Day 32 of 365

It's Roundup Time !

This simple little exercise will prompt you to take a few minutes and jot down the details of the

ending month before the new one takes over. Look over your calendar, your blog posts, your

photos, or whatever types of records you have kept throughout the month. I find that even

reviewing my bank statement jogs my memory about what has happened in the month.

I am constantly referencing my monthly roundups for ideas for scrapbook pages and I always

have material for journaling now. After I answer the questions I just post them to my blog and

my roundup is done. If you don't have a blog, just save them on your hard drive or print them out.

Here are the questions I use:

1. What books and/or magazines did I read this month?
2. What movies, television shows, plays, etc. did I watch this month?
3. What fun things did I do with my family and/or friends?
4. What gifts did I give and/or receive?
5. What special or unusual purchases did I make?
6. What illnesses or health concerns did I have?
7. What were my accomplishments this month?
8. What were my disappointments this month?
9. How did I do on my goals for the month? (Or any current short or long term goals)
10. Anything else noteworthy to include?

Here are the tasks I try to make sure are done by the end of the month:

1. Upload all digital pictures to my hard drive and clear off memory cards in camera. Place all
2. photos for the month in a computer folder labeled with the month and year. Make a
   
3. backup copy of the photos from the month on my external hard drive and a dvd. I also
   
4. upload all photos to my Photo Bucket account (you can use any offsite photo storage site,
   
5. Ideally, these activities should be done every time you process any pictures through your
   
6. computer so you don't lose any precious files, but if you have lapsed during the month,
   
7. now's the time to get it done!
8. Choose photos or digital layouts to be printed out and get it done while I'm thinking about it.
9. Backup any other documents or files as needed. I use an external Hard Drive, I also upload many documents to Google docs. I don't like to lose stuff.
10. Backup my blog. It's easy to do if you have one, just use Typepad backup or blogger backup.
11. Clean off my work area, empty my inbox, and clean up my computer files. LOL
    

This is a great way to finish off the current month and prepare yourself for a fresh start.I hope you will try it!

The important thing is to just take a few minutes to record the memories of the month before they are forgotten!

HERE IS JANUARY layout !!!!

Did not do much today but I did leave the house, Bank, Rite Aid, Groceries and stopped to

give Deanna the E-Cigs we got and the juice to sell. This is her and the Guy she rents a space from.