july goals

My July goals (the first three are adapted from previous months):

1. Climb 2x a week. I’ve stopped being overly ambitious about this, and am just going to aim for 2x a week. By the end of the month, I will be flashing 5.9s.

2. Practice yoga 3-4x a week. I’ll include restorative and nidra yoga in this, once a week. I am really trying to make my yoga practice stronger because I’ve noticed some definite improvement in flexibility lately.

3. Walk to work 3-4x a week. This is proving to be a great frugal hack, since I don’t have to pay for transportation.

4. Have a strong outline for my thesis. Breaking this down further - finish research by the 18th, giving me two weeks to develop an outline that I can write the thesis from.

And in other news, I’m in three carnivals this week:

Festival of Frugality at Budgets are Sexy

Carnival of Money Stories at My Good Cents

Carnival of Personal Finance at Greener Pastures (love this theme!)

weekend links

Once again, I spent the week reading blogs.   Here are my faves:

Plonkee asks about living together with unequal incomes.

Rocket goes grocery shopping.

Michelle thinks those pants make you look fat.

Four Pillars asks how long you can do without a paycheck.

Trent remembers that love don’t cost a thing.

Also, I was in 2 carnivals this week:  The carnival of careers and the carnival of personal finance.  Check them out!

inaugural carnival of careers

The first ever Carnival of Careers is up at Brip Blap.  My post on office politics can be found there.

I’m excited to read some of the other posts - some of them address topics that I’ve been exploring myself.  Go take a look!

in the home stretch….

It’s the last week of class, and I’ve finals and papers to get through.  So things will be a little sparse this week.  In the meantime, enjoy this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance!

One that I highly recommend - eat local.

And a good explanation of good debt vs bad debt (because I don’t think all debt is bad).

carnival of personal finance

My post doing good from the comfort of your own home: junk mail edition was included in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance over at Lazy Man and Money. Check it out! There are some others that I liked as well:

No Credit Needed’s $100-a-day rule

Living the Cheap Life knows what a penny is worth

Tight Fisted Miser is saving money by not having kids

One Frugal Girl is learning to check her billing statements

carnival of liberals

And one more fun carnival with interesting inclusions - the carnival of liberals where you can read my post credit cards vs personal responsibility.

soup to nuts progressive dinner

I entered a blog carnival that I thought had a great theme: it’s based around the idea of a progressive dinner. You start at one location for the first part, and then move on to the next location for the next part, and so forth (much like a pub crawl, but with food and no annoying frat boys).

This one is the Soup to Nuts Progressive Dinner, the brainchild of Kilroy at Fear and Loathing - The Gonzo Papers. Check out all the great submissions!

hors d’oeuvres & cocktails @ The Gonzo Papers

appetizers @ ChangeTherapy, where you can read my post just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town

first course @ Fallen Words, where you can read my post see it. film it. change it.

main course @ Anja Merrett

dessert @ Fiction Scribe, where you can read my post an ode to coffee (why mass consumerism will ruin us all)

and a special after-dinner treat, a drink reception @ The Lives and Times, where you can read my post genes load the gun, but environment pulls the trigger

Enjoy!

first blog carnival

I’ve started submitting posts to Blog Carnivals, mostly because they look like a lot of fun. Here is my first appearance, and hopefully there will be more to come.

My post how much should you save for retirement? was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by The Dividend Guy.