i’ve always been a journal-er

i can’t remember the time in my life when i wasn’t given a journal every birthday and christmas

little girl – through college – to single-hood-omship – until online journal

what i currently use

i couldn’t wait to see what journal i was going to get – i loved all the beautiful versions

my favorites were in the beginning of high school.

i received a series of large-ish journals

the looked like old books and were a series of colors

having all those books made me write even more.

i wanted it to be the volumes of my life….

i then went through the mole skin phase

this lasted up to my iPhone and online journal

one of my secrets for consisted writing was mini moleskin journals

if i didn’t have time to write,

i just made little notes all day, bulletpoints of the things i wanted to write about

later.

worked like a CHARM in europe.  i would read it later and was able to remember things i

had completely forgotten.

now that is a treasure

i also did this in college.  poor kristine had a little birdy in her ear

at church as i kept asking for help remembering

what all of us had done that week

she was always so sweet and encouraging about it

it took me awhile to make the leap to online

but i am so glad i did

it is awesome, easy and you are able to link and tag

it’s just so accommodating to write in

whenever you have a chance : its less daunting

i can also do it on my phone

and then i can print in volumes at the end of the year!

of course i have to mention blogs

blogs are such a good way of remembering what happened at a time

and also your tastes and thoughts through the years

i started in 2007 and have never turned back

two major regrets around journaling:

1. i had just got back from italy and was so over taking photos every second.

so when i moved to nyc and worked at the UN

i just never took any.  not to be dramatic, but it honestly on of my greatest regrets -

cause i will never get that back

and many of UN friends i might never get to see again

even though sam and i have a standing invite to Seoul

so beautiful. i would die.

{ella, we’re still trying to make it work!!  miss you!}

2. i did something i have never done when sir husband and i were dating:

i stopped journaling.

i guess i was too twitterpated to care

it makes me so sad now!  we’ve started to forget stuff!

how do you journal?