my blog "journal" eulogy

I lost my blog journal. This is where I store ideas and thoughts that I wish to use or to turn into blog posts. I did not lose it in the way that I misplaced it, or do not know where it is by any means. It's right here. My three-year-old more "commandeered" it. Yeah.

It was a pretty notebook, probably a little larger than 5x7 inches, and had a pretty green, brick red, and brown pattern on it, flowers but not too "floral" if that makes any sense. It had three sections, marked off just by having the middle 75 pages edged in brown ink, the others merely with brown ink lines to keep my writing straight.

I really liked this notebook. Can you tell? I'm super picky about notebooks, especially for jotting down ideas versus taking notes for a class. This one was kinda perfect for both, though, actually. I used the first section for a class on Bible prophecy that I went to, and then I was using it for sermon notes and other Biblically-based thoughts. Then the second section, I had used for little notes to myself, so I started using this section also for notes for the blog, since this paralleled nicely. And then...

My daughter decided one day to "take notes" on a sermon we were watching online. It was SO CUTE that I let her use a few pages. Bad idea. Never let the three-year-old do something ONCE and act like it's so cool/cute unless you want it to continue exactly the same way. EXACTLY THE SAME WAY. So, she has been taking my pens and "writing" in this notebook. I can still use it for little blog ideas, but since it really was my parenting fault that led to her use of the notebook on a constant basis, I really felt like I should just give it up and go buy myself a new one.

You have to pick your battles.

I have been failing constantly at this recently, so I decided to let this one go.

However, I have been able to salvage some of the post ideas, and I will be using them again soon. I am very regretful that I have been posting so seldom! Sorry, readers and fellow bloggers. I do feel it is important to keep putting stuff out there and keep blogging often, and I will try this again... I'm setting a day of the week, and if I haven't blogged by that day, I will post something before I go to bed that night. So, readers, be ready! I will have more posts, as interesting as possible, for your reading pleasure!

Oh, and I did find another notebook. I'm trying to keep it hidden from Dear Daughter. It is brown and teal with a floral/paisley pattern. And clean of ANY SCRIBBLES so far. (Cross your fingers, or pray for my slightly OCD way of emotionally handling notebooks...)