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Old Sep 19, 2007, 10:08 AM
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What neat ideas, Jennifer! I have 2-3 journals but then get hung up because I'll use one or the other and not another or I feel "pressured" to use them. Can't win :-)

Currently I have my Artist's Way Morning Pages (3 pages a day off the top of one's head) http://www.theartistsway.com/pdfs/basictools.pdf which I do on a clipboard with regular lined "school" paper and then put in a looseleaf notebook.

My regular journal I've been working in from 4/22/06 (and I have the previous journal started 3-4 years before that; when I get a whole lot of "regular" journals, say 10 years worth, I take some time at some point to copy the "good" stuff from all of them into a new one and then destroy the older ones).

A "medical" journal that has my schedule of meds and how I feel while I'm starting them and how/when to take them and what seems to be going well/ill, etc. It is also kind of based on my working on and off with Chef Kathleen's Cooking Thin Daybook http://www.kathleendaelemans.com/ for my health/diet/fitness.

I also have a "cooking" journal with ideas about eating and recipes. Kind of my own attempt to make my own cookbook, daybook, eating plan "thing" :-) I love buying/reading cookbooks and come up with ideas like attempting to make 1 recipe for dinner a week that I've never made out of one of the many books I own and/or making a "list" of the dinners I usually cook/eat and trying to make cooking "easier" with a planned schedule. I hate making plans because then I rebel against them but if you think of what you eat over a period of time, it's usually the same things? Why not make a "cookbook" of the 10-15 most cooked meals you eat (meatloaf, burgers, steak, spaghetti, chicken, ham, pork chops, pork roast, omelette. . .) and not have to think/worry so much "what's for dinner?" or what to shop for, etc. It seems like it is so complicated, almost anxiety-producing, when it's not? But the cooking journal is my ideas abut food and eating and ways I'm trying to improve my health.
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