Colleen tackles an end of year creative clean up project to launch into 2025 in full force, a project Jamie is dreading after the holidays.
[00:00:00] You're listening to the Planner Girl Chatter Podcast with your hosts Jamie Marcus Bratcher and Colleen Phelan.
[00:00:07] Grab a fresh cup of coffee and the closest planner, start unboxing your latest Etsy order because it's time for Planner Girl Chatter.
[00:00:16] Jamie, I would like to welcome you to the second Planner Girl Podcast.
[00:00:24] Planner Girl Chatter, that's actually the name of it.
[00:00:27] Podcasting is what we're doing.
[00:00:30] Of 2024.
[00:00:31] It's a pleasure to see you.
[00:00:33] I just talked to my mom.
[00:00:35] She's already listened to our episode.
[00:00:36] She loves it.
[00:00:37] She's thrilled that we've recorded the episode and she missed us.
[00:00:41] So I don't know who else is listening, but we're doing this for my mom at this point.
[00:00:46] Yeah.
[00:00:47] At a minimum.
[00:00:48] Jamie's mom deserves it.
[00:00:50] My mom continues to have no idea it exists.
[00:00:52] So it's all going very normal, very normal over here.
[00:00:56] But Jamie, one of the reasons I needed to record is because I am, I'm taking on a new endeavor that I did introduce in the first episode that we did of this year.
[00:01:09] But now I've begun.
[00:01:11] I've begun the great office craft room redux.
[00:01:18] Ooh.
[00:01:19] Ooh, that was so good.
[00:01:20] With her nails.
[00:01:21] It's really, yeah.
[00:01:22] Yeah.
[00:01:22] I have Christmas nails right now and they looked amazing.
[00:01:25] I did jazz hands.
[00:01:27] Yeah.
[00:01:27] For Colleen.
[00:01:28] When, okay.
[00:01:29] So I know when you had the great breakup of 2019.
[00:01:34] When you became an independent woman.
[00:01:37] Yes, I did.
[00:01:38] When you declared your independence and went to trailblaze a new life.
[00:01:43] If you left all of your craft stuff and you abandoned it and had to start.
[00:01:48] I abandoned like half of it.
[00:01:50] That's a lot.
[00:01:51] It was a lot.
[00:01:52] It was basically all of it.
[00:01:54] Like, let's not talk.
[00:01:55] I mean, I have these moments where I think about my bead collection and the thousands and thousands of dollars.
[00:02:03] It's like gorgeous silver beads that like with inflation, I cannot.
[00:02:10] But it's okay because you know what, Jamie?
[00:02:13] Sometimes in life, we learn that we're really good at collecting things.
[00:02:18] Sorry, I'm trying to get a cookie crumb out of my keyboard because it is December.
[00:02:24] That is most December.
[00:02:26] December, you're good December.
[00:02:27] I'm like, by the way, I need to get this cookie crumb from the cookie I just made, which I'll tell you about a second.
[00:02:32] And it's really exciting.
[00:02:34] But, okay.
[00:02:38] I'm so adept at purchasing craft supplies that I already need a purge.
[00:02:44] And I mean, I guess five years is reasonable.
[00:02:47] Five years is a reasonable period of time to need a craft room purge.
[00:02:51] But, yes, I definitely haven't not bought things.
[00:02:58] Yeah.
[00:02:58] If we're being honest.
[00:02:59] Yeah.
[00:02:59] But the problem is, here's the thing.
[00:03:02] The problem is, I don't even know what the problem is.
[00:03:06] But there's got to be a problem there somewhere.
[00:03:08] Well, here's, I have questions for you about this.
[00:03:10] So, what kind of craft stuff have you bought?
[00:03:13] Is it mostly card making or?
[00:03:15] Yeah.
[00:03:16] And so that's the thing is I just need to make some cards, right?
[00:03:19] Like all of my planner stuff is also, I brought not a ton, but a good chunk of planner stuff.
[00:03:25] So, I have vintage supplies that I can't think of the names of all the different places.
[00:03:31] But I've got them.
[00:03:32] And so now it's just, I actually need to do all the things that I've intended to do.
[00:03:37] Which is ironic, right?
[00:03:39] Because that's the whole thing is like I've been intending to for years now.
[00:03:43] So, I actually have to do it.
[00:03:44] I am, however, going to paint the walls.
[00:03:48] And I do want to share with you the colors.
