Plan With Me | May 18-24

So it's been a couple of weeks since I last showed you my planning but the planning hasn't stopped. Here's the before and after for week May 11th-17th.

Before:

After:

Here's some pictures to take you thru the week. Fun times at Linh and Kyle's wedding and some stuff in between.

french onion soup on a cold "winter" day

lattes at birdrock coffee

potluck at john & donna's place

heart guestbook

the beautiful couple

pill pushers off duty :P

yummyn wedding food

photobooth fun!

more photobooth fun!

Here's the final look for week May 18th-24th. I didn't get a chance to take a before picture for this week but it was pretty hectic one so there wasn't much going on besides work.

I'll be heading out of town in a week or so so I'm really looking forward to sharing that time with you guys! Have a great week and hope everyone enjoyed their Memorial Day weekend!

Plan With Me | May 11-17

Here's a look at my last week.

Before

After

Here's a look at my planner for this week. It's pretty empty so far so lots of room to decorate!

Hope you guys are enjoying these posts and have a great week!

Plan With Me | The First

Life. One word and yet you already know this post is going to be a jump and a skip away from the deep end. Lately, life has been exhausting. Since this year started, I've felt unmotivated. I've been tired. I've felt... dead. I wasn't depressed because I didn't really have anything to be depressed about. Work wasn't horrible. Friends and family were doing fine. Relationship is good. There wasn't anything to complain about yet something was off. I was disappointed with mediocre ("I don't want no mediocre..."). I wanted... more.

Because I've been so tired, I wasn't as productive as I would have liked to be. It wasn't until the start of May that I started having a spurt of energy. I bought a new planner and started my planner journey. I can honestly say that I feel rejuvenated. I've been more productive and in turn, that has given me more energy. Finally, things are starting to look up.

I thought I'd share with you what my planner looks like from week to week. It's sort of similar to how I would do my week/month in reviews except now you get to see it in writing instead of pictures. Maybe I'll add in pictures from my phone or something.

My planner isn't anything crazy special. I bought it at CVS for $9.99 (full price) so I'm pretty sure you can use coupons and pretty much get it for free. It's the PlanAhead Mother's Organizer. It's an 18-month calendar and has a monthly section as well as a weekly section. I actually like this set up and I'm debating whether I want an Erin Condren planner just for the easy access to stickers but for now I'm ok with my cheapy planner.

For my group of friends, we actually take turns doing scrapbooks for each other's birthdays and I was being a super procrastinator so I barely finished mine which was due this past weekend. I had to buy some embellishments for it hence going to Michael's. I went a little crazy and bought a bunch of stickers for my trip to Hawaii next month. I really want to do a traveler's notebook (example) for this trip and I've been super addicted to watching videos on YouTube on how people document their travels. I have a pretty good idea of how I want to do mine but usually things will change depending on how many trinkets (business cards, room keys, etc) I collect while I'm there. Here are some of the stickers I got. I had a 40% off one item coupon as well as their $5 of $25 for filling out their survey so all of the stickers below ended up costing less than $20.

I hope you liked this post and I'm extremely excited to start planning with ya'll. The June gloom arrived early in San Diego and I'm absolutely loving it. This entire winter has felt like summer so I'm excited for the cool down. Now if it would just freakin' rain! Hope to talk to ya'll soon!

Money Mondays: April 2015 Budget Verdict

April was an unpredictably spendy month. We took a small vacation. I decided to finally purchase a new camera to replace the one that I had lost on the plane ride back from Hawaii. I decided to splurge on a present for the significant other. I've just finished tallying everything up and man oh man O_O. Looks like I went a tad crazy this month. Luckily, we have 3 paychecks in May! Hooray!

One of the things I haven't been so good about doing is analyzing my spending. Sure it's great to track and see what I'm actually purchasing and the bills I'm paying but what about doing something to attack what's sucking all your money? For this month, one of the major money suckers was eating out. It's something that has definitely been difficult to control. We've moved to an area that has high walkability and every day that I get out early is an opportunity to go to happy hour. For the month of May, we definitely need to start cooking more at home as well as packing a lunch. I think that will be the thing that will help us decrease our spending the most.

Here's to getting shit together in May! Happy Monday!

Fitness Fridays: The Little Black Dress Challenge

Wedding season is upon us once again! And there's no better time than now to get that body into shape. I think the sense of urgency helps. I have two weddings to attend at the end of the month and I'm far from ready but I'm motivated to be ready when the weddings are here. And to knock down two birds with one stone since swimsuit season is coming right up!

I found this 30 Day Little Black Dress Challenge and I think it would be perfect for the month of May. They also have many other 30 Day Challenges on their site so definitely check them out.

TGIF and I hope everyone has a great weekend!