Antarctica, New Zealand & 2023 Planner Love

[00:00:00] You're listening to the Planner Girl Chatter podcast with your hosts Jamie Marcus Bratcher and Colleen Phelan. Grab a fresh cup of coffee and the closest planner, start unboxing your latest Etsy order because it's time for Planner Girl Chatter. Welcome everybody to

[00:00:18] Planner Girl Chatter. I don't know if you remember us, but my name is Colleen and I'm here with my lovely effervescent joy-filled chatterbox of a co-host Jamie Marcus Bratcher. Jamie, welcome.

[00:00:35] Hey, I could just chat your ear off all the time because I've missed you so so so much. It literally took Jamie, I was like Jamie

[00:00:42] let's start recording because we're just talking about stuff we could talk to to people and she's like no but one more thing Colleen and I was like Jamie Marcus Bratcher.

[00:00:48] Well, it's time to record. We need a primer of like the tea that we don't talk about on the podcast before we record the podcast so that we're all warmed up, you know.

[00:01:01] We're a little rusty, we've fallen off the wagon a little bit, you know, we're trying to get back on this horse or wagon whatever it is. Look, I mean I poured wine just to help us. So you're drinking your like mom-size water.

[00:01:14] Like I love how right now Jamie is like the opposite of any normal Jamie. Like she's got her white wall behind her, her white mug, her white t-shirt, her white bathroom. Like there's no color except for Jamie's gorgeous gorgeous hair and effervescent skin glowing of joy.

[00:01:35] But otherwise, it's all white. I'm really going with like you like I've come to discover that East Texas is not a far cry from like Utah Mormon mom. Like there's like some kind of blend of that but it has like more of a southern twang.

[00:01:51] So, you know, I got my Stanley, I got my nails done. Like I, you know, I'm keeping up with this. I'm getting I'm getting what these people are putting down, you know. I mean, it's fair. It's fair. I'm just surprised at the lack of

[00:02:05] you know color that you're bringing me today, but it's okay. I know you'll bring me color in other ways. Yeah, my mom literally told me she attended I like had to host a webinar this weekend and my it was a Lakota language webinar and my mom

[00:02:18] attended and she was like you really need to get like a quilt tongue behind you or something because this is washed out. It's dire. It's dire. I mean like right now like I'm washed out but I have so much color around me that I look colorful.

[00:02:32] Well, you have great art on the wall behind you. So. It's because it's dogs. I mean dogs are always good. I did not have the good, you know, we didn't live in this house during the early pandemic where

[00:02:43] we were like really figuring out their back, you know the background. And now people are just used to like whatever we zoom and people aren't critical like that. So I know yeah, it's true.

[00:02:53] You did miss the opportunity to spend a whole afternoon like blocking out the flower pictures on the wall so that they're shaped just right when you're using teachings. Exactly. The nice thing about Zoom too is now they have the blur feature where you can just blur your background.

[00:03:09] That's been a couple of years. I mean that's not reasonable. No, well, I know but they didn't have it before the pandemic. That's true. You would do the backdrop, but you couldn't do the blur. So yeah.

[00:03:19] Yeah, that's fair. And even the backdrop back then was just like one or two things and so we never bothered with that. We didn't need backdrops. We were we were just talking anyway, just talking. But I missed you and

[00:03:31] I missed you so much. Just a few things in between the last time I spoke with you when I was eating cheese in an airport lounge. Headed to Antarctica. That's true. That's what I was doing.

[00:03:46] And now. Just so you guys know Colleen has decided that she is going to be the person that just frequently sprinkles in the fact that she has been to Antarctica. So this is an interesting part of the podcast.

[00:03:56] It was just like, you know when I was in Antarctica We decided. I don't even remember I went to Antarctica, Jamie. It'll be just like when she went to France three times in a year and she just wanted to talk about France all the time.

[00:04:07] France. Antarctica is the new France. So. Oh my god. One of my friends at work before I even left she was like, oh we're having another Antarctica conversation. And I was like, I can't help that I give people what they want. They want to talk about Antarctica.

[00:04:22] But I would 100% of the time sprinkle it in. Like I was on a conference call for work and the postcard that you sent me from Antarctica was sitting on the table.

[00:04:32] And I like picked it up and I was like my friend sent me a postcard from Antarctica because she's there. You know, what's the best thing? I sent myself a postcard from fucking Antarctica. I have not received my own postcard.

[00:04:47] I sent it at the same time as yours and my entire family and none of them have acknowledged their postcard. So I'm glad you got yours. Yeah, but I'm like

[00:04:56] Did I get like dinged? Like I think it's hiding in a mailbag somewhere in Antarctica and it will eventually make it here maybe at the end of the season, which is next month. So I'm just like

[00:05:07] someday I'm gonna have a surprise postcard. Like it's gonna be weird and I'm gonna be like, oh I went to Antarctica. I remember now it's been two months. And then I'll start all over again talking to people about Antarctica. Well, how was it? Tell everyone how it was.

[00:05:23] Ah, you know, so One of the most- Wait, let's cut to the important thing. Did you get to spend enough time in the craft room? No, no. So I must say that I went to the craft room

[00:05:39] and I instantly made friends with people in the craft room as I do because I'm a natural crafter. And they have an industrial sewing machine and I am so sad. I never got an opportunity to learn how to use it and I didn't get a chance because

[00:05:56] Christmas was actually when I was going to I was going to do a watercolor class with salt which I don't know if you've ever seen how that works, but it's super cool and then I ended up chatting too long because I drank too much wine.

[00:06:09] It happens to the best of us. I was very disappointed in myself but you know, hopefully if I ever go back to Antarctica, I will go to I will spend lots of time in the craft room

[00:06:18] I'm sure and if I don't I will spend time in my craft room with salt and watercolors since I have all those things So, um, so yeah, no, I mean it was

[00:06:32] like landing I think one of the most spectacular things and I'll try to post a video in the group of when we were flying over. So I took a C-130 from Christ Church to Antarctica which for those of you guys who are not into planes like me

[00:06:47] it's a cargo plane. It's a big cargo plane that the military uses to like shuffle bodies and stuff and this cargo plane happened to be really stuffed because it was right before flights were going to stop and it was a New Zealand cargo plane

[00:07:02] So it was the New Zealand military who was flying us so You're instructed essentially like you have to wear all of your extreme weather gear now mind you it's like 60 degrees in Christ Church and you're putting on clothes that are for negative 30 degrees. Yeah

[00:07:19] So basically like you're just sweating like I don't even know what like insert lots of things So you're sweating like and so like you have to climb onto this plane And then you get on the plane and because there was so much cargo

[00:07:31] Our legs were literally interspersed like intertwined between each other Like so if you've ever complained about being uncoached shut the fuck up and try to ride a C-130 to Antarctica because literally I and I and like and then

[00:07:47] Because it was the new the kiwis the kiwis don't care about explaining anything So then we just take off and land and they don't talk to us at all Like at some point they like they pass around a garbage bag for us

[00:07:59] And that was like the extent of our interaction with them. So I had this moment where I was like, is this a test? Like is this like the last test to make sure I really want to go to Antarctica?