[00:03:51] So, this is the addition, you guys, is that I have, let me get my paint chips.
[00:03:57] I have gone off the proverbial rails.
[00:04:01] And I've decided that I need to paint the wall that will be sort of the main feature wall when you walk in the room.
[00:04:08] Now, this is intimidating to me because A, I have never done that.
[00:04:13] A.
[00:04:13] And B, once I started, I have to finish it so that I can work next year.
[00:04:19] But I do have a week and a half to do this.
[00:04:21] So, here's the crazy shit that I'm thinking of painting my wall.
[00:04:25] And I think all of you will appreciate this when I give you the one word if Jamie doesn't say it as soon as she sees it.
[00:04:31] But I want something that's going to be energizing and a little unusual.
[00:04:35] But really kind of on brand for me, I think.
[00:04:40] And so, I'm going, I like this vintage chartreuse.
[00:04:43] Which looks a little bit like the Grinch in certain lighting.
[00:04:47] But in other lighting, looks darker.
[00:04:49] It looks like a neon green post-it.
[00:04:52] It does.
[00:04:54] Yeah.
[00:04:54] That's a big commitment.
[00:04:56] It is.
[00:04:56] But only on one wall, not the whole room.
[00:04:58] So, it's like a feature wall.
[00:05:00] Are you also going to start doing stop motion photography?
[00:05:03] I could because they don't have a green screen, which I have also thought about.
[00:05:07] So, then there's also garden spot, which is a deeper green.
[00:05:11] That also, and here's why though, Jamie.
[00:05:13] And this is my logic.
[00:05:14] And this is where I need for you to tell me what you think.
[00:05:18] I think it'll go really well with the wall behind me that has all of the flowers.
[00:05:24] So, it'll be like a homage to the flowers across the way.
[00:05:29] But this vintage chartreuse is like this color, which is why I kind of like it.
[00:05:34] Yes.
[00:05:35] It's funny that you're choosing those because I don't know if you've paid attention to the Pantone colors of the year, but I do look forward to them coming out every year.
[00:05:43] And they are mocha mousse, future dusk, cinnamon slate, matt blue, purple basil.
[00:05:50] yeah they're all like these brown colors yeah I'm not doing brown but I want like so but I do
[00:05:58] want it to be like a bold color but I really am leaning in towards these like really kind of deep
[00:06:03] greens so like the emerald green the problem I have with the emerald green is I think it'll be too
[00:06:09] like too flat in in a way that one matches the shirt you're wearing right now she's got like this
[00:06:14] tealy but this is kelly green that I'm wearing so I mean part of it is like the lighting right so
[00:06:21] let me so some of it is the lighting and I think that the vintage chartreuse in normal light oh it
[00:06:27] does look kind of neon but that's why I think this darker green yeah I think the darker green it's
[00:06:32] like a sage it's not a sage yeah it's more yeah it's kind of like it's a cross between like a
[00:06:38] kelly green and uh it's like if you green and yeah blended them together so yeah it's a little
[00:06:44] bit naturey naturey it looks very naturey yeah yeah and because I feel like then I can do a wall um
[00:06:53] of like this color when you guys all take a picture of these together of like this color
[00:06:57] could be that one and then wouldn't that be a nice balance that could be a nice balance yeah
[00:07:02] when I did I did the um felt wall uh so that I could have a cool backdrop and then I moved my
[00:07:09] desk around so you can't even see it anymore and then I could also pin quilts to it as like a design
[00:07:14] wall felt right like yeah I did a felt right wall but I did it very neutral but I think I'm gonna have
[00:07:21] to get I think I'm gonna have to get more of them like on more of the walls because I need more
[00:07:25] design walls I think that's reasonable yeah okay so you're okay so first of all you've collected
[00:07:31] a lot of card making stuff and you still have your planner stuff but like are do you have like
[00:07:35] an organizational system that you're putting in or are you just like oh uh like what is the when you
[00:07:41] say you're reorganizing are you just like taking things out like what does that look like that's a
[00:07:47] really good question and I do have a list I have a list of steps that I have now we're painting
[00:07:51] we're not organizing we're painting it's your we are it's a read like okay this is not there's a lot
[00:07:59] of stuff going on so yeah so it's really grown from being just moving my desk to like if I'm moving
[00:08:05] my desk I might as well paint a wall and I and I may have also um looked up Ikea desks that I could
[00:08:15] replace my current crafting desk but I'm not sure if I want to make the financial commitment to that yet
[00:08:22] but I know it'll fit in the space so I figure even if yeah so here's what I have to do
