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Oh my goodness it is the first week in our brand new hobonichi cousins welcome back everyone I am Julie today I am going to be planning out the first week in my 2024 hobonichi cousin I did want to share how the setup is going because it’s been a minute you saw my

Setup video from a few videos ago not a whole lot has changed but I have added some things um so I have added my vision board I absolutely love this thing I made it in canva printed it on Vellum and then added the vision board words

From sweet Bean plans I believe is the shop name then I added a 2023 wrapped these pages are actually tipped in using my favorite little glue marker from zigg I love this thing please go get yourself one you will thank me later then I started on my mood

Tracker I just sort of added a little page from one of my hobonichi notebooks like the A51 cut it up glued it in here so that I have a frame of reference this is what I’m going to try for the first quarter my whole vibe going into 2024 is

Going to be let’s try something for the first quarter see how I like it and then we can always change things up as the next quarter starts now in my month view I did go back and do December since that is in this particular book so December

Is finished I have started on January with this beautiful new coffee monsters Coe kit I love the new formatting of her kits so it’s still looks a little bit bare it’s only the second is it really already the second it’s only the second I love the colors that Helen is using

This year and I just love that there’s actually less stickers like I might not even get to all of these but nonetheless I’m still very excited and then over on the start of my dailies is where I kind of started my year so there is this page

In the hichi cousin called turning the page to a fun New Year so I just wrote down what my fun goals were going to be for the year so the not so serious stuff like just the goals that are super fun um this year I really want to embrace

Not having like such a hardcore strategy for goal setting I think that makes goal setting extremely overwhelming I’m in my mid-40s I don’t need a how to un setting goals I just need to like get a vision board have a list of some things I want

To get done and come up with a plan it it’s really quite that simple then uh let’s see starting on the January page I did the coffee monsters Co journaling prompts also printed it on Vellum Vellum is just what I love to print on cuz it’s thinner than paper and it doesn’t hide

Like the grid behind it um and then I just put three very simple goals for the month of January I’ve actually already completed one which was a digital declutter I just kind of went through my phone deleted apps I wasn’t using the last task I actually have to do so it’s

Not 100% done it’s like 97% done is delete all the photos and videos from my phone since it’s in my Google photo storage then I copied over the document your life page cuz I really wasn’t going to do any sort of planning or journaling um the first day of January and I got

This idea from Claire um and I think I just did everything except like the whenever part cuz I was like oh I’ll think of something later and then I have already started journaling in here these pages are primarily going to be more journaling than day-to-day stuff now

Let’s go to this week this is the week that I want to plan in and it’s going to be the week of January 1st through January 7th how exciting is it for us planner people that the planner started right on a Monday it’s like a planner’s

Dream and I’m just going to move my little bookmark to the following week I’m keeping things really simple today I have one of my favorite Tombo markers one of my favorite pens which is the Pentel clena and a roll of Washi so I’m going to put the Washi down

Across the bottom I think this year I really want to focus more on simplifying things even when it comes to planning and like just I don’t know I when I was flipping through my planner last year I was like you know a lot of it seemed

Like I was really trying to um achieve something that just wasn’t really natural like it was just too much of trying to be perfect um like even down to like handwriting right I think a lot of us do it we need our handwriting to be perfect at all times those types of

Things and that can be really hard like and unrealistic let’s be real and so I just kind of was like you know I I don’t know I’m just in this weird space where I’m like does everything have to be so perfect you know like I and it’s just

Something that I know that I’m internally working on because it’s just I don’t know and I’m rambling at this point and I might even just cut all of this out probably won’t but and one of the things I desperately need to plan with are my tweezers and if

You saw my office right now you would be like you’re so far from perfect I really for real can’t find them and I just spent 5 minutes looking for them and we’re not going to do that we’re just going to have to plan without the tweezers so I’m using this this week

Sticker from randy. plans anyway it’s a whole thing it is definitely a whole thing and it’s something that I have kind of just been addressing even with myself like making sure that everything it’s going to be okay if things aren’t perfect if that makes sense and I think

It comes down to like even when we’re like nervous to write our name in our planners like why you know what I mean um just write your name in your planner remember before the internet how you would just write in like a really plain regular agenda and not get like the meat sweats

From it like where did that go where did that go anyway that’s just where I’m at with all of that I got some really cute stickers from I want to say that this is pronounced Salam creative new to me shop I have since also placed two more orders

It’s a bit of a problem but no really they had a washi tape restock over the weekend so I ordered and I am obsessed with these baking stickers and the eat your vegetable stickers and the coffee stickers and uh The Bookworm stickers just such cute like little doodly

