journaling

 i have been pretty inconsistent with journaling this year, but i have been inconsistent with pretty much everything this year!  so, it's not doing better or worse than anything else in my life i suppose.

i have been the most consistent with my book journal.  i fear i am not on track to meet my goal of 80 books read this year, but i'll try my best.  i have been reading mostly from the library and libby app this year.  support libraries!!!!

 i started keeping a media journal this year for the tv shows and movies we watch.  it's nothing more than a monthly list of the show name but it works for me.

we went to Vancouver this summer and i have a big bag of stuff for my junk journal.

 while there i got to go to a stationary store - i was SO excited!  unfortunately for me, it was very very small and didn't have a lot of the stuff i was looking for - accessories and fun stuff mostly.  but i bought a journal and a few pens.

 

Journalling - take 3 (or 74)

I am trying journalling again to keep organized, and well, it's sort of working? A little? Mostly, I just get more anxious that I am not getting anything I have listed down actually done. So that's fun.

I am using a (new since last time) dollar store notebook, and doing  a calendar page for each month to note things happening, a to-do page for each month, where nothing gets crossed off....and then pages for lists I need in the month.  Like this list for a potluck in December.

Each month I start a new set of calendar pages and a new to do list, and transfer all the undone to do's to the new list.  And then close the book and run away.

I also have some pages set aside for books I want to read, things to research, recipes to try.  I tried menu planning in the notebook as well, but that didn't work for me.

I fell off the wagon the past couple of months, but am trying to get back to it.  It is pretty satisfying to cross things off the to-do list page, I must say.

Another wagon I fell off of hard is the fitness/healthy weight wagon, and that one has been verrrrrry difficult to get back on track.  (Spoiler alert - I am not back on track.)  I wondered if some sort of exercise/healthy habit tracking page might help?
I found a recent layout for tracking health/mental health that I have just started to try.
It's too early to say if it's having a positive impact, but we'll see. 

Anyone out there  got some good inspiration for health tracker layouts for journals - or any inspiration at all - let me know!

Morning photo

This photo contains 3 things I love -

Smoothies

Bacon and scrambled eggs with seasoned salt

My new daily journal

I'd like to think I'm a fairly organized person, but I'm not.  

I'd like to think I have a good memory, which is also not true.

I feel like I am constantly forgetting things, which sadly is VERY true, so I was quite interested when I happened across some information on Bullet Journaling. There is way too much to say about it, but it's a system - a flexible system - of organizing a notebook into keeping your appointments, tasks, goals, lists, pretty much whatever you want to track.

I bought myself a $1.25 notebook and $1.00 worth of small labels at the dollar store to get started.  Then I read some posts over at Miss Zoot, thought about what my goals were with this system, and got started.  I made myself a page for goals/tasks for the month, some pages for notes I think I'll use (Stuff to Know, Gift Ideas, Movies to see, Books to Read), and then a section for daily happenings.  

 

I've been using the notebook for just under a month now and I'm so happy with it.  I use a couple of elastic bands to keep it shut and throw it in my purse so I've always got it with me in case I need to add something.  (Which I did yesterday!  I felt so grown up pulling it out and adding a note.  Go me.)

I try to remember to check it every morning for not only that day, but the week.  

I definitely feel more organized and while I still don't accomplish as much as I'd like in the timeliest of manners, I'm feeling more like I've got a hold of things, and that's important to me.  

Check out Miss Zoot's posts, and there's tons of stuff (obvs) if you google bullet journal.

If you're super creative or artistic, check out pinterest too.