I got my first journal when I was about 9, and I had that journal well into my teens. I did not write in it very much so that is probably how it lasted so long. It seems I tend to write the most when under stress, you should see the one I had during my first marriage!
Sadly I do not have my first journal, during one of my many moves it was lost. But that is where my love of the written word began, There is just something about hand written notes, letters and journals that fascinate me. Maybe its the idea of how much effort one has to put into the creation of these items or the old lure from a time long since past when anything that was published was done by hand..
I have always admired people that have beautiful penmanship, my chicken scratch is legible but nothing worth bragging about. My writing is OK at best, but I like doing it so if you are a grammar Nazi you can go eat crow. I do not mind actual constructive criticism but if you are going to sit there and tell me my post is crap without helping me out, well….fuck you.
My writing style could best be described as free roaming I guess, and my ability would be best categorized and unorganized gobbley gook. But as I was pondering this post I thought I would gather all the journals I have and post a picture. I have journals for work (on the right hand side) and my personal journals (the other side..duh). My work journals consist of ‘How To’ manuals, my day to day work, projects, guidelines and doodles. And the funny thing about those journals, they are almost completely filled! Where as my personal ones have huge gaps, half filled and very neglected. In my personal ones I have my life journal (which is my third one since I was 19), my ‘How To’ cook notes, jokes, stories that I have been working on since I do not know when, my driving journal, and even one for job interviews. I will be posting more about each one of these, come to think of it I think that is how I follow up this post! I am glad I thought of that, thank you for coming up with that idea….I am welcomed!
I am still learning and feeling my way around the working of this web site thing. It is a little confusing but thanks to my friend YouTube I am making head way. I still need to clean up my site and figure out plugins, commenting, and other media stuff. But this is a working process and I feel the biggest hurdle has been past…..getting started.
So please stay tuned, my plan is to post multiple times a week. Everyone loves story time and I am full of stories, most of which begin and end with ‘Hold My Beer!’ In the coming post I am going to chat about my personal journals, because the work ones are pretty boring but I will get to them as well.
So till next post; journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything.