July Wrap-Up | August Goals

Question of the day: HOW THE FLIP IS JULY OVER ALREADY

Fact: July 2017 is gone.  Howwwwwww even I can't

& also: it's good to be back blogging, yo :)

+ idk man it just went by too fast.

+ Started painting.  There's a room in our house that desperately needed painted in my opinion, and after getting really inspired by probably watching wayyyy too much of Fixer Upper (;P), I've actually gotten it patched and primed, so now I just need to sand it down and paint.  I'm thinking about painting it a light yellow.  AND GUYS I PROMISE EVENTUALLY I WILL GET A ROOM TOUR UP.  It's still not perfect to me (#perfectionist probs), so once I get it done I WILL TRY TO GET THAT POST UP.   And like I mentioned, I started watching HGTV a lot more these past few weeks, and WOW I have been so inspired to tackle our house xD It's crazy how much my perspective's changed on houses in like...two weeks.  But at the same time, it's kind of great because now I actually want to change up all the rooms and make them look...good :P This last weekend I went to my local Ace Hardware to look at paint colors, and I literally started FREAKING OUT in their store when I saw the Magnolia paint line there, I kid you not.  My dad was like, "You're smiling so hard over...paint." I JUST CAn'T, GUYS.

+ Got (& trying) to get mentally ready for school.  Because as of August 1st, I have 17 days till I'm back in school.  Wooo.  *note sarcasm*

+ Wrote a little more.  I feel like July I got a "okay" amount of writing done, because I actually got some stuff done, unlike the other months where I didn't really do anything.  My novel has been put on hold temporarily until we get our computer fixed, so that's been really frustrating, but I did get some other writing done, which I'm glad for.  Also...writing in second person is SO hard wow.

+ Figured out I'm the best procrastinator I know.  I think I have this natural tendency to be lazy, it's really bad, I need help.  PROCRASTINATING WILL RUIN YOU, KIDS.  ughhhh.

+ Attempted tennis.  So one of my summer goals was to play tennis, because I've always thought it looked really fun.  SO, on the last day of July I headed out to the park to try playing it, and let's just say it went....well, interesting :))

+ Made a 4th of July cake....that looked more like a 5-yr-old's birthday cake.  Why, you ask? WELL, because I was going to make a three layer cake with red, white, and blue layers.  Fun, right? The first time I tried baking the red layer,  I thought I would be healthy and use red beet powder as a dye.  That didn't work.  When it was done baking that layer, apparently all the redness baked out and it looked like a plain old vanilla cake.  I was like..okay? So I decided to just use food coloring (which every fiber in my being hated doing because food coloring is evil).  I didn't want to use half the tube in each layer, because OH MY GOODNESS NOT SO MUCH.  And so, I dyed it until it looked, y'know, colored enough.  Baked it.  AND THEN...guess what.  IT TURNED OUT ALL PASTEL !!!!

ugh.  why.  just why.

oh, and not to mention, I put red + blue sprinkles on top of the cake to give it a more patriotic vibe, and YOU GUESSED IT.  They turned out pastel too !! NOOOOO.  (Especially the red...it turned out like...pink.)

BUT at least it tasted fine (I used a whipped cream icing...mm...that's what I'm talking about :)), and it looked perfect for a little girl's birthday party!! So if you need a cake for a five year old, hit me up !! (actually no)

I didn't set any goals for July, because I knew it'd be a really laid-back month.  Not much happened out of the ordinary or really exciting, quite honestly.  But I know one day I'll look back on these days and realize how incredibly blessed I was, even though life may not be perfect :)) Also, God is faithful, and that blows my mind.  So yeah.  July was a pretty good month.  Average.  Hot.  Summer.  I don't know what the future holds, but I'm excited for it.  School starts this month, which is crazy to think about.  It's going to be a really important year, and I want to do my best at it with God's help.  My current motto is: Live well.  Love God.  And that's what I want to do.  Live to create and inspire. So yeah.

+ Start school successfully.  The key word here is successfully.

+ Pick peaches.  Because I feel like this is such a summer thing and I really want to do it.  I have a lot of good memories tied to peach-picking, plus....peaches, so.

+ Finish painting & decorating room.  This really has to be done gahhhhhhhhh.  BUT GOOD NEWS I talked to a few friends and they said they might help me paint, which would be an absolute lifesaver, so hoping for that :))

+ Be a better blogger.  And by that I mean....like....post every Wednesday this month. I have some posts planned for August that I'm really excited about :) 

+ Hustle.  If I can say I did this at the end of this month, then it was a good month.

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So what about your July? CAN YOU FATHOM JULY IS OVER? When do you go back to school?  Have you accomplished a lot of things off your summer bucket list? GUYS, ENJOY THE LAST MONTH OF SUMMER.  *sniff* I can't believe it's August already.  I just can't.  TIME TRULY FLIES, MY FRENS. But fall is beautiful too, honestly. *sigh* Live well, love God :))

 Any tips on how to just stop being a procrastinator? xD 

-autumn