Better late than never- right? Since we are almost half way through September already(where did this month go) I figured I should post my goals for the month. I’m going to be honest, I didn’t get as much done in August as I wanted to, but that’s OK. I spent a lot of time with my family and Chris and trying to take a break from work for a little while since I am working every weekend until November. Here were my August goals:
- order a 7×7 inch sample wedding parent album to show my clients, I wanted to wait until the wedding I had last weekend to do this so hopefully this month *not done, I now want to wait until my wedding on Sept. 24th for this one
- clean all the windows in my house, that I don’t have to climb a 20 foot ladder for, inside and out! *not done- I so didn’t feel like doing this one at any point! I guess it goes back on the list.
organize the basement shelves*done! But we were kinda forced into this one since some of our stuff was getting moldy. Organized and other stuff moved to the attic away from the mold- remove the old ditsy wallpaper from the downstairs bath and paint the walls. Since I didn’t get to this in May or June or now July it may still be here in September or later:) *update- I actually removed the wallpaper from the kitchen! Not the bathroom, which is a way bigger room. I started this project Labor Day weekend, it’s still in the works. Need sanding, spackle, primer and paint. Can’t wait to finish this project!
- add some music to my website *debating this one
- purchase/license 2 more songs for slideshow music *still need to do- it’s really HARD to find/choose music that I like
go to the beach for fun again- this time we are trying to make it to LBI!*LBI was a wash because of Hurricane Irene but we did do to the beach twice in August:)- order an 8×10 sample leather wedding album. *waiting till next weekends wedding to decide which wedding to make into a sample album.
read 1 book. I used to read so much on the train but not anymore. I need to read again.*I read 2 books: The War of Art which was a very inspirational book for any creative business person to read. It has great reviews all over the place so I wanted to give it a try. I also read Smoking Seventeen by Janet Evanovich. I have to say this series is one of my favorite sit down and read in one sitting, laugh out loud, forget your worries type of book series. I mean who wouldn’t laugh at a NJ bounty hunter with big hair. I have seriously bust out laughing on the train and subway reading her books. Sometimes you just need a book like that. If you want to read them start with One for the Money– trust me you will get all the other books in the series after just that 1st one.- get my itunes set up on my MAC *not done either
So for September I’m just going to concentrate on the items I didn’t finish from August. I know I should add new goals but I realize I won’t have the time to finish many of them. Seeing how my calendar looks over the next 3 weeks I will be lucky to finish any new goals along with client orders/sessions/weddings!
And a little peak at the wallpaper removal project. WARNING: This was NOT fun in any way and took almost 2 full days to remove. Our kitchen isn’t even that big! But I could no longer live with that ditsy floral- it had to go. I’m so glad the wallpaper is off. Chris already spackled once so we are on our way to a newly painted kitchen before you know it. And I also bought a rug from Target that I can’t wait to show you! It’s going to look perfect in there.
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