[00:08:30] I have to move literally every piece of furniture in this room somewhere else then I need to go in
[00:08:36] the closet and I need to get rid of the boxes I've saved that I don't actually need anymore
[00:08:41] that when I moved into this house four years ago I thought I might need those boxes and I don't like
[00:08:47] but how do you get rid of certain yeah so then I'm also dealing with getting rid of boxes it's
[00:08:52] sometimes you have to recognize that like Mary Beth reminds me sometimes it's just garbage
[00:08:57] that is exactly what I think is in my craft closet at like the silhouette that I bought in 2016
[00:09:04] I'm pretty sure I'm just going to donate that because I don't even think it's the like
[00:09:08] there's a wireless versions now why would I even try so Jamie what I'm saying is it's like
[00:09:18] um I'm googling what is the current version of the silhouette right now yeah please do because
[00:09:25] I think it's I've got version 1.0 um Maria Kondo wait am I saying that name right yeah yeah or
[00:09:32] KonMari KonMari right that's what it's called the KonMari room yeah so I'm a mix of KonMari-ing
[00:09:39] and yeah silhouette studio is in version 5 right now it looks like so I feel like you probably have
[00:09:50] like a a one or two so I'm pretty sure it's a one I don't even know honestly but I what I do know is
[00:09:57] this uh that's screaming not supported yeah exactly um that's screaming this is the first level of this
[00:10:06] technology and it's absolutely improved and it's okay because you haven't used it in the entire time
[00:10:11] you've been in this house you've never taken it out of the closet so there's that yeah um so basically
[00:10:17] what I'm saying is I need to restructure my life so I'm going to do it in my office yes yes in my craft room
[00:10:29] I think it's a good idea I think it's a good idea so we've only lived in this house I guess it'll be
[00:10:35] three years in next year but I moved a lot of my craft stuff from the RV into the house and when I did
[00:10:44] the organization here I got the baker's racks you can see them right now that's what I'm pointing to
[00:10:48] yeah baker's racks are what I have so I have the baker's racks and then I have purchased all these nice
[00:10:53] white bins to put everything in and that has been a really good system for me to put together
[00:10:58] because I can see what it is and I know where everything is the crisis that I am in right now
[00:11:02] is that I put this long arm in which means it takes up the entire length of one wall it blocks my tv
[00:11:08] um and then it take brings up six feet so I lost basically six feet of my craft room and then my
[00:11:16] shorter baker's rack was on one side of the room and now they both need to fit in the closet so I think
[00:11:22] I actually have to purge my stuff down to one rack or we're just reorganize it which means I need to take
[00:11:30] everything out of that closet and redo it and I there's literally a pile on the floor that I step
[00:11:37] over to get into the closet right now um so I've been making a concerted effort to just wrap up projects
[00:11:44] that I'm in the middle of uh behind me I have three quilts that I quilted like this week and I've got
[00:11:48] binding on them they're going out the door because they're holiday gifts and I have projects that I can
[00:11:54] work on right away but I have too much I mean I have more I I have everything crammed onto that shelf
[00:12:02] from three baker's racks down to two and I know that I'm gonna have to get rid of stuff the nice
[00:12:08] thing about the quilting part is that they do the country store which is a bunch of stuff I got from
[00:12:13] the country store which means I bought out all the quilt like quilt fabric goes for like 13 dollars
[00:12:18] a yard basically and I bought it for like a dollar or two a yard so there's some of this stuff that's
[00:12:23] just going to go back to the country store so I have a medium to cycle through this stuff but which you
[00:12:31] know at the at the uh like cleaner events you have the de-stash tables and I've been really proud
[00:12:37] of myself for not picking up stuff on the de-stash tables that I don't need it but that organization
[00:12:43] are you gonna buy bins for your craft room or well so I already have a number of bins and I have most
[00:12:50] things like fairly well organized into um like I have my stamps and stamp boxes and you know that kind
[00:12:58] of thing the challenge I think for me is um what I really still want is to create a pegboard wall
[00:13:06] to hang different tools that's what I wanted since I moved in and so I'm wondering if my spending time
[00:13:14] at Lowe's will empower me to think that I can install a pegboard wall and there's good odds because my
[00:13:23] friend offered to help me paint the wall and I think that my false confidence with her will allow me to
[00:13:29] put up the pegboard wall yeah yeah I believe so I mean so you're talking one baker's rack
