Weekly Goals Update

At the end of my Daybook Monday post, I wrote down these goals for the week

• take down all the indoor decorations and put in storage    Done
  

• take down the tree and put in storage    Done
  

• accomplish this week's 10 minute decluttering tasks and perhaps  the last two weeks    ongoing

• start journaling again in my composition book     every day
  

• make at least 5 cards    Done
  

• embroider my mom's name on her  birthday gift and get it into the mail   Done
  

• send off at least 3 "Thinking of You" cards  Done
  

• moisturize every night     every night
  

• lipstick every morning      every day

When it came to working off the 10 minute decluttering tasks, I did pretty well. I don't have bathroom counter tops in my bathroom or the powder room, so that was a non-issue. I am ALWAYS eating from my freezer, so that was hard to do. I cleaned out my pantry before Christmas and gave LOTS away to my son and DIL, so that was done already. I did however turn my meat broth from a ham into split pea soup and I turned the turkey carcass into soup as well, so I am confident I "aced" my 7 decluttering tasks for this week. From the two previous weeks' lists, I am carrying over 5 items I haven't done yet, but I think have value in accomplishing.

I actually completed 16 cards this past week. The reason for that is because I was checking against my goals for the month of January and discovered that I had set a goal of 25 for the month of January. Five cards a week is not going to advance my goal, especially as I want to do a scrapbook AND complete a gift as well. So I need to up my game this week coming.

Because  weekends are rated as lower cost hydro consumption, I generally  save my laundry for the weekends. Yesterday I did a load of cleaning rags and scatter mats. I also washed a load of darks in cold water and hung up to dry. I also worked all morning in the kitchen. I made a crock pot of split pea soup and I simmered a turkey vegetable soup on the stove top. I fried another package of bacon for the freezer, baked a loaf of keto bread, and shredded and sauteed a cabbage. Half of it was mixed with cooked ground meat for dinner last night and lunch today. The other half will be eaten later this week. I spent the afternoon making cards and enjoying a bowl of hot soup.

Turkey vegetable soup with a slice of keto bread (carrot, green bean, celery, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower and dried minced onion)