Sunday, August 25, 2019

To keep things interesting - I started a day planner

Because, Why not?
I have come to the conclusion that I'm not a good diary/note keeper.
Shocking to me, because that was part of my job 
once upon a time.
WELL no longer, evidently.
So...........
I'm using a Traveler's notebook that well....working on that too.
Because neither one is so not a 12x12, 8.5x11 ETC 
scrapbook page and the documentation and creative process
is sooooo different.
AND who doesn't love a challenge.
So with the brilliant deduction to start one brought on by
second guessing and because at one time, due to my job I was day planner,
calendar driven person for over 15 years ago (when
they first came out in the business world
-they had a different name that escapes me now)
but my entire life was driven and I SWORE (so much for that)
that my life would never be calendar/day planner 
driven EVER.
HOWEVER, it's not so much DRIVEN now as remembering
what happened at any given time on our Odyssey.
It's more like a diary.
An abbreviated diary, with hopeful comments that lend
to a more involved commentary.
Which may or may not be working.
I was so excited to find this day planner mostly because
I liked all the cool shaker thing going on - on the cover page.
 So after the purchase I found that I needed a day planner from March 2019
and this one started at July 2019 to July 2020.
I saw 2019-2020 and was sooooo excited UNTIL...
 I needed March.
LOL.
 So I improvised, ad libbed because being on the road and only
finding M's, HL, or ACM on the road and actually STOPPING was 
like just like not going to happen until we light and land somewhere.
 We were on the move or camping at a location
that was nowhere close to any of the above.
So imagine my chagrin when I found out I screwed up.
The internet is a wonderful thing.
I found blank calendar pages and printed them out.
and logged our journey based on the 3-4 summary
thing I had going on.
I'm telling you it's not for the faint of heart. LOL.

 I have to admit this planner has a LOT of pages.
They have the 30 day calendar.
THEN they have pages by the week.
THEN they have a comments sections.
THEN they have a summary page at the end.

What could possibly go wrong.
OVERTHINKING.

So these are my first lame attempts and any helpful/creative
hints will be so welcome.
However, I have progressed to August that even
blows me away at the pages.
I'm gonna wait until August is running into September
before I attempt to blow your mind
with my attempt at creativity.

Remember I came from a business world day planner so
this is total frivolity. 
LOL.







2 comments:

Connie Mercer said...

hey I like it~you've got some good stuff in there :) keep it up!!!

Holli said...

look at you go with this dateplanner, datebook,logbook, agenda, organizer,timetable etc.. just to name a few that it could have been known for. :) started my own traveler book becauseof you but i dont see myself trying to do a dayplanner/calender that overwhelms me. but you are rocking it!