To Accomplish, May 2012 May 1, 2012

I’ll echo the sentiment I’ve been reading all over the web – can’t believe it’s already May! D.C. has has been having unseasonably warm weather since March, so I’m not sure why the passage of time is such a shock. Still, there are a lot of things that I thought I had more time to [...]

March 2012 Wrap-Up April 5, 2012

Did March feel incredibly long to anyone else?  Even though I was on vacation and traveling (which usually makes me feel as though time is flying by too quickly), last month seemed to drag.  It was also an incredibly spendy month – my shopping ban ended, so I bought some new workout clothes (I get [...]

To Accomplish, March 2012 March 8, 2012

I can tell March is going to be a great month!  I get 3 paychecks, we’re going on vacation, and I have a sorority reunion coming up as well.  Sadly, my best friend is also moving away this month, so I’m also going to try to pack my schedule with time with her. Mostly standard [...]

February Wrap-Up March 3, 2012

This felt like a very full, exciting month.  One of my friends is moving away, so I’ve been trying to spend more time with her, either by going out for girls’ nights, or just by going to the gym together a few times a week.  Chad and I also planned two vacations, and I’m finding [...]

Setting Stupid Goals February 24, 2012

So, I set a goal for this month to cook everything from scratch for one week.  This has turned out to be really stupid goal. It sounded OK when I wrote it down.  Yeah, just don’t eat chicken fingers or canned soups! Easy! Then I start planning and I realized that we use a lot [...]

To Accomplish, February 2012 February 10, 2012

1. Work out 4 days per week. We’re going to Miami for Spring Break next month, so I might even bump this up to 5. 2. Read 8 books and review. 3. Send in last 2011 FSA form. These forms are due by April, so there’s no rush, but I really should get tehm turned [...]

January In Review February 4, 2012

Considering I only posted some of these a week ago and that I really didn’t set any difficult goals, perhaps it’s unsurprising that this has been one of my most successful months in a while.  Or I’m just extra-motivated since it’s still early in the year. 1. Reset 401K contributions and W4 withdrawals for 2012. [...]

2012 Goals/Resolutions January 31, 2012

So, my goal was to post these by the end of January, and I’m just slipping under the wire with this one. I feel as though I post the same goals/resolutions every year.  Save money, work out more, shop less, read some books.  These are probably things I’d be trying to do anyway, although it [...]

So-Late-I-Shouldn’t-Bother To Accomplish, January 2012 January 22, 2012

Every time I post twice in a single week, (and during the first week of January, I posted 3 times, which is a monumental accomplishment. For me.) I start feeling cocky about my blogging abilities. “This isn’t so hard!  I’m going to start posting twice a week every week and soon I’ll have one of [...]

2011 In Review January 5, 2012

2011 was definitely the Year of Career for me.  While meeting my other goals just seemed like a slow slog to the finish line, I felt genuinely challenged by my work. I worked enough overtime hours to fill an extra month (I’m calling it Smarch), I killed it on my first big project, and I’ve [...]