HAPPY HALLOWEEN & Goodreadance 2021 Goals// SUNDAY POST #15

 The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly from The Caffeinated Book Reviewer

Happy Halloween everyone. This is my favorite holiday of the year and the lead up to it and the decorations make me happy. This week was an exciting one where my two older girls were getting their stuff packed for a weekend with their girl scout troop. It was a weird weekend for my husband and I as we went from having three kids demanding our attention to only our youngest who will hopefully be joining girl scouts next year if she wants too. But I do miss my girls and can't wait to go pick them up after their party later today. I will also be sharing my Goodreadance goals for November. I am way behind but I have been clearing my goodreads shelves throughout September and October, but this just holds me more accountable to do it more than once a month. I am also answering this week's book blogger hop question that is hosted weekly by Coffee Addicted Writer.

What is Goodreadance?

 1. It is a challenge hosted by Shut Up, Shealea.  Spring Cleaning Challenge 2.0: Decluttering with a Vengeance - Shut up, Shealea (shutupshealea.com)

2. It runs from September to November

3. Sorting and organizing your Goodreads shelves

4. Removing books that you are no longer interested in

5. Updating star ratings

6. Writing reviews for books you have read.

MY GOODREADS GOALS:

1. DECLUTTER MY TBR SHELF: When I started in 2015, I added every book I saw to my shelf. I regret doing that and my shelf currently has 3,507 books. I have been going through 1-2 pages and just deleting books left and right and doing maybe 200-300 at a time. My target number for the end of November is to have it at 2,250. 

2. ORGANIZE MY READ BOOKS INTO YEAR SHELVES: I started this goal this week where I click on my Read shelf and then just start editing my review of that book and putting it on a shelf with the year I finished it. This is a very tedious task that will probably not be done by the end of November, but I do want to have most of it completed by the end of the year. 

3. RATING UPDATES: While I was planning some of my end of the year youtube videos, I needed to count how many five star books I had read this year, and I had 28 five star reads. I was really overwhelmed by that number and it got me thinking about those books and I actually dropped my ratings on a good handful of them because I rate right after I finish a book. Then when I take time to think about it, I either keep my rating or drop. I have read 113 books so far this year and plan on reading more in the next two months.

4. REVIEWS: I don't really write reviews of the books on Goodreads, I save them for this blog. I mainly put my reactions while updating while reading the book in my status updates and then how I am feeling after if I am really enjoying or hating the book. I want to continue that but for every book I read.

While making these Goodreads goals, I also made non Goodreads book goals for myself and daughters.

Monday: Blog Tour: The Bear House

Tuesday: Top Ten Tuesday: Must Read Creepy Books

Wednesday: Blog Tour: Snotlings

Thursday: Blog Tour: The Lost Language

Friday: Blog Tour: Jadie in Five Dimensions

Saturday: Review: The Enemy

The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne Blog Tour

October Monthly Wrap Up

Top Ten Tuesday

The Nature of Witches Review

The Picture of Dorian Gray Review  ( SPOILER: I LOVED THIS)

Tag Thursday: Netgalley Tag

The Bone Houses Review

I bought the Edgar Allen Poe Complete Tales and Poems which is a damn brick and weapon and the other three were sent by Holiday House for blog tour spots that are linked above.

 MY BOOKTUBE VIDEOS THIS WEEK

Have a great first week of November!!!

Image by Coffee Addicted Writer

I have read books on Halloween. I am currently reading The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert, but last year I read a creepy middle grade out loud to my kids.

I highly recommend this to any aged reader. It is based on Malaysian mythology folklore and it was spooky and heartbreaking. 

2019 Resolutions & Goals

I have made a list of every part of my life and listed things that I want to work on and accomplish this year because I am tired of doing the same thing and living the same life over and over. My life is boring as hell and I need more.


*PERSONAL*

Get my permit (180 days)
Get License
Hit 1st target weight by June 30
Hit 2nd target weight by December 21
Wake up at 6AM and bed at 11PM
Get part time job???
Walk 2-3 laps around neighborhood every day
Family vacation once a month


*READING*

Read 100 books
Read 1 classic a month
Read 1 nonfiction a month
Continue global reading challenge
Take part in read-a-thons every or every other month

*WRITING/BLOG*

Host 2-3 blog tour spots a month
Begin new wish list series
Begin 2nd half of lovebooks
Write 1000 words a day
Take part in Camp NaNoWriMo
Start 2nd book during NaNoWriMo

*YOUTUBE*

Become full booktube channel
Upload Dollar Tree hauls once or twice a month
Start reading vlogs
Do more tag videos
NETWORK MORE!!!
Vlog read a thons
Post 2 videos a week

*HOME*

Replace porches
Clean gutters
Fix garden
Make a master cleaning list
Finish building
Find permanent spot for pool
Finish replacing blinds
Map out fence lines
Cut down trees
Clear uncle property
Fence grandma property

*MONEY*

Pay off debt
Finish paying off car
Get LOC under 200
Raise CC limit
New Car!!!!
Buy Lot next door

*KIDS/ HOMESCHOOL*

Get kids into a sport or activity
Self care Saturdays and Sundays
Start school days @ 8:30am
Finish school days @ 1:30pm
Organize records differently

*SOCIAL MEDIA*

Grow followers on Instagram, Twitter, Bloglovin', Facebook and Goodreads
Organize Pinterest and grow followers

I will be updating and checking my progress every 2 months. On the last day of February will be my first update. Having these goals and resolutions written in two places will hopefully keep me on it and I will be diligent about these.