[00:08:08] And I don't flip the fuck out before we even take off And it's a seven and a half hour flight with no updates y'all So like you don't get the little screen that says here's how long you've got left

[00:08:18] Like you have no idea and then at some point one brilliant person goes to the bathroom Which is a bucket that you get to sit over. There's a seat, but it's a bucket and they look out the window and there's Antarctica and it's like icebergs and

[00:08:35] Like mountains and like most pristine thing you've ever seen in your entire life Like no human has touched these things and so you're so then you all stand and look at these little ports sweating like hose beasts and Just marveling right like it just how spectacular

[00:08:55] Because it just goes right. I mean, it's a continent. Yeah, and um, and then when you land which again No prep for landing like all of a sudden just landing and it looks like something is changing. I think we're going

[00:09:09] Downward. Yeah, like I was like, oh my ears seem to be like changing But you have to wear earplugs the whole time because c130s basically are giant engines. So it's like

[00:09:20] It's just like a plane. There's none of this stuff that you get on a commercial airline. It's just like a shell. Yeah, and so it's Mer Like that. Yeah for seven and a half hours. So you're wearing earplugs so you don't damage your hearing

[00:09:33] And and then it starts getting colder because you're starting to go down. So you're getting into like the colder air And then you land on a white Like field because it's all snow Like there's no like there's no landing strip

[00:09:49] Like it's just you're on snow and you've landed on snow And it is the most spectacular thing ever because like you get out of the plane and there's nothing except for like the airplane and a few other ones

[00:10:00] And people telling you to get to the bus because you're in the flight line Stop looking around get on the bus Curious motherfuckers. And so thankfully like there was a few people on my flight who were not first timers

[00:10:15] So I had one of the guys take my picture and so I can i'll post some of those um my picture with like the plane in the background and like you're just Blown away. I mean, it's just spectacular

[00:10:28] And then we rode on the weirdest bus. That was not a bus that was like nine seats across And detached from like the engine so like there was like an engine compartment

[00:10:39] It was the weirdest thing and for legit y'all we got stuck in the snow and had to get towed out And push No, we got we got towed out by like red rising or something. I can't even remember what it was called

[00:10:55] I've got the picture somewhere and like we literally had to get towed out so that we could make it so it was Instantly like what the fuck am I doing? Like what the fuck am I doing in my life right now?

[00:11:06] But it was you know, it was a really incredible opportunity people. They're amazing. It's this weird mix of former military Uh construction workers because they're building stuff and like artists and like

[00:11:20] Scientists who are doing just the most high-level science. So I made friends with a group that are researching when oxygen Started being used by like single cell creatures and they're using lakes in antarctica to figure out when that happened based on

[00:11:42] How they store oxygen over the winter and summer and so like just absolutely fascinating and you're just like How do you even like think of that? Yeah, how do you like lean to go back to whatever is we live in as well?

[00:11:56] And be like, oh, let me go sit in my like basic bitch house. So Oh my god. Yeah, I mean and it was I mean, here's what I did not anticipate jamie

[00:12:05] Nobody told me that I needed to work out to live in antarctica like I didn't really think about that part But it is so rugged that like every day I killed my rings like I killed them by lunch Because I had to walk up a fucking steep hill

[00:12:23] From my like dorm every day just to go to my office and I had to do that multiple times a day because You've got to go to the galley to get food, which is downhill Which is downhill so it's like all these hills and like I

[00:12:37] It was a rude awakening for how much I hate walking up hills i'll be honest I'll be real honest not about any lifestyle changes. Just that you hate walking uphill. Yeah. No, no

[00:12:49] No, i'm definitely like I will say no it's been a definite lifestyle change where now i'm like taking the Stairs a lot more because i'm like that was fucking miserable. Nobody told me Nobody said everybody's like athletic there if this pandemic shifts and i'm in a zombie apocalypse

[00:13:07] I ain't gonna fucking die quick, which I already kind of guessed but now I know for sure. So needless to say y'all I Need to walk up more hills But it was it was a really amazing experience like christmas was like christmas morning was magical

[00:13:23] I walked out of my dorm and there was Snow falling and it's the snow there was like Styrofoam pellets because it's so dry. Oh, wow So either you got giant flaky big snowflakes or you got tiny pellets because it was just so dry

[00:13:40] There wasn't enough moisture. So it was fascinating. And so I got the pellets for christmas morning, which was great I mean, it was just absolutely magical and then by the afternoon Yeah, exactly. It was absolutely a snow globe. Yeah, 100% That's yeah brilliant jamie. Yes

[00:13:54] I've seen that kind of snow before and I like that kind of snow. It's but it's oh my god Yeah, it is. Yeah, because it's not wet it like it like is gone right away. So The artists do that are down there

[00:14:07] Well by artists, I mean like it's people who are creative types that do Just whatever job they can get down there. Oh, okay the most spectacular art so there's like

[00:14:19] like if you had to go work if you are artist and the only way for you to be able to get to antarctica was like I had to go work in the kitchen or I have to go do this. Well So technically actually you could go

[00:14:31] As an artist just to be an artist but most of the people who were down there right now none of them were those kind of artists they were Working in the kitchen like you mentioned, um, like just some incredible. Yeah incredible like

[00:14:46] Brilliant, you know kind of artists and then there's just amazing art all around so it's very much like It's this kind of uh, it draws people who have a certain type of interest in adventure in life that um You know

[00:15:00] A lot of people have said like who would want to go there? Like they've asked me that since i've gotten back and i'm like if you don't If you're asking me that question, I can't give you the answer because if you don't have the desire to go there

[00:15:10] It doesn't make sense why you would go there but if you if you've ever thought like this is the like If I ever had a chance I would totally do this thing then, you know because it's like this sense of adventure and exploration that

[00:15:26] You either have it or you don't you know, and I think antarctica is one of those places that is ultimately like You either have that desire or you don't have that desire

[00:15:34] And if you have it, you're just like, oh, of course, like why wouldn't you want to go to antarctica? I mean, I that said it was very Not posh. It was very challenging. It was also spectacular

[00:15:47] It was hard work. It's a 54 hour week at a minimum. So like you're working monday through saturday. You've one day off Um people, you know it it's tough. It is a tough life down there

[00:16:01] And it's you know, absolutely spectacular you walk out and you have these like gorgeous mountains so And I was able to completely do my planner. So my planner is spectacular um, and I need to uh do my flip through and post it because I did in fact

[00:16:18] Keep up while I was there. Did you take your 2023 planner or was that just finishing up here? 2020 Because I wasn't gonna be there for long enough into 2023. I didn't want to carry the extra weight. So I left my 2023 here so yeah, so no I didn't and then I

[00:16:37] Basically just like drew lines and was like as a new zealand So When you got to go to new zealand, did you find any good stationery stores or were you in a more rural area than that so I found stationery stores, but

[00:16:55] And I actually took pictures and video to post Which of course I failed to do. Um, so I will do that as well So jamie, you're I hope you're doing a list so you can instruct me on what I need to do later

[00:17:06] fortunately we're recording this so we are So when I was in new zealand, I absolutely was like so I had a car and I was like driving all around

[00:17:19] So I was in a lot of rural areas, but there was this um shop that was like in multiple places. That was called paper Stationery and more or some shit like that. I can't remember I took a picture

[00:17:31] And so I finally was able to get into one and it was the equivalent of like a mini office max combined with like a hallmark store Nice but new zealand is such a small country that they don't really make their own stuff

[00:17:47] So I did buy some pens that were new to me there um And so I did do that and I did find some new zealand stickers that Mm-hmm So I did that as well and I found a place called warehouse plus stationery

