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When I'm 80, I'll have a house full of paper and pens

The weather has been nice lately. :) I've had the idea of keeping multiple journals at once for a while, and what to keep them for, but not really sure if it would actually work. Like if I would get bored after the first week and drop it. I wrote an idea in my notebook: First notebook is a spiral one that flips up like a notepad. Like the one from blues clues... I would put a bunch of random stuff in it. Like I do with the notebook I jotted this in! It's basically a notes app... the entire point is to replace the app. It keeps wishlists and to-dos and drawings and lyrics... some would call it a sketch book, or a scrapbook, but I've thought so hard about this and it's purpose that to me it's just a note book. Yes... splendid... It's a Lisa Frank spiral notebook featuring Yoona the narwhal. So cute. I recently pressed flowers and taped/glued them into the pages. I also have things like skin care routines and prescriptions. Second notebook is "emotional writings and daily happenings." Basically the diary I keep now (not this blog). I've been debating whether it's necessary to seperate the emotional writings in one diary and daily happenings to another, and I've tried that, but it doesn't really work for me. As well as keeping a daily diary online and another one in a notebook, that's odd, unfortunately. In my fantasy, I would warm up to the idea of recording a video-blog (vlog, but I hate that word) and that way I can record my activities and life, and probably track my mood and feelings elsewhere. Starting a blog-channel fits somewhere in my puzzle-plan of future, but not now. The third notebook is a mini version of the basic field notebook I have now, to keep health updates: headaches, my cycle, moods, and depression. I get headaches often, my moods are a bit weird sometimes, and I get really bad seasonal depression, and I'm in the middle of finding out my severe sleep apnea was a complete lie from a bad doctor... so I want to be more persistent with my medical history and experiences so I don't come unprepared and I get all of the help and attention I need. I feel this is something I should take responsibility for! I always relied on my mom to remember my prescriptions and history, but I'm getting older now, and I think it's time to track it myself. I've been thinking of tracking my headaches for a while now, but I haven't tried. My friend gets headaches often, and they found out it was because of the weather! And for all of this three day long headache, it's been raining... just wondering what else I could find out and how many questions I could easily solve by just... knowing this stuff. Another friend I know does keep a health notebook like this, so I would like to at least try and see if it would work out for me. It would make me feel more competent... next time I go shopping I will remember to get so many journals. If I could get even more abstract on this journaling hobby, I guess photo albums would count as a fourth notebook. I want to start one of those, too... and write letters, to penpals, or whoever... When I'm 80, I'll have a house full of paper and pens.


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