let’s just call it: I am not going to watch the entirety of these series because I am just BAD at watching TV that is not competition reality TV. So we’re revamping this goal and I’m challenging myself to bake three different desserts.

4) Repierce my nose. Complete! I got this done in February!

5) Do one new thing every month. Making progress!

• January: Tried mushrooms, decided I didn’t like them
• February: Visited a romance bookstore
• March: Went to a new-to-me grocery store, Aldi (successful trip, although there are definitely certain items I’ll still need to use Publix/Target for)
• April: Cheesy JC Penney photoshoot with book club
• May: My first drag show!
• June: Tried a whole lot of weird food combos for the podcast

What’s something new you’ve done recently?