Monday, June 30, 2008

June, an assessment

We have much to say on this, the last day of June. We will not ignore the many voices calling for our heads, the protests of dismay, or the demand for retribution. We are here to address those who would throw us into a pit of flames and never look back even if they also dropped in their very expensive sun glasses they had just purchased that morning. We will admit it. We have failed. But before you so cruelly dice us into dice size pieces, may we interject that in another way, we have also not failed.

Let us review. . .


Katie, what is the most important goal you achieved?
I got a hair cut. That was the most life altering thing that I did.
And it looks fabulous. It seems that you accomplished about 9 of your 10 goals this month. That is 90%. How does that make you feel?
Maybe I should have some higher goals.
I did not fair so well, I fear. Let me count. . . I cannot say that I can take claim to actually cleaning my side of the room, even though it is clean, considering Juliet and Jeremy did that in preparation for Asian Lawn Party the Second. So, I only succeeded at 66%. You clearly bested me in goal achieving.

Now, as we all know, we had joint goals to try to master. Katie, how did we do in that department?
Well, as our readers will remind us, we did fail on perhaps our most important goal: blogging twice a week. If we could just change that little word 'week' to month, we could have accomplished that.
Why don't we change that? There we go, changed. Now, how did we do . . .
Did we have a an Asian Lawn Party?
Yes.
Did we have it on June 28th?
Yes.
Did we have the opportunity to change it?
Yes.
Did we plan our meals?
Um. . . not as much. . .not at all.
Did we learn where to recycle our cans?
No, we didn't even really do anything about that.
Did we finish our story in our blog?
Nope.
Did we give out more Triumph Points?
Well, no one really stepped up to the plate, to be fair.
Did we love the Royals no matter what?
Yes, in our hearts we did.
And did we blog twice a month?
Twice. . .yes.
How would you rate our success?
Well, sometimes when you set a goal, you find out that is it not that important, so it is okay if you don't achieve it.
So, taking that into consideration, how did we do?
It was pretty failing, to be honest.


Now that we are done with goal making, goal failing, and goal achieving, let's look ahead. What can our readers not expect this next month?
Well, they can expect me to still not go see Iron Man, they can expect me to not get another hair cut in the month of July, they can expect me to not throw my bike over the balcony.
I never asked you to do that.
You didn't say what were we asked to not do.
Oh, I see. I will not ask you to do that this month.

Well, everyone, that is all for tonight. We hope you have had a lovely month of June and that you achieved as much as we did or didn't, depending on which way you look at it.

3 comments:

Juliet said...

Tsk Tsk. I feel you did well though.

Adam said...

Unfortunately, because of the delay in posts for the month of June, Juliet was not able to meet her goal of reading all the posts in June, in June. I think some restitution should be made here. The actions or inactions of a person's goals should not adversely affect the goals of another. :=:

papathebald said...

I think Adam should have some goals about being encouraging, about finding the best in others, and generally smiling more.

I think Adam's contribution to the Asian Lawn party was over looked, and I think he should get half a triumph for looking over the 'stuff' while the rest frothed in mirth on the lawn.

That's all I have to say about that.