⋆ My personal notebook ⋆


Lists and things for me to reference.

About me

Likes

Sudoku, dark red, battleships puzzles, dark brown furniture, finding good books and cute clothes at charity shops, making stickers, the library, my new sherpa coat, delicate jewellery

Food and drink: millionaire milkshakes, millionaire bites, sushi, ranong green matcha, loaded fries, waffle fries, popcorn chicken, cherry bakewells, brown sugar milk tea, orange juice with coconut water

Dislikes

My painful joints!!, metallic tasting water, wooden ice lolly sticks or paper straws touching my teeth

Favourite products

Simple Moisturising Face Wash, Beauty of Joseon Green Plum Face Wash, Simple Replenishing Rich Moisturiser, The Ordinary Natural Moisturising Factors & HA, The Ordinary Glycolic Acid, ARE PLUS Spot Patch, Beauty of Joseon Ground Rice and Honey Glow Mask, Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun Aqua-Fresh Sunscreen, Vaseline Original, Vaseline Rosy Lips, Vaseline Cocoa, Derma V10, Studio London Brow and Lash Gel, Rimmel Stay Matte Powder, Mitchum deodorant, Febreze Vanilla & Magnolia, Imperial Leather Oatmeal Bar Soap, Dove Beauty Bar, Palmolive Naturals Coconut & Milk Shower Cream, Nivea Soft Cream, XBC Aloe Vera Cream, County Sales Beauty Nail Polish Remover Pads, Rimmel 60 Seconds Super Shine Nail Polish

⋆˚꩜｡ Manifestations!!

Things I manifested this year!!

  • A cute tan sherpa peacoat!

⋆⭒˚.⋆ Routines

Daily

  • Morning: up early, religion, face+body stretch, journal, eat, get ready
  • Afternoon: outside, apply, eat
  • Evening: read, art, relax
  • Night: clean, eat, shower, floss, braid hair, journal, meditate, sleep early (9hrs)

Weekly

  • Monday: face scrub, vac+mop downstairs
  • Tuesday: strength, cook/bake
  • Wednesday: wash hair, documentary
  • Thursday: cardio, nails, face scrub, brows
  • Friday: work
  • Saturday: yoga, movie night, oil pull, face mask
  • Sunday: oil+wash hair, everything shower, change bedding, laundry, plan week

Monthly

  • Visit each charity shop once a month only
  • Print pictures at the library for diary/to make stickers
  • A no-media day once a month
  • Write a book review
  • Vacuum and mop upstairs

Lifestyle goals

  • Read 20 books (4 non-fiction books)
  • Wake up late only once a week
  • Media from only 5 pm - 10 pm
  • Social media only on weekends

My journal ecosystem

  • Diary: thoughts, junk journalling, affirmations, monthly reflection
  • Planner: events, interstitial journalling, goals, media log, habit tracker, routines
  • Commonplace book: quotes
  • Sketchpad
  • Neocities: media journal

No buy

  • No stationery
  • No beauty or hygiene products (unless completely out)
  • Only visit each charity shop once a month for clothes and shoes + books and DVDs

My current skincare routine

  • Simple Moisturising Face Wash
  • I'm From Rice Toner
  • The Ordinary Natural Moisturising Factors & HA
  • Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun Aqua-Fresh Sunscreen
  • ARE PLUS Spot Patch
  • Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Cookies N Clean Whipped Clay Intensive Pore + Blackhead Face Scrub
  • Vaseline Cocoa

°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ Research topics

  • Good ballpoint/gel pens to buy
  • Create my own 'canon' books
  • Morse code
  • Short term memory
  • Waking up early and falling asleep
  • What is shifting?
  • Addiction
  • Parasocial relationships
  • How does time work in dreams? Timeline? Do dreams happen at a normal speed or are they slower or faster than real life?
  • Why are dreams so random?
  • Is it possible to dream in another real language and understand it?
  • Can memories be created in dreams and then you get nostalgic in another dream or remember a moment from a previous dream or a made up past?
  • How does time work in dreams?

