How is 2020 treating you all so far? I’m still basking the in the new year energy and am determined to keep momentum!
(more…)Planning & Organizing for the New Year
Blogmas 2014 – Day 4 – Hair, Coffee, Target :)
Happy Blogmas Day 4 …and (as you’ll read this) Friday Eve! 🙂
Soo, I chopped off all of my hair last week. I’ve wanted to do it for a few months now, so I just bit the bullet and decided to go for it. I asked my stylist to cut an angled bob (which I’ve always wanted to try) and I’m glad I did it, because I don’t think I’ll ever do it again ha. I’ve been having so much trouble styling it! It’s way too short in the back, so I’ve been rocking a little nub ponytail basically every day (except Thanksgiving) since. This morning, I attempted to curl it and totally failed. It had potential, but I ran out of experiment time before work.
After the sad hair attempt – I just put it up into my trusty little nub pony, and made a cup of the yummiest coffee before work.
The coffee was SO good that I tweeted Folgers – it’s always fun to get a tweet back 😉
Fast forward through my day at work…it was busy, but productive. I had to run a ton of errands which is always a nice way to break up the day.
After work I met up with one of my girlfriends, Steph, for some margaritas. I love when we go out – we’re very similar in a lot of ways (personally/socially), but she also works for a marketing company, so we totally get each other. Everytime we get together we always end up staying out way too late & chatting about life, work, goals, dreams, and whatnot… it’s nice to have a girlfriend like that!
After dinner, we ended up popping into Target… because who doesn’t love a trip to Target?!
With Margarita brain, I couldn’t help picking up a couple of fun holiday-ish things..
Today was a really good day, but I’m happy to be in bed and watching a cheesy Lifetime/Hallmark movie. I have to be up really early to meet a client tomorrow morning so I hope to pass out soon!
I hope everyone has a great Friday Eve! The weekend is almost here 🙂
What is your favorite Kcup flavor? I love trying out new ones!
Do you prefer to use a physical calendar or a mobile one? Or do you just live life planner-free? 😉
XOXO
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Do You Have a “Want List”?
So as you know, I’m making a huge effort to spend less money this year, I’m really proud of myself because so far I’ve broken a number of bad spending habits that I had developed. I’ll do a full post on ways to save money in the near future, but today I just wanted to share one of the things I’ve been doing to keep myself and my wallet in check.
Create your want list….
Every time I have the urge to buy something, I add it to my “want list” instead of impulsively purchasing it (which I would have normally done). The best thing about doing this is that it creates some structure for my purchases. While in reality, I could go ahead and buy most of the things on here right now-I don’t need to. I’d rather wait until I needed certain items or until I found a really good sale before buying them.
Some things currently on my want list: a cute new day planner, more gel nail polish colors, a new barrel hairbrush, blue suede pumps, a healthy cookbook, the new iphone, new vanilla candles, and some colorful tights.
It’s smart to wait to buy things that you want; it wont leave you as strapped for cash when unexpected, but important things come up (a spontaneous girls night out, a birthday gift for someone, an oil change, a new bronzer after yours falls and cracks all over the bathroom floor (ugh!)etc.) and it gives you something to look forward to!
You may be surprised to find that sometimes the things you thought you really wanted make their way off of your list…you may change your mind and set your heart on something completely different! It’s definitely helped me resist the urge to impulsively spend.
What’s on your want list?