Dear Adventure Avenue,

This year I made five goals that I hope to accomplish by 2022. Some of these goals are curiosity based, while others are geared towards self growth or preservation. You can read more about them in this post.

This months post is coming a little late as I was in Hawaii for the past 6 days! I will be posting more about that trip in the coming weeks! In the meantime, be sure to check out my recent Disneyland Adventure.

Goals

Track how much I actually make per month/per year using money making apps. Checkout this post to get the referral codes and links so you can follow along on this adventure.  

Checkout 51: starting $14.04 Current earnings $22.37+$14.88= $37.25. I was able to get a check once I reached (and then surpassed) $20. I recommend cashing out as soon as you reach the $20 benchmark on this app.

Shopkick: starting 11 kicks ($1 = 250 kicks) Current earnings  1,731 kicks.

Swagbucks: starting 45 swagbucks ($1 = 100 swagbucks) Current earnings 379 swagbucks

Ibotta: starting $4.30 Current earnings $56.69. June was a great Ibotta month for me!

Fetch Rewards: starting 3,215 points ($1 = 1,000 points) Current earnings 7,301 points.

2. Read 12 books throughout the year. That’s a book a month.

So far this year I have read 11 books:

• Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
• Welcome to the Farm: How-to Wisdom from the The Elliott Homestead by Shaye Elliott
• Star Wars: Thrawn Alliances by Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: Thrawn Treason by Timothy Zahn
• America’s Women: 400 years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins
•  Seasons at the Farm by Shaye Elliott
• When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present by Gail Collins
• Long Live the Queen: 23 Rules for Living from Britain’s Longest Reigning Monarch by Bryan Kozlowski
• Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
• Lessons from Madame Chic by Jennifer L. Scott
• The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
• I just started reading Star Wars: Lord of the Sith – so far it’s great! My brother read it and gave it a stellar review too!
• I loved (and highly recommend) all these books!

I created a “What I’m Reading” page if you want to see some books that I have read or am planning to read.

3. Create a Star Wars inspired quilt square once a month to create a Star Wars quilt in December or January of next year. 

So far I’ve made: 

• A Sequel Trilogy square with Rey and BB-8
• A Mandalorian square with Grogu!
• An Anakin and Padme square
• A Darth Vader Imperial square
• A Rogue One square
• A Princess Leia and Rebel Alliance square
• A droids square featuring R2-D2 and C-3PO
• A Jedi Order square
• A Ships square featuring a TIE fighter and the Millennium Falcon

I plan on getting some sewing done in July!

4. Make 12 new recipes. 

So far I’ve made:

• Leeks with butter and breadcrumbs (First time I ever had leeks and they were delicious!)
• Poulet au Tomates – click here for the recipe.
• Fried Endorian Tip Yip from my Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge Cookbook.
• Cornbread from a recipe from The Elliott Homestead
• Madeleines from my Downton Abbey Cookbook (Though they turned out to be more like mini lemon cakes)
• Lemon Mint Sorbet (Recipe coming soon)

5. Take one Mental Health Monday a week. 

Hawaii. Need I say more?

That’s all for this month! Check back next month for more updates!

Sincerely,

A

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