September Goals? | Pad Patter 08.31.2020

I pretty much could write the same three goals to be fair.....

1) health/weight loss/exercise - repeated lockdowns over the past few months hasn’t helped this at all but I need to be more mindful of my overall health.

2) time management/routine - this is my number one source of stress. I haven’t got into a good flow with my online studies and have been chasing my tail for weeks now

3) scrapping - any scrapping would be a good start.

 

Great thread! With school starting (albeit virtual) it has brought a kind of stability to our schedule.

September Goals:
1. Walk 3 miles and get bike on bike.

2. Organizing old photos for Mom and do books:
a. Adak 71-73 (half done and pushing to have done by this weekend for shutterfly sale)
b. Misawa 73-75
c. Puerto Rico 63-66
d. Virginia and Pcola 66-71

3. Christmas list! yep!

4. Clear closet/dresser.

5. Figure out a storage solution for rubbermaid boxes.

 

1. Make it to October

 

bhjahahha! great one!

 

1. DS2 is coming back from his 6 months in Bulgaria and so we will be back to a family of 4. (so yes, @Tree City make it to October!)
2. Keep walking and getting in those 6000 steps. I was so good during covid lock down, eating low carb, walking. Now I am meeting friends in restaurants and eating cake and yeah, I can feel it.
3. Take more photos and do local touristy stuff. I have missed seeing the beauty of where I live.

 

hold on... let me put down my cookie...

I'd like to stop eating so much garbage! I was doing great and lost a bunch of weight about 2 years ago and while I was slipping already a bit, I totally fell into stress eating and gained a ton back since covid.

Otherwise I'm with Sara @Tree City

 

Goals? Exactly WHAT are goals?

Seriously, I can't ever get this goal thing right...something always gets in the way. Except last year (2019), I quit smoking and that was my one major goals, so a big pat on the back for that! Thank goodness we are just talking about one month! Anyway, here I go again...

1. I have got to loose weight. I am going back on Weight Watchers with the hopes of losing some of the extra that I have put on and starting a non-strenuous exercise program that I can do in my living room.

2. I need to get out and take more photos but there is only so much to see in my front and back yard. I am thinking about taking one or two days a week and going for a drive to take some photos.

3. Spring cleaning in the fall! I let the spring cleaning slide because of Corvid19 but now that my Grandson is back in school, I will have some time to get some of that done too.... maybe!

 

I have three main goals:

(01) successfully transitioning from my old job to my new job mid-month which not only involves learning a new type of work (grant coordination) but handling being "the new kid" and the only permanently remote one in a small company located 4 states away

(02) continuing to work with my 6yo on his virtual learning as he's currently struggling with frustration/anger and impatience which makes me anxious and feel like I'm "on call" and unable to do anything else all morning while he's in class

(03) scheduling well checks for the kids (and middle school shots for the oldest) + one for me to look at a couple of things on my right foot and get a status check/hopeful official diagnosis of hypothyroidism + PCOS

Since I've scrapped a ton during the pandemic + dumped photos & journaling into templates for future scrapping, I'm actually mostly caught up there. I have some other big personal things but I can't do anything permanent about them until after I get my feet wet at the new job.

 

Oh geez!
I'm just trying to get through week 2 of school being back and navigating all the changes.
I guess my main goal would be to have both my in person and virtual classes running smoothly soon.
I also need to get my time better organized both at school and at home.
I also need to get back to the gym or do something fitness-wise.

 

1. Please god let the weather get cool-ish and I WILL start walking again. Also try the chair yoga again as I have my old iMac in the bedroom which stays cool til mid-day. That iMac has a cd.dvd slot too!

2. Continue to keep to boundaries with my daughter and not get pulled into her chaos and drama. It would be easy but so much of it affects my now 14 yr old granddaughter.

3. Since I now have a file cabinet, handle a good bit of my paper clutter so I can have time and space to start serious scanning of my family's photos. I told myself I can't buy the scanner I want until I deal with the paper but yesterday I had to buy a printer as my all-in-one died. I only get the get up and go in cool/cold weather.

4. Continue to cull and better organize my photos and layouts. When that is done, godwilling I can sort my already printed ones and see which I still want to print for family. My son was really interested in having a book of all layouts about him. It's nice to see someone interested in reading about times/events he barely remembers.

@IntenseMagic I feel for you. My one friend is going almost totally deaf (already has the cochlear implant) and has to do a hybrid with 2 parallel zoom classes and one f2f in the private school where she teaches. She breaks down with worry about hearing the students thru all the ambient noise. The real downside of considering quitting is the loss of the free/reduced tuition for her two children. 29+k each. NO teacher has it even reasonable now...and then the uncertainty? God bless you all.

 

For the end of August/beginning of September my goal has been to get into a normal school rhythm with the kids.

My oldest just started her college classes at WCU but most of them are on-line. My 2nd has one on-line dual enrollment as well as a homeschool group I drive her to once a week that is 45 minutes away. Then I'm the director of our local homeschool group and so I've spent much of the summer organizing and planning for that...and it was hard because everything was so up in the air as to what would actually be able to happen. That is supposed to start this week.

So, I just want to get in a groove and see how everything will work. We spent last week working out on-line issues and that seems to be working well now.

I did spend a lot of the last few months deep cleaning and organizing different parts of my house!

 

1. Go through and get rid of crap. All the extra things that have hung out because summer is too hot.
2. Keep up on my steps. I have a 43 day record. I want to keep that going.
3. Find time for peace and quiet everyday.

 

I identify the most with Sara's answer. @Tree City

Still feeling extremely in limbo here. Not feeling capable of making goals.

 

Friend of mine (in her 50s) started exercising by watching "Senior Fitness with Meredith"



I need to take back my TV from my grandson and his Xbox and do these myself. Or maybe just buy a smart tv for the basement ...

 

I would say my main goal this month is to get in my craft room and clean and organize I have a number of quilts I want to sew for Christmas/Winter. Fabric is bought and waiting. I will have to get some more.... replace the fabric I used to make masks for our local adult foster home/family/friends.

take a before and after photo..... It is really BAD right now to the point I have a hard time going in there just to scrap because of the mess.

 

I have no goals, lol