[00:13:39] you have bins but I already adding a pegboard yeah so basically I am reducing from a big baker's rack
[00:13:47] to a medium baker's rack in the craft room with the goal that most of the stuff that was on the baker's
[00:13:53] rack is going to go in the closet which requires though all of the labeling of all of the stamp boxes
[00:14:01] so I can put them up in the closet ensuring still that they're easily enough accessible that I will not
[00:14:07] ignore them for five years as well do you have a lot of planner sticker binders I have my um my
[00:14:17] rascog cart oh so we gotta fit a rascog cart in here too oh god it's already in yeah so my rascog
[00:14:25] cart though I think I'm actually going to end up putting next to my work desk so that I can use the
[00:14:32] top shelf or maybe the second shelf for all my my planner sticker binders because I'll be able to do
[00:14:37] my planner while I'm at work um and so I'm thinking I might move that over and then use that for a few of
[00:14:44] the supplies I need once I move my desk what is the pen situation looking like it's chaos I have so
[00:14:51] many pen holders but I found a bin found a bin on Amazon that is specially designed to hold pens
[00:14:59] I've seen these vertically and so there's the part of me that says Colleen some pens need to be
[00:15:06] horizontal and the other part of me is like Colleen bullshit you're still keeping them all vertical so
[00:15:11] just get that bin so then I can organize them and really utilize and have all my pens in one place
[00:15:16] because here's the problem there's fucking pens everywhere I have too many pens I need to do a pen
[00:15:23] purge a couple things that I've not touched for a long time are like field notes and then my pens like
[00:15:29] I have a bin of just pens I have pens that I grab and go but I have a ton of Villa Beautiful pens
[00:15:36] and I have two like folios of the Villa Beautiful pens and I change them out from time to time but
[00:15:42] not as frequently as what I used to um and then I have um I still have all of my like highlighters and
[00:15:53] stuff and so I've been thinking about getting I've seen the horizontal pens where you can see all of
[00:16:00] the colors and then you just pull them out and you do the stacking I just don't know if I want to
[00:16:04] commit the desk space to doing exactly that feels like a big commitment you know yeah well I think
[00:16:11] that's the thing is like what I really need is to put all of them in one place organized by color and
[00:16:20] type so that I stop buying the same pens like that's what I think I need I feel like I have a
[00:16:27] number I mean I'm looking around me right now and I have three different four five six
[00:16:35] six different versions of pen organization that I can see in the spot I'm sitting in right now in this
[00:16:42] moment I give you permission to purge and get it down to two yeah see here's the problem two of them
[00:16:50] are crafting pens so it's all so that's so those two don't count and then the one is dry erase pens
[00:17:00] for the dry erase board so that has to be they've got to be separate but I do think the other three
[00:17:06] could but one of them is a cactus it's shaped like a cactus it's super cute it's just not effective
[00:17:11] with space yeah uh Kendra tried you know Kendra draws and she junk journals now so she's really
[00:17:19] evolving into a person that I like and uh she but she yeah she told me that she needed some paint
[00:17:28] markers and I was like I still have acrylograph paint markers and she goes I don't know if they work
[00:17:35] and I was like I ain't buying you a new set of paint markers until you go home and look at those
[00:17:41] acrylographs and she goes I think they're dry and I'm like that's not how paint markers work so that is
[00:17:47] the worst thing for her is that she thinks that she can pull one to fast one over that I'm a dumb craft
[00:17:52] mom that I don't know or that I'm not a craft mom that I don't know and I'm like no those acrylographs
[00:17:56] still work I guarantee you and I made her go home and we tested them and she's like oh they do
[00:18:01] because she has the passato ones too yeah and I'm like you don't need no you got plenty of paint
[00:18:06] markers I want to see some empty paint markers before we go replace it so it's one thing when
[00:18:11] you're gonna up your stash it's another thing when your kid is trying to I'm like uh-uh no no yes I do
[00:18:18] need those three additional yards of fabric and I don't need to hear nothing about it and I'm gonna
[00:18:22] buy two sets of back quarters but I don't need to be hearing about you needing new paint markers
[00:18:27] you got money buy your own exactly try to tag her I don't know who you think you are so yeah if
[00:18:35] anybody's getting the new supplies it's you yeah no exactly like she's gonna have to support herself
[00:18:39] on this situation because I'm getting to the end here in fact I told her I walked her through