Projects

  • Copy illustrations from childrens books as practice - drawings and paintings
  • Steam clean the whole house
  • This website!
  • Project pan

Essay ideas

Website ideas

  • Media log - put the wishlist and owned media into media journal

⋆˚꩜｡ Daily diet

Ideas on things to eat

Breakfast/meals

  • oatmeal with banana and honey and chia
  • avocado and eggs with toast/bagel
  • bluberry muffins
  • to incorporate more veggies: grated carrots into rice, frozen veggies

Snacks

  • hummus and carrots
  • peanut butter with apples
  • almonds
  • dark chocolate
  • dates

Drinks

  • chia seeds with water water overnight
  • coconut water
  • smoothie
  • lemon honey chia water

✮ My vanilla cake recipe ★

Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup white suger
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 cup milk

Supplies

  • Measuring spoons
  • Measuring cups
  • Large mixing bowl
  • Smaller mixing bowl
  • Whisk
  • Knife
  • Mixing spoon
  • Cake pan
  • Baking paper

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 175*C
  • Baking paper in cake pan
  • Mix 1 up white sugar and 1/2 cup unsalted butter in large bowl
  • Add 2 large eggs one at a time
  • Mix in 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • In a separate bowl, mix 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour and 1 3/4 tsp baking powder
  • Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix
  • Add 1/2 cup of milk and stir until smooth
  • Bake for 30-40 minutes

Icing

Ingredients

  • 1 cup softened unsalted butter
  • 2 1/2 cup icing sugar
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • Opt: food colouring and sprinkles

Supplies

  • Mixing bowl
  • Sieve
  • Measuring cups
  • Measuring spoons
  • Whisk
  • Knife
  • Opt: piping bag

Instructions

  • Sift 2 1/2 cup icing sugar into a bowl
  • Add 1 cup softened unsalted butter and 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
  • Whisk together
  • Opt: add food colouring
  • Use a knife to spread the icing
  • Opt: using the piping bag to make decorations
  • Opt: add sprinkles

꩜｡˚.⋆ Things to do instead of doomscrolling

Activities that don't require social media:

  • Play games (DS, XBOX 360, The Sims 4, Roblox)
  • Discover new albums
  • Watch movies and shows and documentaries
  • Write media reviews
  • Read articles
  • Listen to podcasts
  • Research topics using the internet
  • Write stories of essays

Activities that don't require technology:

  • Read books
  • Research topics using books from the library
  • Write a journal entry
  • Do some shadow work
  • Cook dinner or bake a cake/cookies
  • Language learning using textbooks
  • Puzzle books
  • Calisthenics/exercise
  • Yoga/meditate
  • Clean my space
  • Explore new places or go for a walk
  • Sketch or paint or junk journal or make a collage
  • Shower and pamper myself
  • Study the dictionary

⋆⭒˚⋆ Charity shop finds!

I love shopping at charity shops and findings things! Here is a list of items I've found at different charity shops.

  • Vampire Diaries The Awakening & The Struggle by L. J. Smith (50p)
  • White knit jumper (£3)
  • Classics Puzzles: Brain Training (£2.50)
  • Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman (£2.50)
  • Jane Austen: The Completed Novels (£4)
  • Why We Sleep by Matthew Walkers (£2.50)
  • The Secret Self: Short Stories by Women by Hermione Lee (£4)
  • White top with frilly wrists (£9.50)
  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with The Merry Men & Other Stories by R. L. Stevenson (£2)
  • Pretty postcard (FREE)
  • Plain thin sketchbook with some ripped pages (FREE)
  • Mokani Planner (£2)
  • Shrek 2 DVD (£1)
  • Shrek The Third DVD (£1)
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid DVD (£1)
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules DVD (£1)
  • Tangled DVD (50p)
  • Big Hero 6 DVD (£1)
  • Fenty Skin Cookies & Clean Whipped Clay Intensive Pore + Blackhead Face Scrub (£8)
  • ZARA Tan sherpa jacket (£12)
  • Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (£1)
  • The Magus by John Fowles (£1)

Resources

I used doqmeat's template for this journal!

Lots of graphics, pixels, stickers, etc

Lots of cute graphics