I thought I had caught myself up, both with my reading journal and my crochet project journal.
Uhm, no. Not really.
Maybe I stalled filling out titles and whatnot in my reading journal as I am not entirely certain that I will have enough pages for the whole month of June. But I have to suck it up and give it a go.
I had already decided, back in May, or when I set up May in that particular journal, that I would be doubling up, two books per page, as needed for June, so I would be able to keep June in this journal instead of half the books in this journal and half the books in another journal.
For July—and the rest of the year—I have not picked out a journal to use as a reading journal. I think my brain has been more occupied with figuring out how to set up and keep my daily planner/journal in lieu of the 185 (Day) Insane Author Challenge (that I am actually beginning on Monday, June 30, so that I can start on a Monday to keep myself on an even keel.)
I have been thinking of simply dropping into my daily planner/journal and creating a page for whatever book I am reading. The more I think about it, the more I like this idea. I have not yet committed yet.
Plus, I haven’t done much for June yet. And I am at least four months behind writing out my feelings/review of each book I have read.
Then there is my crochet project journal.
Typically, this is where I keep notes on what I used to make what, number of rows or repeats, how I changed something or how I did something. It’s also where, if I use a pattern, I write how I feel about the pattern, how I will change it if I use the pattern again, or if I can now catalog and file away the pattern never to think of it again.
Typically, I use Ravelry to keep track of the projects I work on, so I can fill in my project journal as needed when I forget to fill things in. I also keep random notes on my phone until I transfer them over to the journal.
I still have plenty of pages left in my crochet project journal. Plus, I keep the math problems for figuring out how to factor stitches for a top-down raglan. This is one reason I keep that notebook close at hand.
Close at hand, but …not filled in with the projects and information. Yep. That’s me.
Now, plans to catch this one up…definitely…because I am beginning to like the idea of as I start a project creating an entry/page in my daily planner/journal for it.
Although…the whole thing about the daily journal is that I am planning to set up pages for six months in each journal before I start using it…so how do I pop in an entry for, say, a book, a project, a whatever?
Tip-ins.
My solution for everything journal related.
This solution also does not negate that I need to step up and fill in the projects from the past couple of months.
Where am I going to get the information on books read and projects started/made?
It is actually all in my daily planner/journal.
Each day I will write: read some of X book. Work on X project.
Yes, I will have to dig through my own handwriting, which some days may be more or less legible than it ought to be, but it is what it is.
So, for now, that is the plan. I will have to stick the whole update reading journal—and crochet project journal—in my planner as firm to-dos…and I may be seeing this January to June reading journal for a while afterwards because I fully intend to write in how I feel about the books I have read.
What about all the challenges I set up in the beginning of the reading journal?
I am probably going to continue to ignore them because I am not into reading for other people. I tried early in the year; I could not hack it. I had to go my own way.
Tabitha Low 