I checked for the two pending payments this morning, and both hit with a Feb. 28 date stamp. AS's student loan put $61 to principal, but unfortunately the $100 I sent to NT's student loan went entirely to interest, which is no help to my goal. So my debt repayment for February was $961, $39 shy of my $1000 goal. First time our debt repayment has been under $1000 for the month, and second time I've missed my monthly target.

Well, I'm setting the March goal for $1039 ($1000 was going to be my original goal, but I want to make up that $39), and this time I'll make sure I pay enough to cover interest and dip into the principal of NT's loan.

As for my creative/reading goal, I left my book at work, so there was no chance of finishing a book for the month (unless I'd grabbed one of AA's picture books ). I wasn't in the mood to try and write a short story, so I looked around for quick craft projects. NT and AS suggested origami, so I found some good paper to work with and a pattern for a little origami frog. The first one turned out OK but I thought I could do better, so I made a second one. It was a fun project that took about 45 minutes, and it challenged my dexterity, so I count that as meeting my February creative goal!

Nearly everything else on my goals list showed some progress in February. To recap:
-Added money to the Roth IRAs
-Gave money to charities
-Improved AS's net worth
-Got a bonus and applied for new jobs
-Did a creative project
-Hosted a dinner party
-Wrote a shared-topic blog post

The only things I didn't do well in were meeting my debt goal, exercising/tracking my weight, and EF savings (we had to use some to pay for repairs to NT's UK flat).

In March, besides my new debt goal and the other financial goals, I'm going to focus on the trip to SF and all four of our birthdays. Our get-together this month will be AA's first birthday party this Saturday (can you believe she's almost a year old??). Should be a fun, action-packed month!