January recap:
No junk: FAIL. Now as long as you don't count dark chocolate and ONLY one serving a day IF I had it, then I only messed up about 4 times this month. Not bad. I have learned that I am someone who if I eat 100%, I will do 100% for about a week and fall off for about 3 weeks of eating horrible! By horrible, I'm talking a bag of skittles after lunch and a bowl of ice cream before bed with the occasional handful of twizzlers and starting the day off with good ol' pop tarts. Yep, that's me for a solid 3 weeks once I fall off the waggon. This is why I do need to have a small amount of dark chocolate a day or at least something sweet.
No excess spending: Fail. Not bad but I have found that I really have 3 shirts I like in my closet. Sunday, Dennis was laughing at me as I was changing clothes 6 times for church. I swear I have nothing in my wardrobe that I like or that fits. So, Zulily got some of my $$ this month but not much. I just need to stop with the workout gear and buy nice clothes. I don't think compression pants are acceptable for Church. Oh and I had a thirty-one party.
15 minutes of cleaning a day: FAIL! Big time here. Some of you may not know this but I really do have three jobs right now. Working full time at the sheriff's office, doing personal training that equals about 8-10 hours a week and then I have started this very part time job at a motel. This will be anywhere from 0-30 hours a month. It's whenever I have a free Monday or Tuesday to work the desk. Right now, I'm helping paint it and get it looking more up to date as it looked like it was out of a 1960s drug movie. It wasn't much but 12 hours last month on top of working about 50 hours a week total at the other two things does add up. Excesses, excesses, I know but common, by the time I've done this, played with the kids and tried to make something healthy for supper, I'm ready for bed myself! Not counting the mandatory dishes and laundry cleaning (cleaning only, it's clean, piled up, in the bedroom on the floor) I hardly had time to add any extra. Now if you want to even it out, I had several days I was in the new house cleaning and picking up for several hours. But no, I'm not counting that!
Hug and kiss every day from my man... pretty close to making that goal but I'm sure there were a few days here and there that we missed. We go through several months a year of seeing each other for only minutes in the day that we are sadly used to going days without this small little note of affection.
February goals:
Drink at 4 shaker cups full of water a day: My big shaker cup (best invention of the entire world! I'm slightly addicted but seriously these things are the greatest, even if you just like cold tea (I put cinnimon in plain water so I drink more water)), is 20oz, so x4 is 80oz of water a day. Sounds like a lot but for someone of my size I should probably make sure I'm drinking more than that. I do drink 1-2 cups of coffee a day and usually a soda a day. Never more than one unless I'm having a drink at night but that's so rare any more that it's not even worth mentioning.
Go though closet: So this isn't an every day goal but I'm tired of going through my closet and finding NOTHING. I know everyone is like this but really, I have gained a lot of weight (not fat, I'm not body bashing!) since most of those clothes were purchased. Because of this, they just don't fit right, the arms are tight, the shoulders don't fit, or the jeans just don't fit, and almost 85% of them were hand-me-downs that I took out of desperation after having Lillian. I don't like them because they don't fit perfectly so it's time to pitch them.
Find all pieces to all toys: And put them in the new 31 cubes!!! We have Chuggington train set, Lego's, and more Lego's, Lillian has a tea set, there are puzzles, and connecting monkeys that we can only find a few pieces at a time. Will's itty bitty room is a collection for strays so that will be the best place to start looking!
Work on my quality time with the kids: Sometimes this may mean that we have PB&J for supper. I don't get much time with them because of how much I'm working right now. It won't be forever but for the time being, I miss my kids. So the short time I have with them each day needs to be play time, not necessarily making sure that they have clean, healthy meals... I ask myself, will they remember play time or the fact that I made sure they never had any processed foods?? I think we all know that answer!
I'm going to try to keep up with January's goals but focus on February. With a move coming up and starting to paint in the next few weeks on the new house, it will be hard to stay focused on things like 15 minutes of cleaning every day...
