I was reminded by Errign and her goal recap post yesterday that not only do I need to make some July goals, I didn’t make any June ones. I have been living a pointless (goal-less?) life since May, apparently.
Short-Term Goals (a.k.a. This Weekend)
Grocery shop. Four of us in one house, yet we currently have the worst case of bachelor fridge going on. I had hummus and dry cereal for breakfast. And now even those items are gone.
Clean ALL the things. And I mean all of them. Get the pile of shoes out of my car. Get the pile of shoes out of my room. Get the pile of shoes out of the front hall. Get rid of some shoes (perhaps). Wash my sheets (that never seems to happen as often as it should). Wash my laundry. Wash the kitchen floor. Organize my books. Organize my closet. Organize the open-this-door-and-the-tupperware-falls-out cabinet.
Spice up this blog. I didn’t know I was going to love my return to the blogging world as much as I have (this was only going to be somewhere for me to post book reviews for my own reference–I think the plan changed a bit), so the look of this blog hasn’t exactly been personalized.
Go shopping. Normally, this is a chore. This weekend? I get to spend someone else’s money. While folding a roommate’s laundry, I noticed that a good 100% of his shirts had holes, and a good 90% of them had giant armpit holes. These are his going-out-in-public shirts. I insisted we go shopping, he agreed it was probably time. This is why all single men need a female roommate. This, and because I’m going to make him get his back waxed.
Long-Term Goals (a.k.a. This Month)
Try one new food a week. Yep, already did this once. I enjoyed it (and it made me NOT eat the exact same thing every day–oatmeal breakfast, salad lunch, socca dinner/poptarts for every meal three days straight), so I’m going to be adventurous again.
Kick up the workouts. I had done a great job with this, but slipped a little. I want to go back to curling 20 pound weights, running 2.5 miles on a regular basis and adding a few BodyRock workouts to my weekly schedule.
Get to the farmer’s market. Why does this never happen?
Knock my to-cook list down a bit.
- I want to veganize Zucchini Gratin as inspired by Yummy Chunklet
- I need to try Curried Spaghetti Squash from Michelle
- I want to master my own attempts at Pina Colada Cookies
- I should make coconut and pineapple overnight oats since I’ll have the ingredients on hand
- I need some Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins in my life, thanks to Rachel
- I can’t say no to Karla’s Homemade Tomato Sauce and Gnocchi (although I have to make her Lemon Barley Stew first)
- I want to eat a Sweet Potato for Breakfast like Ragnhild
- I want to try Couscous with a Nutritional Yeast Sauce as suggested by Liz
- I will save some money by making Veggie Stock like JamieAnne
Have any goals for July? Or just some plans for the weekend?
ForgottenBeast 
What a great goal list! I’m still planning on making the zucchini gratin, so I’ll be excited to see your result as well. Oh, and I plan on cleaning this weekend, as I just purchased a Swiffer wet jet starter kit for $10 on sale!
Ohh, I want one of those, would make a lot of cleaning jobs much easier (and I wouldn’t have to get nearly as close to the bathroom floor…definite bonus)
Good Luck with your goal list! I’d need quite a bit of coffee! 🙂 My goals are to clean everything, paint bedroom, tear up kitchen floor and re-tile it, tear up bedroom floor and restore the wood….. Oh my. I need to go & get busy!
Hope you have AT LEAST a month to get all that done, or I won’t be the only one running on caffeine 🙂
This is a stellar list! I might have to add some of them (okay, ALL of them!) to my list!
I like your goal list!! I don’t have any yet for July .. cleaning is a good one though 😉
I think cleaning’s one of those unending goals, it’s never over!
Hehe I love that my “mac n cheese” made the list 😉
I think it’s a great idea to have short term goals and longer term goals!!! Good luck darling!
Sounded so good! And I like making short-term “goals,” because that makes it sound like I accomplish more than if I just finish a “to-do” list 🙂
I just wrote my July goal post & published it 🙂
I wannnnnt to go grocery shopping, but I SHOULD eat through all of the collected foodstuffs I have first. I have depleted the fresh AND frozen veg though, so that could be a problem. Brown rice pasta & sauce for dinner it is!
