Café Con Monica

Three on Thursday

Another Thursday post of Favorites thanks to Steph @ Not Entirely Perfect

Arbonne Soothing Overnight Mask– I did a few of the Arbonne parties in 2017/18 and while most of the stuff wasn’t my favorite or to me wasn’t worth the price this one stuck with me. I use it anytime my skin seems to be freaking out. I put it on before bed, let it dry and go to sleep. 9/10 I have woken up with my skin calmer, the bumps/redness lessened or gone. I thing I like most about Arbonne is that they are vegan and cruelty free AND I can find the entire list of ingredients online.

Retail me not & Snip Snap Apps – Anytime I go to a store before checkout I check these apps for coupons. I am all about a deal. Its helpful to have the apps so I don’t have to go looking for coupons before I go somewhere.

Lush Cosmetic Warrior Mask – Another mask, I know, but I love this one too. It smells like garlic pasta to me which is funny but it feels so nice on my skin! I feel like it does a good job of soothing my skin without drying it out.

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Books: February TBR

Last month I laid out my Book Goals for 2019 and January’s TBR . Today I want to share the books on my February TBR list. Next week I will share all the books I read in January on SUYB.

#Unreadshelfproject

The challenge for February is to read any book that was gifted to us. Of the books shown above that would be An Anonymous Girl. It was gifted to me by the Girly Book Club in addition to The Wife Between Us. I saved it to read this month because why not throw in a thriller that has passion, doubt and trust issues for the romantic month!

Multiple Categories

Last year I really wanted to read at least one Non-Fiction book a month and I am continuing that into 2019. Becoming by Michelle Obama covers Non-Fiction, It’s political, and is written by an African American author. For those of you not living in the US the month of February is African American History Month. 

Girly Book Club

American War is the Girly Book Club choice for February and as the host I get a copy of the book each month so I am excited to read this one. I would probably not have chosen this book myself anytime soon so it fills in for the goal of reading books I didn’t choose!

A little Romance

I can’t let the month February go by without reading some romance right? Burn for You is one of those slow burn books I am a big fan of.

I will, of course, read plenty more books in February and they will likely be more romance because of Valentine’s Day but Ill share them all in Show Us Your books!

What’s on your TBR list for January? Are you doing any reading challenges?

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February Goals – January Check


January Review

  • No Spend – So this was at about an 80%. I didn’t do as well as I wanted to BUT I did really well for me. I didn’t purchase a single thing (books, clothes, random crap) that I didn’t need or have a gift card to pay for. THAT IS huge for me.
  • Cooking– We cooked so much in January. I would definitely say it was a 85% since there were at least two days that we should have cooked but were both not feeling it and ordered in.
  • Planning – 95% I rocked the hell out of my planner in January. I made it pretty, checked it very often and already got started on February.
  • Being Present – I consider this one a big fat fail. With focusing on growing this blog again I have been taking alot of time to be on social media, try to get good pictures and I feel like there are a lot of gaps of what did I do during that time.

I did good, better than I thought but not as good as I could have! I did love seeing the numbers in my savings account jump up when I was able to move over all the money I didn’t waste last month. So these goals are kind of the same going in February with a few added but I want to get these to 90-100% on all of them!

February Goals

  • Less Spend – There are a few things I know I held off purchasing that I really want/need so I will be doing that this month but I’d like to continue focusing on not mindless spending.
  • Working Out– I started to pick back up in January but for February I want to focus on having my body feel a lot less crappy. Back in the gym and to yoga!
  • No takeout– I want to see if we can get through this month without Grubhub in our lives. We waste a lot when we order grubhub and I think we can cook way better meals than what we are ordering!
  • Blog Planning– I am falling into my old habits of working on posts the day before or morning of. I have plenty planned out, no reason to be procrastinating!
  • PUT the phone down – Again. I really need to be present. I downloaded an app that tells me how much time I spend on certain apps and has a limit so I can remind myself when I am getting there!

How did you do in January? Ready to kick February’s goals in the bum?

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