september - Ashley Zin

Today’s Blog-tember post is a “Currently” or what have you been up to? These are my favorite posts too!

Reading: I’ve gone on an accidental reading hiatus like I normally do. For some reason I can’t seem to stay consistent when it comes to reading but being on vacation has helped a lot. My mom bought the seventh Harry Potter book and I’ve been reading that. I’m still unsure of how I feel about it.
Playing: monopoly and all the board games! That’s what vacation is for!
Watching: Grey’s Anatomy of course! I’m trying to not watch any Netflix this vacation I think and read more. (Also part of my September goals.)
Trying: to read more, eat better, and work out more. All the good things.
Cooking: nothing at the moment but I do need to create our food plan and budget for this month.
Eating: all of the unhealthy things like chips, processed food, and more chips.
Drinking: some awesome coffee from a small mom and pop coffee shop right down the road from our hotel.
Calling: no one, who has time for calling people.
Texting: also no one. I only ever text my family and they’re all here with me now 🙂
Pinning: yummy new recipes!!
Tweeting: nothing. I haven’t used Twitter in a good while.
Going: to the beach today! The weather looks like it finally cleared up – I’m so excited.
Loving: this last vacation before fall starts and spending time relaxing with my family.
Hating: that we only have two more days 🙁
Discovering: that not everyone loves the beach like me and it’s mind boggling.
Thinking: about the start of fall and how excited I am for it.
Feeling: slightly sick but hoping it will pass because I want to enjoy today.
Hoping: that the rest of vacation we will have good weather and that time will go nice and slow.
Listening: nothing at the moment.
Celebrating: the possible new job that I am going to start in a few weeks and how good God is.
Smelling: salty ocean air 🙂
Ordering: hopefully some more cute decor for our apartment (I see some cute fall decor in our near future.)
Thanking: God for this time I get to spend at the beach with my family.
Considering: the new job and if it is a good fit for me despite being slightly risky.
Starting: to look forward to fall and the crisp fall air (just as soon as we get back from this vacation!)

So as you can see I have vacation and the beach on my mind. Sorry if that’s all I talked about lol but that’s currently what I’m up to. What is everyone else up to? This month I’ve re-found my love for blogging because of the Blog-tember Challenge, hosted by Bailey Jean. Come join us!

Okay, okay, I know I’m off to a bad start but I promise I had good intentions to write every day. But the beach is very tiring and distracting so I was basically set up to fail haha. But today I’m going to make up for it and do TWO days worth of posts! 🙂 (Mostly because it’s super windy, cloudy, and cold today but that’s besides the point 😉 ).

Toady’s prompt is to: “Share a list of your current goals.” It’s been a while since I’ve shared any goals on here so I why not start back up now?

1. No credit cards. I’ve been making monthly budgets for almost a year now and last month decided I was going to not allow myself to use my credit cards and I did really well so I decided I’m going to keep that up this month.

2. Speaking of budgets – I want to stick to my budget this month. I usually do pretty well but I lost track of the spending on about the third week of the month. I want to try to use the envelope system and put cash in envelopes and only use that money for what it was budgeted for.

3. Spend as much time outside in the sun while it is still warm. Tommy and I started going down the shore about a month ago and want to make up for all the time we didn’t spend at the beach and in the sun in the beginning of the summer so while we still can we plan on spending most of our free time in the sun. 🙂

4. Spend more time with God reading His word. The past two weeks have been rough for me when it comes to being consistent with reading my bible. I want to spend more time this month being consistent with this again. I know how important it is for my sanity to do this – to remind myself daily that I am not in control of this crazy life, but that God is. I also know that this important for my sanctification because God uses this time to transform my desires into more pleasing ones to Him and I know I desperately need that as well.

5. Less Netflix, more Reading. Enough said.

Currently: September

September Goals