I just realized something… with my Fitbit dead and me moving over to Apple Watch, using steps for tracking my monthly fitness goal isn’t really as logical.

Here we go with my recap of the month of September goals! Buckle up!

🎶Do you remember? Reading seven books in September?🎵

Remember in my most recent Libroqueue post when I said “I wholly expect this 780-page beast of a book to take me two months; so if I get halfway through in September, I’ll be happy” about reading Joe Hill’s The Fireman?

Let’s celebrate the end of the Roman Caesar months with a look back at my goals!

Yay! Another good month of reading! And I also kicked off a new audiobook since I’m finally making my triumphant return to the gym.

July was not a bad month. I made the goals I expected to make… and I didn’t finish the one I knew would not happen. C’est la vie, eh?

Much like the U.S. Presidential campaign cycle, I did a lot of flexing around unexpected changes with my reading goals this past month.

And half the year has flown by like it was nothing. Nothing at all.

I had a good month with reading. Started strong, slowed down but remained consistent in the middle, and finished relatively well.

Well I finished the third of my five book goal for this month today!

Another month, some other goals met. Let’s check them out, shall we? 

Between not being able to truly commit to a book this month and going on vacation with no desire to read anything at all, I was cutting things pretty close in the end. But here’s how my reading went…

Four down, eight to go. Let’s see how numero quatro went.

Still rocking that reading goal!!

11 months and still no soda! I’m really proud of myself even if it hasn’t done anything to affect my weight.

While my step count goal is gonna look like 💩 at my end-of-the-month check in, that will be offset by one great thing… so far this month, I’ve been to the gym every weekday morning.

It’s April! Remember the old days when all us bloggers pulled April Fool’s prank posts on each other and people actually read and fell for them? Those were the good ol’ days.

Happy Easter, y’all!

I’m still sticking to the goal count… just not necessarily the goal titles.

Another month in the history books. Let’s see how the goals went. 

Yup. Promising myself five books each month is winning so far! More stresses me out too much.

Already a month has breezed by! Dang. We are now into the month of Katie! How did I do leading into it? Let’s see, shall we?

I think keeping a goal of no more than five books a month is going to be the best way to move forward with my monthly reading goal.

Today marks eight months since I’ve had a soda.

I actually went back to the gym today.

For the first time since maybe a week before Thanksgiving.

Bye-bye 2023. We hardly knew ye;
Welcome 2024. Please don’t be a snore.

I knew it was just a matter of time before I hit a wall…

Six and a half months and counting and… still no soda!

The irony is not lost on me that I received an email from Goodreads with this declaration in it just as I’m contemplating a blog post about how my desire to read this month has been nil.

Hello November; good-bye November. Just like that. Gone in the wink of an eye this whole past month. And how did I do in goals? Let’s see… 

Not a bad way to begin my close out of 2023! 

60 books up. 60 books down! 1.5 months left to go!

Dang, I spend so long looking forward to Halloween and then it just flies by like it’s nothing. Here’s November already. 

First and foremost… HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Here in Illinoisland, we trick or treated in some strange and quickly changing combination of blue skies and cool air as well as gray skies, snow, and high wind. And we were only out about an hour and a half. Weird.

Don’t ask me how, especially given my pitiful reading performance last month, but I managed, as of tonight, to finish all seven of the books I set out to read this month…