Designs so for New Year’s welcoming in 2024 I think I will grab my lettering marker and I use the Tombo food and auki hard one there’s hard and soft you can use whichever and I’m just going to write hello 2024 and I think part of it

Too is just um there can be a lot of pressure especially when starting new planners and just new things in general and yeah it’s just we’ve got to take the pressure off of ourselves for everything to constantly be so perfect you know I think I want to do a combination of I

Love the little coffee cup with the book so I think we’re going to do that one I did a lot of that yesterday yes I’m like a day late with this video um that’s just how it went I literally did nothing but reading things from 8 until about

Lunchtime and it was glorious it was absolutely glorious um I set up my Goodreads account I set up a reading goal of 25 books for the year of 2024 which is super exciting for me I actually started two books yesterday one I’m actually more than

Halfway done with which is it was it’s a much shorter book it was it was a good good start of the year and then for the remainder of the day or just a couple of hours I guess I just got ready for the week my family got me this really

Beautiful bath tray with like bath salts and like a body scrub and the little pillow that you can attach to your tub and it made bath time like I had gone to the spa it was just so freaking incredible I really really loved it all

Right now here we are oh I also so I did forget something I did go pick up a an order from Academy so we purchased a weight set for our gym we’ve slowly been putting together the gym since we moved here but more so in the last like 2

Months or so so that’s been really nice so we got that done and then uh we set up the TV in our garage which is where our gym is at to like connect our pelaton app and all of that fun stuff cuz we hadn’t quite done all of that so

Now I can do like the work that are not on the bike um I can use like the big TV for that and I immediately did that and that was fantastic and I think I have I might have a workout sticker from coffee monsters Co yes we will use this one the

Little sweaty Emoji because we use a little sweaty emoi because that was definitely me also I wanted to add a little bit of a chat about the paper in the hobonichi cousin I’ve seen a lot of chatter about it and I’ve got to say um I have also noticed more of a difference

I didn’t notice it so much when I did my pen test page in the back and I can’t remember where I was writing in here that I saw that there was some bleed through I’m trying to remember but I did a pen test page on the new paper a while back

And I wrote something in here recently and I was like oh it does kind of actually bleed through little bit which is interesting but not enough for me to be like I’m not using my hobonichi cousin like that’s just not going to happen Okay and then on Tuesday I

Already had this meeting happen so I’m trying to figure out let’s just do the little computer the little computer emoi one of my favorites that I order frequently I have them in like multiple spots like that’s how much I love them and then I am going to film some some videos today

I’m also using a once more with love little munchkin that is filming and I don’t know how much I’ll actually get done today so I actually am just going to pull out another one because I think I’m just filming this plan with me today I’m literally rushing because I have to

Do this after work and I’m like burning daylight um but you know you got to do what you got to do and so I think with everything on our schedule I’m going to have to push the plan with me to Monday or Wednesday woo would love for it to be up

The same day that I’m filming it but that’s just not very realistic so I’m going to get it up tomorrow by lunch time and then the other video I’m going to film oh I can probably do it tomorrow as well yes let’s do that I don’t really like doing

It so close in time lately I have had a lot of issues with uploading to YouTube it’s just taking a very long time at first I thought it was my Wi-Fi in particular but talking to other creat creators they are also having a really big difficulty getting their content to

Upload as fast so whereas before a 20 30 minute video literally took like 15 minutes to upload to my channel it’s taking a couple hours now and it’s a little bit frustrating but now I have to give myself a little bit of a buffer just in case okay and then Tuesday nope

Wednesday morning I have a vet appointment with Bruiser it is a little bit of a follow-up appointment we had a little bit of a scare last week and took him to the Ved it was kind of an emergency appointment he’s had blood work done what else he got an injection

He’s just dealing with very senior dog pains and issues but it was scary for me as the owners I took him in to get him checked and all of that stuff but Wednesday is his follow-up appointment now back to the paper on the hobonichi cousin me personally um even if they had

Stuck with the paper that would that they they had last year and years prior I still wouldn’t recommend anything above a 0.5 that’s just me personally I find like anything 7 and above is going to be like smudge City it’s definitely going to cause problems with ghosting um

This paper ghosts naturally it’s the nature of the paper and I actually find it to be quite beautiful um and some people just don’t like it and I get that but it’s it’s great paper I love it all right I need to bake some bread as you

Guys know I’m in my baking era and I’m going to bake some bread on Wednesday um I typically now I’m making it like once a week it’s not really going to be that late that’s just where I’m putting it and I also want to make

Some time for a pelaton ride now that I am back to getting back on my bike I can finally use the stationary bike emojis from the coffee monsters Co yesterday was a strength training workout but I think Tuesday and Wednesday will both be rides uh for me I really want to get