Love your July goal post! And pasta and sauce sounds pretty good, although yeah, it tends to collect while veggies disappear fast…
Good for you making monthly goals. I’m lucky to complete any yearly goals (read as scatter-brained). You read the way I wish I still had time to read.
Good luck with your list.
I don’t dare set yearly goals, I like the short-term ones or I just get distracted and forget what I’m supposed to be doing… “Read a book” works well as a monthly goal 🙂
I too need to clean the piles of shoes that have invaded almost every room of the house. And seriously need to wash sheets. I used to be really good at that but after the 3rd kid it doesn’t happen near as often as it should. I love your list of goals!! It reminds me that I need to write my goals down!! Have a great weekend!!
I barely get around to washing my own sheets–I can only imagine if I was responsible for others’ as well! It would never happen, haha
I didn’t realize you were in Nashville:) Cool. I haven’t been up to the Nashville Farmer’s Market in a long time – not since M’boro started the one on the square on Saturdays. I used to love to Nashville on the days when they have a special event at the Farmer’s Market like the Tomato Festival.
Had to go look up the Tomato Festival (fairly new to the city)–it’s now on my calendar for August!
Yay for new goals! I think you have a very do-able list. Except organizing the tupperware. That stuff just insists on being a huge mess! And girl, get yourself to the Farmers’ Market!!!
I’m working on the Farmers’ Market business–does visiting a large garden count? And I do realize the tupperware is a losing battle, but I’ll accept that challenge! 😀
Hmm, wow, yea…I could pretty much just copy and paste your goals and make them my goals. Must clean. Must run more. Must stop being so lazy about food.
They’re sort of the ever-present and never-ending goals, aren’t they?
I love your goals, Im sure you can achieve them all 🙂
And I especially like that you want to give sweet potatos a try for breakfast- U\I know you are going to love it! I even brought home (to my parents house for the weekend) a sweet potato, almond butter and maple sirup 🙂 I have a feeling what breakfast is tomoo\rroe 😉
Good luck with your goals 😀
Hope you enjoyed your breakfast 🙂 I bought some sweet potatoes, just have to bake them so they’ll be ready to go
Bodyrock has been bookmarked. I don’t know why I haven’t heard of this before. Genius.
You’re so ambitious with the goals. I bow down to your goal making skills.
I love that you’re getting your roommates back waxed! That’s a brave man. I go every six weeks, and don’t know how I managed before. Wax is such a beautiful thing. I really hope those roommates of yours know just how awesome you are. You’re doing them such a favor. Hahaha! 🙂
You are going to love bodyrock! Nothing like a 12 minute work out that still kicks ass 🙂
Haha, the roommate actually suggested it, but he didn’t want to go by himself/set up an appointment. Wax is indeed a beautiful thing, second only to permanent hair removal…I would love to have the extra cash hanging around for that.
Great goal list! Body rock looks really interesting. I’ve been hearing so much about it, I think I’ll check it out. Hope you like the pb and j muffins. Good luck!
awesome goals! I need to clean SO much too. It sounds like you have a lot of shoes…luv it! You will have to let us know how your new food finds are!
What a wonderful goal list! I definitely need to get my butt cleaning the house this weekend! And my major goal is to keep at my half-marathon training – I’ve been good so far, but it’s still early yet =)
Now THAT is an impressive goal 🙂
Your list of goals look excellent! My short term goal for this weekend is to make a july goals list, and go grocery shopping of course 🙂
I love Bodyrock Tv. And your goals seems impressive! You changed you blog design, didn´t you? 🙂 It looks perfect!
I did! Already scratching one item off the list, thanks for noticing 😀
These are some great goals! My list has grown pretty long since I’ve been so busy working on my thesis lately, and everything else has fallen by the wayside. I’m glad you already got some off the list, keep up the good work! Also, the recipes on your to try list look great, I’m going to have to steal some of them:)
I think a thesis is a pretty darn good goal 😀 And go for the recipe stealing! I want to see any result if you do!