Kristen, over at The Frugal Girl posts her monthly goals on her blog, which include staying on top of her Quicken and daily exercise. Although Kristen and I long ago decided that we were long lost twins, she and I actually differ greatly.
For example, these are my December goals: (Note that I make month long goals on the 16th of the month.)
- Let the kids sleep in every day during the Winter break.
- Start putting together an eBook to have available for purchase when the ba-zillions of new readers show up after my national reality TV debut at the end of the month/beginning of the year.
- Sell the Goodwill-purchased Pottery Barn rug, which currently sits all sad and rolled up on my front porch.
- Turn in my passport application, cause baby, I am going with my son’s class to Japan for two weeks in April!
- Make holiday cookies and eat less than half of them myself.
- Figure what to give my 16-year-old son for Christmas, as he’s notoriously difficult to buy for.
- Go see Tammy and Logan’s new tiny house. Resist the urge to give them a Great Dane puppy as a housewarming gift.
- And my most high reaching goal for December? Learn the lyrics to Baby, it’s Cold Outside . . . both sides! I love, love, love this song, and the Glee version is pure perfection! And I already have the “Maybe just a half a drink more” part memorized, so I figure I’m halfway there. 😉
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”
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Now that’s my kind of to-do list!
Tammy and Logan totally need a Great Dane puppy! That would be hi-larious.
Hey there! I’m a new reader– found my way over here from mnmlist, I believe. Just wanted to say that I love these goals– especially the sleeping in and the cookies. I’m not really on board with that last one because I have to confess that that song creeps me out. Still, you will surely get swank points for learning it.
My favorite versions of BICO are Lady Antebellum’s and the version on Elf with Zooey Deschanel. Can’t wait to watch the link you’ve posted here… thanks!!!!! 🙂 🙂
While the Glee version is good, the Barry Manilow/K.T. Oslin version of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is the absolute best!
Phew. I’m glad I’m not the only one without a passport. 😉
Can’t wait to promote your ebook. I’m sure it will be awesome!
I wish I could let my kids sleep in. Alas, the younger half of them happens to completely incapable of sleeping in, no matter how late they stay up.
That should read “happens to BE”. Whoops.
What happens is there is a split second between getting up too early and then won’t get up.
Grrr . . . .
Katy
I love the version of that song from one of our favorite movies “Elf”! Zoey had a fantastic voice!
So 49.9% will work then for the cookies. Yeah, I’d strive for that 😉
I see I’ve been making my lists all wrong. No wonder I’m humbuggy. That’s about to change now. I’ll start by swiping your cookie goal 🙂
Excellent list! I’m up late working on mine right now. Trying to pedantically organize all my junk in the short time frame is harder than I thought it would be! There WILL be a couple of all-nighters put into this….
You will LOVE Japan. I already want to go back. Pack me in your carry-on 🙂 !
Wait a minute – is this you in the last picture?!? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2075308/Happy-Holidays-Scrooge-TLCs-Extreme-Cheapskates-exposes-tightest-money-savers-America.html
Yup. And I am super dismayed to see that they spelled my name as “Katie,” not “Katy.” I am hoping it was an error of the journalist, not the actual show.
Katy
A fellow Gleek… YAY!
Thank you for the tiny house link. Pretties one I’ve ever seen! Oh, I wish. Except that it seems even a parking space to put it on around here goes for $50k!