May 2011 Goals: Recap
Posted on May 31, 2011 in monthly goals
This has been a good month, overall. Although I am excited for June because it means a month at home (without any traveling). It also means I can concentrate on living my new (single) life and working on making my place feel like home.
As for my budget, I did fairly well – only going over on my cell phone – and that was due to the cost of closing on my home. I haven’t received a utility bill yet, so I will be interested in seeing how much that will be. I haven’t turned on the heat yet in my home, and have only used my gas fireplace 3 or 4 times (for less than 1 hour each time).
May 2011 Goals (link):
- Make an additional $2,000 above and beyond my FT job. FAIL! I only made $1,422.82. I suck. But to be fair, half of the month I was either in the middle of packing/moving, or on vacation.
- Stay on budget while on vacation in Toronto & NYC. FAIL! Well, technically I stayed under my $120/day budget if you don’t include clothing purchases. If you do include it, then I blew the budget. Not by a lot, but it’s still considered a fail. I will have the full spending recap of my vacation up sometime this week.
- Get a baseball card signed by Pat Hentgen. CHECK! Awww yeah! It was the highlight of my vacation to NYC. In fact, short of Roy Halladay asking me to marry him, or watching the Jays win the World Series in person, this could be the single greatest baseball-related thing to have ever happened to me. Sad? Perhaps. Awesome? Yes.
- Find a new Toastmasters club to join (the one I was going to is now too far away). FAIL! Since I was away for half of the month, I didn’t do anything except do a few searches online. But this is something I need to do.
- Hire and complete renovation work on my townhouse. CHECK! I want to post photos, but will probably wait until I actually have furniture.
- Be completely unpacked by the end of the month. FAIL! Since I have no furniture, I can’t really unpack. But everything that I can put away, has been done. I still need to hang photos and what little art I have on the walls. Perhaps I need to invest in some tools. At least something more than an allen key from IKEA. Like a hammer.
- Do research into figuring out how to rent out my extra parking stall. FAIL! All I did was quickly glance at the notice board in the underground parking. I think I might be one of the only units in the entire complex that has two parking stalls. Will have to contact strata or whoever to figure out the process.
- Introduce myself to my new neighbours. CHECK! I’ve met two new neighbours – the person that lives right beside me, and the woman who has a parking stall beside mine. They both seem nice. And two co-workers live very close to me. In fact, we’re going to a local lacrosse game later on this week, because apparently lacrosse is all the rage in this neighbourhood.
- Complete 5x runs around my new neighbourhood. CHECK! I ran outside 7x this month. My goal is to run every morning before work. I’ve mentioned before that my townhouse opens up onto a path through a park. The loop is 2.5km long, so it will be easy to pace out the distance that I’m running.
Ongoing 2011 Annual Goals:
- No buying lunch, snacks or coffee during the work week. CHECK! This was kind of a cheat month, since I was gone a lot of the time.
- No buying clothing, shoes or accessories until May 19, 2011. CHECK! I was successful with my 5-month shopping ban. And now that I’m back from my vacation, I will resume my shopping ban until the end of the year.
- Work out at least 3x/week. FAIL! Well, I was gone on vacation, so that kind of ruined it. I was in town for 20 days, and a lot of those days early in the month were spent packing and living in chaos before actually moving. So for the 13 days I was in my new place for the month of May, I worked out 9 times. Pretty decent.
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I'm a huge Yankees fan. The baseball highlight of my life was when we were at a NYY@TOR game and had seats about the bullpen. Jimmy Key (then a Yankee) was warming up, and I yelled "Hi Jimmy" and he tossed me up a ball. I was about 14 at the time, and 16 years later I still have that baseball! :)
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That's awesome! :) I loved Key when he was a Blue Jay. Very classy guy.
Considering where you live, I can understand how lacrosse is so popular. I've been to a game there when the playoffs were happening two years ago (I think). I'd be interested in going again.
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I'm excited to be a part of a community that is so supportive of a local community team. It's a really nice feeling, everyone coming together like that.
Don't get yourself down. Any extra income is great. Also remember that we are human and all slip up sometimes. What makes us great is how we can pick up where we left off.
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A hammer is a very useful purchase :) HAve a great month relaxing in your new house!
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Fingers crossed for you renting out that other parking spot, extra income …..
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A hammer, two screwdrivers (flat and phillips) and you should be set. MAYBE an electric drill, but honestly, rarely use mine. I had a family friend who gave all graudating high school seniors toolboxes as gifts. :) Maybe a wrench I guess, but I've never used mine. I think my husband has though.
I wish I could make myself run in the mornings. I just CAN NOT do it
You sound really happy! :)
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Thanks for the mini list of tools! :) I'll look into getting them, maybe at the dollar store like Y&T suggested.
One place that I have loved getting all my home maintenance (simple) stuff from is Dollarama (yup, the good ol' dollar store)! I think I saw a hammer there. I bought some nails (a box of them) from there for $1.50 to nail my photos/ calenders on the wall. I even bought a decent measuring tape for $2 (comparable to $12 at Home Depot or similar places).
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