FEBRUARY GOALS
1) Decide on the mattress I want to buy. Complete! I finally decided on the mattress that I want and sent it to my brother so he can order it for me. Wahoo!
2) Recategorize all 2012 blogs. Complete! And I finished this with a few days to spare. (I took a whole month off blogging in 2012, which helped, ha.)
3) Schedule a knife skills class with Amber. Complete! Our knife skills class is next Sunday. Yay!
4) Start my nighttime routine by 8pm, Sunday-Thursday. Oh god no. I am still struggling with this. 8pm feels so early!
5) Try a new dessert recipe for the Super Bowl. Complete! I made these peanut butter brownies, which were very, very good!
6) Find the hosting platform for our podcast. Complete-ish. Podcastpage is a great option to make a pretty easy podcast website, but in order to get our own URL, it’s $144 a year. I need to decide if it’s worth the cost. Do we need a website for our podcast? I’m just not sure yet.
7) Make a spreadsheet for apartment hunting. Complete! I added a handful of apartments to look at sometime over the summer, and want to add a few more. I’d love to stay in the general area I live currently, but I’m also not opposed to going further north if the prices are better.
8) Schedule a dermatology appointment to get a retinoid prescription. Not complete. I started dealing with this weird scalp issue (diagnosed as scalp psoriasis by my dermatologist on Wednesday, fun times). Now I’m on a steroid ointment to try to get rid of it, and I’ve decided to wait until this clears up to look into getting a retinoid prescription. (My skin is super-duper sensitive and I just don’t want to introduce something new to my routine while I’m having a skin flare-up.)
9) Stand up for one hour each workday. Not complete. I was so bad at doing this in February! I think I only stood up a few times the whole month.
10) Limit myself to two Ubereats orders per week. Complete! I’m really proud of myself, especially because two of the weeks, I only ordered Ubereats once. As long as I grocery shop correctly and have easy meals to make for myself when I’m feeling lazy, I don’t feel the urge to order takeout as often.
MARCH GOALS
1) Put my bedframe on Facebook Marketplace. I’m going to try to sell my current bedframe. I don’t expect to get more than $50 for it, but something is better than nothing! I need to take some pictures and get it up there.
2) Recategorize all 2013 blogs. Nobody is surprised by this goal. 🙂
3) Do the 30-day fitness challenge (found on Elisabeth’s blog, who found it on Kyria’s blog). My mom and I will be doing this fitness challenge together! It looks challenging but doable.
4) Do a few plantar fasciitis stretches every morning. The heel pain remains, so it’s time to start figuring out how to make sure my self-diagnosed PF doesn’t get worse. I’ve been wearing shoes more often when I’m in my apartment, both my sneakers and house slippers (which are specifically made for PF, ironically). I also want to start my day with a few stretches to see if that helps at all.
5) Do a Goodwill drop and get rid of the old cat tower. I have a whole trash bag filled with items to donate, as well as a few other items that don’t fit in the trash bag. I have also been holding on to the girls’ old cat tower but the scratching posts have completely fallen apart and it’s time to get it out of here. Plus, it’s just taking up space I don’t really have.
6) Work through the Anxiety Toolkit that my psychiatrist sent to me. Back in January, my psychiatrist sent me the link to this Anxiety Toolkit workbook and I keep forgetting to go through it. She seems to think it would help me a lot. I asked my mom to print off all 42 pages of the workbook (bless her) so I have it in hard copy form and want to spend time this month going through it.
7) Order new bedding. I already have my new sheets, pillowcases, and quilt picked out, and the money saved up to buy all of it! In March, I want to go ahead and buy my new bedding so it’s ready to go when my bedframe + mattress arrive.
8) Watch a 90s classic rom-com. I’m thinking either Sleepless in Seattle, Notting Hill, or While You Were Sleeping. Which one do you recommend?
9) Stand up for one hour each workday. Rollover goal.
10) Limit myself to two Ubereats orders and two takeout orders per week. Okay, so reality check: While I did an amazing job with limiting myself to 1-2 Ubereats orders every week in February, I also think I got fast food/takeout a lot more than usual. It was so easy to say, “It’s not cheatingggg” since the goal was to limit Ubereats orders, ugh. So I’d like to now challenge myself to this goal. (“Takeout” in this instance means food I pick up to take home. It’s cheaper than Ubereats since there aren’t delivery/processing fees to deal with, but it still adds up.)
Do you have any goals this month?
I love this post!
First, we did the mattress-hunt a few years ago and it is SO overwhelming now. I am so proud of you for wading through the options and making a decision. I hope it’s awesome.
I need some PB brownies. How I love PB…and that recipe looks 100% doable and delicious.
I am trying to keep up with a basic number of pushups (modified; I really can only do a couple of “normal” pushups and even then my form is terrible) each day. It was a great challenge…and also felt amazing to be done at the end of the month! I’ll be looking forward to updates 🙂 I should also put in some squats and crunches too!
I am oh so very slowly regretting this 30-day workout challenge goal, hahaha. But I am determined to power through. It’s very fun to get to a “rest” day. Tomorrow, I don’t have to do any lunges and I AM SO EXCITED. Hahaha.