[00:18:06] Which was in dunedin and I went there on new year's day And I did a whole film this poor awkward guy was like really weirded out by me. This kiwi dude was like Fuck you doing it's pen. Um, and it was very much like

[00:18:20] like I want to say it was sort of like I hate comparing it to walmart, but the quality seems sort of more walmart than target Except for the stationary was kind of target stationary. Yeah ish, but it was like

[00:18:34] Warehouse style so it was kind of like sam's club. Oh, okay I was kind of like Uh, no because I mean similar quality to dice though, so like I have this like mermaid pen This I got there. Oh, yeah

[00:18:53] And so i've got this like fun little mermaid pen and that's where I also got a door hanger that I has a kiwi sticker On it and I really just bought it for the kiwi sticker. Let's be honest, but

[00:19:04] Otherwise there was just tons of amazing art. Like one of the things I think that's really interesting is there's this like field of art in new zealand like the local artists and I went to a museum when I was in auckland

[00:19:17] So I got stuck in auckland for like 12 hours And I made the best of it and I went to like a museum and I did a bunch of stuff until my flight um, so it's spectacular and it was fun, but

[00:19:26] um, I went to the museum and I and they had this artist and Everything is kind of rounded like so they like their aesthetic is sort of like rounded edges And i'll have to post some pictures again

[00:19:38] Yeah, but as I was driving on the south island and I was driving around and looking at the mountains It's how it actually looks so there's this like gentle rounding in new zealand of everything. So there's like not like everything is sort of

[00:19:52] Gently rounded in a weird way. It's fascinating. It's really really interesting. And so the art was It's the first time I feel like as an I don't know it's the first time i've really been in a place and saw the art and I was like, oh

[00:20:06] You know, like I see it. I see what they see What it was It reflects the artist sees around them Exactly, and it was in so yeah, so really spectacular. So i'll have to try to share so I try to get pictures, but I'm, no photographer

[00:20:22] Yeah, that's good. That sounds like the kind of things that you just have to experience like Go to new zealand certain parts of the country. It's like, oh, okay. I understand why they're into this or exactly

[00:20:32] Yeah, because once you see it, yeah, and that was very much what it was like and I was like Oh Yeah, everything's kind of round here. What makes sense? That's visually

[00:20:42] How it's transformed and yeah, I would be interested to see some of the pictures that you took of the art and stuff So, oh, yeah. Yeah, i'll have to post i'll have to post some of some of like the artists just to show

[00:20:52] But it's very interesting. Yeah, and I was like I feel very at home here. I'm rounded too so Do you think it's is it the kind of place that you would go back to spend more time there? Oh, I mean new zealand is definitely

[00:21:05] So new zealand is built for road trips and it's built for people doing like camper style trips. So it's a very It's a very rugged people who like they go camping a lot. There's a lot of campsites um And people will just rent like camper vans

[00:21:21] And then like rent a room so like you sleep in the van you eat in the van like you do everything in the van um And just drive around so people will do that for like a year

[00:21:30] Oh, wow, because there's so much to see there because it's just so untouched. I mean new zealand is just yeah, like I i'm trying to remember my honeymoon there and

[00:21:41] I remember her telling us about the coffee and then they had a certain kind of cookie that she loved and There was a lot of new stuff that she had never tried before and so yeah She said that she would absolutely go back

[00:21:53] And then I have a friend that does like travel blogging and they do I think they've done a camper thing I don't know. I get lost in her travels like it when you follow travel bloggers

[00:22:04] It gets like they have a plan and I know they're showing you all the stuff that they planned and all the stuff that they Research but it's like hard to follow what they're doing

[00:22:11] and I remember when we were rving and I wanted to share more of our rving with people and i'm like I just don't think that people understand like the hell is going on and I don't know that i'm like effective enough to communicate

[00:22:22] Like what is happening all the time and why it is a little bit chaotic, but yeah, well, and I think it's um Yeah, new zealand is spectacular. I can't recommend it enough. I mean, it's one of those places where

[00:22:34] That it's just so expensive to get there. Yeah, like that's the problem with new zealand is it's far away It's not close to anything So for us, it's just really expensive and so, you know if you're gonna go there

[00:22:45] It's also good to like either loop in australia, which is an you know, a three hour flight again, like the other way Or bali which is on the other side. I mean there's other options but new zealand itself is just spectacular

[00:22:58] And right now the dollar is really strong, but it's also really strong in europe. So lots of good food And lots of good coffee like they have a very much a coffee culture there, which is really interesting

[00:23:09] I didn't realize that and bagels like they had more bagels than I anticipated which is really funny. Um So yeah, so it was good. I highly yeah, I mean I loved new zealand

[00:23:22] even though the people in new zealand were talking about how like there's lots of crime and stuff I was like I feel very safe as a woman driving around here and I saw maybe like three homeless people in auckland

[00:23:34] So they take care they have communities that take care of each other Seems to be Yeah, you know, I mean I think like anywhere there's crime right and there's several things that happen everywhere Like christ church had a mass shooting like there's things that happen

[00:23:45] But just in general like driving around as a single woman and walking around at night and like all of those things It felt very very safe. Like I never had

[00:23:55] Anybody approach me about anything like it was very and also it was I was there during the holiday season So so it's summer there. So it's summertime holidays. So like everybody's just having a great time and

[00:24:07] You know, so but I highly highly recommend it. It was a lot of fun I could definitely I could spend easily months and months and months traveling Yeah So but I um, well i'm glad that you're back and that your ass is on your sofa talking to me

[00:24:22] I know I I made it I survived I didn't die in Uh antarctica, that's where I was in antarctica and then die there. So yeah, no, it's good to be back it's good to be back like I

[00:24:34] I will say that, you know traveling like that makes you like it just inspires me to want to travel more And so i'm you know, i'm definitely in that mode now like I need to book my next trip I need to start planning something. Um

[00:24:47] and my my cruise to antarctica is until march 2024 because I had to bump it because of antarctica and so i'm like yeah, that's Next year, so I need to I need to get something

[00:25:00] So it's like i'm very much like I kind of want to go to france, but i'm not gonna I need to Well, it'll be interesting to see what your perspective is too when you go Like back

[00:25:10] And see it from like a tourist point of view versus like a working point of view because i'm sure it's you know Heads over tails completely different. Well, it's so funny because I remember when I was booking the cruise like they're like, you know

[00:25:21] This is not a luxury cruise like this is very much like you know, like i'm gonna have a roommate I don't know and i'm like I've shared bathrooms with so many people. I like It'll be it's it's funny how different your perspective is and how quickly it shifts

[00:25:37] when you've had a certain way and now i'm like I can do that thing and so i'm like, yeah, it's It's gonna be far less Surprising to me. I think than it would have been but I didn't get to see any penguins when I was there

[00:25:51] The penguins weren't there so I am stoked for all the penguins when we were in florida a year ago and we were like they're too early for the turtles To be hatching but we were right by the area that they do in pensacola

[00:26:05] Or like our beach or whatever and I was like all those mounds are just turtles waiting to hatch and we're not gonna be here For it and that exactly yeah, this is like a ways we came at the wrong time

[00:26:17] Yeah, and like and I somebody just posted a picture and like I watched. Um Like there's skuas or there's like only two really natural wildlife in the area where I was in antarctica

