First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my dear friend Erica! I love you so much, sweets! Wish I was there to celebrate with you, but you are in my thoughts!

Erica and I have been friends since seventh grade, more than half our lives. She is thoughtful, witty, brilliant, kind, and an amazing listener. Whenever I am home, we meet up for epic 3-hour chai latte dates at our favorite local cafe, Simone’s. Everyone should be so lucky to have a friend they can talk and talk and talk for hours with, laughing so much their cheeks hurt. I feel so blessed to have her as my friend!

Here’s how I did on my goals this past week:

• revise up to page 120 of my thesis novel {I feel like I should be able to cross this off, but technically not sure if I’m up to page 120… I’ve started revising from the beginning forward AND from the end backwards, because when I make changes in the beginning I go ahead and revise the later chapters they correlate with so I don’t miss anything … eventually, I guess I’ll meet in the middle!}
• blog about Week 9 Act of Kindness Challenge & complete it myself this week
• finish reading Vanishing by Deborah Willis
  
• finish grading papers for both classes
• send cards to my Gramps and Aunt Shirley
• knit 25 rows of the baby blanket I’m working on

And here are my goals for the upcoming week:

• revise up to page 180 of my thesis novel
• blog about Week 10 Act of Kindness Challenge & complete it myself this week
• finish reading Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
  
• finish grading papers for both classes
• finish the baby blanket I’m knitting

What are your goals and menu plans for the week?

This post is linked up at Menu Plan Monday!