April Goals

I accomplished all my March goals to various extents. I’m not finished with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest quite yet. Hopefully I’ll have it wrapped up in the next week, and then I’ll move onto my March read.

I’m actually not done with Zianne’s gallery wall yet either, but I’ve hung every possible thing I had planned for it, and there are a couple of blank spots that need to be filled in. As soon as I realized I would need to buy some more objects to complete the project, I modified my goal to simply get everything up on the wall that was sitting on the floor of the nursery.

I quickly applied six decals to the family room wall and Micah helped me hang the clock… and then I made an executive decision. I looked at the decals, which are not applying properly and some of them are peeling off already, and I looked at the wall and how much I have left to cover, and I decided to scrap the whole project. It was going to take many more hours to finish, and I could already tell I was going to be dissatisfied with the final result, so I decided it wasn’t worth any more of my time, despite the $100 I invested into getting the decals shipped to me. Sometimes you just count yours loses and save your time. I took off the first two decals I applied on the edge of the wall, but the ones behind the clock are creating this little border around where it hangs on the wall, so I decided to keep it up as a quirky, shabby chic, clock halo of sorts.

So basically March was a lesson in learning to modify your goals when you figure out they just aren’t working for you.

Hopefully accomplishing my April goals will feel a bit more fulfilling…

Get pictures printed for Zianne’s gallery wall… Now that all the frames are up, I can see which sizes and orientations {horizontal or vertical} I need for her photos.

Finish first draft of portfolio paper… The good news I received this month is that my first portfolio paper I was working on in January and February officially passed. The sobering news is that I have a second one to turn in. Right now it is slightly over halfway finished, and I’m anxious to get it done and sent to my dissertation chair.

Email committee about comps list… I need to start prepping for my comprehensive reading exam, which I am planning to take in August. I need my committee to give me their recommendations and requirements for my reading list, so I can start borrowing, buying, and downloading the books and articles I will need to read.

Send a letter to my grandma…. My grandma’s health has been slowly declining, so I want to send her a letter to cheer her up and some updated pictures of her namesake, Zianne.

Read Insurgent. I still haven’t seen the Divergent movie yet, but I’ve decided to finish reading the trilogy in the meantime.

Send one note of encouragement.