2016 Reading List

I am going to be starting the year off with these two books. I really want to learn more about the Buddhist religion and the beginning of the year would be a perfect start.

1. Buddhism for Beginners
2. Buddhism for Dummies

The rest of the books are by Laurell K. Hamilton. I started reading this series in high school from a really great friend and I have been hooked on ever since but haven't read much since 2010. It has always been in the back of my mind and I have kept up with the new book releases in the series and other works. Books 1-14 I have already read back in school, but I will be re-reading them. 

1. Strange Candy
2. Guilty Pleasures
3. The Laughing Corpse
4. Circus of the Damned
5. The Lunatic Cafe
6. Bloody Bones
7. The Killing Dance
8. Burnt Offerings
9. Blue Moon
10. Bite
11. Obsidian Butterfly
12. Narcissus in Chains
13. Cerulean Sins
14. Incubus Dreams
15. Micah
16. Danse Macabre
17. The Harlequin
18. Blood Noir
19. Skin Trade
20. Flirt

I think number 1 and number 10 are novellas. I haven't read those but they are in between books.

I will also be fitting in my reviews that I am way behind on, but a review should be appreciated aytime. So, here are the one's I will be reading probably before I re-start the Anita Blake series, or between if I get tired of vampires.

1. Black 21: Nancy Glynn
2. Rose's Sin: Nancy Glynn
3. Sky Ghosts: All for One : Alexandra Engellmann
4. Sky Ghosts: Marco : Alexandra Engellmann
5. What comes of eating donuts with a boy who plays guitar: Nicole Campbell
6. How One Attempts To Chase Gravity: Nicole Campbell
7. Crash & Burn: Maggie Nash
8. When The Serpent Bites: Nesly Clerge
9. Deadly Messengers: Susan May
10. Back Again: Susan May
11. Nine Lives: Stephanie Barr
12. The Healer: CJ Anaya
13. Views from the Asylum: George Hiegel
14. Stabbing in the Senate: Colleen Shogan
15. Oasis, The Last Humans: Dima Zales

2015 Reading List Update 2

1. The Defector
2. The Secret Servant
3. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
4. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
5. Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse
6. Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth
7. Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian
8. Dark World (Zak Bagans) 
9. Chasing Spirits (Nick Groff)

I added four more books to my list on May 23.

1. Divergent
2. Insurgent
3. Allegiant
4. Four

Also here is the Pop-sugar reading challenge that I promised to post.

2015 Reading List Update 1

Here is my first update of this year's reading list. The books are off of last year's list that I didn't complete.

1. The Defector
2. The Secret Servant
3. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
4. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
5. Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse (just started)
6. Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth
7. Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian
8. Dark World (Zak Bagans)  Finally got this book in my hands and on my shelf.
9. Chasing Spirits (Nick Groff)

I will be updating again on July 1st and I will include the Popsugar 2015 Reading Challenge on that post.

2015 Reading Challenge

I found this on tumblr and I have to try this. Even though I didn't finish my 2014 reading list, I want to try this one, along with my personal 2015 reading list that I will post later.

2014 Reading List Update 4

1. The Hunger Games
2. Nightshade
3. Fearless
4. Princess of Landover
5. The Lost & Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
6. The Defector
7. The Secret Servant (1/4 of the way done. Won't be done before January 1st)
8. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
9. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
10. Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse
11. Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth
12. Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian
13. Dark World (Zak Bagans)  On hold till I can find it.
14. Chasing Spirits (Nick Groff)
15. Catching Fire
16. Mockingjay

Reading List Update 3

1. The Hunger Games
2. Nightshade
3. Fearless
4. Princess of Landover
5. The Lost & Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
6. The Defector
7. The Secret Servant
8. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
9. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
10. Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse
11. Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth
12. Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian
13. Dark World (Zak Bagans)  On hold till I can find it.
14. Chasing Spirits (Nick Groff)
15. Catching Fire
16. Mockingjay

Reading List Update 2

1. The Hunger Games
2. Nightshade
3. Fearless (halfway through)
4. Princess of Landover
5. The Lost & Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
6. The Defector
7. The Secret Servant
8. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
9. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
10. Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse
11. Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth
12. Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian
13. Dark World (Zak Bagans)
14. Chasing Spirits (Nick Groff)
15. Catching Fire
16. Mockingjay

Reading List Update

I am going to be updating this year's reading list every 3 months. So it will be updated again in July.

