I did it! A solid week of closing all three of my Apple Watch rings as retribution for missing a minute of standing up last weekend!

Yes, I’m punishing myself for that Stand ring miss on Sunday. How?

Spring has almost sprung or it will in a few weeks. Yet, today, temperatures dropped 20° to bring us back below freezing. Who’d’a thunk it? Have my goals frozen in place? Let’s see.

A reading miracle happened this month, folks! After whining about not being anywhere near my monthly reading goal at about the halfway point of the month, I hunkered down and finished them all! I’m starting to think I write those posts as a passive-aggressive motivation for myself. Whatever works, eh?

I always knew that eventually my reading pace would slow to a crawl if not halt entirely.

Bye bye January. Hello February. Will you be better? 

My first month at my new six-books-per-month reading level and I started worrying that I wouldn’t make it. I started the month by reading three books in four days and then nothing for two weeks.

Much like last year, I’m going to combine my final goal recap of 2024 with my list of goals for 2025. I will start with the latter.

December is done. So is 2024. In an hour, anyway. We’re now a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Did that last factoid mess with your head as well? 

Just when I thought it couldn’t zoom by any faster than October 2024, November comes along and says, “Hold my beer!”

November is over! Did I read? Boy, did I! Check this out!

I haz sadz that October is over. Sniffle. I wantz the Ocz back.

Happy Halloween! My treat to myself is no trick… my annual reading goal is DONE! 

One thing I’ve noticed that kinda bugs me about my Apple Watch and the measurement of standing as one of the three Rings used to gauge activity is that I don’t necessarily trust how standing is measured.

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.