... and ended with twelve steps.
I was just reading an old blog entry about my obsession with planners. A lot has happened since then. Now that I am on my “happy pills” I am not as obsessive if at all. So the funny thing is, my planner is at it's most streamlined and organized. It is at the height of functionality. Much of my problem with planners in the past was the obsessive part of me taking over and blurring the reality.
Yes, I will admit I LOVE planners. I mean, last night I had a glorious dream about a really COOL planner. Sick? No. Just me. It's my hobby. It's my knitting. As long as it doesn't control my life and as long as it doesn't cause me to NOT do other things. It is a tool that I put to use. It's as simple as that.
We have simplified our lives. Jason and I decided that paying almost 300 bucks a month to keep our state of the art pda phones in operation, it was time to make a drastic and important decision. It was time to give them up. He had a treo and I had a blackberry (or crackberry as it's nicknamed). We had to bite it a bit. I mean, first of all, we hated Cingular and didn't want to be part of that stinky zoo anymore. So we had to cough up the cash to break free of our contract (which to have to have is just rude I think).
Then ofcourse, we had these phones that together probably cost another 500 smackers. Ridiculous. We got two exact and very simple cell phones. And our lives are changed. Simplified. No more obsessing because there ain't nothing to obsess about. Also, because we have actual cell phones and not these walkie talkie pda things that are NEVER very good phones, we have amazing reception.
As I expected, I don't miss my blackberry in the least. One of my problems was that I was always tempted to use the blackberry fully as my organizer. But then I would obsess about it. I would obsess about syncing it and devising it and trying to make it work and setting alarms and eenie meenie mynie NOT!!!!
So off to eBay with you. That is, if anyone will buy it. The blackberry is on thin ice these days. I will say, it IS a great thing to have. But for ME and my obsessive nature, it didn't work.
I am an organizer junkie.
I am going to now go over to my delightful book. And start planning out my day. Now let me see... what color pen should I use?
Oh no....