Weekly Goal

I'm proud to say I finally finished a few goals from the previous week! I was able to clean the master bedroom and we can now walk around freely! Also, I printed the pictures from Great Wolf for L and her friend!

As for this week, I think I'm going to scale it down a bit; I think with too much scheduled, I don't have time to do everything. So, here is my plan for this week:

• Organize linen closet
• Clean up dining room and living room (MUST do, have party on Sunday)
• Swifter ALL floors, use new Mr. Clean with Fabreze

I have a few ideas that I've got from reading LOTS of blogs about how to better organize my living room; my coffee table ends up with EVERYTHING on it, but nothing really belongs there. So I'm going to try out a few storage bins that I already have. They are wood lined with linen, with a top. I'm going to put them on the shelf under the table. I'm sure these will fill up fast, but then I can sort one bin at a time; instead of dumping all the clutter into drawers designed for other things. Next I need to figure out a storage plan for all my blankets.

Anything on top of this is great, but I don't want to be overwhelmed!

Another week gone by ...

Another week has gone by and I have yet to finish one goal I have set for myself. Now I realize how my house gets to be such a mess and I never have time to finish projects; I'm never home!

On Tuesday a good friend I use to spend a lot of time with invited us out; needless to say we were out a little later than we wanted to be (11pm). Wednesday I needed to take my car in for an oil change as it's acting a little weird; it was a 2 hour wait so we walked to the mall and had dinner; then my car died! Then out to dinner with L last night; tonight my guy is planning on ride the metro bus up to my work and we can go out in the city. Now that I think about it, our weekend is booked too; unfortunately not really for fun stuff but booked regardless. It is time for inventory at the retail store we work at; Saturday is a prep day, and Sunday/Monday are both full inventory hell days!! I'm not really sure when I'm going to be able to clean up my house! I really feel like taking a vacation day from work but then again, I'm going to Colorado in 2 weeks. It never ends!

The one thing I am proud of is one of my daily goals; I am FINALLY putting away my work clothes when I get home! Who would have thought it only takes about an extra 45 seconds verse an hour the next week.

Weekly Goal

It's already another week and as I review my goals from last week, I realize that I didn't do as well as I would like to have. I didn't fully complete any one of my goals but I did at least start and make some good head way; with this said, I will set some of the same goals for this week.

• Finish cleaning master bedroom; put away all the laundry from Monday's mass cleaning.
• Organize and put away linen closet stuff (special thanks to my guy for making me new shelves; hopefully they will hold everything now)
• Finish scrapbooking calendar
• Print pictures of Great Wolf weekend to give to L
• Work on dining room for month of January goal to get organize and decorate

I will continue to read my book and hopefully finish soon as I have a few others that I'm excited to start; when I'm done, I will add the title to the Paperback Swap site and give that a try.

Wish me luck!

Setting a routine

Earlier this week I had decided that I needed to set weekly goals in order to make my life a little more organized; last night I was going back over my goals and realized that I hadn’t really started on anything. As I sit here and try to figure out what I have been doing with my time I noticed how often I am goofing around and being lazy. This laziness is what has put me in my currently situation of needing organization and structure. After replaying my after-work routine in my head, WOW, I watch a lot of TV; granted I do enjoy my TV time but I DVR all the programs I watch so I can skip all the commercials; this also gives me the flexibility of watching when I want. But I have been sitting down to daily programs as soon as dinner is served (in front of the TV). I think if I can avoid turning on the TV when I walk in the door it will help me achieve my weekly goals; plus help on the electric bill! Here is the routine I am going to try to stick to everyday after work:

- Change out of work clothes and put them AWAY; this does not mean on the bed or dresser or bathroom floor!
- Sort and start laundry; should do one load every day (Sunday thru Thursday): good clothes light, good clothes dark/denim, lounge wear, and my guys work clothes. I wonder how my water/electric bill plus laundry soap usage will go up with this idea, as I currently do 2 loads a week (granted there are 3 loads on the floor waiting)
- Start on dinner and read mail; gives me time to sort/purge/shred
- Serve dinner and clean up, make lunch for my guy
- Work on craft stuff for about 30-45 minutes; including clean up and take pictures or play a game with my guy; Wii, Suduko, or internet surf together
- Time to relax and watch a few programs

I’m hoping by setting this daily routine, my weekly goals will seem easy to complete and I will end up with more time to relax and do fun things!

Weekly Goal

Last night I spent over 2 hours on the phone with a friend; she is going through a hard breakup and just needs to talk things out. But as I was listening to her, I kept noticing how she was unhappy with her daily routines and personal finances; and I decided I didn't want to be like that. I stayed up thinking about what I can do for ME to avoid this same dilemma. And here is what I have come up with; on Sundays I need to set up some goals of things I would like to accomplish during the week. These are just things that I know I need to take care of but sometimes put off. By deciding on Sunday what I want to do during the week, I will be able to plan out how much money I will need or allow myself to spend and can plan out when I can do something fun or relaxing. Also, this will help me get the stuff that needs to be done completed before the weekend so I don't spend my days off cleaning up the house or doing other chores.

Here is what I would like to accomplish this week:

• - clean up the master bed room, put away the luggage from our Denver trip (which was over a month ago!)
• - mail out clothes to my cousin; they are not doing me any good sitting in a bag on my floor.
• - finish up scrapbooking calendar for 2009; it's already the middle of January and I'm not done yet!
• - upload pictures from my birthday, Christmas and New Years for MySpace; print pictures I want for albums.
• - finish up my current book, The Appeal by John Grisham. It's pretty good, reminds my of the movie Erin Brockovich.
• - Add at least 5 books to Paperback Swap; separate what I want to add and what I should just donate.

I think this is a good start for the first week of figuring out what I want/need to do for the week. When I set my new goals for next week, I will say how I did on the things I wanted to complete for this week.