The second half of the year has been rather lame in the goals department. Well, except for the money goals they were mainly to help me feel stimulated and challenged by life vs. coasting by. Being pregnant is very stimulating and challenging, so I don't really need other tasks to keep me happy! I do need to get more exercise and eat healthy, but I'm going to see if I can do that on my own without a monthly challenge. So far I'm doing pretty well on the food front, but the exercise needs some work. AS and I went for walks after work yesterday and the day before, and I walk around with NT during lunch, so at least I get a bit.

Anyhoo, back to the rest of the goals. Did not catch up on posting food photos, but we have continued to take photos most days (except sometimes when we're eating out), so we could still collect and review them at the end of the year if we wanted.

NT's UK taxes are done, and we didn't owe any money. Nor were we anywhere close to making enough profit to hit the deductible (aka "personal allowance"), so as long as I can remember that there will be less stress each fall as I prep them.

As a result of not owing, I was able to exceed the savings goal, which I'd made very modest in case I needed that flat-rental money to pay Her Majesty's Revenue Service. $780 saved instead of our $170 goal!

And our debt repayment did really well, thanks to some payments hitting this month that sometimes don't clear until the first of the next month. Paid off $2478 instead of our $2200 goal!

Although I didn't have any specific other goals:

I did take a couple extra walks, ate fairly healthy and gained the right amount of weight for my pregnancy, so I feel OK about fitness.

Environment-wise, I've continued to use more environmentally friendly toiletries, and AS now makes our laundry soap, dish detergent and surface cleaners, saving on packaging and cutting down on chemicals. We're still very good about taking reusable shopping bags everywhere, even on vacation. And we reuse containers for our bulk-food purchases whenever possible, so that's another waste eliminated. We're also doing the "if it's yellow, let it mellow" toilet system (when we don't have guests), so we're saving a bit of water that way. (This doesn't save us money because we just pay one lump sum to our condo association, but we like the environmental aspect.) Oh, and we've been taking all the baby-related hand-me-downs offered to us, so hopefully our baby will have a lower carbon footprint than most.

Creatively I've been a bit slack, but, you know, I'm creating life!

I haven't done much philanthropy, but we've done some small things, like NT buying a homeless-sold newspaper in Wisconsin, and me buying a couple cans of tomatoes for the AIDS charity that sometimes collects outside our co-op. I have also been sending e-mails to my congressmen and the president about improving health care, which will probably help others much more than me (but I'm still all for it).

We've had a bit of profit from side hustles; sold some coats on eBay, and AS gets $10 per load to do laundry for this older lady in the building, and NT's been doing tons of Pinecone surveys. Oh, and AS and I both redeemed MyPoints for Old Navy gift cards.

I guess that's about it! October goals will come later when I need another break from this busy, busy day.