The Planner.

Holy tamole you should see this leather-bound monstrosity of an agenda that Threefold [my company] gave me. Walking around with it I look like Ebenezer Scrooge with his bound list of debtors. I look like I may be conniving.

This is exactly what my planner looks like.

Yesterday, aka the worst day of my life, I had a 2.5hr meeting on telecoms pricing at the end of the day. I narrowly escaped at 5:30pm from the meeting (I snuck out. It was still full-force when I left), and walked to my desk to find what I am now calling THE BEAST sitting next to my monitor. It’s 9” x 14”, black, glossy, gold-embossed with “Threefold 2007” on the front. It weighs about 11lbs.

Inside, it has a sections for the usual things—weights and measures, 2008/09/10 calendars, and some not so usual ones, too: New Years Resolutions, vehicle registration numbers, allergies, insurance policy numbers… Granted, it’s an organizer’s dream, but why would I ply my work journal with a list of my allergies? If your office planner is with you so often that it can become your med alert badge, it’s time for a vacation.

Anyway, despite the seemingly endless issues with the thing, it’s a giant, fresh, new, hardbound planner. So, as Kaitlyn has already assumed by this point….I’m in heaven. I haven’t STOPPED fussing with this thing since I got it. I wanted to take it home so bad last night, but I left it as a TREAT for this morning! A TREAT!! At first, I was hesitant to give up my little steno notebook that I’ve been planning in, but…..eff that! This thing is great!

For those few of you who would like a recap of how the rest of my day went yesterday, I dragged myself dejectedly home and ate pasta, then went for a run in a really pretty park with rolling hillsides and huge old trees. Then I went to bed...at 9. It was literally light out for 2.5 hours after I got in bed. Oh the glamour!!!