skeksi, you keep an art journal too? I have started doing that since last august, and it is AWESOME!
I have had a written journal since I was 11 (i'm 29 now)...but i'm only on my 4th one. I've gone months and months without writing in it...and I used it mainly as a record keeper. "Today I did X." In college when I started going through some tumultous stuff, I didn't write ANY of it down. haha.
I have only started writing in it for real, and with deeper feelings since starting therapy. I have read over them a few times, sort of to gauge where I am and where I have come from. I like to keep them.