Gratitude

Today I am grateful for:
My loving husband.
My supportive family.
A good job.
A great community.
Awesome friends.
Silly cats.

Desert car washing

We have rarely washed our cars in the past...

Embarrassing? Yes. 

BuJo ESO #Nerd

In the real world being passionate about planners and video games makes you a #nerd. What would I be if I found a way to combine these passions?

BuJo: Bullet Journal.

After years of seeking the perfect planner I came across the planning method of Bullet Journaling. The best part is my BuJo can be my creativity outlet, shopping list, daily planner, and as you will see later my ESO tracker. I have three BuJo's going right now: My life, Work, and ESO.

Watch this video to learn more about bullet journaling.

ESO: Elder Scrolls Online

In my last post about adventuring with my husband I spoke about my current character Venspatra. In this amazing game there are several traits you have to research to improve your character. Researching happens when you find an item with a trait and destroy it to learn the trait. Clicking back and forth through the menus to figure out which items I needed to save for researching was time consuming so I decided to use a blank dot grid journal I had to make a BuJo just for our ESO information.

This BuJo has a fishing guide, armor set locations/ abilities, crafting information for all types of crafting, and a two spread character page for myself and my husband where we can use the handy chart I made to track our research. Here are a few photos showing the graph I made.

I may post more about this topic later, either BuJo or ESO. Then again I may not! ;)

Birthdays and Normalcy

Today is my 27th birthday. We went out with friends Saturday to a Hibachi grill, bought an ice cream cake last night, and spent the entire weekend in Tamriel adventuring together.

When people ask me what I am planning to do for my birthday or what I am getting I think of two responses.


1. I am an adult, birthdays are not that big of a deal anymore.
2. If we find something that we want we just purchase it, it doesn't matter if it is our birthday or not.

I feel as if the world expects us to have a huge celebration on our birthdays. Parents make a huge deal out of kid's birthdays and then the children grow up and expect a big deal to be made for the rest of their lives.

In our home a birthday is just another day. We celebrate life everyday. We budget money and save for items or vacations that we would like to have all throughout the year and when we have the extra money we do not wait for a holiday to get whatever "it" is that we desire.

I feel better about turning 27 than I did about 26.