Making the Internet My Accountability Partner

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I realize February is not quite over yet but I feel it’s worthwhile to check in on the progress I made for my goals and resolutions of the year. To be quite frank I’m only feeling good in one area. I have been cooking and baking so much that it’s not actually worth going through everything. I think you can expect a cupcake update in March because I’ve had some struggles trying to pipe frosting. I have a few things I can try and I will update you on how it goes.

In the reading department, I have read a few things that don’t fit the criteria for the list but what did fit was The Boyfriend by Frieda McFadden. If you like suspenseful novels with a mystery element you will love this book. I suspect I could be interested in reading more of her work, but right now the priority is getting through the books I currently have on the shelf. I have been able to go through and donate 3 books that I either will not read or will not finish. It’s not much of a dent but it is progress.

Last month I set a time goal for myself with knitting thinking it’d encourage me to pick up the project I’ve been wanting to finish. However, I haven’t I have not knit at all this month. There is technically a chance that in the next two days I could force myself to put in the minutes, but I feel that would be less meaningful than knitting because I want to and I’d rather not count it.

My financial goal has me stressed the most. I currently have$3532 because my tax return came in. Three grand to meet my goal over the next three months sounds doable considering how aggressive I have been. However, I have an almost inherent doubt in myself. I should really work through that in therapy. The biggest hurdle to feeling successful is the talk we had with the realtor. The realtor said depending on where we go we could need up to 10 grand to move in. I had set a goal that felt achievable to me and could theoretically cover the initial deposits if we went with a cheaper option. It looks like contrary to my initial desire, even if I achieve my 6k goal I will need to ask my partner to chip in to the deposit. To be clear he expected to, I didn’t want him to have to because a) he makes less than me and b) he’s already been saving up for a house it’d be nice to not take away from a potential future down payment.

I am tempted to go for an all-or-nothing goal that I probably won’t be able to stick to, but hear me out. February was the month when my partner and I planned and paid for a lot of our big entertainment wants. There are a couple of things I would like or need to keep a budget open for. Namely, we already are going to visit DC, so I would need to have some budget for non-prepaid entertainment. The other I would like to keep open is a BrickCon that my partner and I could enjoy going to. Outside of those two things I am tempted to institute an entertainment no-buy.

In my writing goal, this post brings me up to a word count of 7899. I do have one more post planned for February where I go over everything that I used up in my Use It or Lose It challenge. It will largely be an old-school YouTube empties style post, but there will be some discussion of the challenges I’ve run into and any changes I feel are coming up. I hope you’re looking forward to that!