[00:26:29] So there's waddell seals, which are like the southernmost seals and they're lazy fuckers and they just lay there so you never see them do anything like they move at some point, but you don't know when because they never move when you're there and then um

[00:26:43] There's skua birds and skua birds are sort of like seagulls like they're scavengers And so like somebody posted a picture of one of the skuas eating its second baby because they can only feed one baby And i'm pretty sure I saw that baby in its shell. Oh, no

[00:27:00] But that's that's life in antarctica you don't have enough resources you got to eat one of them Yeah, and then feed it to the other Well, welcome to an arctic kind of like the world the way that it was starting out 2023

[00:27:15] Oh my god, jamie, you did you got back to internet just in time to be able to hit up good planner drama starting off the year oh my I mean I appreciate some planner drama, especially when it's not really

[00:27:31] Look, I don't want to piss anybody off. So i'm sorry right now if you had feelings about pen gems But look, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I loved listening by listening

[00:27:41] I mean reading and I appreciated everybody's perspective and I loved that there was drama. Oh, yeah, I mean For those of you that aren't following along Because there were a lot of people that didn't know because they had

[00:27:56] Pen gems. Yeah, like I had some planner friends that I was like, are you following what's happening with pen gems and they were like Pen gems. No, I haven't bought a pen gem in years. I left the group

[00:28:05] I mean that was kind of you I had to tell you about it and I was You told me about it and then um shannon tagged me in a in another group too and so I was like, oh What is happening?

[00:28:18] So for those of you that aren't following pen gems introduced a new vip tier That was like a pay you pay and you get access to special things and anytime you introduce something like that in the planner community, whether it's like

[00:28:31] Instagram like because instagram has a new feature where you can like It's like a patreon type feature like what we have but it's on instagram where you can pay for specific You pay like five bucks a month and you can get access to specific content from the creator

[00:28:45] and And so like anytime you introduce a pay tier, you're always going to get a side eye from planner girls and so This was like that type of situation

[00:28:55] But there were people that had already earned vip status that didn't want to pay for the next tier and they were upset because they Didn't get into the they didn't get the perks that came with the new tier

[00:29:03] And because there's a new group and it's a private group and you have to pay to get in and people just had a lot of feelings and it was like it was kind of

[00:29:12] Classic planner world to be able to read whatever I mean to just read a long thread with people's opinions about how they felt about you know, not having access to stationery and I was just like I I was there for it. I read it all

[00:29:26] Oh my gosh, I was so in like I enjoyed every moment and I um, and I will say Regardless of anything. I have no opinion about it about like actually what pen At all I will say that tiffany

[00:29:43] Who runs the group? I was about to say the exact same deserves She deserves an award like five year gold stars. I don't know when she slept But she was responding she Is the real vip in all of this?

[00:30:00] Well, like and like have you been around the planner community for a long time? Like, you know that she managed like she was involved like early on with the reset girl community And then she managed foxy fix for a long time

[00:30:10] And then like she and then she came over to pin jim so like if you know tiffany and you followed her like, you know that she is like Has the patience of a saint and like man wrangles us all in planner world

[00:30:21] But like the thing that I noticed about her comments even is that tiffany wasn't even going in just copying pasting stuff Like she was genuinely like responding from her heart to each and every person

[00:30:30] And responding to them like specifically on what they were asking and even going back and saying, you know Like you will not be rude to me in you know

[00:30:37] In some cases when people were really coming down on her and it was like the companies made their decision and you know So it was I don't know. I always think it's interesting to see

[00:30:45] You know folks like that that have done this for a long time go through this like latest iteration wave Of of all of that stuff so Yeah, it was I I yeah She definitely

[00:30:55] You know in the midst of all of that like, you know company like and we've talked about this before The planner community is very passionate whenever there's a change because people are so invested

[00:31:05] And a change like that people were really really upset with like the timing and you know And there's all kinds of things you can talk about But at the end of the day tiffany Deserves a bonus so angel i'm just saying if nobody else has told you this

[00:31:22] give tiffany Double her salary For that some bonuses off that new vip group Because damn was she good Good yeah, I was like Um Well, what else happened tpc has decided they are not going to hold any conferences

[00:31:47] And they are closing down their sale and we're gonna keep I think they're gonna keep their group But they're closing that down. So people were disappointed in that

[00:31:54] I had a couple people that knew that I had been from cordelaine that contacted me and asked me if I was interested in doing a planner event up there And I was like i'm i'm okay for right now I'm planning a two-week long like

[00:32:10] Academic lakota learning. I was like jamie needs to plan a vacation for me to go visit her in texas. Yeah like I I can't take that on it this time. I do not have the capacity to take that on at this time

[00:32:23] Anyway, I do not but yeah like tpc decide I mean and tpc I can't remember which one came first. Do you remember was it planner boss collective that came first or was it planner boss? Collective was first, but I honestly don't remember

[00:32:38] because it's been so long and I you know what I have to admit right now that I Completely failed this weekend and I didn't get anything in the planner boss collective sale and i'm a little bit sad

[00:32:49] Oh, I did and i'll tell you about it in a minute after we're done doing drama. So I'm so sad made a few purchases. So and then what was the other thing that happened? I don't know. I can't remember

[00:33:01] It wasn't it? Well, I mean the other thing is that there hasn't been any ticket fairies for go wild Losing bitch. I love you, but I don't have $700 a ticket plus a $3,000 bill to go to dc. Love you like I don't know I'm willing to give

[00:33:25] I'm just saying that you know, it's only a month away and i'm worth it. I've heard You're absolutely right you're 100 worth it and a bunch of our listeners wanted to get together and ticket Oh my god Your ability to go and do that Is so amazing

[00:33:53] I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I'm so happy Yeah, I can't you know, I know that there was some other drama but I can't remember what it was but um But jamie, it's good to be back. It's good to be back in 2023

[00:34:07] And the drama in the first week I lived for it. Yeah, I mean if it keeps if it keeps happening This is gonna shape up to be like a good fascinating week the positive. It wasn't drama Oh my god, that's not drama. That is a celebration

[00:34:21] That is like the best announcement ever. I was so excited. If we were allowed to use music right now, we would use like Celebrate good times come on Yeah, oh my god when when I saw we had literally been on a patreon meetup earlier in the day

[00:34:38] Yes, and we were talking about like how much we miss cpc how much we hope they eventually bring it back And We were just like, you know, maybe someday like we'll get cpc I was like maybe next year

[00:34:50] Maybe we were like it's gonna be leap year next year. So maybe they'll just bring it back. Is it leap year again already? Yeah next year I know You know what? I don't need this reality jamie. That was too much right there

[00:35:02] I was like maybe they'll bring it back on leap day because it's like that's when it ended last anyway That's the end of the world as we knew it but then like litter out

[00:35:10] I mean like it was like we triggered it because it was like three hours later Three hours. I think we made it happen. Yeah, I feel like it. I feel like it They made the announcement and it was like my mind was like exploding

[00:35:22] I was trying to like I had just lectured my whole family about not being on their phones and being attentive to family time My apple watch started buzzing and i'm like what is happening and I pick up my phone

[00:35:33] And I had to go like sneak into the bathroom to go look at what was happening because I didn't want to get had them Give me a hard time No side eye Yeah, and so i'm like in the bathroom like scrolling through people's posts like

[00:35:46] They're like are you coming back? And i'm like yes in a minute I feel like that that jamie is what we the kids nowadays call hot goss Oh my god, I learned that I did

