The saga of my little car continues
Roller coaster rides abound here. I’m very anxious, fearful today, but there’s also a calmness there too, which is well weird.
Yesterday I picked up a loan smart car from the garage, and not long after I got home I had a phone call to tell me that after trying what the experts had suggested, the conclusion is that something has broken inside the automatic gearbox. It would cost over £4000 to replace the gearbox, and the car really isn’t worth it.
So, I had the panic and fear and worry about sorting out a new car. I’m going to try buying a new Smartfortwo first through the garage. I need to trust my car; I have to travel around a fair amount with the talks that I do. Breaking down causes me huge stress, and not being sure of a car I’m driving does so too. Having a second-hand gearbox fitted wouldn’t fill me with that kind of trust. There are other options, including buying a cheap runaround until a few things come together for me.
I know things will work out fine. That this too will pass. It makes settling down to focus on anything difficult for me, and when I’m like this one of my coping strategies is to sleep, lots. Which I can’t do at the moment, though I really want to sleep, just sleep.
I need to run errands while I have the loan car, to make the most of it. I have editing work to do for A Dangle A Day.
Other stuff has gone out of the window. I did set up my monthly spread for May in my BuJo, along with my monthly trackers this morning; I couldn’t believe how shaky my fingers were.
May Monthly BuJo Spread and a large disc-bound format
The picture shows my monthly spread for may as well as the pens I used as well some pictures of my new disc-bound journal.
My monthly spread and trackers are decorated with hawthorn blossoms and leaves. May blossom, as we call it here in the UK, is usually out around now, but it seems to be delayed this year, but it is a flower I associate with May time.
I included a little quote about May below the header:
May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive. – Fennel Hudson-
I’ve moved to a large disc-bound planner because I like the larger format as well as the flexibility of what paper I can use and the ability to rearrange pages as I understand my needs more without having to re-draw/re-write everything I have in my collections.
As I’ve said before, my BuJo is more like a Zibladone, where I collect all kinds of ‘stuff’ that interests me that I want to reference, including collections of patterns and drawings on various themes. With the addition of the planner elements that are useful to me, I turn it into a very basic BuJo, where I include yearly, monthly and weekly diaries/calendars and also a journaling section, which is more important to me than having a page for a day with planning and so on in.
The eagle-eyed of you may have spotted that I’ve used quadrille/squared paper in this spread. The simple reason is that I can cut down on the number of lines I need to draw for the tables! I particularly like it for the tracker.
Yes the lines are more obvious than the dots on dot-grid, but I’m happy to work with this in this instance.
I haven’t done my weekly spreads yet; and I don’t think I’ll get them done today as I have so much to do in terms of errands and also a nearly 3 hour round trip to make to give a talk tonight.
I do need to find time to meditate and let some of this anxiety/fear bleed off and to let the calmness that is under it become stronger.
Pre-orders
A Dangle A Day is available for pre-order. I will be having a give-away for those of you who do pre-order, so check back for details of this once I’ve set it up.
Eerie Entangled Art is also available to preorder from Amazon as well as anywhere that stocks the Creative Haven colouring books from Dover Publishing Inc.
Angela Porter 