That is what I am doing...I want to be a bit more proactive this month instead of letting it race by without any particular achievements or enthusiasm like August has been. In May and June I did some journalling and quite enjoyed it, so thought I would set up a new journal.
I used an 'Apple' book last time, and have a few of these books made from apples so thought I would use one again - rather than buy - use what I have. The pages are a bit thin, but that doesn't really matter, what matters is actually using it and having something I can look back on and say I 'achieved this'. I have started setting up the pages, they are a bit plain at the moment, but it will be a work in progress that I can add to as and when I want to.
A poem for September
I've ruled up a calendar and like May and June, I will record the temperatures and weather.
Some pages set up for 'Goals and Ideas'
Books Read and Music Played or Listened to.
Programmes watched.
I have a few ideas of what I would like to achieve daily so will write these in here.
I have a few more ideas and goals that I am thinking about - I don't want to make it so that I feel like I have 'failed' if I don't achieve them, so thinking about them first before I commit them to paper.
I am hoping to get back into my art again and saw this book recommended by a friend and thought I would try it.
I have also enrolled on a free 'A Year with my Camera' course which starts in September. I figure being free, if I don't manage to complete then I haven't lost anything. I know my commitment/see things through levels are not the best at the moment.
This book arrived today. I read this book last year when visiting my Dad and really loved it. I had tried to get the original version, ordered it last year but it unfortunately never arrived - lost in the post? Who knows, but I was refunded. Anyway I have been trying to find another original copy but haven't been able to so ordered a new one instead. I feel like reading this gentle book again.
We took my MIL out for lunch today and stopped off at a local Vintage Emporium. They had a sale on in one of the units and I bought a couple of records.
I do enjoy listening to my records.
Oh and my husband came home with a dozen roses last night...
Sounds like a plan. Good luck! The book is, I assume, about New Zealand. I really enjoy reading the old New Zealand experience books and managed to bring some originals back with me. I took a decision last years and took hundreds of LPs to Oxfam Music in Glasgow. They can't get enough of them but, realistically, I will never play them again. I have well over a thousand CDs and I play fewer of them these days too even though I listen to music every day. The roses are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteWell I am good at making plans, just not so good at carrying them out - still struggling to get myself back on track! I am such a different person than I was pre-surgery, pain seems to have a way to change you so much.
DeleteThe book is actually about a hedge sparrow in the Kent countryside from winter to summer. The story is looking at the world through birds' eyes but not in a humanised way.