Back into using my pelaton because let me tell you it it includes there’s a monthly membership um and it kind of sucks to pay for something that you’re not using I think we can all agree like I didn’t use the pelaton um app for like

I think it’s been over a year I would use it for like meditations and things like that but actually working out I didn’t use it for well over a year and just paid for it every month and looking back it makes me quite quite annoyed now

I don’t have any big like lofty goals for health and wellness this year it’s basically just to move a little bit more um I know personally that that’s what I need all right Thursday I’ve got a pretty big meeting about midday so I’m going to find my little computer emojis

Once again and somehow I always have like a middle of the day Meeting those are fun I need my room ruler I will say it’s nice to be back at the beginning of of a book I really really really love that getting towards the end of my last

Hobonichi it was brutal at the end because it got a little fluffy but I’m definitely keeping that hobonichi close at arms length because I’m still referencing it for a lot of things so if there’s one tip that I can give you is like don’t immediately store away all of

Your old planners like I’m still having to go back and see what’s what or what’s going on um and I’m so I’m not putting my planner away like at all all right that’s all that I’ve got so far for Thursday and then on Friday evening I’m actually

Meeting with our local book club so I’m going to use this little stack of books I’m so excited this was like one of those things where I was like I really need to finally put myself out there and meet people that are like local to me

And it it involves reading so like why not you know but we meet twice a month which is awesome and I’m super excited about it now I think on Saturday I mentioned that one of my fun goals back here in my setup to the Turning Page to

A new year page that I mentioned building a raised garden and learning what grows best in this area so Saturday I want to carve out some time to sort of do some research and map out a plan to do that so I’m going to take a

Couple of hours on Saturday to focus on that come up with a plan maybe even draw some things out because I think I ultimately want to have like two raised gardens I’m not 100% sure but the raised beds and one be I think a couple of people told me that specific peppers and

Onions and carrots and things like that grow here um I have grown tomatoes before and I hated it I hated every second of it because we always got those weird caterpillars like where you see one and the next thing you know every tomato that ever even tried to grow is

Dead and eaten um and it happens every single time so I think I’m going to Seer clear of tomatoes I think but I’ve heard from some people that I should be planning this now because by the time the spring comes it may already be too late especially because we have such extreme harsh

Weather here in Northeast Texas a lot of it can be started indoors and then when the spring is here things can be trans transplanted outside and then Saturday evening I think I’m going to do some journaling catchup sometimes I just put like a Post-It note on the daily page

And like write just a couple of things so I can remember to go back cuz truth be told I canot journal every single day on the day of I try to but I just can’t um and I think I’m going to take some time for that on Saturday evening to

Just get caught up maybe watch some movies have a glass of wine that kind of thing and then get everything filled in for the week prior I do like to have it all done by the time before the start of the next week if that makes sense and then on Sunday

We are just going to go do our usual grocery run and clean the house I’m probably going going to do more cleaning than I did this past weekend because I felt like my entire schedule was just like really thrown off and then hearing everyone’s like superstitions for New

Year’s about what you shouldn’t do like I just didn’t do anything then because I was like I want all the Good Vibes for 2024 you know all right that’s what we’ve got so far for the week um I’m probably not going to focus on things like putting in the temperature because

I already have that in my weeks and I think that that’s where I’m going to leave leave it now quick update this is where I’m at with the Sterling ink weeks are we calling it The Sterling ink weeks I’m not even sure is it just the

Sterling ink I don’t know but this is where I’m at with it I am having hard feelings about this because I kind of really still like the regular weeks but I’m like you know what this could work too this could work we’re going to give it a shot remember whole first quarter I

Have started my too list in here I need to start on today’s um a lot of times I can’t get a lot of things done anyway until after work and other tasks are done so I’m okay with not putting my to-do list in here right away I did

Create a really cool habit tracker over here I like tracking I have to figure out the best places I want to track things because there’s so many great places in a week’s whether you’re using Sterling ink or the regular hobonichi weeks there’s so many great places to

Track things in here I even made a page for my books so that I can print out the book covers that’s a whole separate topic I know I made a book journal give me a break but anyway I did start on that I have done some other things in here to

Try to get caught up I have my monthly setup in here which is very basic literally tracking paydays appointments that’s pretty much it um so that’s going well I think but this is how this is going for my first week and and my hobonichi cousin I love this book so so

Much I know the paper is different you guys than years past I hope that we can all give it a chance at least for the first few weeks remember what I said 05 and lower if you’re trying to use thicker pens other than like for lettering and you’re not letting things

Dry it’s going to be a mess you’re going to get frustrated I hope that you guys enjoyed hanging out with me today I know this was a very simple but lengthy plan with me but I hope that you enjoyed hanging out with me today I can’t wait to see

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