I posted some goals back in January and then in April for the first two quarters of the year. So how did I do from April to June?
Get ready for baby. Still in progress, but we’re in good shape to make it! As long as she doesn’t come too early…hear that, baby? Sew another quilt. Done! I made one for Erin’s baby boy and I’m finishing up another blanket for Kelly. Read 5 books. I managed 3.5. Time for some catch up! Keep exercising. We’ll call this a partial success. The hot weather has not made this easy in recent weeks. Time to pick it up for the next month. Complete my M.A. project. I don’t even know what to say on this one anymore. It may be time to just accept that I will never do this. That makes me sad, but obviously I haven’t considered this a high enough priority to make it happen in the last 3 years.
Believe it or not, there is actually progress being made in here!
Time for goals for now through September! This will be a fairly short list:
Get ready for baby! Finish the to-do list. The biggest items still remaining are finding a pediatrician and choosing a daycare. We also need to finish the nursery, although we’re waiting on the dresser to be delivered to store all the great things we’ve been given for baby girl.
Read 6.5 books. That would get me back on track to finish 20 this year. I have no clue whether this is realistic in the next 3 months. On one hand, it seems possible that reading will be a good activity to do while feeding the baby? I’ve heard of several people who play on their phones or watch TV while feeding — and definitely while pumping. But maybe not. We’ll see, I guess. I should probably try to just read as much as possible in the next few weeks before baby arrives.
Start training for the Houston Half Marathon. I entered the lottery with a bunch of my coworkers and we got in! I get excited when I think about getting back out to the races, since I’ve really missed it this year. Realistically, I won’t be able to start running again until the beginning of October (~6 weeks postpartum if she arrives close to her due date) but I want to do what I can in the next 3 months. I hope baby likes the stroller because I plan to take her on lots of walks until I’m cleared to run!
Finish the guest room makeover. This really needs to happen in the next 2-3 weeks if I want to make sure it happens at all!
That’s it for now. I can think of several other things I’d like to accomplish, but with baby due to arrive in a mere 5-ish weeks (holy crap), the “get ready for baby” category really covers it all.
Love the way the chair looks in the room — good choice on looks and comfort!
Finish your masters project. Seriously. I get the feeling its something you may regret if you let those credits expire. Go talk to someone on the faculty – see if there’s something you could do to bundle your existing portfolio of web pages and Bay Area pagent brochures, heck, bring him your old Technique layouts, etc into a project with some additional work?
No offense to having a brilliant guest room, but its time to ask yourself a priority question – finish a degree you spent a lot of time and money on with one more project, or hanging drapes and painting in a room that’s going to get slept in a few times a year when its perfectly fine as is? Hire someone and finish your degree. Likewise, on the quilts, lovely, and so wonderful to have something homemade for your baby or a friends baby, its heartwarming, but there are plenty for sale, finish your degree! 20 books a year? Yeah, that’s nice, I read a lot myself, finish your degree! You going to say to your daughter that you didn’t finish a masters degree because you were too busy decorating and sewing and then she was born and you got too busy?
Tough love here. Done with my pep talk now.