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August Monthly Goals

August Monthly Goals

Posted on July 30, 2009 in monthly goals

Okay, so here is my budget for August. It’s a little inflated due to a trip to Osoyoos this coming long weekend, my trip to Alaska, and my 1-day in Seattle. Also, I’ll be going home for one weekend.

Medical & Health Care – higher this month because I need to renew my BC (3-month supply), and 3 months of my MSP is due.
Food – I don’t know if I’ll need the entire $250 since at least 1/3 of the month I won’t be at the house, so no need for groceries. That might mean an increase in dining out though. We’ll see.
Entertainment – whatever we do in Osoyoos, baseball game in Seattle and other miscellaneous things. I want to see a ball game in Vancouver, have a date in Steveston, and go see a movie (but I have a 2-for-1 coupon so that shouldn’t be so bad as long as I’m not tempted by theatre food!)
Travel – cost to get to Seattle for the cruise, traveling home, etc.

Here are my goals for August:

Go rock climbing 3-4 times. It will be hard, what with us both out of town so often.
Go on a hike. Any kind of hike. This will be difficult, because as of right now we don’t have any weekends free.
Clean out my old laptop. My dad wants to use my laptop, so I’ll just do a wipe. I haven’t used it in years – I replaced it with my current iMac over 3 years ago.
Work out every morning while on the cruise. There’s no way I’m letting myself go on this cruise, no matter how much I want to. :) There’s a great gym on the ship, so I should make use of it.
Finish my cross-stitching project. I just realized that I have THREE friends who are preggo right now. I’d like to get baby cross stitch projects finished for the other 2 by the time they are ready to pop.
Get down to 130 lbs. I’m stuck at 135 lbs. right now.
$350 into Retirement Portfolio.
$300 into Savings Fund.
$1,000 into Travel Fund.
Make an extra $700. I have about $600 coming in from contract work, so I’ll have to work hard to make an extra $100+.