Previous Months: Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug
Side note: I’m not sure I’ve ever kept up with monthly recaps for this long. But I do enjoy writing them!
BIG THINGS:
I completed a ton of creative work!
We enjoyed a great trip to Hawk’s Cay with friends
I had an epic college BFFs trip in Boston/Truro MA
BOOKS READ: (full 2026 list) –> finished 4, plus 2/3 of one NF and 1/3 of a novel that I’m currently reading.
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner – 9.10; liked this, but not as much as Fleishman is in Trouble by the same author
Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty – 9.20; LOVED this!
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls – 9.10; I read it because A was reading it for school and I was curious. I liked it a lot but was kind of glad I read along (some tough topics!)
Eat Your Ice Cream by Ezekiel Emanuel – 9.17; I thought it was a logical and sound health advice book.
DATE NIGHTS: Ummm I don’t think we did any (unless going to Back to School Night together counts — and no, it really doesn’t)!!! I thought there was one, but it was actually August 28th. Josh took some call, plus with all the travel it just didn’t happen. (I also will note that I did not plan any in so . . . yeah, funny how that works). Will do better in October – we are determined to do something this weekend and we already have concert tickets later in the month.
HABITS:
Headspace: 15/30
Walk outside: 28/30
Read: 25/30
Listened to music: 28/30
Duolingo: 17/30
I did not play much piano at all. Maybe I’ll bring that back later with some holiday tunes in December . . .
Strength: 14 sessions, 7 at the gym (well, some were at my hotel gym in Duck Key but that counts – it was a very well-equipped gym). All Empowered workouts! Still loving this program.
Pilates: 7 sessions at the studio, all 2.0 classes. I went every Weds night at 7 pm (who am I!?) plus two Sunday mornings.
Walking: 28/30 days, with an average step count of 10,604 (any month over 10K average is a win in my book!)
Yoga: 3 sessions of Yoga with Adriene
Nutrition: Still going really strong here — tracking, protein, all of it. I definitely didn’t eat as high protein on my vacation days, but I didn’t go off the rails either.
TV / PERFORMANCES / MUSIC:
TV –> Ted Lasso x 2 eps, that’s it (!). (We are behind and I’m itching to catch up.)
Movies –> None
Music –> LOTS! I got in the habit of making weekly playlists and had a lot of fun with that (some links coming tomorrow!). My favorite albums of the month were new ones from Sylvan Esso, Beck, Steven R Smith, Medium Build, and This is Lorelei. List above all curated from the NPR Music New Music Friday episodes.
GOALS + HIGH/LOW:
SUCCESSES:
Empowered/gym twice per week (I didn’t on vacation, but that was a planned break so I’m still considering this a success!)
No looking at phone in the car
Continue Sunday family meetings
Reconvene Book Club – yep, happened 9/17 and was fun!
C’s ROOM RESET!!!!! So proud of getting this done.
Add a few fall accents (!) – also surprised I actually did this, ha. But there are nicely scented candles and pumpkins around and I do think we are all enjoying it!
Work stuff / follow Creative Work Plan – victory
Bake one fall thing – these count:
See Hobonichi planners in person – YES
Metaplanning // Figure out next PHL trip – done, though I’m a little dismayed it really doesn’t fit until January
Metaplanning // Plan robotics get-together – tentatively scheduled!
FAILS / ABANDONED SHIP:
Try drawing. I’m not giving up on this, but I DNS’d it in September.
Date nights x 2 – epic fail!
Weekly planning session with C – uh oh. I did want to do this, and it did not happen.
Create fall dinner rotation – nope
HIGHLIGHTS:
Josh WALKING again! And back at work! And able to lift weights, cycle, etc (he is now talking about future triathlon life . . .)
BOTH trips noted above!
Book club reuniting
Lovely retirement party for one of our nurses
Feeling good about getting everything done work-wise (including sticking to my recording schedule + weekly inbox zero)
LOWLIGHTS:
My heart has been acting bratty lately (lots of bigeminy even randomly at rest – my doctors are aware and I have a monitor scheduled for October)
Unexpected tax bomb! (Gah! But hopefully should not happen again, and will be okay. As I noted – the bathroom remodel can wait!)
My dad continues to struggle health-wise, though things looking up a bit past few days
(And usual disclaimer that of course some unbloggable things too!)
1 Comment
We had 0 date nights in September too. We had a day date over Labor Day weekend, but that feels like ancient history at this point. There is something about all the back to school nights etc. that just makes it feel difficult to fit in.
Also just solidarity on the tax bomb. That happened to us when I was a resident. I got a cryptic text from my husband and I called from the chief resident’s office. We owed more than I made in a year a fact that I practically shouted. he reasons are complicated and related to purchasing a new house and the fact that my husband made a lot more money than I did. We thought we had planned well, we had not. We figured it out and all is well, but it was such an unpleasant surprise.