Sundaze 249: Notion, Being Less Rigorous and Milo’s Birthday
Happy Sundaze! And, please join me in bidding January a slow farewell.
How we’ve already completed a month of 2023 is beyond me: time flies when you’re having fun or, rather, packing your days with both essential and fun tasks. Because that’s exactly what I wanted January to feel like: essentially fun. I crawled to the payday finish line, enjoyed just one friendship date and spent plenty of time at the gym. It’s been bliss.
I’ve also poured lots of time and energy into Daisybutter. Ironic how I went from considering deleting this site to ramping things up and publishing several posts a week again! And long may it continue, as I’ve scheduled more than 12 posts for the coming weeks. I’m really enjoying getting back to my own little way of sharing (and oversharing) online and it seems you are too: my views have shot up by 80%!
I started out on Notion
Friends, the Notion obsession finally got me. Late on Tuesday evening, I joined the ever-popular productivity app and it’s been a steep learning curve ever since! Don’t get me wrong, I’m still very much using my bullet journal to stay organised and make plans. But I realised that a digital system like Notion might just be the thing I was after to keep my writing projects in order.
Notion is simply a workspace that adapts to your needs. Like a bullet journal, it can be as minimal or detailed as you need it to be and, pleasingly, it can customised to your aesthetic as well.
I spend my weeks in various spots: my home, the office in London, on many trains, and at my boyfriend’s place. Very much a ‘write it down’ person, I found I had draft snippets, notes and other random things scattered between my bullet journal, Notes app and odd bits of paper. I’m hoping that, when it’s set up, my Notion workspace can be a place for my writing project to thrive. So far, it’s been a handy hub for me to reference profiles, capture thoughts, make notes and even pen on-the-go journal entries when my bullet journal is out of reach (or I don’t want to write messily on a jolting train).
Perhaps I’ll share my Notion set-up, if I discover that it does prove useful to me?
Being less rigorous
Having said all of that about organisation and productivity, I want to ease off the rigour that I often live my life by. So, this week I took my foot half-off the pedal and… it’s been so nice. I didn’t manage to grab a full grocery shop – especially since it was the tail-end of a long month and ahead of payday – but managed to make do with cupboard essentials. I accidentally missed my train on Tuesday and, instead of panicking, I calmly caught the next train and was miraculously only 15 minutes late, and it was fine – I was still the earliest in the office.
What I’m trying to say is that we don’t always have to be on it. We’re all only human and, when I let myself feel it, it felt good.
Today is Milo’s 7th birthday!
We celebrate Milo’s 7th birthday and I feel emotional! I can’t believe it’s been nearly seven years since we brought him home; we can’t even remember a life before him. My sister baked him a homemade cake and we took him on a long walk at his favourite spot, the lake, before popping for a celebratory birthday lunch at Megan’s, a somewhat local dog-friendly restaurant. Being a dog Mama has been the most rewarding thing and it’s been worth all of the lifestyle tweaks and shifts that we’ve made for him.
Links I’ve Loved
- I’m currently besotted with the Ferm Living Vuelta lamp – it’d look so lovely on my desk!
- How Celebrating Lunar New Year Connects Me to My Heritage and Culture via The Everygirl
- My boyfriend makes us homemade vegan desserts most weekends, and I’m definitely forwarding him The Grumpy Olive’s Vegan Panna Cotta recipe. It sounds delicious!
- One thing about me: I hate leafy salads. Loved this post on Cup of Joe featuring five salads without leaves.
- As ever, Lofi.co has been keeping me company on my work-from-home days.
How was your week? And, how do you feel about bidding adieu to January? Let me know in the comments, as always.
