Goals for February:
1. Finish the deeper cleaning. I didn't quite finish that task up. I confess this last week of January I took it easy and thoroughly enjoyed doing so. I've read two books, am itching to take up a third...but with a new month, I definitely want to finish what I started in deeper cleaning. I want to get the guest room and bath deep cleaned and then I want to go back to the living portion of my front room and get it cleaned up really well. Honestly there's no reason why this should take me a long while this month, but I do know it will be intense, so I'll give myself grace enough to work on it properly and not rush through it.
2. Work on the porches and patios and flowerpots. There's a good bit of work to do outdoors. At least the first two weeks of February are meant to be very pleasant outdoors, so I'll break up those deeper cleaning tasks indoors with clearing up outdoors. I want to be ready to plant for spring and summer in my flowerpots and beds.
3. Continue the Pantry/Freezer challenge for at least two more weeks. I expect we will eat out at least once since our birthdays are just around the corner, but I feel we can easily work our way through a few older items before I stop this challenge. I'm going to try very hard not to touch the meats bought recently.
4. Go to Sam's Club. I think every other month is a good pace of going to Sam's for stocking up purposes. I usually spend about half my budget there but many of the items we buy last longer than two months.
5. There are six February birthdays. I have cards. I have messages written in them (except for one). Now to get the ones that need to be mailed sent off in time to arrive. I also want to get small gifts for the two young ones whose birthdays are in this month. Money is not an acceptable gift to either of them, it hasn't yet claimed any value in their lives, lol.
6. Send out Valentine's Day cards to my grands. I will send one card per household, no need to send multiples of them out. For those nearest by I'll try to do some little Sweet baggies.
7. Have another financial discussion with John. I promised him in November we'd not discuss this again until February. Well, here we are...
8. Get our cars cleaned up. They both need to be cleaned in and out. I'll get John to go to the carwash with both cars this month. And in the meantime, I'll sort out the accumulation of stuff that keeps growing in my car. I can't touch of any of his stuff in his car, but I can encourage him to get it clean.
That's enough. There's always plenty to be done. I'm not in the mood yet for big projects or goals.
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