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.
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+$21.94+$4.10= $48.41. I was able to get a check (twice!!) once I reached (and then surpassed) $20. I recommend cashing out as soon as you reach the $20 benchmark on this app because the check can take a couple of weeks to get to you.
Shopkick: starting 11 kicks ($1 = 250 kicks) Current earnings 4,342 kicks. (I doubled my kicks from last month!)
Swagbucks: starting 45 swagbucks ($1 = 100 swagbucks) Current earnings 437 swagbucks
Ibotta: starting $4.30 Current earnings $69.18.
Fetch Rewards: starting 3,215 points ($1 = 1,000 points) Current earnings 19,032 points. Great month for Fetch Rewards! It helped that two receipts ended up giving me 4,000 points each!
August was a great month for Fetch Rewards and Shopkick!
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
- Star Wars: Lord of the Sith
- The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
- The Stylist by Rosie Nixon
- The Deceivers by Haddix
- I loved (and highly recommend) all these books!
I’m currently working on
I also started listening to audiobooks using my library card. So far I’ve read #Girlboss (because I watched the show on Netflix) and Jenna Fisher’s book, The Actor’s Life.
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 wasn’t able to make any new squares this month – though I did write down some ideas!
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)
- Blondies with M&Ms
- Blueberry Muffins
Nothing new in this department.
5. Take one Mental Health Monday a week.
I did a lot of Pelaton meditations, and after I finish writing this, I’m going to go do some Pelaton yoga!
Sincerely,
A
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