{"id":4074,"date":"2016-02-29T20:09:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeefreakdesigns.com\/teenstotsandeverythinginbetween\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2016-03-01T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T01:15:33","slug":"february-in-review-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"February in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Personal-<br \/>\n1. <em>Blogging<\/em><\/strong>\u2013 <em>Post\u00a020 per month<\/em>.\u00a0Fail. This is post number 14. Stress, stress and busy are my reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2.Weight Loss<\/em><\/strong>\u2013\u00a0<em>175#.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>I managed to lose 8 of the pounds that I gained between Disney and Christmas so I guess this is a start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Spiritual<\/strong>\u2013 <em>Spend at least 5 days a week, reading and studying The Bible. Goal Met.\u00a0 <\/em> I have made huge strides this month and plan to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Small steps of improvement mean really long term change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Financial-\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Set aside money each month in every budget category<\/strong>. Fail-even with our income tax return. February has been a most expensive month<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Establish and maintain Emergency Fund- <\/strong>Fail.<br \/>\n<strong>3. Groceries: Goal is for $700. <\/strong>SUCCES- Total spending for the month is $509! So I am at this point spending 50% less than I budgeted. I really thing is an area that I am going to be able to control much better this year. Part of the reason is monthly menu planning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Gas: Spend $400 a month-<\/strong> Fail. We had to purchase tires for my van and a small repair to the car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Pay off all Credit Card debit by December 2016-<\/strong> Fail. Our overall debt increased by $800 this month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly the wonderful report I had hope to give but I am being honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal- 1. Blogging\u2013 Post\u00a020 per month.\u00a0Fail. This is post number 14. Stress, stress and busy are my reasons. 2.Weight Loss\u2013\u00a0175#.\u00a0\u00a0I managed to lose 8 of the pounds that I gained between Disney and Christmas so I guess this is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/?p=4074\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budgeting","category-goals","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ySyX-13I","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenstotsandeverythinginbetween.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}