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• Work has banned cell phones from entering our building. This has caused a major upset with all of my co-workers. It's not that we're on our phones all day long...but it's difficult to sit and stay in a building all day without knowing anything of the world outside. 
• Needless to say, it HAS impacted my blogging, picture taking and Facebook where my planner is concerned. However, I do use my planner a ton more than I did before. Because I'm not allowed to have my digital pda with me, I HAVE to use my Filofax! How amazing is that!? 
• I am becoming more courageous with planning events due to having a planner. I feel less stress that I will fail and that I will forget something important. 
• I love my hairstylist. He's been my soul mate and best friend for over 8 years now. I can talk to him about anything. Lately, it's been so good to just BE myself with him. I saw him yesterday and first thing I said was, "I want crazy purple hair!" and he says, "Yeah!! Let's do it!" Gosh, I need that in my life. 
• Been playing more video games. 
• Been working hard on making and maintaining my female relationships. This is a real struggle for me. I gave my heart to my "not really ever best friend, but what else do I call her" best friend years ago..and having female friends is SO hard for me. My eye is so crooked when another female wants to hang out or go for coffee. I'm jaded. I hate that I still carry that. But I'm working on trusting..and I'm working on pushing myself to keep on in my relationships with other women, even when they're difficult. 
• Chris and I decided to spend one or two weekends a month having dinner parties at our house. Not huge parties...just have someone(s) over for food and movies or chatting to catch up. Considering what a freak I am and what an introvert he is...this is HUGE. 
• I realize that my blog lately has been nothing but Filofax porn and not a lot of knitting, food or randomness...so I'll work on that. 

Peace. Chubby pandas and what the heck...vodka. LOL 

-Wayword

Filofax Wallet

I have totally fallen in love with my Filofax. I use it daily...for so many things in my life. I didn't realize how much I counted on my brain to remember what I needed to do, remember, keep track of etc...Believe me..it's ALOT. 

So here I have a personal sized Domino Filofax! It's my first of the Filofax brand. I bought it off Amazon for about $39. I confess to having this little planner become my new religion. :) It's been used as my 'main' planner for the last three months. However, Chris bought me a new A5 Fluro Pink Original Filofax for my birthday. So I made myself move into that today...when I made my Domino a WALLET. It was actually really hard for me mentally to leave my personal size. I am not sure what that's about! All I know is...I LOVE my Domino. :) 

The Domino does not have as many slots for cards as other Filofax's. But, I generally only use two debit cards, my driver's license and my Snap Fitness key card on a regular basis. I'm using the front side pocket for stamps and my color coding dots. 

The 'dashboard'. Gotta keep it pretty right? 

More 'dashboard'. And having a photo of my husband and kids reminds me to be careful of my spending. I have a tendency to over spend and need to be careful all the time! 

I re-used the dividers! I could not throw these out or make myself make new ones! So I re-labeled one and was able to just use the rest as they were. I have really gotten good use from my Purple Cow laminator. I don't know how I lived without it. Haha! 

I bought four packs of business card holders from DayRunner. They hold 9 cards each. They are meant for paper business cards and made a really snug fit for the plastic club cards I have. I have about 9 pages/27 cards in this section. 

It's all about the money! 

I seldom carry cash actually...but lately I have been contemplating using a cash envelope system. So I might implement more of these zip pockets if I do. 

I "plan"on having a section for my bill information. Things like account information and numbers, due dates and balances. I created a financial planner for this sort of thing, but I plan on syncing them so I can have that information with me, should I need to pay bills or talking to a creditor. 

More inspiration! Here is a register for my checkbook and debit cards. I haven't been very good at using these in the past. However, it's my new resolution to keep up a register. 

Lastly I made a holder for my checkbook. I slide my checkbook into the little purple pocket so I don't have to carry the bank book along with me. Saves a bit of space in my Filofax. 

I think I still need a bigger pocket for receipts. And I really want a coupon section! I am just not sure what I could reasonably take out without having to have a second wallet. My whole purpose is to only carry my Filofax as a wallet. I'll let you know how it turns out. 

And soon! I'll share my set up in my new Fluro Pink! 

Peace, Love and Plan Ahead! 

-Wayword

This week!

I found this really cute sushi Hello Kitty sticker and had to use it! I thought the Hello Kitty part was one sticker and all the sushi was smaller stickers. But the small sushi was the card board backing. I was sad. I had to cut them out by hand!!! They aren't too thick so it's worth it. 

I am almost disappointed that I cannot cut washi tape straight! I need to find my paper cutter. Need. 

My email this week had a 40% off any regular priced item at Joann's. Squee!!! Get a laminator!!!! Lamination MUST be done!! I found a $20 laminator at Costco earlier today. I didn't buy it because I wanted to get a quality one from Joann's with my coupon. 

There was a really nice Scotch laminator for $50. I was excited! But I got to the register and my coupon wasn't valid with the "machine". So no laminator. :-( 

I might go get the one at Costco? But I'm a tad worried about the quality. So more research to come! 

My sister and I are keeping a diary/revolving letter book at the moment. So here's that. :-) 

Mostly just writing back and forth in a diary-letter to each other. We did this as teenagers and I'm glad we've picked up it again. :-) 

I enjoy all the paper I've been able to play with lately!! 

-Wayword