Another Friday Update!

As I explained in this post I am working on completing some summer goals. On to this weeks update:

1. Read at Least One Book A Month

• I read 115 pages in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest (I seem to have a trend going of reading more and more pages each week – haha).

2. Eat Real Lunches

• I did pretty well this week with this. Lots of hummus and pretzels with aside of strawberries – yum!

3. Call my Mom at least Once a Week

• Done! Always fun to catch up with my Mom.

4. Walk or Do Pilates Three Times a Week

• I went on one walk. It was kinda rainy and gross all week. Hopefully next week I can go on more walks!

5. Take Outfit Photos Once a Week

• Nope

6. Try Two New Recipes a Month

• Not this week.

7. Bake Twice a Month

• Not yet but the month’s not over yet!

8. Make a lot of Wedding Crafts

• No but I picked wedding shoes after MUCH deliberation. My dress I picked in one hour, but everything else is proving a bit more difficult.

9. Find Something I Love to Do

• I have mostly been focusing on unpacking this week. I have been enjoying relaxing still which is always a fun thing to do.

10. Relax More and Smile More

• I think I have been doing pretty good this week. Maybe I am finally getting a hang of relaxing and having fun thing.

Mini Goal

Last weeks goal was take more pictures. I did this a little bit. I shared some random pictures I took of day to day life in this post and I plan on sharing some more this weekend or next week.

Next Week Mini Goal

• Pick out a little couch for my porch - my porch!

Overall this week has been pretty good and I am looking forward to an awesome long weekend. I plan to have a weekend full of relaxing and slow unpacking. Maybe even some exploring in my town!

Have a glorious weekend!

~Caitlin

Friday Update

As I explained in this post I am working on completing some summer goals. Here is my first update post on my progress towards those goals! Also I decided to do the posts on Fridays because we all know that is the real end of the week!

Without further ado, here is how I did this week:

1. Read at Least One Book A Month

• I read about 50 pages in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest

2. Eat Real Lunches

• Wednesday – Had leftover pasta from night before as a cold pasta salad – win!
• Thursday – Had a Starbucks frappuccino so not so much a lunch
• Friday – Apple & peanut butter – well better than Thursday right?

3. Call my Mom at least Once a Week

• Did so on Thursday!

4. Walk or Do Pilates Three Times a Week

• Kind of – walked to do an errand on Thursday

5. Take Outfit Photos Once a Week

• Took some on Sunday May 6th and one day I will post them.

6. Try Two New Recipes a Month

• I don’t know if you can really call it a recipe because I kind just threw some things together, but it was pretty darn good. In case you were curious: pasta + parmesan + olive oil + onions + red peppers + garlic + basil

7. Bake Twice a Month

• Yeah didn’t do that yet…

8. Make a lot of Wedding Crafts

• No real crafts but working on put together Save the Dates!

9. Find Something I Love to Do

• I have been writing in an ideas journal – hopefully that will help.

10. Relax More and Smile More

• I decided to not look at my reminders app for a 3 days (which may seem silly but seriously I check that thing like every 5 minutes)
• I created a new ritual of tea and google reader every morning (so many lovely blogs to read)
• I painted my nails on Wednesday (something I rarely do). I would also like to note that I answered the door & signed for a package in the middle of painting my nails without messing up a single one – I call that skills – haha.

P.S. I also decided I am gonna make a mini-goal every week to keep this interesting. So…

Mini Goal:

• Try 2 new hair styles

All in all I think this was a pretty successful first week of summer and first week of goal completion (or rather progress).

Have a superb weekend!

~Caitlin

Thoughts on the Summer

Last summer I made some goals and lets be honest I didn’t follow through on most of them, but this summer I am gonna try to make and follow through on some goals.

I don’t have a job lined up after graduation and while I am sure I will be quite busy with wedding planning – all and all I am doing absolutely nothing this summer. If anyone has ever experienced the phenomena of having nothing to do than you know that it can get quite boring and monotonous. After a few days of doing nothing the glamour of relaxation can wear off a little bit (or a lot).

I personally start losing motivation to much besides watch TV and sit around complaining about how bored I am. This summer my number one goal is to not be bored and to learn how to be fulfilled and happy without a job or school.

I have a list of simple things I would like to accomplish this summer, and if I remember to work towards them everyday than I should pretty much always have something to do.

Summer of 2012 Goals:

1. Read at Least One Book A Month

2. Eat Real Lunches (I have never been a person who has trouble eating breakfast or cooking myself dinner, but lunch I struggle with).

3. Call my Mom at least Once a Week

4. Walk or Do Pilates Three Times a Week

5. Take Outfit Photos Once a Week

6. Try Two New Recipes a Month

7. Bake Twice a Month

8. Make a lot of Wedding Crafts

9. Find Something I Love to Do

10. Relax More and Smile More

To assure that I don’t fall back into my old habits of being lazy and bored I am going to create a little weekly feature here on this blog. Every week (I haven’t decided what day yet) I will make a little post tracking my progress towards my various goals and hopefully this will help me continuously work towards them.

What are your summer goals and plans?

~Caitlin

OMG! A Blog Post

Hey guys. Yes I am finally making a blog post. And, yes I did use OMG in my title.

I am finally approaching the end of the hecticness. Today was a huge step in vastly reducing the stressfulness of my life. I have been planning and coordinating 6 tables for this event at my school, its kind of like a fair/carnival. All the departments have little activities and it is pretty cool. I have been working to plan my departments events since January and it feels so so good to not have to think about it anymore.

Now I just have to make it through one more day of class and one more day of finals and then I just have to focus on wedding planning.

Seriously after this semester just focusing on wedding planning is gonna feel like a breeze.

Anyway, today after getting my departments tables all setup and helping run them for a few hours I met up with my family and fiancé to enjoy the day.

We walked around a bunch of different tents, and my sister managed to find every single table that was giving out free items (seriously the girl made out with like 10 pieces of loot). Then we went to linner and now I am relaxing in my apartment.

All and all it was a pretty fantastic day. I feel like I can finally start getting excited about graduating!

And now moving on to some pictures of the day:

A cool R made out of cupcakes!

One of the cupcakes:

A rare picture of Jim and I:

Hominin fossils (kinda random, but this is what I study so its sorta relevant):

This post feels a little rusty – sorry about that I am out of practice.

~Caitlin

Simplicity and Such

Today was a simple a lovely day…

Today I wore plaid and jeans…

And blue moccasins…

Today I didn’t wear any products in my hair…

And I drank not one, not two, but 4 yummy cups of tea…

Today I baked cookie pies…

And ate two for lunch…

Today I worked on improving my crafting skills…

And actually liked the product…

Today was a good day…

And by today I mean yesterday because I didn’t get around to posting this on time…

(Real today ain’t half bad either).

~Caitlin