CAWPILE: Additional Adventures and Shattered Screens

My Stats Sheet Vs. G's Stats Sheet

November 15, 2020

So I was a bad girl. I got through G's explanation of how she used her rating system, downloaded the file and went to town. I didn't bother to finish watching the video where she explains how to use the Google Drive file.

Meaning, that when I downloaded it to use in Excel, I broke it. I broke the stats sheet. Bad girl.

This is why the sheet wasn't populating like others said it did, let alone how G intended it to work. Ooops! My bad. 

Reading Challenges, 2021 Reading Plans, An Updated CAWPILE Sheet

 As I've shared before, I have never completed a Goodreads reading challenge. Granted, this is only my 3rd year participating, but after the summer I spent as a teen reading 50 books every two weeks... I kept thinking I could do better. I forgot about adulting.

In 2018, I read 57 of the 100 I wanted to, and the only reason I got to 47 of the 50 I pledged in 2019 was because of audiobooks and LeVar Burton reading me short stories on his podcast... I made a pledge in 2020 using logic. I determined that I could probably read about 5 books a month, totaling 60 for the year. That was more than last year, but breaking it down by the month, like a monthly goal, it didn't seem so daunting.

Basic Planner Advice & My Planner Journey Thus Far...

So Many Planners?!?! Which do I pick?

I don't know about you, but because planners are expensive, my crafty side decided, "I can make that", and when I went to start making my planners, the first thought I had was, "what size do I make it?" Right after that, my thought was "It has to fit cute pre-mades that I might want to use later."

So then I'm searching for dimensions. And frankly, a purse that the planner will fit into. I don't eyeball things that should be standardized, things that need to be consistent. I just can't. Too much wasted product and too many wasted supplies. But there is no be-all-end-all standardization in the planner world any more than there is in the fashion industry. (I'm looking at you, pants pile! Every pair in a different size, different shape, and yet all fit various parts of my lower half.)

Voyager Notebook

I've been a little MIA here on the blog the last few weeks, but there was a very valid reason. A couple very good reasons actually. First, it's the holidays. You know how things can get away from you during that time? Well, I'm no different. 😆 Second, I started a new job, interviewed for and got a second, which I start tomorrow. I'm really glad now that I started the planner journey last year and have some semblance of a handle on it so I can keep up with everything I have to do, and schedule time for what I want to do.

The Voyager Notebook

Which brings me to the title of this post. A couple weeks back when I was shopping for Pop at Meijer, a Midwest US store similar to Walmart, I had to swing past the stationery/office section as usual. I was debating on getting another Piccadilly dot grid journal for 2020, despite my work the past six months on my collection of traveler's notebooks.

TealNotes.com and New Year's Resolutions

This is a long post today, so don't say I didn't warn you!

Email Overload

If you're anything like me, you sign up for newsletters willy nilly and it soon fills your email inbox to capacity. Many people I know, and you might be like this too, very rarely check their email inboxes. We input our email addys into the form and forget about it.

I know I certainly have a difficult time keeping up with it. I thought I could sort it out a bit more, by creating mail filters and multiple email accounts, each covering a different aspect of my life. If you thought a single account was difficult to keep up with, try seven!

Paper Crafting and Blogging, BuJos and TNs

So I've been a little quiet lately. Not that I have any loyal readers yet, but that's fine. I've been blogging a little every couple of days, but haven't quite yet hit the publish button on it. Mostly because I'm working on a review of a franchise and I want to make sure to say what I really mean and may have to break it up into smaller portions, but I'm building it all at once.

There's some links at the bottom of the post that share some of my greatest organizational inspirations. Don't hesitate to check them out. They've been sooooo helpful!