[00:36:02] The the horror like so i'm in texas planner groups now and in the texas planner group somebody posted about it And I like started getting excited and I almost posted our podcast episode that we had done before and then I thought no

[00:36:15] I can't be telling more people about this because cpc is hard cpc is gonna sell out It's gonna sell out fast just as fast as sugary gal shop did And i'm like, I can't be telling I can't be telling people more about the greatness because it may

[00:36:29] Inhibit my ability to go, you know, and so it was like actually I made one little comment about like it's a really great time Maybe Go delete that shit. Don't share it with texas Because a lot of women in the texas planner group are newer to planner world

[00:36:46] And so like a lot of them don't know really what go wild is or they know what go wild is because they saw people Go to anaheim last year, but they've never seen like

[00:36:54] They they've not had like the gal that her name is diana that does the texas planner events. She's like amazing She has the energy that I had in 2016 like to want to do everything And I don't know you say that my energy in 2016

[00:37:08] It was a decade ago. Yeah, the planner energy that I brought to the table. It is almost a decade ago, dude and She has that planner energy. So she's always organizing stuff

[00:37:18] they do zooms in that group all the time like they have a budgeting zoom and a faith zoom and Um, they do all kinds of stuff and there's always I mean There's a meetup or a facebook live in that group nearly every day of the week

[00:37:32] And they do events like a couple of events monthly and so they have a really vibrant community in there But like a lot of people don't know about the way it was before the pandemic

[00:37:42] And where it was at the point where we were like, is this too many events? We were tired. We were tired. Well, I still I still felt stingy about sharing too much about cpc

[00:37:54] Yeah, I know that's good because we know it's gonna sell out and it's all go to go wild Go go go ask that ticket. Go have that tickets go go to go wild So, you know more importantly jamie than any of that Oh any of that?

[00:38:10] You have never told people what you're using for your planner this year. So jamie What is your planner this year? What are you using? Well colleen I actually have two planners this year Wow

[00:38:26] I've been a solid one planner person for some time now and i've been very judgy about two planner people I feel like you're me last year when I had two planners and I was like, but one's at work That's exactly how i'm rationalizing

[00:38:41] One of them is a work planner and one of them is Like hold planner. So it's very different you see and I need I need both even though I rarely leave my house and they sit right next to each other

[00:38:54] They're literally in like blush and bashful like you're literally a blush and bashful as like your two planner covers. Yeah, you know Oh my god And get me a pink planner Technically it was more of like an ivory and a mauve but like

[00:39:13] I'm calling it blush and bashful I I like the blush and bashful. That's what their new nicknames are gonna be I like that. You're welcome I mean, I think blush is definitely like the home planner because that's where the dirty shit happens Well, you can hear this

[00:39:30] I couldn't hear it I was trying to be clever and snap open the planner so I can look at him while i'm talking about him So, okay, so I legitimately ended up in two different planners this year

[00:39:41] Um since I didn't get to go to an arctic, but most importantly, yeah, what size did you end up in? Oh, yeah I mean, I didn't get to go to antarctica. So I have to find some way to entertain myself. Um, so I'm in a b6

[00:39:55] I'm, sorry what? I am in two b6 planners right now the best size that is around b6 I this is the first year in a long time that I haven't had a coil bound planner But this is the first time that i'm actually in

[00:40:13] A these and i'm really like loving them And i'm mildly obsessed with both of these planners. I'm just stroking them y'all she's stroking Yeah, it's I know it's january 30th and i'm sounding very optimistic, but i'm actually like really really

[00:40:29] You wouldn't be a planner girl if you didn't have optimism in january, yeah, I came up here last night I hadn't I had gotten an order in I had gotten some like planner orders that I had placed in

[00:40:40] Because I had some custom stickers made from the sticker shop co One of okay. So let me tell you what they are So I have a aura and astelle and any plans collab b6 classic daily So this is the undated planner, but it's a daily planner. And so

[00:40:56] and then I also managed to on the resale market get my hands on a sterling ink b6 full year common planner And you know, what's so funny is that like hard to get Half of those words. I don't even understand. I know I am so

[00:41:17] Listen that in my hoco and my hoco is just so basic But the people that know what these are are gonna be like, oh goddamn jamie you managed to get your hands on a commonplace planner like or a common planner because

[00:41:32] They sold out she did too like the so the sterling ink is a shop that I followed for a while And I actually haven't ever bought stickers from her even though I love her stickers because in my mind I felt like

[00:41:44] they're kind of expensive and it was like Just following her on instagram and slobbering over it and then I realized that a lot of my friends actually buy from her You know when she does these discounts and stuff

[00:41:54] So now i'm like starting to get the hang of that shop But the commonplace planner she did two releases on this planner and then she did all of her oopsies and they sold out in minutes

[00:42:04] And so, you know kind of I feel like kind of an it factor for me is Like having a planner that's like fun and new and hard to get So anyway, that is definitely sort of part of who you are. Yeah

[00:42:17] So the commonplace some of us are just much more basic. Yeah, it has a weekly planner It has like a goal setting area. It has a weekly spread and then at the back It's like journaling pages

[00:42:28] Which i've been doing more journaling this year and then list building in one planner for my house To keep track of the stuff that i'm actually supposed to be taking care of and then um, tell me what those things are because I have no fucking idea I

[00:42:41] I forgot about all like the biggest thing is with the house is like There's maintenance that has to happen now or with the rv with the rv The maintenance was pretty regular. And so you were like always doing a little bit of something on it

[00:42:55] And so it was like more or less just keeping track of a maintenance schedule where at the house there's like Stuff there is a maintenance schedule

[00:43:02] But it's just more spread out because house stuff doesn't need to be maintained as frequently as what rv stuff needs to be maintained So i'm having to remember things and then you know in rv life I know we only did it for three years

[00:43:15] So I feel like it sounds dumb every time that I think about it, but like you did it for three years That's a long time In rv life when you need to take out your trash, you just take your trash out

[00:43:25] You put it at the end of the curb or you take it out And in the house you have to like plant, you know, you have to take your trash out. No, no, never mind No, no, I told you it's stupid. Um

[00:43:35] And so like tomorrow is trash day, but it's raining out right now So I can't I don't want to take the trash out because it's rainy and windy Because I don't want it to get knocked over and blow down. Oh, yeah, that makes sense

[00:43:45] and so but now I have to remember that I need to get up tomorrow morning because the trash comes at like The trash which my trash is like 6 30 in the morning It comes like summer

[00:43:58] So that means i'm gonna have to get my happy ass up at like six To go out there and take the trash out So that it doesn't blow down the street and get all in my neighbor's yards and shit

[00:44:07] So i'm just saying jamie i'm looking at the common planner right now, and it doesn't feel very different from the hoko it's It's probably not but I get but I get quotes in mind that are um,

[00:44:20] I just want to share one with you because I feel like I thought they were going to be much more interesting when they were japanese Let me give you

[00:44:29] This doesn't have any quotes and I like it like that. It didn't even have holidays in it, which made me really happy because You know people like I even ordered a sticker sheet of like holidays and one of the holidays was like columbus day

[00:44:42] Unfortunately, it had an indigenous people's day too. I was like if And okay. Well I would like to give you actually, you know What let me give you the quote for today as we record so anybody with a hoko can oh god, never mind