[00:18:45] multiple times I'm like I think that's yours we need to get that out of there so and I will
[00:18:50] I do have a confession though is I think they arrived today uh I did buy uh field notes
[00:18:57] does their uh merchmas and they have these really cool turquoise field notes like they look like
[00:19:06] turquoise and I did order a set of them for myself and I even though I haven't been using them but only
[00:19:12] one sets far like I can't start one set you know and so I always end up I want free shipping like I
[00:19:20] won't just get one set I want the free shipping so I'll order to free shipping which then is at least
[00:19:29] three to four sets which means that's you know nine to twelve more notebooks in my house and I just
[00:19:36] I I have to recognize that my size is a five or b six for notebooks everything else probably not
[00:19:45] gonna work out yeah well I did get to free shipping though because I did order the ddc timex watch which
[00:19:54] I've wanted for a lot of years and it's the sixth edition um of that them re-releasing that watch and
[00:20:01] so I did bite the bullet in my watch so that's coming and then I also got Kendra a ddc like how the truth
[00:20:08] evolves I I was like wait I think I ordered more than just the notebooks as you were saying
[00:20:14] I didn't even remember and then I did order I did order the ddc brand procrasti die um this is a gift
[00:20:23] for Kendra and it says it's a little dice that you can roll and it says wait until the night before
[00:20:30] hammer down and finish it watch some tv and chill out because Kendra is can't you know we are all
[00:20:37] procrastinators and I like a good deadline to I'm not going to do something until it's getting close
[00:20:41] to the deadline oh yeah yeah I've made a conscientious choice though to do that at this point in my life
[00:20:46] uh but Kendra is still at the place where she was like get stressed out about it I don't get worried
[00:20:52] about it anymore but Kendra gets stressed out and she was like I just I said you perform well under
[00:20:57] pressure like that's what you have to understand is that you and this is who you are but she was like
[00:21:02] yeah but I still feel bad about it I'm like oh you gotta stop feeling bad about it and just embrace
[00:21:07] that this is who you are you come from a long line of women you come from a long line of women and men
[00:21:15] because yeah oh my god yes we perform well with deadlines but if there's not a deadline why would
[00:21:22] waste my time doing it so so are you giving yourself a craft room reorganization deadline
[00:21:28] oh it has to be done by the beginning of the year because I have to be able to work
[00:21:32] so yeah so it has to be done enough that I'll be able to function in the room so
[00:21:39] so the process is I had to get rid of the large baker's rack
[00:21:43] switched in the laundry room which is what I just accomplished today
[00:21:46] I have successfully redone and I think I can't I'm ready to get rid of the box for my big giant
[00:21:55] mac computer I bought when I moved in because they're not taking it back six years later Colleen
[00:22:00] you can let it go let the box go but the problem is is I have to I have to um uh I like how I'm
[00:22:07] like slashing the air I know I was like who are you fighting I know are you battling I'm doing
[00:22:12] exacto knife it because it's a weird shape and it won't fit in the garbage and there's no
[00:22:15] like large-scale cardboard recycling in Tucson anymore so it's an effort I have to make which
[00:22:21] I will do once the recycling gets picked up today so good job so Jamie then the next step
[00:22:28] is I have to remove everything from this wall so I can move the computer
[00:22:36] my craft table over into that corner yeah but not set it up so much that I can't paint if I choose to
[00:22:44] paint the second color but enough that I can get everything off of this side so I can paint this
[00:22:51] side yeah so there's just a number of steps but I'm not doing anything for the whole like this is
[00:22:57] what I'm doing this is kind of my gift to myself the other thing that I need to do um is decide if
[00:23:04] I'm going to pick up a new hobby oh I feel like it's too soon to decide that until you reorganize your
[00:23:09] room but well tell me about the new hobby yeah let me tell you about the new hobby that I've already
[00:23:13] committed ten dollars to uh which is not that much so I have friends who play this game called
[00:23:22] larkana and it is a Disney created like role-playing game kind of like magic so it's a tabletop game I
[00:23:31] I vote no immediately no immediately yeah so I went to a gaming night oh you are is this is this
[00:23:40] really who you are I just I think I might have a weekly gaming night Jamie because I mean both use
[00:23:47] my like Colleen this doesn't feel like Colleen but I don't know I'll let you finish
[00:23:55] here's the thing is I think a it will expose me to a certain base level of intelligence