1. The Hunger Games
2. Nightshade
3. Fearless
4. Princess of Landover
5. The Lost & Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
6. The Defector
7. The Secret Servant
8. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
9. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
10. Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse
11. Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth
12. Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian
13. Dark World (Zak Bagans)
14. Chasing Spirits (Nick Groff)
15. Catching Fire
16. Mockingjay

I'm going to start reading Nightshade sometime this week.

3 down, 13 to go!

To Do List: January 2014- June 2014

I am splitting my yearly to do list into two parts to take off some pressure on me.

1. Complete school binders: Countries & Kindergarten
2. Lose 37 pounds by June 30th. (227 lbs.)
3. Get my permit back
4. Organize closets and bedrooms
5. Clean all debris from sides and back of house. (tree limbs & leaves)
6. Have 6 family trips
7. Have school shirts and Sammy's class shirt made.

It's not much, but it's what I want done in the first part of the year.

Resolutions: 2014

I have a few resolutions this year, they are more like goals instead of resolving. Short and simple, and most of them are the things that I wanted to do last year.

1. Get down to 190 pounds by December 21, 2014
2. Finish this year's reading list
3. Have binders completed by April
4. Make monthly goals every month on the 1st.
5. Take a family trip every month

16 Books to Read in 2014

At the beginning of this year, I read about 6 books back to back, and didn't read that much the rest of the year. I decided to make a list of the books I have that I have not read yet, and 9 of them are early birthday/ Christmas presents from Cayce. I'm going to do this every year, and every time, I plan on adding 5-10 more, so next year, I hope to have 21-26 books to read.

1. The Hunger Games
2. Nightshade
3. Fearless
4. Princess of Landover
5. The Lost & Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
6. The Defector
7. The Secret Servant
8. Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief
9. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
10. Percy Jackson: The Titan's Curse
11. Percy Jackson: The Battle of the Labyrinth
12. Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian
13. Dark World (Zak Bagans)
14. Chasing Spirits (Nick Groff)
15. Catching Fire
16. Mockingjay

Year To Do List Update

I have to finish the kids countries binder. I'm not even close to finish with the printing of the pages. (IN PROGRESS)

 I have to finish Samantha's letter curriculum binder. (IN PROGRESS)

 I have to get Ariana's preparatory binder started and completed. (STARTED)

 I want to finish our 1st cookbook and start on the 2nd cookbook (NOT COMPLETED)

 I'm done printing everything from the summer reading challenge, now I have to put it all in a binder. (DONE)

I want to do a homemaking binder to keep the house more organized for when the girls get older. (NOT STARTED)

 I'm definitely going to do a 101 days to Christmas binder this year. (IN PROGRESS)

For the house: we are going to rearrange the living room again. (DONE)
I have to get the closets more organized. (IN PROGRESS)

Now family wise: we are going to start planning our vacations (NOT STARTED)

 Start planning our holidays (DONE)

 Get ready for tax season
Spend more time as a family. (IN PROGRESS)

To Do List for the Rest of the Year

I have revised my New Year's to do list. I got a couple things finished on that list, but not too happy with it.

I have to finish the kids countries binder. I'm not even close to finish with the printing of the pages.
I have to finish Samantha's letter curriculum binder.
I have to get Ariana's preparatory binder started and completed.
I want to finish our 1st cookbook and start on the 2nd cookbook
I'm done printing everything from the summer reading challenge, now I have to put it all in a binder.
I want to do a homemaking binder to keep the house more organized for when the girls get older.
I'm definitely going to do a 101 days to Christmas binder this year.

For the house: we are going to rearrange the living room again.
I have to get the closets more organized.

Now family wise: we are going to start planning our vacations
Start planning our holidays
Get ready for tax season.
Spend more time as a family.

Productive Day

Writing this 2nd post today has made my day very productive. There has been so much done today. The house being inspected and sprayed. Cayce getting his building fixed up a little. Samantha's new car seat in the car. But there is still so much to be done.

Tomorrow's to do list is:

• get a new kitchen table
• get a price check on ink and printer paper
• sort baby clothes
• type recipes that i have already made

All that along with housework, taking care of the kids, homeschooling samantha, and keeping myself sane.

Plans for tonight is to finish dishes, put Cayce's pants away, give the girls a bath and put them to bed. A new episode of The Americans comes on tongiht, and Cayce and I watch it every Wednesday. It's so good.

Goals Met

I have been doing so much today. I finally got Samantha's and Ariana's clothes put away, and realized that I have to go through their toys and sort them, so I can get my blue tubs back so I can seperate baby clothes by winter and summer. I got some dishes washed, and I met my swagbucks goal early and still working on my personal goal. I got Sammy's school work caught up and ready to do more work tomorrow.

Cayce had to go finish helping my dad this morning and he finally got the plywood and metal so we can start working on expanding our building.

My goals for the rest of the night is to finish dishes.
Get a load of Cayce's pants in the washing machine.
Try to get the number and letter book in order so I can get it done within the next week or two.
Type two recipes up.

I have some goals for tomorrow that I will post in the morning.

Bye!!