My husband had a long day earlier this week and I considered ordering lunch for myself from a local restaurant instead of my boring old usual lunch and I decided that since I went out to lunch two weeks ago that another lunch out was wasteful. And then I read about your twice weekly Ubereats and realize I should probably have let myself order lunch!
That fitness challenge looks absolutely insane to me. 95 and 100 crunches at the end. Ha! Good luck with that! I’ll be curious to see how it goes. I’m also really curious about the knife skills class – please give us a full update!
Each day, I am slowly regretting this workout challenge, haha. I am doing it in small batches – 10 crunches/10 squats at a time. It’s nice to have a rest day thrown in. Today, I don’t have to do any lunges and I am so excited!!
I would love to take a knife skills class. Thought about doing one with my daughter a few years ago but didn’t, and then COVID hit. But I think they may still do them at Williams Sonoma, which is right downtown, so maybe I should try again.
I read an article the other day about other exercises that are more effective for your whole core than crunches, but it was NYTimes, so behind a paywall. I have trouble with my neck when I do crunches, I pull too hard I think. I should do this challenge perhaps and sub in some planks for crunches. Hmmm.
One of my all time favorite RomComs is Sleepless in Seattle. My vote is definitely for that one.. I like Notting Hill a lot too, though. I saw While You Were Sleeping, but I don’t remember whether I liked it or not.
Thanks for the reminder about taxes. You posting about getting yours done motivated me, and I did ours today. Yay! Glad to have that behind me.
Good luck working through the anxiety toolkit, that is wonderful. I hope it helps!
I’m not much for keeping track of goals like this. Perhaps I could start by listing things I’ve already done. Like taxes. 🙂
I’m not a big fan of crunches either! I don’t think I do them correctly since they sometimes make my lower back hurt. So far, it’s all good but we’ll see how my body holds up once I’m in the back half of the month, haha.
Getting your taxes done is a huge accomplishment! Well done!
Wow, look at all those completed goals! Well done you!!!
I am going to make a suggestion for PF, which is something my husband had like 23 years ago. He would drop a washcloth on the floor of the shower and then pick it up with his toes, and would repeat that 5-10 times. It helps strengthen the foot and he has never had PF again! Also, calf stretches. A good way to do this is to hang your heel off of a step and stretch it out. Just my two cents!
Planks are great for core, but also “dead bugs” where you lie on your back, press your lower back into the floor, and then bring legs and arms up to a 90 degree angle with your body. Then slowly lower one leg down and the opposite arm above your head, repeat. You don’t need to do many of these to feel strengthening!
Nice tip about the washcloth in the shower! Does it have to be wet? Maybe, to give it weight…
These are great tips for PF and core exercises! I’ve never heard of dead bugs, but I am intrigued to try them!
Maybe be careful with the washcloth-in-the-shower given your history… 😉
I might as well continue with this comment now that I am here. I love all of this – you made so much progress! I would love to take a knife skills class but also know that some issues with my dominant arm make it so that I cannot hold a knife normally (at least per my mother) so… not sure what benefit it would be. But, I can’t wait to hear about it!
I vote for Sleepless in Seattle. I adore that movie so much! But you can’t go wrong with any of those 3 movies. Older rom coms are so delightful!
How exciting to get a new bed! We are probably due for one, but it’s kind of hard to talk Phil into buying something like that. 😉 Our mattress is still comfy but I think we are due for a new one.
I need to schedule a derm appointment to have a mole check and talk about a retinoid rx. I’ve heard a reinoid rx is very effective. My age/level of exhaustion is definitely starting to show. Plus I have a sun/age spot on the side of my face that I think they could remove.
My goal for March is to work on the Jan-Feb pages of my 2023 book. I try to work our photo book throughout the year to make the process less overwhelming. I inevitably will get behind at some point but want to stay on top of it for the first 6 months!
Sleepless in Seattle! I am leaning towards that one, too.
I heard somewhere that you should replace your mattress every 10 years. I’ve had this one for closer to 15, oops, and I know I’m going to sleep so much better on a new mattress. I can’t wait to finally have one!
Damn! Good job with Ubereats! I am proud of you too!
I am v excited for you for your new mattress. It was HEAVENLY when we got ours!
I hope you share some of the knife skills with us!
That fitness challenge looks really great! How is it going?
Have you thought about wearing the PF boot or sock at night? It’s so awkward but helps.
Oh gosh, 90s romcom… I actually recommend When Harry Met Sally (1989) or You’ve Got Mail (1998?). I am sure you have see You’ve Got Mail though?
My monthly goal is food focused – to slow down on eating and less snacking when I am not actually hungry!
The fitness challenge is going well! I have done it every day so far in March, and that feels very good because I’m not the best at keeping up with daily challenges, lol. Every couple days, I get to skip one of the exercises (today, I don’t have to do any squats, which is exciting!), so that keeps me motivated.
My PF hasn’t been bad enough to warrant any extreme measures like that. It’s just slightly uncomfortable, so I’d like to try to figure out how to solve the pain before it gets too bad.
I’ve seen both When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail, but haven’t seen the other three movies I listed. I think I’m going to go with Sleepless in Seattle. 🙂