Not Much to Say

I don't have a lot to say about December.  I quit tracking anything on the 18th.

There was Christmas of course.  Baking got put off until the last minute, but it did get done (unlike the last 2 years).  Packages for out of state friends and family went out at the last second also and cost a fortune to make it before Christmas.  Things generally went pretty well; the kids made out like bandits as usual.  They each had at least $70 cash/Target gc to spend when all was said and done, on top of presents under the tree.

Then I kind of took the last week off.  Christmas was over but it wasn't 2012 yet, and psychologically I wanted to start anything new on the 1st, no earlier.  So I didn't do much of anything besides get all the Christmas decorations and everything else boxed up nicely.  Now if Chris would just get the boxes out of the dining room...

Just to be moderately consistent:

18 - days tracking points
73,955 - points earned
4,109 - average points per day tracked
659,218 - total points earned in 2011
1 - injury (Chris put a knife through his finger unwrapping a toy.)
3 - dr. appts.
8 - Christmas events
11 - days off school
5 - UIL ribbons and medals won
1 - movie premiere (Sherlock Holmes was really good.)
$216.34 - total cost of Christmas gifts and cards (including shipping and postage)
8,067 - emails deleted
3 - books read
12 - blog posts

So there's the last month of 2011.  It wasn't a stellar year, but we all made it through to the other side.  Here's to 2012. *clink*

Bah - November Recap

There's very little I can do right lately.  Not only did I fail to report progress or lack thereof leading up to our Thanksgiving visitors' arrival, I didn't actually do much of anything.  We managed to make the place slightly less embarrassing, but that's about the best I can say.  Oh well, they weren't here to see the house, and they didn't spend a lot of time here anyway.  It was a good visit and a great meal - other than the cherry pie taking a header off the dessert table.  Something has to go wrong, right?

So, about the month of November...I never did an October recap and it's certainly too late now.  It's almost too late for November for that matter, but I'll do it anyway, because I feel like it. :)

10 - days I actually tracked points
4 - days over 4,000 points - all of which were the weekend (Fri-Mon) before Thanksgiving
46,880 - points earned all month
2 - high school football games attended - 1 over an hour away
2 - major video game releases
2 - movie premieres attended
2 - out-of-town visitors
19 - blog posts - none of them here because I suck like that
6,153 - emails and RSS posts read and deleted
0 - birthdays to celebrate
3 - dr. appointments
3 - books read
7 - school and church functions
$26.49 - earned from rebates and surveys

That's about all I can come up with right now.  Yay November.

September By the Numbers

Once again it's time to look back on a month and see what happened. 

1 - day I didn't track points

10 - days I passed goal (4,000)

104,655 - points earned all month

3,489 - average number of points per day

3 - pounds I lost

5 - friends and family birthdays

8 - medical appointments

2,140 - Spark points earned

5 - days over 100*

7 - days of rain

8,555 - emails and RSS posts deleted

20 - blog posts

27 - days of Wii Fit body tests

13 - books read

61,499 - steps recorded

$87.35 - earned from online book sales

1 - teenager in the house

1 - new dog

And there we have it: September 2011 boiled down to a few statistics.

Miss Me?

It's been far too long, I know.  I've been so spotty in my progress that it isn't really funny.  I've been tracking points all year...when I do anything.  I made it through most of the month of January, then skipped the first half of February.  Then I lost 4 days to the hospital but got right back in for the first half of March.  Skipped almost 2 months and then worked most of May.  June and July are empty, but I've been working this month.  My next mini-goal is to keep it up until after Labor Day, which will make this my longest streak of the year.

I've got a POA that mostly works for me, and now after a couple of solid weeks I'm starting to add weekly drills back in.  I haven't even looked at PCCX or holiday planning since January, which is likely to be my downfall in the next few months.  Now that school's back on and I have 3 out of 4 kids out of the house all day, yet it's not so late in the year that I'm tired of it all and just want summer back so I can sleep in the morning, I'm putting on a major push to not only get things done but get them done well and consistently and to keep track.  I'm also working 3 weight-loss programs at once to see which one I will settle on.  I *also* have a major (secret) project or three that I'm working on.  I really do like doing multiple things consecutively rather than add one on now, another one later, another one later, etc.  It's the overall consistency that I really have to work on.

So that's my goal, and I'm sticking to it.  If I don't post again in the next week, call out the cavalry.