So, I won’t bore you all with my “daily pages,” or “journal entries.” I don’t feel this an appropriate venue to share exactly what it’s asking me to share. However, as today is the first day of The Crafter’s Devotional Project (or CDP?) I think it is relevant to share. From here on out however, if the Monday task is to physically make a journal then I will share. Sometimes I will paraphrase my journal entries if I find them relevant.
Here we go. According to the book;
“Writing, sketching, or even taking notes in a day book lets you capture your hopes, dreams, wishes, fears, aspirations, or creative ideas.”
“Don’t judge output or even reread your writing at first. Just let go and keep track.”
Journal Day 1:
So glad I managed to get to journaling today. We had a field trip at the day job, we took personality tests, I’m extroverted! Who knew? Not me. So the test told me that in terms of work relationships I am very extroverted, love to be included, and apparently am a very social beast. I find this laughable. I’m an only child. My whole life I’ve defined myself as an introvert who mostly could care less about many social interactions. I accepted it. Then I started working at my day job and becoming interested in leadership roles. My boss is fantastically outgoing and I think she dragged the little bit of that out of me and made it dominant. I’m unsure of my new definition of person. Naturally, it’s only in terms of my work relationships, but still, extrovert. No kidding.
We had some great activities today and some really fantastic conversations. And then we played Laser Tag. What fun! It’s a rush! I’m glad I took my asthma inhaler prior to the workout however. That was a lot of zooming around and crazyness!
Upon returning home I found some rather devastating friend news out from facebook. I really need to talk to this person, it’s made my brain float out of my skull since I read it. I hate getting news like that via facebook, I really do, though at least I was informed.
Before writing this journal entry, I’ve been examining mounds of data. Data data data. I’m beginning to wonder if data is part of my block. I don’t think so. I <3 Data. Love love love it! I enjoy the feeling of seeing numbers come to life in an intricate graph. I love graphing it backwards or incorrectly and gleaming some new sparkle of information out of it. It’s what draws me to science.
Otherwise, I’ve done no creative things today other than this entry that I’m doing now. The week looks beautiful though, I’m excited to take a walk around the block and smell the grass, look at the sky, and maybe I’ll start my window garden this week since it will be so nice!