The Raven's Roost

I'm not sure I should actually be proud of this month's journal spread. XD



Anyway!

This past week has been busy. I've spent most of my days outside working on the yard, and this weekend we put in a lot of time getting the shed for the camper built. It's almost done, we just ran out of the small boards we're attaching the sheet metal roof to. But we put in a couple of seven hour days on that this weekend and I'm kind of tired, LOL. But it will be nice to have a place to keep the camper out of the weather - mostly the sun. Sun damage will age it faster than anything. We tried putting a tarp over it, but the tarp got a distressing amount of water underneath it, and that's also not good.

I'm back to running mostly. I've been reading on the Garmin Reddit about how people seem to like the suggested workouts as a base-building plan, so I'm going to try running its suggested workouts this week and see how it goes. Today it wants me to run ... a twelve minute mile. Well, I do run my "easy" workouts far too fast and hard, so maybe forcing myself to slow down might be helpful. Otherwise today I'm just catching up on household stuff left undone from the weekend and all my usual Monday things.

I was sorting through the saved files in my Google Drive, aka my digital notebook. It keeps bringing me back to an idea I've been toying with for a couple of months now - making a yoga notebook. I don't necessarily want a fitness journal thing, as I don't really want to track my sessions. I can do that with other apps. But I've been creating my own sequences, usually using existing ones on, say, Yoga Journal's website, modifying them to suit my own needs. So instead of having to remember how a particular flow is supposed to go, I'd like to have a notebook.

My idea is that each sequence will get about two pages - the two page spread of an open book. There should be a space to one side illustrating the pose, and any movements involved, for example, if you're meant to move with the in and out of breath. The space on the other side would have notes on holding the pose, which areas of the body to focus on, how many breaths or how long to hold it, etc. Then I can use the back half of the pages for more detailed observations about the different poses, maybe with more detailed drawings of them, info copied from Light On Yoga, a section that has a more narrative feel to it.

I can't really find any mixed-use notebooks online though. It seems like there ought to be notebooks that are half-and-half sketch and lined paper, or have mixtures of different kinds of paper in them, but I don't see any outside the world of planners. I guess I could use a planner and simply disregard the dates printed on the pages. I considered laying out the pages I want and sending those files off to have a custom notebook printed, but so far the minimum order I have seen is 50 books.

I might just go with Blurb - it's a little pricey but I think they still will print you one single book, so I don't have to try to give the rest away.

I'm having trouble getting started today. But then it's only nine, so I probably shouldn't worry as much about it.