[00:44:54] It's far too long. So, uh No, never mind. I'm gonna read it because it feels it feels appropriate There was a kind of i'll do it later box in my mind

[00:45:03] I think that people who work fast and are good at what they do don't have an i'll do it later box They just get it done. That's why this year i've decided to do something

[00:45:13] It's a small thing, but i've decided to stop saving receipts for later and sort them the same day Just by starting to do that. I feel like i've changed a little bit mckay, sakai Actor that's one of the quotes in my fucking planner. I was like

[00:45:31] I thought it was going to be fucking inspirational or some shit that does not inspire me Who has receipts anymore Wait for this one. Here we go I've been told i'm lucky to be able to do what I love but I didn't plan it that way

[00:45:46] The reality is I only discovered I enjoy the work once I had tried it Those are terrible quotes all about editing I must say that I might order a japanese version next year because then I can just look at the characters and be like

[00:46:01] It's so beautiful like look at that writing that's not english Marie kondo's quote about how she kind of gave up And that is not Best evolution ever where you're like, it doesn't give you joy. Oh, no, nothing gives you joy. Just keep it all

[00:46:22] Yeah, it's all oh kids. Never mind. It's just look I mean I will say though. I mean, I think it's funny that marie kondo's gotten there But I was clearing out my t-shirts because i've too many t-shirts and i'm gonna i'm putting this on the podcast jamie

[00:46:38] I'm never allowed to buy another t-shirt when we travel together. Oh, yeah, you shouldn't do that I have so many fucking t-shirts. It's absurd. So I got rid of a bunch of t-shirts and I did have to do Does this bring me joy?

[00:46:53] Because I was like I need to keep it and then I need to learn how to quilt t-shirt Jamie. Oh, yeah Yeah, we could do that. We can do that. I've been My go-to for I mean because RVing I I we collected magnets and postcards

[00:47:15] And in places and I know they aren't as fun as a t-shirt, but they know it's too much I don't want to collect anything anymore. I'm gonna just I like it's too much You got it

[00:47:25] I have a box that I just am not emotionally ready to part with yet of coffee cups the where you been coffee cups Because I collected them back when I used to travel for business all the time and I Stopped collecting them because they are way too bulky

[00:47:41] But I can't get I haven't emotionally been able to get rid of the ones that I have already And I haven't even unpacked them and looked at them They're just sitting in a box in the garage and i'm like maybe at some point i'll part with these though

[00:47:52] I skipped getting one in new zealand and I have thought about it a lot since then I know every time that I see a new style. I think about needing one, but you know I think i'm just gonna do the us even though I have some from france

[00:48:04] I think i'm just like I need to just stick to the u.s Because I do enjoy drinking out of them. Yeah They are good They feel good in my hands, so i'm not I can't I can't do it

[00:48:16] I I don't think you should get rid of them. I think you should just use them Yeah, I think i'm just gonna hoard them forever. No, no Okay, so the other planner that I have is oh, sorry

[00:48:26] Yeah, no, no, the other planner that I have is for work and it is the b6 classic Um, i'll tell you what I like about the orastel any plans one. Yeah orastel any plans

[00:48:36] It's nice because it has that one page roundup and then it has a daily page For the week, but it at first when I got it I was like, what do I do with saturday and sunday because I don't usually work on saturdays and sundays

[00:48:48] Like sometimes I do but I don't but what I started using them for is a roundup of how I felt about the week Because some of the work that I do is kind of emotional like I it's a little bit emotional for me

[00:48:59] And so i'm writing about how I feel about it and then i'm also writing about whether I like the people that i'm working with and To decide like what the tipping point is for whether I want to stay in the situation or not

[00:49:12] But it kind of feels good to like decompress it. I can tell you that It's nice to write it down and get it out of my head Because that's also like improving the way that I feel about it

[00:49:22] And I was going through with one of my co-workers and they were like, how did you feel like the first couple? You know the first month of the year went and I was looking through it and I was like well

[00:49:30] According to my planner i've been pretty annoyed each week like that We've been working along but like I don't feel annoyed in the moment like thinking back on it So I definitely think the planner is improving the way that i'm looking my outlook on it

[00:49:43] Even even if it doesn't actually feel like it's going very well That actually makes perfect sense to me Yeah, no and it's one of the things I actually recommend to people is like getting stuff out of your head and putting it down

[00:49:54] Yeah, because some of it is the letting go That's why you're not feeling as annoyed because you're actually letting go of it when you're yeah Yeah, and the same thing for the journaling like I don't know I just have I still have I don't know you just have

[00:50:05] With my dad and my grandpa dying like i'm still kind of wrestling with all of that stuff And just still have some emotions around it. And so when i'm getting emotional about it, like i'll write it down um, but like

[00:50:15] Since this has happened like my dad's birthday was earlier this month and then my mom came out to visit We went back to arizona. So we've had like a lot of these nostalgia moments And so like for the sake of not drowning in nostalgia um

[00:50:29] I was reading a book that was saying that it was actually illegal for a time for you to be nostalgic like during world war two um, because people the soldiers would get so emotional about the way that things had been and how

[00:50:41] It would bring them great despair to see the way after world war two Maybe no no during the war like people weren't allowed to sing certain songs And oh, okay. Got it Got it

[00:50:51] People weren't allowed to sing certain songs or even like talk about the way the past had been Because there was a point in the war where it had become like The nostalgia was depressing for people that maybe in england because it was yeah

[00:51:03] It was over and I think it was over in france is where okay So it wasn't here in the us, but it was over like in france. And so anyway, you can kind of like

[00:51:12] I wonder if that was when the germans took over if that's not I think it was Yeah, because I read this book the nightingale. I think that's when they were talking about it. But Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and so so anyway, they were um No, no, you're fine

[00:51:25] But I was just thinking like when I was reading that book and thinking about all of it It's like we going back to arizona where we don't live anymore And you know coming off the road in rving and then this loss of like these, you know

[00:51:37] My grandpa who was very important to me and then my dad who should have been important to me But wasn't because he was just like kind of not there and it was complicated

[00:51:46] And so but it was like I don't want to be drowning in nostalgia all the time But I do want to like remember these moments and so i've started to journal them down a little bit more which seems to be helping

[00:51:55] so that i'm not just like because I think the hardest thing about thinking about the past too is like A tendency to romanticize it like prior to us going to arizona

[00:52:04] Kelsey was feeling very homesick and kendra was like really thinking about how much she missed being in arizona And then once we got there, they were like, oh like i'm glad we don't live here anymore

[00:52:14] Like there's there just wasn't anything there for them in the way attachment was gone Like romanticizing it and a lot of people they had, you know I've already moved away from where I grew up. I grew up in idaho and moved to arizona

[00:52:25] And so I know that like people don't come to visit you In spite of what they say And you don't go back and visit them as often and you have a nice time when you're together But like everything shifts about it

[00:52:36] and because i've experienced that I had very low expectations of going back to arizona and what it would be like and But their expectations had not been managed because they have lived there all their lives

[00:52:45] And so it's kind of interesting to see them go back and have to level set all of the things that they like really really thought about and you know, and so it was Reflective on the way we came back. Anyway, so

[00:52:59] As we've been going all through all of those things I've just been journaling more stuff down this year and it feels good to have Like this common planner where I can just journal in the back and I don't really have to have this secondary notebook

[00:53:11] Like last year I had bought all the archer and olives and I didn't use them at all and so Um, it's nice to have something like embedded in the day where if I just want to jot something down I can you know Great You know