[00:24:05] there's more men than women who do it many of them will not be men I want to date
[00:24:10] no if there's just one it's been successful they have to shower they definitely have to shower um
[00:24:20] and the cards are kind of cute but here's the problem is that you can become very entrenched
[00:24:28] in it similar to like the warhammer experience that yeah with Kelsey and I don't really want to do
[00:24:33] that but I think if I um pick up a brain hobby like that and do that weekly it might be good for me as I
[00:24:41] get old I'm not loving this I'm not loving this I'm not loving this for you I will tell you four
[00:24:50] reasons and I will be very specific for reasons okay most of the men in that spaces are either still
[00:24:58] living with their moms or they are married by women that will keep them because they do well with their
[00:25:04] smarts and because they're home we keep them for a long time because we know they're doing we don't
[00:25:09] have to worry about them two the smells like the smells now that we are entrenched in our neighborhood
[00:25:17] our next door neighbor hosts a monthly gaming weekend um where they there's like 30 dudes that
[00:25:25] come over they set up tables in the garage maybe it's not 30 it looks like 30 people there's too many
[00:25:30] cars parked out by house that's really why you know it's the car and so they they all come over and
[00:25:37] they play video games for like two days in a row and I just they smell like Kelsey says they smell and
[00:25:43] he's a dude the third reason is that they're these games they these men lose interest in these games
[00:25:52] and then they switch these games and then you're stuck with all the stuff and you don't have anybody to
[00:25:56] play with and Kendra plays Dungeons and Dragons in a like a online group with a group of friends
[00:26:02] but people drop out and they're kind of flaky like what because these are not plainer people these are
[00:26:07] like flaky people so people drop out and then you're stuck with all the stuff you know and number
[00:26:13] four that's only if you buy it I don't want to buy it all well you're gonna end up buying it all because
[00:26:18] we are who we are come on but the the fourth reason is just I think you're cooler than that Colleen
[00:26:26] I think that there's got to be cognitive games out there that don't require you to go
[00:26:30] into this den of nerds like here's here's the thing Jamie no I think that's been my mistake
[00:26:36] I think that I've routinely dated men who I would perceive as being almost as cool as me
[00:26:43] um but never quite right like never quite as cool as me and now I'm like
[00:26:51] I think I just need to go into different spaces and like what if one of them is good at bathing
[00:26:58] and smart newly divorced maybe widowed ideally widowed ideally widowed I mean ideally widowed for
[00:27:06] sure you know I mean like if I get to choose I definitely want a widow yeah like I want a widow
[00:27:09] who still loves like his deceased wife so I can love her too and then we bond about how we love her and
[00:27:15] she was so amazing like that yeah just like you ideally right oh my god and my cancer soul is like
[00:27:22] oh my god she like made you so good for me and that's why I love her so much and let's honor her
[00:27:29] every solstice and so it could happen but I just I'm gonna tell you this there's one of these wives
[00:27:37] that comes to this thing because they have parties where they try to include the wives there's one of
[00:27:43] these women that dresses like she's some kind of like a Russian Zelda like I don't know how else
[00:27:47] to describe it like she wears like Russian gear but then yeah she like cosplays all the time but
[00:27:52] she dresses like she should belong in Zelda but like if Zelda was taking place in Russia like I can't
[00:27:58] really describe it but there's like this like boots everything like muffled like mufflers yeah dude she
[00:28:04] wears Zelda like earrings and then she wears like a jacket-y thing that has like a like it has a muff to it
[00:28:11] and I'm like it is summer in Texas what are you doing and then she wears these leather boots that
[00:28:18] are like painted it's weird dude and she comes and I just if you become this person I'm gonna say
[00:28:25] something about it I'm just letting you know I'm gonna speak up about it and I will not allow this
[00:28:30] to happen and we will have to have a talk and I commit what I'm hearing what I'm hearing though is we
[00:28:36] just have to choose wisely which character I become attached to so yeah I just need to pick my character
[00:28:42] my character wisely and so I think I can pick any Disney character um so I think Black Widow we watch a
[00:28:50] Formula One race like a Formula One race after Thanksgiving and this woman came dressed like this
[00:28:55] and then she also like her her cha-chas were out like a lot and I'm just like what is happening
