keep a journal again

My boyfriend is in the military, and he recently left on an assignment that does not allow us to have any contact. I have been filling the pages of a new journal that he gave me so that I can tell him everything that happened while he was gone. That was exactly the push I needed to start journaling again, even though it has been about 1.5 years since I’ve written in it consistently.

I have kept a journal at different times in my life, sometimes daily sometimes more sporadicly. I’d like to return to writing. I’ve been spending so much time doing things on the computer that my efforts to document my life have mostly occurred in that medium, but I’d like to return to a paper and ink journal to have this artifact to look back at in later years. I recently acquired a new journal-free from work-and there are really no excuses not to write.

And I’ve started documenting how much time I spend journaling, among other things, so that I don’t need to compulsively post here to keep track of whether I’m succeeding at this goal. Go, journal, go…

Added another entry today. Woo. Starting to get more regular, and I’ve been thinking of doing it more than actually doing it, which is encouraging; the more I think of it, the more likely I am to manage to do it…

Wrote a journal entry today … It helps when you clear off the table so there’s a place to actually write. ;)

To record some observations on a certain person, for posterity. People should get credit where it’s due—good and bad.

Woo! I got all the stuff together that I need to do the journal-writing routine, and I did it. :D I was hoping it would make me feel better about a really idiotic situation I’m in (and not through any fault of my own; for once I can’t convince myself to take any of the blame ;)), and not blather to all my friends about it, but it’s not happening. ;) Oh, well … at least I managed an entry. :D

...and now I just have to remember that I have it all the time. Doh. ;) It’s only one more step to actually fulfilling this goal, really. I used to take the time every morning when I woke up to write down how I felt and what I intended on doing that day, and whatever else popped into my head, including dreams and things that had been bothering me … and then there were the Dark Times. ;)

Well, the Empire has to fall sometime ... ;D