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I am so over planner stickers

Hear me out, I love them and think they're beautiful and fun, but it's become so aggravating, overwhelming, and expensive to keep up with all the ones I "need" to make my planner look the way I want it to. I have a ridiculous number of sticker books and theres no convenient way to organize them.

I'm also over happy planners. They're so popular that it's a mad dash to buy them when they come out, but then they release new ones and they're better than the one you already bought when you legit needed to move into a new planner.

The layouts are never exactly what I need and I end up switching planners constantly just to try to keep up.

I've started using a bullet journal and it's everything I've needed in a planner. I still use my big planner for me and my husband but I'm loving the switch to the bujo

I'm just salty about pretty much everything right Now but venting about this helps lol

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24 April 2019

Today started out terrible. My family visited me over the long weekend and it was so nice to have them here! But the second they left I had to go to work and it made me feel very unmotivated to do my job. Honestly, I felt like quitting yesterday. 

Today I took a mental health day. I desperately needed it. I texted my coworker that I was not feeling well and I’m all caught up on everything. I promptly fell asleep for about 4 more hours. I never sleep like that unless something is actually wrong. I wake up at 8 on weekends and 6 during the week. 

I felt really guilty for sitting on the couch and doing nothing when I got up but then I realized it was making me feel better. So I got dressed and took Dita for a walk and put away the dishes when we got back. It was nice to be in the sun and putting the dishes away, as much as I hate it, made me feel better. I had no time to put my house away before going back to work and it was making me feel closed in and off routine. So I washed the sheets too. 

I sat down and answered my therapist. I use betterhelp, so it’s text based aside from having one call per month (or more if I want). It’s so weird to me that I’m basically talking to a therapist about how to use my planner. I’m the girl everyone else goes to to ask how to use theirs, but here I am crying to a therapist about how I can’t get my life in order because I can’t figure out how to make time for everything. 

But it’s really helping. I have a lot of anxiety and most of it comes from feeling like I have no time for the things I want to do (because of work partially since I’m there for so long.) I have more accountability because she recommends things to try and asks if they worked for me. And I have my support system in my friends and family. I’ve lived here 6 months and haven’t really met anyone but that doesn’t really bother me. I want to figure out my projects. It’s not like I have no friends whatsoever. I have people here who I can exchange favors with and I have genuine friends I can talk to at any time because of technology. 

I’ve changed jobs so many times and moved so much in the last 4 years I don’t really have a “planning style” that works for me. I keep having to revamp it and start over each time I get a new job or start a new routine. That’s why I want to start making my own pages. One thing that’s for sure: I need a year long calendar regardless of what’s on my weekly spreads. That is something that will probably never change. 

No matter how good you are at something, don’t be afraid to ask for help. There’s no shame in needing another perspective or needing assistance. Things change.  

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HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

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October 1-7

This week is crazy omg. We have so much going on with the move that I was not expecting. We’re preparing to give away some stuff and getting ready to sell the car and working on cancelling out bills and things like that. 

Inktober has started as well so I’ve been working on that as well. Since I’m so busy I don’t want to pressure myself to make finished pieces every day but instead I’m just working on filling up my sketchbook. 

Tomorrow I will be skating with the team one last time for a photoshoot for the mag so I’m really excited about that :) 

Friday is apparently a down day so we won’t be able to do anything for outprocessing so I made an appointment for us to get our puggy tattoos!! I’m very excited. 

The pumpkin patch opens this weekend so I hope we can get Ruben and Ambar to come with us :) I want to go regardless but it will be much more fun with them. We have Columbus day on Monday as well so next week will be cut short too. 

I bought some stickers for my planner today and could not find any Halloween ones because they already sold out.. Um I am so ready to have some REAL craft stores. This is terrible. just 2 more weeks! ahhhh :) 

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Weekly spread for the week of September 24-30. I really love the design of this one. Starting to experiment with washi tape and a new layout :). Plus, we went to Germany over the weekend so that made it even more exciting!! 

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September 17-23

This is my first week away from work! I had my last day of my first full time job on Friday last week and I have a LOT of stuff I want to do before moving next month. 

Truth be told, I really should have made the 7th my last day because I hardly did anything last week, but at least I get a few days’ extra pay, right? 

I put in a lot of time, energy, blood sweat and tears into that job and I’m very proud of what I have achieved in only 9 short months there. I’m sad I couldn’t be there longer, but we have to move and I have to start planning my next chapter. 

I want to start up a legit Planning Blog soon, but I figure before I start messing with self-hosted sites and all that crazy technical stuff I should start with what I know: tumblr. I can just write to my heart’s content and practice for when I can fully commit. Really experiment with my writing style, content, length of posts, taking photos (help me Universe) and everything I want to do that I don’t know how to do yet! 

I think it’s a reasonable goal to write an entry once per week. For now, any day during the week is fine, but I’m sure once I get a website up I will want to post on a schedule. Plus, I can post inspiration from other blogs here since this is just for me.

This Week’s Plans

Monday:

Hair, Groceries

Tuesday: 

Clean

Wednesday: 

Lunch with Jess, PCS Binder

Thursday:

Addie’s Birthday!, BX, Mabon Prep, DIY Watercolor Palettes

Friday:

Run for the Rest of Us, Oktoberfest

Saturday:

MABON!!

Sunday:

TBD

As always, plans change and things don’t always go according to plan. Monday I originally intended to do more, but I was at the hair salon all day. Like for almost 5 hours. They couldn’t get the pink out of my hair so they just had to cover it up. I felt really bad because it seemed like they were worried I would hate my hair but I think it looks really nice. Aside from the weird layers she cut, but I just need to not straighten it, so that’s probably a sign to take care of my hair ;P 

I finally got my PCS binder put together which I will DEF make another post about. 

I also finally got to make silly little DIY watercolor palettes that I’ve been wanting to do but had no time for because of work so that was a little victory for me hehe ;P 

Don’t think we’ll be going to the run today because of Brandon’s work and the weather but whatever. We still got shirts ;P 

Lastly, tomorrow is MABON!! I am pagan, so I get to celebrate the seasons! Tomorrow’s plan is to deep clean the house, make some seasonal food, and do some journaling. I want to reflect on bad habits and make plans to start some positive habits instead. I want to live a more healthy lifestyle and make time for my art. Can’t wait until tomorrow :)