WTH, 2017? How is a quarter of the year over? I do not understand.
Anyhow, here is my monthly check in to see how I’m doing with my yearly goals, aka: My Year of Sucking it Up.
1) Take family and personal health seriously.
What does that look like? I want to:
a) Cook at least 5 meals a week.
You guys. I am rocking this shit.
I have stopped tracking what days I cook and how often because I pretty much cook every day, twice a day. It’s now easier to track which days I eat out (which is at most, once a week).
I am SO PLEASED.
Plus, I know I mentioned it last month, but my kids are actually eating vegetables and food without much complaint. In fact, Cookie Monster has turned into a little food critic. He’ll beg to check out the food, smell it, taste it, and then say, “Oh, this tastes pretty good.” or “It’s not bad.”
It’s hilarious.
My kids clearly watch too many judged cooking shows.
Also also? Since January, we have only been to McDonald’s once and Burger King once.
We used to go to one of these places (mostly McDonald’s) at LEAST once a week. And now, down to maybe once a month. Yay!
b) Be active once a week.
So, I let the two Groupons I bought expire. I just couldn’t muster up the energy to go and I was worried that I would injure myself. I am one stupid move from re-injuring my shoulder and since Hapa Papa is working so much, I can’t afford to get hurt.
Thus, we said goodbye to our monies. It doesn’t matter if I can still use the funds at the businesses at a later date. It’s not gonna happen.
However, now that the sun is back out again, we have been meeting up with friends to go to the park almost every weekday. We’ve also gone back out to hike paved trails. And since I have to lug around my hefty Sasquatch in the Ergo the whole time, I figure that’s enough for physical activity.
I’m doing pretty well in this, considering.
c) Wash face and brush teeth twice daily.
Yeah. It’s best not to mention this anymore. But for the interest of consistency, I’m including it. But yeah. No good.
d) Take vitamins and supplements.
I’m still remembering to take these most days. I consider it a win.
e) Go to sleep when the kids sleep 4x a week.
Nope. I’ve sucked major donkey balls at this.
The problem isn’t so much that I’m not sleeping when the kids are sleeping. The problem is that I wake up after sleeping for three hours and then can’t fall back asleep.
This is the same problem I had in Taiwan last summer. It’s like self-induced jet lag.
I’m a consummate idiot.
f) No texting while driving.
I did better this month. Not as cold turkey as January – but not as horrible as February. So, um, maybe lukewarm turkey.
2) Take my responsibilities as a grown up seriously.
I owned it this month. But mostly because I realized I had to hand in my tax documents to my CPA by March 18 in order to file on time so it took me 4-5 hours to gather all of it. I also finally changed our life insurance beneficiaries. (Turns out only Cookie Monster was a contingent beneficiary. FAIL.)
Also, finally opened a 529 account for Sasquatch as well as another living trust account for me to hide money from myself. I even finally rolled over Hapa Papa’s SIMPLE IRA from his previous company to an IRA Rollover. Now, to transfer it to our Schwab accounts. (I hate you, Fidelity, for making this entire process so cumbersome.)
I also submitted my health insurance claims and FSA claims for Hapa Papa’s old insurance.
I even submitted claims for our NEW insurance. (Because the out of pocket expenses before receiving the new insurance cards were high and painful.)
People, it was painful but it was done.
BOW BEFORE MY ADULTING.
3) Write.
I have barely written this month. Any of the posts that posted this month were written last month. (Well, I suppose except this post.)
I’m tired. I keep saying this, but it bears repeating.
I’m really tired.
So, I’ve shoved writing to the back burner for now because LIFE.
Alright. That’s it for this month. How did you do for March? Are you even still tracking with your goals? If not, there’s no time like the present to start up again.