Month in Review – October 2024

Seriously, how is it the 1st of November? Must mean it’s time for another monthly review…

What we’ve been up to

  • New laptops. Kids got our old laptops.
  • Finally got & set up desks for the kids room.
  • Relive the Rivalry footy game. We were sick so missed it.
  • Watched the Hawthorn FC Best and Fairest count.
  • NRL Grand Final.
  • K graduated from the Seagulls to Chips program
  • New brakes and tyres for the VW
  • J 2 year anniversary of not dying from Pulmonary embolism.
  • Watched Bathurst
  • First lot of neonates for the 2024 kitten season. 5 little babes.
  • Checked out Indie School for K next year
  • Packed away winter clothes
  • Hooked into hockey program
  • Halloween/Beltane

In the News

  • The Israel Defense Forces invade southern Lebanon, expanding its conflict against Hezbollah.
  • The Japanese parliament elects Shigeru Ishiba as the new prime minister of Japan.
  • SpaceX achieves the first successful return and capture of a Super Heavy booster from Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever to fly.
  • Spain experiences its worst flooding in half a century, with at least 158 killed and many more missing, as a year’s worth of rain falls in eight hours.

New recipes

  • Chinese Sizzling Beef
  • Everyday Hokkien Noodles
  • glazed hoisin chicken sir fry
  • Normandy pork chops
  • black bean chilli
  • Honey Pepper Chicken

Monthly stats

Photos taken – 319

Books read/listened to: 1

Plans for next month (November)

  • Tidy my bedroom & get my craft corner reorganized
  • Ovarian Cancer Australia Workout 4 Women – my donation link
  • Get back into creating videos for my YouTube channel
  • Moving the fridges
  • Visit from Scottish rellies
  • Our Wedding anniversary (18 years!)
  • December Daily Prep day
  • Hooked in2 Hockey
  • Craft group
  • TasPop Geek market
  • Gem & Mineral Fair
  • Art Street Art launch

Until next month!

You can catch up on previous months by checking out the Monthly Reviews tag.

Month in review – February to September 2024

Since we’ve missed so much of this year here’s a pretty general overview of our year to date – February to September.

What we’ve been up to

  • K turned 14
  • Back to school. K part time
  • K went on camp
  • State election
  • Back to hockey. A playing U14. K playing U14, U16 and Div 3
  • Started an art group at A’s school.
  • Joined a local art group
  • Started coaching school hockey.
  • Went to Hobart for the Battle of Crete memorial
  • So much hockey
  • Checked out Big Picture School as an option for K next year.
  • Uni open day

In the News

  • State election. Liberals won.
  • Eurovision
  • Julian Assange freed from prison
  • UK Election – Labor wins in a landslide.
  • Attempted assassination of Trump.
  • US Election debates.
  • Biden steps out of the US Election race and endorses Kamala Harris
  • Olympics in Paris.
  • Global IT outage
  • WHO declares mpox a public health emergency
  • Hurricane Helene hits the US state of Florida.

New recipes

  • Pork Tenderloin with Honey Garlic Sauce
  • Chow Mein Ramen Noodles
  • Parmesan crusted baked fish & potatoes
  • spicy apricot chicken
  • chicken satay noodle bowl
  • country beef dump dinner
  • slow cooker honey soy beef brisket
  • chicken casserole with cheesy damper top
  • Quick french onion chicken pie
  • one pot honey bbq beef brisket
  • coconut chicken curry & yoghurt
  • slow cooker kung pow chicken
  • slow cooked melting pork ramen
  • RTE doner kebab
  • Slow-cooker beef with tomato chutney
  • Slow-cooker spiced chicken meatballs in tomato sauce
  • Slow Cooker Coca-Cola Chicken
  • Slow cooker Chinese beef
  • thai sweet pork
  • general tsoa’s chicken
  • yakisoba
  • pork & hokkien noodle stir fry

Monthly stats (Feb-Sept total)

Photos taken – 2568

Books read/listened to: 2

Plans for next month (October)

  • Apply to go uni.
  • Get my planner caught back up.
  • Get back in0to blogging.
  • Tidy my bedroom & get my craft corner reorganized
  • K graduation for Seagulls to Chips program
  • Get our front car brakes replaced
  • 18th birthday do for a friend
  • Alt market
  • Halloween/Beltane
  • Finish some of the books I’ve started

Until next month!

You can catch up on previous months by checking out the Monthly Reviews tag.

Month in review – January 2024

Well here we are at the end of the first month of 2024. Time for my first review of the year.

What we’ve been up to

  • setting up my 2024 planner (while waiting for my new planner cover to arrive)
  • cleaning and decluttering
  • enjoying a quiet school holiday
  • watching the cricket
  • setting up home school stuff for K for Term 1
  • new shelves in the kitchen
  • dropped one lots of fosters back and picked up another lot
  • Dad’s & my birthdays
  • J had 30ml of fluid drained off his knee. Gout.

