Journaling for a Cause Day 4

Funny that we should be asked to journal about happiness today. This has been a rough week. I'm convinced that the universe was conspiring against me so that I would not make it to my beach trip this weekend. I did survive, however, and I have a greater appreciation for what happiness means.

Day 3

I'm back-posting this, because we were without internet yesterday.

We were supposed to use a repeated image and alter it. I couldn't choose just one image, though, so I altered a few different images. I never was good at following directions...

Day 2

I do intend to write more blogs and not rely only on journaling posts. It's just that I'm having a rough week and I don't want to focus on that here. The good news, though, is that I'm off Friday and I am leaving Friday afternoon to spend the weekend at the beach for a friend's bachelorette weekend. I'm so excited!

On to today's journal page...

Today we were to write down our goals for this journal. I want to use my journaling time as a way to put more creativity into my life, a way to reduce stress (no thinking about work allowed when I'm working on my journal!), and I really want to become less critical of my art. I really dislike spending so much time on something and then hating it in the end.

Journaling for a Cause-Cover and Day 1

A new journaling journey. I'm so excited for this one!

Here is my cover. I chose a graph paper filled moleskine notebook this time. I decorated the cover with a white paint pen, and I may or may not add to the doodles on the front there.

And Day 1. This is the "welcome" page, where we were to use 5 adjectives to describe our life right now. I added adverbs to my adjectives, because I never follow directions very well.

Thanks for looking!

Days 28-30--The End.

This is it! The last three pages.

Day 28. The prompt was what are you most looking forward to? I chose to focus on the near future rather than the distant future. A beach trip next weekend, spending more time with my boyfriend this weekend and in the months to come, and cooler weather. No more 100 degree days!

Day 29. I love this one. Write a letter to your past self or future self. I wrote a letter to myself at 19, almost 10 years ago. Here's the letter:

And the last page...

Day 30. What did you do this week that moved you closer toward reaching your goals? Right now, even though I graduated, I am in what is called my Clinical Fellowship. I have to accrue a certain number of hours under supervision (Not direct supervision. I have a supervisor who I am able to ask questions, and we have to have a certain number of actual contact hours, but for the most part I am on my own. She is in her own facilities, and I am in mine.), and each week I am gaining more hours and moving closer to my professional license. Exciting stuff.

This challenge was so much fun. I think it got me out of my comfort zone when it comes to doodling and handwriting and journaling. I am really looking forward to the next challenge.

Finished! Days 24-27

I had time today to finish up the rest of the prompts for the 30 Day Journal Challenge. I'm so glad I finished this challenge, even if I didn't do it one day at a time like it was meant to be done. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with the Journaling for a Cause prompts.

I'm going to break this up into two separate posts so there aren't a ton of pictures all in one post.

Day 24. This is actually prompt 25, but I mixed up this one and the one before it. The prompt was to pick a word or phrase that described your day and fill the page with it, using different fonts. This was the first word I thought of. I wish it was more positive.

Day 25. And this was actually prompt 24. What's your favorite place in the world? Again, went with the cliche here, but I couldn't think of a most favorite physical place. Guess I haven't found it yet.

Day 26. This day we were to write out our favorite recipe. This is definitely a favorite food, baked potato with cheese and ranch dressing. Yum. I could eat these every day and not get tired of them... and I would probably be shaped like a potato.

Day 27. If you could change one thing (about the world, yourself, your situation, your city, your country, etc...), what would it be? Self explanatory.

I'll finish up in the next post.

Days 19-23

Almost all caught up. I hate to feel like I'm rushing through the pages, but I want to be finished before Monday, when the Journaling for a Cause class starts.

Day 19. The prompt was to create a guide to your city or state. I have to be honest, the reason for the long lag between the last pages and this one is because I didn't know what I would put in a guide to my state, much less a guide to my city. I wouldn't recommend this small town for a vacation, is all. So these are a few of the things I like about Georgia, but there are truly some much better states to visit.

Day 20. What's in your bag? I just bought a new purse,this one, in natural. I love it. The contents are less than thrilling.

Day 21. The prompt was to write a favorite quote. I'm constantly bookmarking quotes I find online or writing down quotes I come across, like just about everyone else in the world. This is one I saw on Marta's website. I love it.

Day 22. Your favorite holiday. I don't know, I so wanted to not be a cliche and choose something other than Christmas, but I do love Christmas. I love decorating. I love choosing gifts for the people I love, especially when I find that one perfect thing. And I geek out over deciding my wrapping "theme" every year. Putting up a tree in my boyfriend's house last year right after I'd moved in was pretty awesome.

Day 23. Fill an entire page with one of the elements of art: line, color, shape, space, texture, or form. This is one of my favorites. When I was in an art class in high school, we had to fill an entire page with one continuous line, and for some reason I loved it. It's been a while since I've done it again, but I thought of it immediately when I read this prompt.

And that's it for now. Seven more prompts to go. Hopefully I can get them done this week. My caseload at work is extremely low right now. As in, I got a total of 1.75 hours today. Yeah, what am I even doing there? Not only do I hate my job, but I'm hardly making any money. Blah.