Gabby messaged me on WhatsApp: “Are you riding this morning?”
I tell her my thrilling plans for the morning: go to Uniqlo to try on a pair of linen pants, then drop off some empty cosmetic containers at the MAC store for recycling.
Wait a minute… While I technically have plans, they are the sort I’d be happy to ditch. I always have plans: it’s the whole point of my To Do Journal. It’s been my best defense against couch potatoery. It is also why, after more than a year, I still haven’t defeated the Demon King Ganondorf in Tears of the Kingdom.
The cover of this journal features a foiled print of Hokusai’s The Great Wave. Inside, there are 176 pages of lined paper, 1/3 of which are filled with assorted things to do. Big and small. Essential and absurd. Here’s a sampling of plans I’ve jotted down since starting this journal last September:
- email Opa
- banking
- JST connector for RC battery
- blog
- mini cheesy gnocchi w/mushrooms
- get flowers!
- email flower lady
- magnets… how do they work?