In the News

  • Queen of Denmark abdicates
  • Plane collision in Japan
  • Taiwan elects a new president
  • Israel-Hamas war

New recipes

Monthly stats
Photos taken – 340
Books read/listened to:
started – Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Torz
finished – The Clean House by Katrina Springer

Plans for next month

  • Read 2 books
  • Continue working on Declutter 365
  • Get my 2024 planner setup in my new Melody cover
  • Planner blog posts
  • K turns 14

Monthly Review – March 2023

March was a quiet one blog wise as life has been super busy but here’s my monthly snapshot.

Latest posts

New recipes

  • quick chicken curry
  • chicken leek & corn pie
  • curried beef & noodles
  • beef fried rice
  • meatballs in sticky plum sauce
  • garlic butter chicken
  • chicken satay rissoles
  • bbq pork ribs
  • spiced rubbed chicken w maple glaze

What I’ve been consuming (videos, podcasts, books, music)

Lots of craft & gardening videos
AFL

Gratitude

  • family
  • craft time
  • internet friends

Events

  • a 13th birthday party – we played D&D
  • so many craft/business workshops
  • our first lot of bottle fed foster kittens
  • School athletics for both kids
  • MIL’s birthday

Monthly stats

  • Number of photos taken – 364
  • Books/pages read – 4 books

Monthly Goals

Current

  • Photo-A-Day
  • Declutter 365
  • Clean up this blog
  • Set up April & May in my planner

Next Month

  • Photo-A-Day
  • Declutter 365
  • Winter planner setup
  • blog posts

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag

Monthly Review – February 2023

Welcome to something new I’m doing in 2023 – my month in review. Each month I’ll be sharing

My posts for the month, new recipes I’ve tried, what I’ve been consuming (media wise), how I’ve done with my monthly goals (& sharing the goals for the month ahead), things I’m grateful for, events that happens, stats and anything else I want to share

So onto February 2023

Latest posts

  • No new posts since the last review

New recipes

  • RecipeTinEats Chicken shawarma
  • Beef kebabs
  • Meatloaf cupcakes
  • Creamy chicken pasta
  • RecipeTinEats Chicken lasagne
  • Stir fry beef bowl
  • Ginger chicken & crunchy noodle salad
  • Tandoori chicken wraps (with homemade flour tortillas)
  • Chinese pork & vegetables

What I’ve been consuming (videos, podcasts, books, music)

  • More junk journal videos
  • Lots of history docos
  • Death in Paradise
  • Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch by Rachel Patterson
  • Creative Watercolor by Ana Victoria Calderón
  • The Witchy Homestead by Zoe Ingram, Nikki Van De Car

Gratitude

  1. Long warm days
  2. Kids going back to school
  3. James being allowed to drive again

Events

  • Lots of craft workshops for me
  • Kara turned 13 – I have a teenager!!
  • Dad doing a presentation on my Grandfather (his Dad) at the Chin society

Monthly stats

  • Number of photos taken – 292
  • Books/pages read – 3 books started. 2 books finished.

Monthly Goals

Current

  • Photo-A-Day – all done
  • Declutter 365 – all done
  • Get back into the school routine – daily alarm set for M-F but we still run late most days 🙁
  • Clean up this blog – started

Next Month

  • Photo-A-Day
  • Declutter 365
  • Clean up this blog
  • Set up April & May in my planner

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag

Monthly Review – January 2023

Welcome to something new I’m doing in 2023 – my month in review. Each month I’ll be sharing my posts for the month, new recipes I’ve tried, what I’ve been consuming (media wise), how I’ve done with my monthly goals (& sharing the goals for the month ahead), things I’m grateful for, events that happens, stats and anything else I want to share

So onto the review of January 2023

Latest posts

New recipes

  • English muffins
  • Baguettes
  • Mongolian beef meatballs
  • RecipeTinEats Chicken salad
  • Beef rissoles with scallop potato
  • Chicken Kyiv pasta bake
  • Creamy French onion chicken salad
  • Thai chicken meatball salad
  • Cheesy one pan sour cream chicken pasta

What I’ve been consuming (videos, podcasts, books, music)

  • Junk journal videos
  • Cricket – Tests and Big Bash League
  • History Channel
  • Death in Paradise S10 & S11
  • The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2
  • Egyptian Mythology by Garry J Shaw
  • Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch by Rachel Patterson

Gratitude

  1. Family
  2. Super relaxed school holidays.
  3. Fresh summer fruits – hello mangos

Events

  • School holiday workshops for the kids
  • Birthdays – Dad & Mine

Monthly stats

Number of photos taken: 363
Books/pages read: 120 pages

Monthly Goals

January Goals

  • Photo-A-Day – all 31 days done
  • Declutter 365 – a couple of days behind but mostly done
  • 1st quarter vision board – done and in my planner

February Goals

  • Photo-A-Day
  • Declutter 365
  • Get back into the school routine
  • Clean up this blog

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag