Wishes & Goals 2010 Check-Up - July

Happy July! June was a pretty rough month (I know that's how I begin all my reflections, but this time I mean it), and I figure that if I were to climb back on the wagon, writing my check-up post at the beginning of the month instead of the middle of the month would be a good start. Here's the link to the calendar and the goals as of last month, and let's get on our way!

My Goals for 2010
7.5+ hours of sleep/11:15 PM bedtime
I kicked off June meaning very well, but after the first couple weeks, I started going to bed later and later, and by the third week of the month I found myself regressing to going to bed at pre-New Year's Resolution hours. On Monday I put my foot down and finally had a "green night" on the Tuesday, but then Wednesday and Thursday nights were a little messed as I went over to B.'s for Canada Day... baby steps, baby steps.

Each snack must contain a vegetable or a fruit.
Because of changes in my schedule that cause me to start work later than usual and to have a day off in the middle of the week, I haven't been as good about snacking and part of me wonders if the morning snack is necessary on days that I'm sleeping in. (i.e. If I'm eating breakfast at around 8, 8:30 is it necessary for me to have a snack before noon? Physiologically, I think I can stand to not eat for 3½ hours, thank you very much.) So despite a few missed days and days where I forget to pair my fruit (and occasional vegetable) with protein, compared to everything else I seem to be pretty consistent here.

Be able to do 100 full, proper pushups without stopping by December 2010.
I am starting to get really frustrated by this goal, seeing as how I've been working on "Week 3" for four weeks and still can't finish the reps, which is discouraging. So to help encourage myself I am going to try scaling back to a lower level in Week 3 (The hundred push ups program has three "levels" for each week, based on how many push ups you can do at the "checkpoint") and then once I achieve that, then try moving up a level before moving on to Week 4. I really want to be able to do 100 push ups! (Read: I really want to be able to buy myself a DSLR!)

Drink at least 48 oz of water at least three days a week
Looking at the calendar, I'm surprised I managed to achieve this goal for all but one week in June. I think I was feeling bad because that particular week, I didn't even buy "milk" to bring to work so there was no reason why I wouldn't be keeping pace. I'm still doing horribly on Thursday (my day off) and weekends, so I'm going to challenge myself by changing this goal to Drink at least 48 oz of water at least three days a week, INCLUDING Thursday, Saturday or Sunday.

I will save at least ⅓ of my paycheque every month in hopes of buying a house/condo within walking distance from my work by 2011-2012.
As I mentioned last month, I surprisingly did not incur as many expenses this month as I usually do most months (possibly because I'm not registering for things or going on trips!) so I managed to save the equivalent of... more than a paycheque? (I just looked at my statement again and this makes sense because there were three pay days in the last month.)

My Wishes for 2010
Do a thorough room purge
I made one small step in this endeavour on Tuesday night by organizing my receipts and other miscellaneous papers on my desk! There's still a lot of stuff that I have to get rid of, but the fact that I know I can do this in bits and pieces, and that even a little change can feel like a big difference is very encouraging.

Recipes/Techniques I wanted to try this year
I haven't tried any of those this month, but I did create a new label in my Google Reader called "to try". What I've done in the past is just "star" a bunch of interesting articles on different topics and never went back to read them, but hopefully with this new label I know they are recipe-specific stars. Speaking of Google Reader, if that is what you use for all your RSS feeds, I've created a "bundle" of Calgary Food Bloggers that you can follow. It features 20 of my favourite Calgary food bloggers, many of whom participated in the bake sale.

Blog Stuff
Continue upward trajectory of posts this year
I posted 11 entries in June 2010, vs. 6 in 2009.

Include nutrition information for my recipes whenever possible
Still haven't finished backtracking yet.

Rewards
I know you are supposed to give yourself separate rewards for achieving certain goals, but really, a clean(er) desk, a bigger savings account, a successful bake sale and spending some down-time with B. has been more than good enough for me this month. Perhaps until I get that DSLR, or think of some other rewards for my goals I will use this space to reflect on all the positive things during the month as I usually start the entry by moping about how I haven't been doing well...