[00:53:25] Yeah, and then I bought all the covers for them, which is super fun It's so funny because like I have all my foxy fix v6 covers for my travelers notebooks and I haven't been using travelers notebooks because You know, I haven't really been traveling and um

[00:53:43] So i've seen some folks selling all theirs online and i'm like, I wonder why should start selling mine So I like I went through the box and I was like, oh, I totally forgot about this one

[00:53:51] And you know, and it's just so funny to like have that kind of reflection on yeah On your planner journey. Yeah But i'm not writing about I know that these I know that these like Tomo river paper planners get really thick as the year goes on so um

[00:54:08] My friends that had them were like you need to get a good cover for it and you need to get one of these because aura estelle makes this expander piece You can move the

[00:54:21] Snap or whatever. You can move it out as the year goes on so it gets thicker and that's cool I had multiple friends recommend this like this started with danielle in denver that told me I needed to try these out

[00:54:33] Because any like they had sent her one to try it out and so I got to see it before I bought it which is I really needed the in-person influencing to push me over the edge on this

[00:54:43] And then um, we had met vj with notique and got to see her in person So I really you know I really want to get a camel one of these for the summer because I feel like camel goes to summer

[00:54:54] but i'm going to continue to buy covers which That's the reason that I like a5 but I can never make a5 work for me And so we'll see how this journey goes this year

[00:55:03] But so far I ordered these tabs from grace plans because the font is great on them And they're here. Let me show them to you. Oh, but they're the ones that were just not the right size, right? No, no, no, these are perfect. These are the okay

[00:55:19] Oh, those are oh that's I like that font a lot. Yeah, it's like so it's gracy plan. Oh gracy edits Um is the name of the shop but the font on the tabs is like and they're

[00:55:33] Like it's a good font and they she makes them in clear and in the You know frosted color. And so i'm just like Yeah, it's been fun to put together a planner like this though because it's been

[00:55:48] Like I think it's been since my tps days that i've even Gotten like this into decorating something and so it's been a lot of fun to like be going through it and Putting all the stickers down especially in the undated

[00:56:01] Because I had to I ran out of number stickers So I had to order more I I ran out of number and day of the week stickers

[00:56:10] And then day of the month stickers, so I had to order a bunch from the sticker shop co where I get all my font Yeah stickers from and I placed this like huge thick order with her

[00:56:21] And then I haven't done a custom order of fonts in so long And I was like, can I get a bunch of customs? And so she was like sure And she created my custom

[00:56:33] Order and because I wanted it in like she makes them in transparent and in white and then in multiple fonts Yeah, so she needed me to place the order like how many sheets I wanted based on that

[00:56:45] So she set up the listing in etsy and it was like janey's Favorites And then I went in to go order it the next day And other bitches had ordered my shit like it's you know how etsy says like in 18 carts and i'm like, yeah

[00:57:01] 18 carts like these bitches are trying to order my custom shit Leave it up. I don't care but I was like just make sure my shit gets out. So that's Funny

[00:57:13] Look at you being an influencer even on the back end. I didn't even tell anybody that I was doing that so I was like, oh well good on you, so

[00:57:22] Anyway, that's funny. So i've been having a lot of fun. It's bringing me I guess my planner is bringing me joy This year marie kondo would say keep it. I know in a new way. And so I mean I I literally came up here yesterday

[00:57:37] Uh, I think around I came up here to the craft room. I think around one o'clock and I was here until like seven just like working on my planner and I just got up and got snacks back down and

[00:57:48] I was like sorting out stickers because i'm moving into a new sticker organization So i'm feeling very planner optimistic this year, I guess. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I mean, what's your word of the year planner optimistic? No I think it was

[00:58:04] What was it you you wait you had one and you forgot it already yeah It's impactful so What is my word of the year I feel like it's not good and you need to pick a new one No, I remember. Oh

[00:58:26] Uh, okay, so I found it I went back into my text messages and figured out what it was Uh, I my word of the year is supposed to be self-discipline Not around buying planner stuff obviously, oh my god, seriously i'm like, um

[00:58:45] How many purchases did you do during the planner your boss collective this weekend? I didn't go that crazy in planner boss collective. I just I bought from a new shop her shop was called Girl boss anna and now she just did a rebrand where it's called narrative hughes

[00:59:03] She does these strips. It's on a washi strip, but oh, yeah, I think should we got something from An event from her, right? Yeah Like in maine, I think we got we got some of her tape. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay

[00:59:18] Um, and so I bought i've been having an eye on some of her stuff I have a bunch of friends that use her Like tapes because it comes on a roll of washi tape, but you peel off the sticker

[00:59:27] So you can like peel off some of the washi and then use it as you go You don't have to use like the next thing up like some of the tear-off ones are Okay, so I picked up some of those and then I mean

[00:59:39] I just really have a bone to pick with you and kristin pickett and every other bitch that has made a big deal about baba bear studios Because I have placed a bunch of orders with her Since last friday and then I actually

[00:59:54] Just converted all my sticker organization from the little Plastic sleeves into her disbound sticker organization And so i'm on the end of wrapping up that project But I had to place just one more order to get the last one

[01:00:12] I mean, I don't know. I mean, it's all i've only ordered from her from for like six or seven years I mean, I don't know. I know Yeah But i'm glad I could order them for you last christmas and you could enjoy it and then finally

[01:00:29] Yeah, i'm deep in now and um, you all have enabled me appropriately and um The thing about the planner boss collective sale is that there's there's enough shops that tag on a sale

[01:00:41] When that is like sale is happening, which I think is smart like that's absolutely what you should do. Oh, it's brilliant it's so I yeah, so I placed I think the only other order that I placed was with fox and pip because I needed

[01:00:55] a little restock on some things but you always need a little bit of something from fox and pip in my mind, but But yeah, so planner planner year so far is starting out pretty strong. It feels like Yeah, I have uh ordered yet another set of dating stickers

[01:01:13] That I think i'm not gonna need anymore And so i'm super annoyed that i'm gonna have yet another boy And me stickers like at this point y'all I have like six different versions of men

[01:01:24] I can date and I never seem to date that version again. Like it's always a different color It's always a different hair. Like why can't I just pick the same dude over and over again? So Really not excited about my next sticker order. That's arriving from uh

[01:01:41] God who did I order from from paper shire who like she's the one she's got the best dating stickers So if you need dating stickers go to her but also I'm fucking annoyed because i'm like, I don't even need that dude anymore

[01:01:54] I'm over you should just have her do them like where the person is completely clear And you can just color in the skin. I don't want to come in I'm gonna like be like is this the right shade of like cocoa for you?

[01:02:08] Or is this the right shade of beige because you're so fucking white like I you know I don't want to have to figure it out like Like I prefer like just be like light medium and dark they're like what color hair there's six options

[01:02:23] And so i'm just like could I just pick a repeat option soon? Like that would be really convenient for me with all my dating stickers Lame you're gonna have to like it went to lunch with a friend

[01:02:39] But i'll put like a wig i'll just get like some like extensions whatever like so it's like a girl instead of a boy I know you're anti-bo but you could just put a bow on It's like it's literally like I sort of feel like

[01:02:55] Gosh, am I like the kiss of death every time I order the paper shire stickers? Like I feel like i'm like the kiss of death But I figure at some point i'll have all the variations and then it won't matter anymore

[01:03:04] So really i'm just spending 30 bucks at a pop For like the possibility of the next guy. That seems like it's a good idea. Yeah, I mean I still look the same so it's fine

[01:03:17] You're all it's always the redhead oh my god i'm always the same thank god like i'm always pale and red Well, are you I know you're in the same planner as you were in last year But like are you loving it just as much this year?

