It's Good to Have Goals

My father once told me it's good to have goals. I'm not sure this is quite what he had in mind, but nonetheless, I gave myself some "goals" for the summer. For once, I did not set goals to lose weight, clean out some room in my house, do work on another room, etc. Okay, well, maybe I did, I do want to clean out the guest room, paint the baseboards in one of the bathrooms, and lose some pounds, but I also set some fun goals for the summer. During July and August, I only work part time so I have time to do fun things and to relax. I figure since I work hard the rest of the year (at the regular job and two tutoring jobs) that I could slack off a bit. So my goals are to watch 20 movies and read 10 books in a ten week period. Silly, right? But that's the plan. I have tons of movies on my Netflix list so I figure I can probably watch two a week. And 10 books should be doable if I do 1 a week. I started at the end of June and plan to go through the end of August. Plus I'm trying to save money.  Watching movies is cheap and I have a huge pile of books next to my bed to read so that's free.  So far I have read three and a half books and watched six movies. So I'm off to a good start. :) I also set a cooking/baking goal for myself, but you'll have to wait 'til tomorrow's blog (or whenever I next remember to write) to find out about that one.