Pretending I’m Organized

I don’t think it’s any sort of secret that I’ve been trying to be a better blogger recently. I’ve been through some slumps and some lulls and my self-imposed pregnancy gag order, but now I’M BACK AND BLOGGIER THAN EVER! Well maybe just medium bloggy. Back in the day when I posted in my livejournal I averaged a thousand posts a year. A THOUSAND. That’s three-four posts every single day. And I’m just one woman! With no life! It’s fine, I’m okay with it.

One of the hardest things for me is looking at a whole month and thinking to myself “OH MY GLOB WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BLOG ABOUT ALL MONTH LONG????

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This gif is for you, Lillian.

My iCal paralyzes me like a deer in the headlights and I end up putting posts off and saving a lot of half-written drafts that go nowhere. It’s inefficient and lame and I finally found a way to snap myself out of it. BEHOLD THE WONDER OF MY BLOG POST PLANNING MOLESKINE!

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This is also a sneak peek at (most of) the rest of June for all you lucky ducks.

I just use my regular lined moleskine for this, I know you can get proper planner ones but 1) it’s already June sooooo…., and 2) if I don’t keep this up it’ll be a waste of a book. I also use this same notebook for shopping lists, glitter banner lists, blog sponsor lists, housework lists, basically just lists in general. Anyway, if I include the very bottom row below the last ruled line there are 31 spaces on each page, so it’s perfect for monthly planning anyway.

The first thing I do is go through the whole month and put in all my regular weekly posts. I currently have four: Manicure Mondays, SYMstagram on Fridays, Popsicle Party on Saturdays, and officially starting this week although technically as of last week, I’ll be posting about my pregnancy on Thursdays. When I decide what colour of nail polish or what kind of popsicles or what aspect of my pregnancy I want to post about I add that in as well, and it gives me time to figure out what I need to photograph and start drafting posts in advance (for example, I’m typing this on Monday. HELLO FUTURE EARTHLINGS!).

Once I have the regular posts planned I can go through and add in any other posts I want to do on any empty days, like my post about Sym’s upcoming run, my upcoming post about July sponsors and THIS VERY POST YOU ARE READING NOW. I actually had the idea for this post after I took the picture so while it’s not listed there please rest assured it’s in my book irl. I also added a small list on the righthand page about posts I KNOW I’m going to do but I’m not sure of the date yet, just so I don’t forget about them. When I know when those posts are going up I’ll add them to the main list, and once I post is posted or scheduled I check it off.

All in all I have 28 posts done/saved/planned for June, and that’s not even including random posts of nothing but pictures of my dog being cute. TWENTY-EIGHT. And I’m just one woman! Now I just need to type them all up. And remember to take pics! For some reason that is still the hardest thing for me! Like on Saturday Sym and I went shopping for nail polish and then baby clothes (LIKE A TINY DENIM JACKET ^____^) and I bought her a cute charm bracelet and then we went for froyo as a belated celebration for her awesome report card, and do you think I took a single pic? NO. NO I DID NOT. I even had my camera with me! So if anyone has any tips or advice to help me overcome that particular block they are very very welcome!

11 Replies to “Pretending I’m Organized”

  1. Brilliant. I am going to do this too. Also this makes me want to buy a Lists Book, which is so redundant considering I have about 6 million notebooks :S

    1. Sym asked me the other week to buy her a diary and I was like “R U KIDDING YOU HAVE FIFTY NOTEBOOKS just use one of those I promise I won’t read it.”

  2. I have the opposite problem – I’m all about the picture taking and calendar planning, it’s just the actual, uh, blog writing that I have a problem with. There are SO many drafts in my queue now of posts that are just pictures because I’m too lazy to actually, you know, write. Blogging: UR DOIN IT WRONG.

  3. so as i start making my blog real i was thinking about this. i have a bfa in photography and let me tell you, i never take a damn picture when i’m out doing things. i either have to PLAN that i am going to shoot specific things or i just don’t even touch my camera. worst photo major ever. also i can’t just take casual pix cause i judge myself as a photo major and get to thinking they have to be GOOD and PERFECT. but i do take a lot of pictures on my iphone cause i don’t take it seriously. then i downloaded snapspeed to fine tune those pix and they look good enough for the internet to me so i think that’s what i’ll be doing for my blagh. cool story bro.

    1. BORROW AWAY! I actually felt like kind of a turd making the post, like NO ONE WANTS TO SEE YOUR DUMB NOTEBOOK OF LISTS YOU LOSER so I appreciate your borrow.

  4. I used to not take pictures because I felt like people were judging me or something. Thinking, “Ugh, she probably has a BLOG” and then I would shrivel down because the only reason I was out in the first place was so that I could blog about it. JUST KIDDING (sort of). Anyways, I told myself to get over it and since then I just take pictures all the time. So I’m not sure if this helps or not. Also sometimes I think taking pictures with your phone is easier because it seems less intrusive and then you can upload them to the blog later.

    1. hahaha @ “Ugh, she probably has a BLOG” The other month I was at brunch with my friend and we were seated at a long table with another group and we were both talkin g about our blogs and I was like WAIT IS THIS EMBARRASSING

      I do use my phone sometimes but it takes kinda crappy pics :/

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