January Goals Recap

I meant to post this yesterday, but after my driving adventures (over 3 hours to school, 1.5 hour meeting, 1.5 hours home) I got a little distracted and spent the time cooking myself lunch instead. Which, by the way, came out pretty well on round 2 (round 1 = failure), but that's another discussion.

So let's see how I did on my January goals!

Even though last month I definitely did not meet all of my goals, I still liked having them, so I'm going to try again for January ---

• keeping in line with my  New Years Resolutions: 
• exercise at least 2.5 hours/week.
• I'd say I got a 50% here - I was really good about exercising half of the time, and the other half of the time I was not. The snow is not totally to blame, but it is hard to stay motivated to go do anything outside when it just.keeps.snowing.
• read at least 4 books, so that I'm well on my way to 52 in 2011. 
• 4, no. 3 - yes. 75%?
• drink water
• I didn't do very well with this after the first week, but I did notice the difference on days when I was conscious of my water drinking habits. 30%. 
• take vitamins
• not.one.time. oops. 0%.
• start the bedtime routine
• umm... yeah, no, that didn't happen either. 0%.
• blog 3x/week (at least) 
• Not 3x/week - but I did blog 9 times in January, so that's another 75%.

• update my CV/resume and track down recommendation letters for jobs
• updated it mentally... didn't write it down. asked people about letters, but didn't actually get any yet. 40%.
• make a dissertation submission timeline and run it by my whole committee
• DONE! :) 100%.
• have a wonderful MLK weekend celebration for Lindsay's shower/bachelorette celebration, and stay within my spending budget while doing so:)
• I'm going to give myself an 85% here. I did in fact have a fantastic time at the festivities, and I did not go over my personal budget for the event, BUT because we used my credit card for some of the charges and I'm still a little short, in the long run I may go over my budget. But that's OK, because it was really fun - especially the karaoke part!
• successfully plan most if not all of Anna's bachelorette festivities for February!
• why yes, in fact, I did do this! I'd say I'm 85% done, which is 100% done with this goal:)
• organize my recipes: when I saw Katie over last weekend, she gave me an awesome recipe binder instead of a cookbook for an engagement present, and since I absolutely love it I want to start using it. 
• ....still in the plastic wrap. 0%.
• finally finish decorating our apartment (mostly meaning pictures) - we've lived here for almost a year a half. it's time. 
• nope. Didn't even start. 0%.
• and, perhaps most exciting... I am on track to completely pay off my credit cards in January! since one of them has had a balance since I studied abroad in college (yes, I know that's bad. I paid for everything myself, and I don't exactly make bank as a graduate student. But I reformed and now am much better with money) this is a HUGE deal to me, and something I am looking forward to celebrating!
• DONE DONE DONE!! Did I celebrate? Nope, unless you count mentally. But I don't care. :) 100%!

So fellow goal setters - how did you all do? Probably better than me, considering I think my average is somewhere around a 50%. But it's OK! It's better than nothing.