Of Vacation, Planners, and Starting Out the Year

That's the problem with long vacations.  It takes a while to snap out of vacation mode.  At least for me, that's the case.  You see, I took a half month leave during the holidays, 16 days to be exact.  So come January 6, the first day of work for this year, everything felt surreal.  I'm not here, I'm not at work...somebody slap me!  

That goes for blogging as well.  I tried to get back into the writing mood.  I've got a handful of ideas but the urge to write just isn't there.  I don't want to push myself to write.  It just doesn't come out right when I do that.  And so, I spent the past week just reading blog posts and maybe commenting on a couple of posts that interest me.

Shape'd: Simple Picture Cropping Tool

Girl Thinking

I've been wanting to change my blog header in this blog and my other blog for quite sometime now.  You know how it could get boring, seeing the same design everyday.  Or maybe I'm just being fidgety again with blog design hahaha! I didn't have enough urge to do so but now  I finally had the time and energy to do that on both blogs.  I haven't got my hands on Photoshop yet so I'm just using some crude ways of making header image graphics.  I still used CoolText for the blog title fonts and I got free images from Flicker and Microsoft Office.  I've been contemplating on buying images from various sites with stock photos.  I would have wanted those nice vectors but I thought of just getting free images for the meantime.

DIY Or Digital Notebooks?

It's no secret that I love notebooks.  I'm talking about the conventional ones that are made of real paper bound together with a cover of choice and where you actually write on using pens (I also love pens by the way).  So it follows that I also love planners, specially the colorful ones with all those niceties.  I am practically drooling over this 2013 daily planner that Jen of Iheart Organizing made.  And to make it even  better, there's also this blog planner that's to die for.  My fingers are already itching to print these out as I type this post.  But I got to hold my horses and remind myself that I already have Sam and I have downloaded notebook apps there already.  In fact, I have three (extra) note keeping apps.