Eek I have definitely foreshadowed too much wisdom and oversold The Notebooks. 🤦🏻♀️ There is also a vast amount of wittering... but surely what is life if not a vast amount of wittering! (Around the edges of a tiny little nugget of wisdom, maybe, if we’re lucky...?) Also, I’m less a rage googler and more of an idle googler, consistently losing the thread of whatever it was I meant to Google (which possibly means early senility beckons) but I’m all for less phone usage either way - so SOLIDARITY. And thank you so much for the kind words ❤️ I hope The Notebooks deliver, even a little bit. And let’s see yours!!! I’m impressed beyond belief at your organisational abilities, I tried bullet notebooking once and think I lasted slightly less than a week 😳 I’m definitely more chaos than organised 🤣🙋🏻♀️ xx
Weeeeeeell Jill, someone looking over my shoulder would just be like 'but that's just a load of lists!' It is probably mostly lists, but there's so much other stuff in there - recipes, notes about stuff that's happened, plans mapped out for things that haven't yet happened, and the regular rants and ravings of a pen-wielding lunatic!
And trust me, it's not just rage Googling that goes on around here. I've got a fine track record in idle Googling, bored Googling, how-much-longer-do-I-have-to-wait-in-this-queue? Googling - you name it, I use it as an excuse! 🤣
Oh bored googling, yes, I know her well. And Q googling! She’s positively stately. 👸🏻 I’ve even met the lowest form of googling (the crack head of googling, if you will) in the shape of needing to know if certain love island contestants from previous seasons are still together. Spoiler: they’re not.
I would very much like to see your notebooks, recipes, rants and all. Especially the rants. ❤️
With sharing my notebooks: on the one hand I want to be authentic, but on the other hand I don't want to overshare. Editing would scupper the authenticity thing, but maybe some highlights. I'm going to work this out as a potential project!
Rants are easy to spot - the have their own category colour code... 😳 #notjoking
🤣🤣🤣 omg colour-coded rants is the BEST thing I’ve heard all week. Why can’t we do that with texts!?? Like “he sent me a red text, we’re done” or yellow for all the wishy washy “sorry I can’t be there something’s come up” texts
Yes! Jill, this is so good! 👏🏼 Can relate to so much here. Also, maybe a Generation X thing where we remember life before smart phones and we actually had to rely on remembering things to get around? Not sure honestly, I’m questioning everything as are you, but I am in complete solidarity with you “being allergic to modern life” 💕👯♀️
“I'm allergic to modern life. I hate my phone. I am aware that this is the anti-tech-backlash-Luddite tale of our time and it is hardly ground-breaking.
But still.”
You nailed this piece. It’s such a struggle to complain about ubiquitous technology. How do you say something that hasn’t been said before? But the feeling in this piece really hit me. Thanks for this
Wow, thank you so much Taegan, that’s so kind! It’s nice to know I’m not alone in how much I hate my phone (she says, typing furiously into her phone) 🥺🤣
Such a great post, Jill! Loved this: "But, with great power comes great carelessness." It was only on reading that line that I realised quite how - and how much - I use my phone just because it's there. And that's ME, an avid notebooker of the first degree...! Need to pull my tatty socks up with inky, analogue fingers, and put the phone down from time to time instead of all that 'rage Googling' I seem to do on a daily basis - just because I HAVE access to a world of information doesn't mean I need to dive in there. I'm going to mend my ways!
Yay to The Notebooks! A while ago I was wondering about showing one of the daily logs from my archived bullet journal every so often, as a kind of 'on this day in (whichever year)' kind of feature, but unlike your Notebooks project this wouldn't been wisdom I'd be mining, but more like reminders to put the bin out on Wednesday!
I think it's wonderful to be finding letters you've written to yourself - what a very special kind of personal history.