[00:29:02] cha-chas a first of all are you do you mean her ta-tas but they're like but they're cha-chas because
[00:29:07] of the outfit because the costume that's how overwhelmed I was a cha-cha yeah I just I was
[00:29:14] like I don't understand what's happening and I enough that I went home to get something and I texted Kelsey
[00:29:20] I was like what is she wearing so I just and he was like I don't know and so anyway I just if you're
[00:29:28] gonna go down this rabbit hole I I'm supportive of your cognitive health but I'm gonna say something
[00:29:35] real quick I'm gonna keep you on track because I can't be having friends like this so I will say in
[00:29:42] full full transparency when I walked in and I saw the very nice group of people very very nice but
[00:29:51] nice people I'm not saying they're not nice people no no no no I'm not saying you are I'm saying
[00:29:57] that I want to make sure before I say what I'm about to say that I am saying that I really thought
[00:30:01] people were nice and cool and very interesting and smart the fashion sense including the number
[00:30:12] of pins that people were wearing and I just realized like I'm in a different stage of life
[00:30:18] that I don't like I'm grateful that planner stuff I collected I don't want to collect pins for a game
[00:30:25] so I am gonna throw that out there that I don't think that I am any longer a person who will need
[00:30:32] all of the pins I went through that in planner land and they were creative and interesting
[00:30:36] and these are Disney so they're which means that they're super cute but they're a little bit too
[00:30:43] dry and safe for who I am in my soul right like like I wish that there was like uh you know um
[00:30:51] instead of Disney like I'm trying to think of a sassy company that would um I can't think of any right
[00:30:59] now but you know a company that would really fire it up but it is what it is and and it's a very
[00:31:06] challenging game yeah I think maybe okay well if you're gonna do this I'm gonna manage and monitor
[00:31:13] the progression of this and I'm gonna speak up and say something if this becomes a problem
[00:31:17] if I start wearing anything like because I'm I'm allowed to have a couple of Disney shirts for when
[00:31:25] I go to Disney I am not allowed to become a Disney adult no no no love Disney but I'm not a Disney
[00:31:30] adult it's a it's a it's a downward slope yeah it's a downward slope a lot of as long as we've
[00:31:36] acknowledged it and we put boundaries in place you've taught me about healthy boundaries so
[00:31:40] you know we're gonna have to do that in advance so yeah I'm for this so we'll allow it
[00:31:46] but but we have to monitor this as it progresses because I think somebody needs to and so that's
[00:31:52] why I'm putting out the call to you and to the other planner girl chatter folks um also if anybody
[00:31:59] has any cards they want to send me that's cool I'll take it I haven't chosen what color deck yet
[00:32:09] though so yeah because you there's six colors and you can choose two so um yeah yeah well because
[00:32:17] this is a planner podcast I do have one 2025 question for you so we know you selected your 25 25 planner
[00:32:25] um is there I have bought are there accessories that you have bought for your planner I will share
[00:32:33] that the only thing I bought is the cover that I shared already and the tabs and I have not bought
[00:32:39] any additional accessories for my planner at all have you I have not and I don't know if I will
[00:32:46] because I haven't used almost any of my planner stuff for a year so as I reorganize it's like Christmas
[00:32:52] like it's all brand new to me even though it's old it's like oh like I went through so I actually sent
[00:32:58] some stickers to somebody who is going to send me um a sassy sticker she had so I was like oh I'll send
[00:33:03] you some stickers because I've got some sassy stickers yeah so I was going through stickers
[00:33:06] yesterday and I have some amazing stickers some that I bought and never used a single one because
[00:33:13] I bought them over the last couple years so I don't think I'm going to get any accessories like
[00:33:17] I've thought about if I wanted to get any stickers for like monthly layouts or anything like that
[00:33:22] but I think what I'm only going to be using is my stickers for like how I'm feeling in a given day
[00:33:29] or um like I have a cruise sticker and I'm going on a cruise for work so I'm going to use that because
[00:33:35] that's the only time I'm going to be going on a cruise yeah okay I don't know that I want to get
[00:33:41] anything but I was I there's like a point where I remember being like on top of things that were
[00:33:48] happening in the planner community and I was like I don't even know what people add to their stuff and I
[00:33:56] went and looked at it on the internet it's a little bit and I was like there ain't nothing new I ain't
