Week in Reivew - 1/1 - 1/7

Carla's Low Spend Challenge - I have spent 49% of our monthly budget and we are 25% through the month. A cheque that I wrote last month and forgot about hit my account today.  Ouch.  Also, Mr. Goat went to town to get milk and came back with more groceries.  $100 more groceries.  I've decided that anything I sell can go toward the household budget for the month and still meet the challenge; now all I have to do is find the time to sell something.

I've started on my refrigerator - all the obviously spoiled food is gone.  Now I just need to clear it out, organize, wash it out, and put it all back.  I did remember to take a before picture, and to motivate myself, I am going to post it next week whether I have the fridge finished or not (I do not want you to see this picture unless there's one of a clean refrigerator next to it.).

2012 Goals
I signed up for Proverb 31 Ministries' daily devotions, but they haven't hit my inbox yet.  Not sure what is going on there.  I decided that my bible to read this year is The Holy Bible, English Standard Version because it is free on Kindle right now.  Aside from that, I haven't even made it to church - today I slept through my alarm again, which is crazy; before I had babies I never slept through alarms.  I'm not sure what to do about this since Carla's challenge prevents me from buying Clocky.

I worked out five times this week, once less than my goal.  Four days I pushed the twins in their stroller; one day I returned Christmas presents and walked around the mall.  I never made it to the gym because I had no one to watch babies in the afternoon; the person who usually does' mother died last week and so she was not available.  I will "make up" the visits over the rest of the month.  Since I don't need a Weight Watcher's membership, it doesn't meet the terms of the challenge; I will start tracking food next month.

All the money is on autopilot.  Mr. Goat's acting CEO told him they are planning to hire another programmer; hopefully that means we will continue to get paid.  More on that as I know more.

I was getting together stuff to go out to the berm ... and then both babies woke up at once.  Then I spent the rest of the afternoon watching the Broncos-Steelers game with a friend and feeding babies.  After football season, Sunday afternoons should be a great time to shoot; until then I'd  better plan for weekday afternoons. Aside from a bit of fridge cleaning, and keeping up with the dishes, no household work has been done.

All in all, a pretty good week, but next week I hope to do better.  If you tend to sleep through your alarm clock, how do you make sure and get up on time in the morning?