8 Journals or My Week XI

Not much to report on the work front. Working 11+hr days, while exhausting, isn’t exactly news. As of this post going live I’ve got 38hrs and there’s still today to get through. Also, there’s only so many ways to say “I cut some trees down and tramped all over creation” before it starts to sound repetitive.  On the plus side, that means I did not encounter a bear, or a moose. Or even mutant acorn flying bears that drop out of trees and eviscerate you and eat your brains. Those are the worst. For which I am very grateful; that I didn’t encounter them, not that they eviscerate people, because that would actually be kind of cool.

He WILL eat your brains. Unless you’re armed with a machete of course.

You should be grateful too, otherwise there would be nothing here for you to read and then you would be sad. You would be a sad, lonely blogger. But I am here and I’m your friend, so now you are a happy, popular blogger! And as a bonus, you still have your brains and viscera.

Hurray!

And what really makes a blogger happy? This is a multiple choice test, so here are your choices:

1. Eating at “Rubbin Butts BBQ” (it’s a real place, I kid you not)
2. Getting 1 million followers who promptly do nothing and never interact with you
3. Running over a squirrel
4. Buying 8 journals
5. Writing the best post in your entire life in said journals and then bragging about it on your blog and telling everyone they simply aren’t worthy to read it.

Remember, there are no wrong answers here.  But if you don’t pick the correct one, I’m totally scourging you with a flaming, fiery whip from hell.

Because I can.

I am currently writing in my last journal and should have it filled up by Thanksgiving or Christmas.  With that impetus,  I went and bought the eight current Paperblanks Embellished Manuscripts journals that I didn’t yet own.

This week you just get to see the packages they all came in. Over the coming weeks I’ll be showcasing each one individually for your viewing pleasure.

I’ve talked about the PEM journals before and how much I like them, but I think I’m going to talk about them some more. I’ve written about my journaling journey before (A History of…Journaling) and have gone through a wide variety of styles.

The reason I like the PEM’s the best is three fold. 

First, they lay flat when opened without having any pressure put on them. I do a lot of my journaling while sitting, in a pew, in the work van, on the couch at home. I need the pages to lie flat so I can easily write on them. If I have to press on the journal to keep it open while writing, that doesn’t make for a good writing time.

Second, they have a flap closure. This means that when closed, the pages are not subject to rubbing up against whatever else I may have in my bag. It also means it can’t accidentally fall open and expose all my secrets to the world. Like the formula for becoming one of the world’s foremost bloggers.

Thirdly, it is the right shape and size for me. It’s not quite square but neither is it so narrow that I feel I can only write 5 words on one line. The line spacing is also good for my eyes so I can write as large as I need to without strain.

And I think that’s enough blabbing from me. Happy Sabbath when it arrives for you (sun down).