october goals.

so, confession time. i am addicted to reading other people's "monthly goals" posts. addicted! there is something about seeing people put their goals, large and small, in writing, and then hearing whether or not they achieve those goals that is so mesmerizing for me. maybe because i'm a compulsive list-writer in my private life, or because for the last year my personal goals have really been put to the wayside, living vicariously through others' goals has been amazing.but now i'm ready to put my list writing to good use and get back on the personal goal train. let's call these posts an experiment for now. it may be incredibly humiliating to get to the next month and realize i've done literally nothing to complete the goals for the last month, but i'm going to give it the good old college try until the end of the year before i decide if this will be on the permanent rotation. i'll be sharing my monthly goals the first saturday of the month, as well as the progress (or failure) of the prior month's goals. hopefully some of you have the same weird addiction as me and get a kick out of these! any encouragement is appreciated, please and thank you.

• finish the updates for the first year of amelia's baby book. i am THIS.CLOSE to being done with the entire first year of her baby book, i can just taste it! i'm missing a few photos that i never printed out because i am the worst person in the world when it comes to having physical evidence of special moments. i have a photo album that i was going to make to commemorate my semester abroad and it's sitting in our basement, piles of photos ready to go, but i've never gotten around to pasting them in there. so yes. this needs to happen.
• weigh myself. yea, this is a weird one. i weighed myself at the beginning of the month and had a heart attack when i saw the number. i may have weighed myself at the gym, at the end of a long day, after eating a chipotle dinner, so it may or may not have been accurate, but it was terrifying nonetheless. and normally i don't think about the number, i mean i don't even own a scale, but since i've started focusing on getting myself back into shape, it IS a helpful measurement. i've been too nervous to do it again so at some point in october i've got to get over the fear and do it.
• start christmas shopping. okay, i promise that i am not one of those people who wants christmas to start the day after halloween. in fact, i refuse to decorate or listen to christmas music until at least december. i am the worst procrastinator when it comes to buying gifts however, so i am hoping if i make this a goal, whether i just make a list of what i need to get in the next three months, or if i see little sales here and there and make early purchases, this will keep me from having to brave the malls two days before christmas or paying for rush shipping.
• have a staycation with Mister Man. this is me trying to make a silver lining out of a bummer situation. we were actually hoping to go to las vegas together in october, because neither of us have ever been, and since we're not getting any younger, we just don't know when we would get there in the future. but....we waited too long to look for tickets and now our only option would be to pay $1000 to get there. yea. right. so my goal now is to plan a staycation so we can relax and have fun together, just here instead of there.
• run a mile without stopping. i don't know. this seems like a goal i should have. don't hold your breath on this one. (go ahead, laugh at me. i know some of you eat one mile runs for breakfast, but i hate running with the fire of a thousand suns so this is me trying to think big. whatever.)

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