Hollen Home: goals for june

We find ourselves in another new month already. Time goes much faster once you hit adulthood. Everyday, you're made to be an adult, pay your bills, wash your dishes, and bring home your paycheck. I find more and more everyday how important it is to just take some time and rest. To breathe. Truthfully, I'm absolutely horrible at that and hate feeling like I'm wasting time. But, as I get older, I find that taking those times to rest isn't in itself wasting time. Those sabbaths allow for more time in the grand scheme of things. When one is at the end of their rope and exhausted, nothing of worth can really get done. I must remember that.

As I look back on May and the goals I presented, I am filled with satisfaction. It was a good month. I even survived my garage sale. Hallelujah. My goals were:

~~Continue the Great Garage Sale preparation. I've only made a small dent in a big, stuff-we-don't-really-need-anymore world.~~

A success. I even have any empty room to prove it. Blank walls envelope my house. Now I can make them new.

~~Go to the Farmer's Market.~~

See here.

~~Schedule a massage. Even for next month. I need it.~~

Scheduled for the end of June. Yes, please.

~~Plan a getaway for our anniversary in June.~~

The hotel is booked and it's only a little over a week away!

~~Do an outfit post!! No more procrastination.~~

See here.

Now onto June......

Try Hot Yoga at the Gym

Bake something yummy: Maybe this?

Drink tea once a day

Sit back and read a novel. (Maybe I can find one here.)

Work on the front yard. Yard Crashers 2012 is coming.

My goals for May were fairly well executed, although I did hit a few bumps in the road. Let's recap....

1. Plant Garden: finally done. After many rainy and windy days, the garden is in the ground. I feel like I've accomplished something huge here. My plants lived in pots for far too many days.

2. Train for 5k: Major fail. I managed to get myself a nice concussion about half way through the month and haven't gone for a run at all. Let's try again.

3. Do yoga 3 times a week: I practiced yoga very consistently the first few weeks before I took a nasty fall. I'm back on the horse once more and feel that I conquered this one and hope to continue. Yoga is good to my soul.

4. Bake/Cook something once a week: I did! Being on my new diet, I have an arsenal of hundreds of recipes. My slow cooker and I are becoming best friends. Also, a vegetable steamer is truly the best invention known to mankind.

Banana Oatmeal Bread.

Slow Cooker Vegetable Soup

5. Sign up for Sewing Class: Fail. We are poor. I just didn't have the funding this time around and hope that June will change that. I have a wedding shoot coming up and hopefully a bit of that can go towards taking this class.

Now onto the goals for this new, beautiful month!

1. Read a novel. Treat myself in a book that I can get lost in.