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melliciousMy goal today is to write something coherent and with slightly fewer parentheses than yesterday. Realistic goals, that's the ticket.
I have been really planner-obsessed this year, so maybe I will talk about that. I've used some kind of planner off and on for years. I still have a couple of little coil-bound books that I used in college around somewhere, and after that I used actual planners sometimes and other times I just kept a little calendar in my purse and scribbled on that. When I used to be a secretary, we used Franklin Planners, so that's probably where my current planner obsession started.
The last five years or so I've used an Erin Condren planner. I used the Lifeplanner, the big coil-bound weekly planner. (With much nicer coils than those old ones!) And I liked it, but somewhere along the line I started looking at Happy Planners. I bought a Lifeplanner for 2020 late in 2019, but somewhere around the beginning of this year, I started experimenting around with things that were marked down on Happy Planner's website.
And boy, did I experiment. I won't say I tried every format HP has, because they have a bunch, but I tried several. The first thing I bought was a horizontal planner, which I really liked - but I use it as a journal, not as a planner. I ended up with more than one of these because I use one for talking about books and one for everything else.
Then I tried a mini planner. It turned out to be entirely TOO mini for my taste, as a planner, but it's okay for just, like, note-taking. That one was a vertical planner, so later I tried the bigger vertical one (they call it "classic") which is almost the same size as a regular Erin Condren, and so, unsurprisingly, I liked that one fine. I was determined to use up my Lifeplanner for this year, because they're expensive, so I'm kind of in the middle of transitioning between brands.
Not entirely, though. I bought a little EC "Petite Planner" just to try it out - it's a daily planner, and it turned out I really like using it to scribble in at work. So I'm still buying those, for now. Before that I tried the HP "skinny classic" - so called because the pages are the size of a regular classic page cut in half vertically - and it worked ok for work, but I always ran out of room and ended up taking notes on random pieces of paper that I then promptly lost.
So the experimenting paid off in the end, and hopefully I'm set for planners for a good while, now. What I do really love about Happy Planners is that they're loose-leaf. Very versatile. And when I'm not trying every format they produce, they're cheaper.
People look at planners and say, "Oh, you must be so organized!" But really I'm massively DISorganized and that's why I need a planner so much. That's my theory, that if you're really a naturally organized person you can do without a planner. My planner is just my brain on paper.
(And don't tell me I should go digital. I like the act of writing it down, it seems to help somehow.)
I have been really planner-obsessed this year, so maybe I will talk about that. I've used some kind of planner off and on for years. I still have a couple of little coil-bound books that I used in college around somewhere, and after that I used actual planners sometimes and other times I just kept a little calendar in my purse and scribbled on that. When I used to be a secretary, we used Franklin Planners, so that's probably where my current planner obsession started.
The last five years or so I've used an Erin Condren planner. I used the Lifeplanner, the big coil-bound weekly planner. (With much nicer coils than those old ones!) And I liked it, but somewhere along the line I started looking at Happy Planners. I bought a Lifeplanner for 2020 late in 2019, but somewhere around the beginning of this year, I started experimenting around with things that were marked down on Happy Planner's website.
And boy, did I experiment. I won't say I tried every format HP has, because they have a bunch, but I tried several. The first thing I bought was a horizontal planner, which I really liked - but I use it as a journal, not as a planner. I ended up with more than one of these because I use one for talking about books and one for everything else.
Then I tried a mini planner. It turned out to be entirely TOO mini for my taste, as a planner, but it's okay for just, like, note-taking. That one was a vertical planner, so later I tried the bigger vertical one (they call it "classic") which is almost the same size as a regular Erin Condren, and so, unsurprisingly, I liked that one fine. I was determined to use up my Lifeplanner for this year, because they're expensive, so I'm kind of in the middle of transitioning between brands.
Not entirely, though. I bought a little EC "Petite Planner" just to try it out - it's a daily planner, and it turned out I really like using it to scribble in at work. So I'm still buying those, for now. Before that I tried the HP "skinny classic" - so called because the pages are the size of a regular classic page cut in half vertically - and it worked ok for work, but I always ran out of room and ended up taking notes on random pieces of paper that I then promptly lost.
So the experimenting paid off in the end, and hopefully I'm set for planners for a good while, now. What I do really love about Happy Planners is that they're loose-leaf. Very versatile. And when I'm not trying every format they produce, they're cheaper.
People look at planners and say, "Oh, you must be so organized!" But really I'm massively DISorganized and that's why I need a planner so much. That's my theory, that if you're really a naturally organized person you can do without a planner. My planner is just my brain on paper.
(And don't tell me I should go digital. I like the act of writing it down, it seems to help somehow.)
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Date: 2020-12-02 06:58 pm (UTC)I, too, find it more successful to write things down by hand. I don't use a planner, but I have lists, mostly, and notes where I can find them. I have a number of little throw-away purse-size "planners," but keep forgetting to actually put them in my purse! Not organized, is what I am.
We had two guests over for Thanksgiving this year. Funny that we didn't have anyone for ten years or more, and the year we finally did was during a pandemic. My kitchen is so small, it was easy to social distance, because it was only me in the kitchen! We ate outside on the patio, so I guess we were pretty safe without even trying.
Saturday we got our Christmas tree, from the same growers we've visited for years. They set up in the parking lot of the local Office Depot. The trees come from northern NC, and arrived Saturday with snow still on them. They told us when they opened the trailer here in FL there was steam rising when the cold air hit our humid atmosphere. The Office Depot facility has closed permanently, so we were worried they wouldn't be here this year, but they have some kind of contract with the owners of the property. Yay! We keep the tree up for weeks and weeks, and they always stay green and fragrant the whole time. The tree sits on the patio, outside the slider windows to the family room, because there is literally no place to put it inside the house. Today, I'll be putting the lights on the house. Many, many decorated houses, this year, and early, too. I guess it makes people feel happy and "normal" in this screwy year. I read that the sale of live trees has sky-rocketed, this year, and there's a trend toward homemade, crafty sort of decorating. Very homey and comforting. Also something to do when cooped up at home...
I'm glad for Hollidailies. I look forward to hearing from you, at least for December. I was concerned since you haven't updated your nail blog for quite a while, and I can't reply to it, anyway, since I don't have the requisite Google account, or whatever it is they require. It's still fun to read about all those colors!
Best regards from South Florida, where it's actually cold this week! Low 50s at night, which for me is achingly cold. We live down here for a reason! 😀
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Date: 2020-12-03 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-03 08:51 am (UTC)