Good Mornthing!

[blissmorgan]

It's a short morning before a long day, and I opted to spend it responding to comments and then reading everything on my Reading Page to be caught up, although I didn't make comments there. Tonight, perhaps.

For me, for now, in brief:

• Resolved, roughly, the relationship wonk mentioned a few days ago. More on that later and filtered.

IKEA is weirdly comforting to me. More on that later as well, possibly with pictures.

Bullet Journalling:

I'm sorta doing the thing?

Water and Calorie tracking:

These are things I am doing with two separate apps; the water to keep me honest and hydrated, and the calorie just to get an idea of what the heck I'm actually putting into myself and is it Sufficient or Too Much or Not Enough. Since the latter app is, in fact, a weight loss app, I threw a goal in there. I've lost 5lbs this week, even though I feel like I've been eating more. Weird.

The weatherman keeps threatening snow. It keeps not showing up, but it keeps keeping me in a state of low-grade anxiety. I need new winter boots and keep not buying them. I think I'll get a snow scraper.



I've spent too much time on this because I had to make the bulleted list happen in HTML. Looking at the preview I did something wrong, and it looks weird. I think my HTML and the automagic HTML tags are fighting. Alas. I leave it, because late.

Hello, Blisstopia.<3

Comments

Re: Bullet Journals!

[blissmorgan]

Me too! I forget precisely why I TL'DR'd out of mine two years ago. Probably the combo punches of depression and too much pressure on myself to keep up with the Joneses in terms of making it pretty. This time around I am largely content with keeping to a minimalist B&W theme.

I was working on a Log page for the stories I wrote last year, so I had it open at my station at work, and someone I was helping was blown away asking where I had gotten it because they thought the layout I'd made for it (flags/banners off either side of a pole down the middle of the page) looked preprinted. That was very satisfying, and while I know I am (or should be) making my BuJo stuff for me... it was the first page I really got creative on, and it felt awesome to have it noticed and appreciated unprompted like that.

I'm picking up on the calendar part for next week, which is good timing since there is a holiday and some appointments I had forgotten about to make it interesting.

Re: Bullet Journals!

[salobu]

Oooh, my bullet journal is my brain. None of my real life people have any interest, so I love finding other journallers online! I have fallen down the fountain pen rabbit hole, so although I am almost exclusively of the minimalist bujo sort, I am having a ton of fun playing with different pens and inks.

Re: Bullet Journals!

[blissmorgan]

I have somehow managed to lose tooooooo many of my fountain pens. What Fpens do you recommend?

Re: Bullet Journals!

[salobu]

So far I have a Pilot Metro, which was nice for the price, but one of the tines is bent so it’s pretty scratchy now. I love my TWSBI Eco, it’s my main every day pen and I love that I can see the ink inside. I’ve also been pleasantly surprised by the Online Switch, I’ve had it a few weeks and it’s much smoother than I expected for $20.

I’ve also got a few Jinhao Sharks ($3-4 and not amazing, but they’re fun and good for kids) and a TWSBI Go (probably awesome, but I’ve only had shimmer ink in it and it gets testy when it’s uncapped for more than a minute or two).

Re: Bullet Journals!

[blissmorgan]

I need to find a dependable, smooth-writing one to be my main work pen. I am writing things constantly all day long.

Re: Bullet Journals!

[salobu]

Depends on your style too, the Eco is pretty modern looking, while the Switch looks more like a ‘regular’ pen.

I get a lot from Goulet, they usually have helpful reviews and their descriptions are pretty accurate.