June Wrap-up
Posted by Lise on 30 Jun 2008 at 06:30 pm | Tagged as: meta
June is the month in which Frugal in the Fruitlands came into its own, I feel. In addition to the new domain name, I put far more attention this month into writing posts and bringing new readers to the site. To those new readers, welcome! It only took me a year to get this awesome. </sarcasm>
The most popular posts from this month were:
- Four Strategies That Are Frugal Only If Your Time is Worth Nothing. This is me being controversial.
- 30 Goals at Age 16. I was surprised how popular this one was. I guess everybody likes lists!
- Four Expensive Garden Mistakes I’ve Already Made, So You Don’t Have To. I do seem to like the number four…
- Lise’s Six Word Memoir. And six.
- Let’s Not Forget Depression Is a Dirty Word.
“Budget Your Booze,” my homebrewing series (part one, part two) didn’t get much love, alas, but I’ll mention it’s still there, in all its beery goodness.
I’d also like to thank June’s biggest referrer, Tipnut.com, who directed 164 readers to last year’s Building a Garage Sale Route With Google Maps.
As for my goals…. urk.
Goal #1: to exercise for 12 days consecutively. Nope. Six was my longest span; and I fell out of the exercise routine entirely at the end of the month.
Goal #2: to spend less than $100 on dining out. Also no. Lots of outings with friends this month.
Goal #3: To spend a half hour each day working on this blog. Well, I definitely didn’t spend a half hour each day, but I do feel like I moved it ahead, so I’ll consider it a success.
So my goal for July is going to be really simple: work on the LARP I’m writing daily. I don’t care if I do five minutes or an hour - I just need to keep it at the top of my mind so it will really be in top shape before Intercon I.
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I recently have pared down my goals as well. I have about eight writing projects and I found that splitting my focus on a bunch of those, plus crafts, plus my business, plus baby, plus teaching, plus… was just too much! Hubby and I sat down and prioritized and I’m getting much more done by focusing on one thing. I have faith you can do it! ~Lizz