a peep into my life: journals

I realized that I talk about my JOURNALS a lot, but I barely ever share any of their contents with you.  To be honest, I have been pretty lax in the journaling department and have been channeling most of my creative energy through my blog.  I haven't set up my "journal station" that I am used to having, so maybe that is why.  I do need to journal more often, so maybe I will add that to my list of resolutions. 

This journal is the bomb.com.  I first had the orignal Listography - which is a bio of your life in fun list-form.  This one is Music Listography - a series of different 'playlists' that make up your life and bio.  I had bought this one for my best friend, Pappas, because he got me hooked on the music that I love and "found myself" through and it was my way of saying thanks and happy birthday to him one year.  Ha.  He said it was so fun and such a good gift, that after I lost my journals in the fire I replaced one of them with the Music Listography and I must say - it has been a good time!  Even if you don't have the actual journal (which you can pick up at B&N, Borders, etc) you can still play along with the prompts!

I'd love to see YOUR music listography!

 A list of my Top Twenty Favorite Bands

 List of the Places I've Seen Live Music

List Performers You'd Bring Back To Life

 List Concerts You Wish You Could Time Travel To

List Songs For Your Wedding Or Commitment Ceremony

 List The Songs To Play At Your Funeral

List Your Summertime Road Trip Mix

This journal - my mom gave to me when I was living like a refuge after the fire.  She sent it in a 'care package' along with a new replacement wallet and a couple of other knick-knacks.  It was overwhelming... the amount of journals and sentimentals that I received from family and friends in the days surrounding my crisis.  It was important that I had these journals - and this brown leather-bound one in particular - to write in and vent out my negative emotions that haunted me.  This journal is full of post-traumatic stress, I can tell you that as a fair warning.  But, it's also a story of love between a girl and her loving family, a girl and her best friend, and a girl and her dog.  This journal encompasses everything that I went through in this twilight zone of a life-phase I've experienced the past few months.  This journal means everything to me.

This journal is sort've a random assortment of stuff (well, they all are) but it's a little more scattered than the rest of them.  Some of the prompts and entries are from the 30 Day Journal Challenge that I did on Janel's blog and then some is just random...

 I like this journal though, it is real, it's Baily, and it's mine.

And the last one I'm going to show you today (because there are more than just these) is this one: 

It's a little bit more art-journaly and scrapbooky for me.

Hope you had fun! Now, get to journaling!

peace and love

baily☮

school first, blog second... sorrry

So, most of y'all know - I'm a journaler. I love my journals. Obsessed. I may not have any furniture to my name right now, but I have a journal stand set up in my newly renovated room. When I'm not telling all the details to my weird little life on this blog, I am recording the top secret stuff in my journals. I doodle. I sketch. I write diary entries, I write song lyrics, I write bucket lists, and I write bible scripture and feelings I have during my quiet times, I write mean things about what I'm angry at, and I write love-filled entries... these journals are pretty entertaining.

That's why I was so upset about the journals that I lost in the fire. The journal itself can be replaced, but those deep down feelings aren't recorded anywhere else. Not on my blog, not on my facebook statuses, but the ones that probably would best explain why I'm so eclectic and funky. But, I can't dwell in the past... there is no point to it. What is done is done, right? I'm so fortunate for all the friends and family members that sent me journals because they know that I'm one of "those weird journal people." I've enjoyed starting over and recording my 'new beginning' in these journals that were bought out of love and compassion for me when I was going through such a tough time. That being said, these journals are the most special ones. They truly are a reflection of my new life after the fire.

I follow a lot of creative-expressive type blogs. They're awesome.. check them out by clicking on the links: Run With Scissors and The Life of a Cupcake and A Beautiful Mess and Smile and Wave, to name a few. Here recently, I have started a new journal with the Run With Scissors blog community. It's a 30Day Challenge that involves a prompt that she post and a group on flickr that uploads photos of our own unique creations that we made in our personal journals inspired by her prompt. I think it's going to be really fun, I'm already off to a good start... but I am not active on the flickr group. I know, I need to get on that... but I am lucky if I stay caught up on the journals, because we all know I get side-tracked... and since the only thing that can distract me from being a better blogger and journaler, is school, so obvi that's a good thing... let's hear it for the girl!





I posted the link to the Run With Scissors journal challenge on my sister's facebook wall. I wasn't sure if she would want to do it or not... she stays super busy being a full-time nurse, a graduate student, and a full-time wife. She's fantastic at all of the above, and the best part about it is that she is back in action as a blogger so that means she makes time in her day to share her stories about her, like I said - fantastic, life journey after all the other things she has on her agenda in each of her roles. It seems like you wouldn't have any "me" time after all the hard work she puts in to the earnst success she has in life. But she does... and she is journaling! I'm horribly excited about this... I told my mom that my free-spirit is rubbing off on my sissy. She was trying on clothes that I was totally diggin' when I went shopping with her before her trip to the Bahamas. I can usually sweet-talk my way into borrowing a top every now and then. So, can I borrow that lime green linen-ish shirt sissy? One day.. please?! I love my sissy.

If I can figure out this SDcard converter that I had to get for my new camera, I will post pictures of the wedding in Orlando this weekend. And, maybe I'll give you a peep at some of my 30Day Journal Challenge creations. If you're feeling creative, you should journal along! It's healing to the upmost degree! Trust.

Computer Geeks: About this SDcard thing... what am I doing wrong that makes me think this thing is demonous? Please help!

peaceandlove

bjj