Eek I have definitely foreshadowed too much wisdom and oversold The Notebooks. 🤦🏻♀️ There is also a vast amount of wittering... but surely what is life if not a vast amount of wittering! (Around the edges of a tiny little nugget of wisdom, maybe, if we’re lucky...?) Also, I’m less a rage googler and more of an idle googler, consistently losing the thread of whatever it was I meant to Google (which possibly means early senility beckons) but I’m all for less phone usage either way - so SOLIDARITY. And thank you so much for the kind words ❤️ I hope The Notebooks deliver, even a little bit. And let’s see yours!!! I’m impressed beyond belief at your organisational abilities, I tried bullet notebooking once and think I lasted slightly less than a week 😳 I’m definitely more chaos than organised 🤣🙋🏻♀️ xx
Weeeeeeell Jill, someone looking over my shoulder would just be like 'but that's just a load of lists!' It is probably mostly lists, but there's so much other stuff in there - recipes, notes about stuff that's happened, plans mapped out for things that haven't yet happened, and the regular rants and ravings of a pen-wielding lunatic!
And trust me, it's not just rage Googling that goes on around here. I've got a fine track record in idle Googling, bored Googling, how-much-longer-do-I-have-to-wait-in-this-queue? Googling - you name it, I use it as an excuse! 🤣
Oh bored googling, yes, I know her well. And Q googling! She’s positively stately. 👸🏻 I’ve even met the lowest form of googling (the crack head of googling, if you will) in the shape of needing to know if certain love island contestants from previous seasons are still together. Spoiler: they’re not.
I would very much like to see your notebooks, recipes, rants and all. Especially the rants. ❤️
🤣 You've really made me laugh, Jill!
With sharing my notebooks: on the one hand I want to be authentic, but on the other hand I don't want to overshare. Editing would scupper the authenticity thing, but maybe some highlights. I'm going to work this out as a potential project!
Rants are easy to spot - the have their own category colour code... 😳 #notjoking
🤣🤣🤣 omg colour-coded rants is the BEST thing I’ve heard all week. Why can’t we do that with texts!?? Like “he sent me a red text, we’re done” or yellow for all the wishy washy “sorry I can’t be there something’s come up” texts
Yes! Jill, this is so good! 👏🏼 Can relate to so much here. Also, maybe a Generation X thing where we remember life before smart phones and we actually had to rely on remembering things to get around? Not sure honestly, I’m questioning everything as are you, but I am in complete solidarity with you “being allergic to modern life” 💕👯♀️
🥂❤️ thank you Mackenzie!!! Love to hear it’s not just me 🙋🏻♀️✊
There's no remedy to modern life. Still don't have spotify?
Ah, I love Spotify, George. I’m a mess of contradictions.
Everyone. Never had spotify!
Far be it from me to talk someone else into handing over yet another significant facet of their life to an algo but....
Far from me to recommend (or not) Spotify.
“I'm allergic to modern life. I hate my phone. I am aware that this is the anti-tech-backlash-Luddite tale of our time and it is hardly ground-breaking.
But still.”
You nailed this piece. It’s such a struggle to complain about ubiquitous technology. How do you say something that hasn’t been said before? But the feeling in this piece really hit me. Thanks for this
Wow, thank you so much Taegan, that’s so kind! It’s nice to know I’m not alone in how much I hate my phone (she says, typing furiously into her phone) 🥺🤣
Such a great post, Jill! Loved this: "But, with great power comes great carelessness." It was only on reading that line that I realised quite how - and how much - I use my phone just because it's there. And that's ME, an avid notebooker of the first degree...! Need to pull my tatty socks up with inky, analogue fingers, and put the phone down from time to time instead of all that 'rage Googling' I seem to do on a daily basis - just because I HAVE access to a world of information doesn't mean I need to dive in there. I'm going to mend my ways!
Yay to The Notebooks! A while ago I was wondering about showing one of the daily logs from my archived bullet journal every so often, as a kind of 'on this day in (whichever year)' kind of feature, but unlike your Notebooks project this wouldn't been wisdom I'd be mining, but more like reminders to put the bin out on Wednesday!
I think it's wonderful to be finding letters you've written to yourself - what a very special kind of personal history.