Jot downs

A bit about journaling:

I'm not one for journaling, for that is not my key trait, and adding or trying to add or superimpose it into my daily activities would end up making it into a chore and journaling shouldn't be a chore.

Having said that, I must improve my earlier statement by emphasizing that I'm not into journaling in the conventional sense of the term.

This blog, for example is a sort of daily journal for me.
My post it notes stuck in a hap hazard construction over my notebooks, scribbles and scrawls on moleskines, broken poems and littered thoughts on every second page are somewhat a semblance of journal, after a fashion that is.

To say that I make daily notes, and maintain a workbook that stores my daily agendas would be incorrect.
I do however have a travel journal. A little notebook where I write things as I travel, be it critiquing some bad play or ballerina performance or jotting down important subway stations of different countries.
In fact I have two notebooks to the same effect where I take to inscribing a plethora of oddities, including hand made maps of how to get to various places when I travel alone, restaurant names and what I ate on my travels.

Talking of food: I've since long maintained a couple books where I write down recipes, note down changes made to created recipes, copy recipes from my moms kitchen, paste torn out pages from magazines/newspaper where I happened to like a certain recipe and jot down pointers. Even writing down ideas that've come to me in apparitions.

I do however maintain a workout log for everyday, wherein I note what kinds of exercises I've done, if they included equipments or not and their duration.
I should add to this my meal logs as well, so as to get a better understanding of my diet to exercise situation.
Perhaps the calendar I make for next week will try to incorporate this addition.

I tend to look at my drawings as a sort of journal, specifically ones that I never put up on insta or even this blog. Tiny sketches, boxes and columns filled with practice drawings, animals, little birds etc.
perhaps I'll put a couple here..

Well, that's a bit about my journaling. I've thought about trying to make it a daily habit, but as I said it's not my key trait, and if something doesn't come naturally to you, it's pointless to impose it upon yourself.
Having said that, I'm not one to shy away from reading a good journal or two (wink wink)