Back to Blogging Plan: My Customized Agenda

I have missed blogging, and hate that I stopped. But since school has just started yesterday for most students in Canada (not sure about anywhere else in the world), I thought this would be the perfect time to get back to blogging. This time, I have come up with a plan.

I have made an agenda for myself to help keep me organized and more on top of blogging. I didn't like any of the preset agenda's made for school, so I made my own.

This is the first agenda I have ever made and I'm sure I will be tweaking it in the new year, but this is what I am starting out with and will see what works and what doesn't.

I didn't have time to create a pretty cover and quite frankly, I like the sleek look of just a black cover on the front and back. I have chosen a coil bind because it lasts longer and you can flip it all the way around.

The first two pages I have included in my agenda is a monthly view that is laminated. I didn't want to have a monthly view in between the weeks because I wanted to be able to flip back and forth between the months. I laminated it so that I can use non-permanent markers (like the Staedtler ones I have pictured above) or dry-erase markers. I chose the non-permanent markers because they come to a finer point and this agenda is half a letter size page (8.5" X 5.5"). The monthly view will give me a quick overview of all the major things that are happening in that month. For example, holidays, events, birthdays, etc. I have also left the other side of the month pages blank so that I can pop in to do lists when I need them.

After the two monthly view pages, I have created a weekly view page. This is what I will be using the most for blogging because I will be able to plan what posts I want to put up each week. At least that's the plan, I will probably do an update after I have put my agenda through some good use.

The pages after each weekly view are just blank pages. I currently have 7 blank pages in between which is making for an incredibly thick agenda but like I said earlier, there will be more tweaking later on. The blank pages will be used for whatever ideas I have for blog posts as well as just a scratch pad for whatever I need to jot down.

This is my work in progress. I can't wait to put it to use and to figure out what I like and dislike about it. Actually I am pretty sure I dislike the thickness of it but, I am waiting for something to go on sale for me to revamp my planner for next year.

What do you look for in an agenda and why?

1 Week Since I came back to Vancouver

I can't believe I've already been here for a week. Time has just flown by for me, probably because I have been so busy. Actually, I probably haven't been busy but it just feels that way since I am still figuring out a lot of stuff like how to use the transit system and where things are. I have also been looking for a place to rent and will do a whole separate post about that soon.

This post is really just a recap. I originally had wanted to do a blog a day in May (BADIM) but... I missed out on Sunday, which made me soo upset. I was so mad at myself for falling asleep before I posted a post. Should have done that before anything else, which is really what I have been doing lately. I told myself to be more consistent with my posting once I get to Vancouver and so far it hasn't been hard to do since I definitely have more of a routine/schedule over here now that I have school. It's easier to keep myself on track. I don't have much to say today since I have just spent the whole day viewing places for rent besides going to school in the morning. Starbucks has definitely been our friend during our hunt for places to rent.

My Starbuck's drink of the day: Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino

If you want to hear about how school's been for me, check out my other blog at: https://tomesarah.wordpress.com/