August Goals / Mid Year review

I havent done monthly goals in a very long time, and I can't think of any worthwhile ones in August.  It honestly seems rather silly to me to try to mess with my spending, considering my biweekly flexible budget is only of $150.  That's all I get to spend in non-bill items.  Woo hoo.

August is a good month for me.  Even though financially, it will just be quite invisible thanks to the lack of activity, everything’s still getting paid on time and without issue.  August is also a 3-check month! However, I’m nowhere as excited about it as you’d think I should be.  Thanks to my past short-comings, the extra check will quietly be consumed and used to pay the taxes. 

Remember when I said that once my EF takes a hit, it takes in the 8-12 month to recover?  I wasn’t kidding.  Since taking a hit in April, I still have not been able to get it started.  Only things that are suffering are my snowballs and my food/misc personal budget, since those are the only two variable items in my list.

Mid year, I think I'm in pretty good shape... remember those 12 (well, 11) goals at the beginning of the year?  I'm doing just alright meeting them. I'm done with 5, and I am on the right track to finishing another 2.  The rest need a lot of work.  And I need more creative goals, monthly and yearly.

Now back to deciding what I am doing as far as early Christmas shopping... I've never been good shopping for gifts, even if I do enjoy a lot giving them out.  I know it is about 100 degrees out, but have you started your shopping?  How's that Christmas jar/box/container coming along?  Mine's getting fed here and there.  Quite excited to see how much I end up with, even if it is less than $50!