Tuesday Things.
1. Really loving this stir fried lettuce bowl.
2. Emilia has started this stand-up sleeping thing. It started on vacation when she didn’t want to sleep, and now she is doing it in her crib too. She literally stands up, rests her cheek on the side of the crib and FALLS ASLEEP. This cannot be my child. I can’t even sleep lying down.
3. Have you seen the peanut butter pickle sandwich “recipe” circling the internet? My dad’s entire family has always been obsessed with that combo and I’m pretty sure my grandpa would still eat it today. I am a total pickle freak but cannot even imagine.
4. TV Things! So I started watching the last season of OITNB over the weekend! I’m really liking it so far and I normally find the start of the season slow. OMG who watched Yellowstone last week? I thought it was the best episode yet! And I just saw a preview for a Million Little Things which got me SO excited.
5. How to be your most productive self.
6. Speaking of the above, I’ve come to the realization that I might be an academic-planner person. I like the idea of starting a new planner come July or August. Regardless of how many years I’ve been an adult, the whole “new year” thing is burned into my brain. I love the second half of the year so much more and it just feels like a new start. I’m still using the Passion Planner that I LOVE but just this month started looking at other options that have more notes pages/to-do lists with each actual day. Any suggestions?! If you’ve been here for awhile, you’ll remember I used to use an Erin Condren life planner and then I used the Day Designer for a few years too.
7. Totally going to grow sunflowers next year.
8. I’m absolutely dying over Simone Biles’ routines this past weekend. She is so incredible!
9. Videos like those sometimes make me wish I stuck with gymnastics, but couldn’t handle how mean my coach was and at, like, ten years old, she would sit on our butt to get our straddle splits down to the floor. Still having nightmares about it!
19 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
I started the Appointed Daily planner in August and love it! It’s a great size even if you need to take it back and forth places. The paper quality is outstanding and smooth with little bleed through of pens. It includes a monthly view then that month’s daily pages with plenty of room for appointments and lists.
Their site shows the best pictures of its pages but it’s sold out there. It’s still available from other retailers though.
https://www.appntd.com/products/2019-20-daily-planner-1
I have been loving Sugar Paper planners for the past few years! There’s a whole page for to dos and reminders for each week.
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald …I get so excited to “start” the year again in the fall- July planner shopping is the best. I have also used and have loved the Day Designer and Passion Planner, but grabbed a Sugar Paper academic planner this year (their first year releasing an academic planner). I love its structure for lists and open sections for notes and reminders at weekly and monthly points that seemed to flow better with the way my brain works. I also wanted something a tad more free form and a little less “best-life” preachy. The prints and patterns are also not too cutesy- just right. <3
I love the simplified planner by Emily Ley. It comes in a weekly or daily version. Depending on how much you like to write down your plans! Right now she has out the academic calendar style, and in the fall she puts out the January to December one, which is more my preference. Check them out: https://www.emilyley.com/collections/simplified-planner
I second this planner! Simple, no extras that I’m not interested in (like tracking water or meals). I confess I bought a matching pen and some magnetic bookmarks too, but cant get into the stickers. For work, I use a Panda planner (Amazon) – goal oriented and helps me think through and plan out my work week. I don’t use it for keeping track of my meetings, though – that would be seriously ugly.
Thirded! I love my simplified planner. And there’s so much rainbow 😍
I’m another vote for the Simplified Planner. I got the calendar year one for the first time this year and it’s the first time I’ve ever kept up with using a planner for more than a month. And it comes with email coaching too. The academic year ones are actually on a pretty good sale right now.
I had no idea that peanut butter pickle sandwiches had become popular. I have eaten them my whole life and never met anyone else who liked them. They are delicious! I feel so cool now!
I just bought a planner from Rifle Paper Co. that covers now through the end of 2020 because I thought the same thing. I’ve been out of school for 15 years and don’t have kids but I still just love the idea of the new year starting at the end of summer/early fall.
I calmly unenrolled my 7 year old from gymnastics when the coach made a point to “remind” the group of students that they needed to be mindful not to eat too many cookies or breads over Christmas break or else they would be wearing the belly band when they came back. No thanks! Little too much for the non competitive “fun” pastime I thought I had enrolled her in.
Also, my family does peanut butter with the homemade lime green seeet butter pickles on cheap white sandwich bread. Shudder
That’s so creepy! This is why I’m never having kids! haha ♥
http://www.mooeyandfriends.com
Hello Jessica. You know Tracy from Shutterbean? She is the Queen of notes and reminders. It’s mind bugling how she draws everything and calligraphy even more. Inspirational.
Totally agree with this! I love the to-do list that comes on each day. The whole thing is clean and simple, which makes it super easy to use. Plus, the cover choices are beautiful!
I love the planners from Danielle LaPorte! she has several combinations to choose from (and she is running a promo right now).
peanut butter and pickles ? NO. i feel these must also be the people who think chicken goes on pizza LOL. Also that productivity post…what i learned….i MUST work from home ! it seems soooo much better. i occasionally work from home and find that i am actually able to turn it off pretty easy when i am done. There is no pressure to be the last one in the office and stay super late. There are no distractions of people interrupting you all day and coming to your desk. and its QUIET !!!! come ON milennials arent you supposed to be demanding all this flexibility :)
This has been the planner I have used for several years now: https://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-2019-20-Weekly-Planner-Month/dp/B07J3GTXYF/ref=sr_1_3?gclid=Cj0KCQjw4s7qBRCzARIsAImcAxa92eMzGHYoufECu40AIItyzSrUdpYCalH_EKm5MUvi5w0I98kMwscaAmTzEALw_wcB&hvadid=241920938589&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9007924&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t2&hvqmt=e&hvrand=6422287097942063273&hvtargid=kwd-1799769956&hydadcr=24658_10400651&keywords=moleskine+planner&qid=1565806390&s=gateway&sr=8-3
I love it- large but not bulky, great paper quality, and able to see each day of the week at once with the entire right side for notes
I just started watching Yellowstone from your recommendation. Only on Season 1 Ep 4 but we love it so far! My fav planner if Plum Paper. You can add whatever you want to it, any type of layout, start any month (I’m a July starter) and it has so many different options. You will love it. I’m on my 4th year now.
I took gymnastics for a long time when I was younger too, and I can still feel the pain of being stretched! Ow.
Yellowstone!! Best show EVER. I need it to be year round!!