[01:03:34] So well, I mean i'm only in the one though So i'm only in the hoco this year and i'm using it at home And I am not using a weekly like i'm not doing weekly layouts anymore. So It's interesting like i'm still figuring it out as I go

[01:03:52] But essentially what i'm doing is i'm using the weekly layout to just kind of lay out what plans I have for the week Yeah, which is sad some weeks, but it's okay Like it's just reality and then the dailies i'm doing this mix of sort of

[01:04:06] What actually happened and how I felt about certain things and i'm using up different stickers and stuff. Yeah, so we'll see How it progresses? Because I i'm still figuring it out really, um, but So far i'm good. Like I don't

[01:04:25] I don't want to buy a bunch of kits like i'm good not buying it. So i'm okay with that part So we'll see Because i'm thinking also I might end up No, no. No, I think i'm good i'm good What are you buying like

[01:04:41] I mean, are you just using individual characters then? Yeah, so i'm using a lot of my character stickers and then i'm using like quote stickers and things like that so Some of it is I just have to figure out like, you know

[01:04:55] Do I want to use the planner for more lists? Like what i'm, you know, what do I want to use it for? But i'm really doing it more like the weekly is really like the pre-planning the monthly is the pre-planning and then the

[01:05:08] Daily is more of like the reflective journaling memory planning um, and but the part the struggle i'm having is that each Two days can be a separate color pattern. So I feel like I should do more with that

[01:05:20] So I think that like as I play with it more It'll be similar to when I got my first Erin Condren and like the first layouts were like four stickers and then eventually, you know, I got crazy with it

[01:05:33] So I think i'm going to keep growing into it. That's what i'm anticipating I think it's going to be real thick by the end of the year Yeah, I think these are going to be thick. I just keep adding stickers to them every day

[01:05:43] i'm doing like on the daily i'm doing like Everything in the week is matchy matchy because it's not very You know, yeah Yeah, it's just a weekly planner where i'm mostly writing in it and then the weekly spread is for personal is pretty stickered up i'm getting through

[01:06:03] Uh, my removable sticker book pretty good That's great. Yeah, that's what i'm hoping to do I'm kind of hoping to use this year as like a let's use up a bunch of stickers because I have plenty of stickers So

[01:06:15] I need to figure out like how i'm going to incorporate books in so that's one piece But i've not been reading a lot so far this year. So I need to really catch up on my reading goals So i've kick-started my reading group, which I think will help

[01:06:28] Yeah, but traveling was just like the kind of traveling I was doing I wasn't really reading like I was more like with processing and different things. And so yeah, so I need to do that but But yeah, so i'm really I mean I'm happy with the planner

[01:06:44] It's got so much flexibility that I feel really happy with like I feel content. I think not happy. I feel content with The options that I have because I can do so much with it. Yeah, so I want to kind of explore that more Yeah

[01:06:58] I can tell you I missed having a weekly spread I missed having a spread because I didn't have a weekly Like I had that one page weekly Um, and it just didn't do the same thing as what a vertical weekly does for me

[01:07:12] Yeah, and it might be that that's something I need to think about is spending more time on the weekly spread so that maybe that's One of the things i'll try out. Yeah

[01:07:21] Hope you feel good about it. I think I feel like you'll feel good about it. So oh my gosh I'm, pretty sure I will pretty sure I will yeah But well jamie

[01:07:29] It's been a pleasure speaking with you today. No, i'm so glad that we are back together again to record podcasts And visit with each other on a regular basis because i've missed you and

[01:07:42] Um, I had a miscut sticker for the first time in a very long time colleen. It has been so long Since i've had a miscut sticker and I just emailed I emailed the shop last night

[01:07:53] And they just responded to me to tell me they're sending out a new sheet with my latest order and just tickled to death So I that's the shit. I feel like little things. It's the little things I really feel like we may have to you know

[01:08:06] I really hate revisiting topics that I feel like we've covered a ton But I realize how many new planner people are in the community and I feel like we may need to do a refreshed episode on like how to

[01:08:17] Keep yourself safe in the planner community to get it like to prevent yourself from getting fucked over by people That's so dramatic. But yeah, we can do that

[01:08:26] Because I feel i've seen a lot of things i've seen some things popping up in different facebook groups where people are like, you know I Sent a shop paypal money and you know bamboozled and I got bamboozled or like I

[01:08:42] waited this long to get my order how long do I wait and it's like bitch, you don't wait like you pay attention those ship times and Ready to ship or not money back, you know get your money back. And well We've got lots to talk about this season

[01:08:59] We have so much to cover and we're back We're back y'all it's going to be regular because I need adventure in my life and jamie's my adventure right now And colleen's my adventure since I don't have much adventure. So

[01:09:15] Like you just put on a sweater y'all and it's literally Also matches her fucking wall. Like I don't know what's happening with jamie right now. She might be depressed remember

[01:09:25] In the city remember in sex in the city when like carrie goes into big's apartment and he's like it's beige Yeah, no, and right now jamie is beige like everything right now is beige and white like it is like shades of beige

[01:09:38] Like I don't know what's happening. I don't know world. Jamie is having a moment So we need to come back and tell you that kelsey and I drove to san antonio Because he had to go meet a client and I went down there with him

[01:09:50] And while we were driving down there he was like between going to arizona and back and then Like coming down here. I really miss driving and like being on the road and leaving the house more often. I was like, dude, I I

[01:10:04] Have been traveling every month since we moved into the house So i've not had the time to even enjoy the house in that way But yeah, yeah, no, I can't I would be so crazy. I have no idea how you're doing it

[01:10:15] And then he immediately just started like looking at rvs because we oh we fortunately sold our rv at the end of congratulations and um So now he's looking for a new one

[01:10:26] Now he's looking for he thinks he wants to buy another one and i'm like we're not ready to do that right now but I think that he's like It as soon as the prime opportunity hits he's like they'll be together. Oh, yeah

[01:10:38] So so funny he got he got really ridiculous and like I think it's like his birthday this week And he's almost 40 and so he's hitting like that weird midlife crisis point and when we were in scottsdale He was like do you want to go look at a porsche?

[01:10:52] And I was like our chubby fat asses are not getting in and out of a porsche And that is the most absurd bullshit that i've ever fucking heard come out of your mouth

[01:11:01] And he was like, I've just been watching a lot of like top gear and i've like seen him a lot And I was like, I don't know what's happening with you. The answer is no The answer is no like if you can the other wife says no

[01:11:14] I told him if you want to drive up to the porsche dealer and climb into the car and then climb out of it I'll record it. And then if you decide that's how you want to Spend your time going into being 40

[01:11:24] You can get rid of your forerunner and get that And i'll just watch you get in and out of it and i'll never ride in the car with you I can't I can't oh it hurts. All right, jamie. Well, it's time

[01:11:39] It's time because I need to eat dinner. I have to eat dinner too. So until next time Friends keep planning stay awesome and adios, bachachos Bye your timing was perfect. I know because I just watched your lips because then you're gonna fuck with me Bye

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