That deadly sins meme

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Paper journals

I mentioned these a few entries ago. I've kept one since fall of 1984 (I was 22, do the math :)), and I wish I'd started keeping one sooner. Actually, "one" isn't the operative word, because I'm on volume

::goes to check::

67. Yes, I said 67.

I don't do visual journaling and I'm not artistic about it, I just write. Books must be reasonably thick, lined vs. unlined doesn't matter much, absolutely may not be spiral-bound, and should be hardcover (although book 67 is softcover, and it sucks so bad to write in!!!)

I write a lot more in my paper journal than I do in my LJ. (Well, I spend less time on the computer than I do elsewhere, so that'd make sense.) I write more personal stuff, I think it's a matter of posture. I can only write the really angsty whiny stuff when I'm in a comfy chair, which the computer chair really isn't. Sometimes I write the same things, but not often. The purpose is different, the audience is different.

Some things I don't write anywhere at all.

I'm not really secretive, but some people work through things by talking to others, and some people do so alone, and I'm generally one of the latter.

Reasons to keep a journal:
1. To remember.
2. To vent.
3. To define or refine one's thoughts.
4. To win arguments about what happened when, years after the fact. (Of course you win, you have documentation!)
5. To leave something of your self.

Forseti online?

I'm currently working on a prayer to Forseti, because one of the things I want to do this year is get to know/become more familiar with some of the gods I just haven't had as much to do with so far as I have had with others. (Not involved in law, and don't tend to have a lot of disagreements.) Forseti is included in my daily devotions, but I've never blotted him, and never written for him. It's not as hard as I expected, but...

the internet is my fact-checker, when I'm on a roll and don't want to get up, go in the other room, get a reference, bring it back, look it up, and by the time I've done all that I've probably lost the flow. I have concluded that there just isn't much online about him. (And I do miss the online Our Troth, which was really handy for just these situations. :))

Hey, this year it is a fresh start!

The girls went back to school today, in theory I should be getting a lot done (well, I sorted laundry, and the sorting in their room is always an accomplishment...).

I've just realized that I haven't really gotten much done since early October. Mid-October I got sick, and had no appreciable improvement until the end of November. And by then of course it was December--Yule, younger daughter's b'day, Giftmas, New Year's Eve (December is the insane month around here), and nothing else.

Now I am ready to get back into the swing of things. (I hope. Knock wood.)