Enough about that. We're here because it's August 1st and that means it's time for the Monthly Goals update post thingie.
As always, let's revisit the previous months' goals:
Fibery Goals
1. Work on the following (and maybe finish something): Wink, the Caffe Macchiato Socks, and the Gex Sweater.
2. Tour de Fleece (July 2nd-24th): I have a couple braids pulled out and that's lovely :)
3. Partake in a fibery endeavor at least 4x/week.
4. Yarn Diet (clubs don't count).5. Design work.
6. Clean out the yarn closet.
7. Anything else that comes along.
My sweater and socks remain untouched but I have worked on the little Gex Sweater. I've finished up the yoke, separated the sleeves, and am working on the body at this point. If I keep going, I might have it finished before the end of Ravellenics (that's my goal, anyway).
I survived Tour de Fleece. I even posted all the finished yarns on Friday. I had a couple braids pulled out....I was so cute. What the hell was I thinking?! I needed more than the couple I had pulled out. Seriously, if you haven't seen the post, you should go look. I spun over 2.5 lbs of yarn, which turned out to be something like 1.3 miles. Crazy! I also started another spinning project, which will probably go unfinished for a bit because I did plenty of spinning in July.
My yarn diet went to the toilet, as well. I've been relatively good outside of clubs. This past month, I only acquired five more skeins of yarn. The post about that is here. I haven't posted about it yet, but I also fell into a yarn store this past Friday afternoon. In the four years that we've lived in California, I've seen at least three yarn shops close (that I can think of). A fourth will be closing toward the end of the month, hence going down there. I may or may not have come home with things...I'll post about that later.
Other than a lot of spinning and a little knitting, not much else happened this month. Woo!
Non-Fibery Goals
1. Reorganize in Little Man's room.
2. Finish cleaning the buffet.
3. Go through the pantry & cupboards.
4. Gym and/or some other form of exercise.
5. Work on the weight loss shit (woo).
6. Keep up on the (new) bullet journal.
7. Work on recipe journal(s).
Little Man's room has not had any action but Stormageddon's has had some things done. It started with our need to find a better way to store all of Husband's beer making supplies (some of which are quite large like a big cooler and brewing pots and a carboy and such). We've been meaning to do it and then we discovered that one of his most recent homebrews basically leaked out of the keg and into our carpet in the back room. Five GALLONS of beer. Dark beer, on top of it. So, we discovered it pretty quickly, within a few days of it happening, it had juuuuuust started to mold a little. We pulled the kegorator out and the shelf we had the beer supplies on (that wasn't working) and I washed the carpet probably five times, each time the water coming out absolutely filthy. Eventually, the carpet looked mostly normal and we let it dry out. We decided now was a good time to find a better solution for the beer supplies. Off to Ikea! We picked up a shelf for the beer stuff and because the closet in Stormageddon's room currently houses things like the vacuum and the carpet washer and the fancy table leaves, we decided he needed some sort of a closet system and bought one of those as well. Unfortunately, we all got sick at the end of July and, as a result, his armoire is still in boxes. Sooooon. We also took the shelf that used to hold the beer stuff and put it in his room for some storage (diapers, wipes, etc.).
Other things remain undone or untouched or.....pantry, buffet, cupboards, the recipe journal. Yeah, haven't done any of that. The weight loss and the gym and the bullet journal, on the other hand, seem to be working out, at least in some respects. So, we'll just keep on keeping on :)
And now, we need to look ahead to this month:
Fibery Goals
1. Work on the following (and maybe finish something): Wink, the Caffe Macchiato Socks, and the Gex Sweater.
2. Ravellenics (August 5th-21st): probably making a cowl from some handspun and hopefully finishing the Gex sweater
3. Partake in a fibery endeavor at least 4x/week.
4. Yarn Diet (clubs don't count).5. Design work.
6. Clean out the yarn closet.
7. Anything else that comes along.
Non-Fibery Goals
1. Put the armoire together in Stormageddon's room & organize.
2. Go through paperwork on the buffet & cookbook shelf.
3. Go through the pantry & cupboards.
4. Gym and/or some other form of exercise.
5. Work on the weight loss shit (woo).
6. Keep up on the (new) bullet journal.
Happy Monday!
That's great you set up monthly goals for yourself. I wish I was that motivated. Good luck on all of them!!!
ReplyDeletecongrats on finishing tour de fleece, that is awesome! I've loved seeing your handspun.
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