September's Plans and August's Outcomes

Spring is here but the rainy weather doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon which of course means I have lots and lots of time to read and make plans.  As usual the list is long and never ending...

Crafting

I've actually made some progress on this... that is if you count sorting and tidying balls of yarn and cotton as well as downloading several knitting patterns as progress.   Sometimes you just have to take even the smallest of baby steps as a win.

Gardening

This on the other hand is going well despite the weather.  I've now dug a huge section up of weeds and patchy grass and other weird unidentifiable things (at least to me) and have it all ready to lay down some fresh grass seed.

The greenhouse is also ready for planting my summer veg and I have even got some flowers blooming here and there.

Get Fit and Healthy

Still going well *smug smile*.  I'm pretty much walking every day and on the whole I am managing to eat mostly healthy - we'll just ignore those bars of chocolate that creep in here and there.

Being Frugal

None of my cuttings took off which was a bit disappointing to say the least *sigh* but I'm gonna try again with a few changes this time and hopefully something will take, even if it's just one plant.

As for other frugal things... well I've been madly doing surveys (more about that in a future post) and now have a ton of vouchers coming my way which is rather nice.  And which will pretty much take care of all my Christmas shopping.  I'm also getting ready to sell some more things which should also bring in a little bit extra spending money.

Kondoing My Way

After watching some of Marie Kondo's TV series, because yes I was that bored, I'm going to start doing some cleaning out of areas around our house.  Both Other Half and I are generally pretty good about not having too much stuff but occasionally the odd drawer or cupboard does end up pretty messy with all sorts of stuff just shoved into it.  So a little bit of Kondoing should, hopefully, help.

Reading

Just when I've made a nice big dent in my To Be Read pile I go and download a massive lot of ebooks.  Which has pretty much put my TBR pile right back to where it started.... huge and threatening to smother me in my sleep.  

I've got the feeling I'm going to be needing lots and lots of tea with the occasional bar of chocolate to help me get this back under control.