[00:34:00] gonna spend my money that way and so I have a ton of post-its as I've been going through and looking
[00:34:06] at all the crap I have in my closet I went through and I'm like I have a ton of post-its I obviously
[00:34:11] have a ton of pens I have some stickers but I don't know that I need to add to anything
[00:34:16] plenty of highlighters and I think that I'm not going to add any like additional accessories
[00:34:21] to it because I think I just have a lot of stuff I want to go out on a limb and I I make
[00:34:29] take this all back soon but I think that I have so many things that I I don't want to say a no buy
[00:34:42] but I think that like the only time I'm allowing myself to buy any somewhat planner related supplies
[00:34:50] will be when I travel and in person so yeah I and okay and if more avenue whenever see like CJ opens
[00:34:59] I will always buy whatever things yeah um but outside of that I don't know that I'm going to because I
[00:35:07] really at this point I'm in this space where I really want to just use what I've got and like
[00:35:12] and I want to finish things does that make sense like I want yeah I want to finish things and I want
[00:35:17] to be done with them and I want to miss them because I have so many things that I have nothing
[00:35:21] to miss um yeah for my soul some days that's the one that hits you the hardest so
[00:35:29] and then I laugh maniacally I'm like oh my soul yeah I think I'm gonna go through though when I go
[00:35:36] through and do like because we're gonna travel obviously for the holidays but then when we're back
[00:35:39] that is the thing I'm gonna undertake a project similar just because functionally I'm not even like
[00:35:45] I need to pull I have three desks that I was working on and I need to get rid of one of them
[00:35:50] and I have not decided what because this is just not going to work in here configuration wise
[00:35:54] and I'm gonna have to reduce some stuff that I have um but I bet I'm actually really looking
[00:35:59] forward to figuring out like what is it that is hiding in this craft closet that I haven't seen
[00:36:02] for a minute and um the other so I'll have to share that I'm keep an eye on the things that you find
[00:36:09] because I'm curious what you find that's interesting that's like throwback I have a whole binder now I don't know
[00:36:14] if I've ever told you this I have a whole binder of all the stuff that was made for old plancation
[00:36:20] events oh that's cute after we stopped podcasting I had gone through and like tidied up all my planner
[00:36:28] stuff and I saw it last night when I was looking for something else and I was like oh I forgot I
[00:36:34] made this and I need to tell Colleen I have all of the stickers that have been made for plancation
[00:36:39] I have all the stamps that were made for plancation we were doing that and old meetup stickers and stuff
[00:36:45] like that and it is just a such a nice binder of good memories so I like that oh maybe I'll do
[00:36:53] something like that yeah I do have all these like random little bins of like you know like when
[00:37:00] you go to planner events and you get all the little uh things from folks and so I have a couple of like
[00:37:05] the photo size plastic um containers yeah that are just for certain events so it's like this was
[00:37:11] Chicago planner yeah um conference like this was you know like um go wild this was plancation
[00:37:19] and so I want to figure out a way to maybe do a a display box or something for them yeah like it's
[00:37:26] kind of like do like some sort of hodgepodge because it's also I have all the hanging lanyards I have all
[00:37:31] my lanyards oh my god I have all the lanyards sitting on one of these things and I don't know
[00:37:36] what to do with them either and all the t-shirts that's the other thing the t-shirts and the tote
[00:37:41] bags I've been trying to like cull my tote bags and then my clothing and I have a stack I mean and
[00:37:49] now that I quilt I'm like do I want a t-shirt quilt I really don't care for t-shirt quilts I think
[00:37:54] they look kind of tacky but I I made one for Kelsey years ago and now that I have more skills
[00:38:01] maybe it would be better but I don't know what to do with all the t-shirts and all the tote bags that
[00:38:07] I have um and so I've got to figure that out I'm gonna I think I'm gonna figure that out this year
[00:38:13] but I'm like maybe I'll make maybe I will make like a planer quilt out of it and that'll be my like
[00:38:17] planer event quilt if I still keep going to those things you know and just take it with to be like
[00:38:23] this is all the fun stuff we do you know there's one thing that I don't have from all the years we've
[00:38:27] been doing planer events uh in 2017 when we did plancation at the moxie there were two sets of bags
[00:38:36] there was the bag that everybody got handed out and then remember how we colossally messed up and
[00:38:41] handed out there was like this paid bag that we sold I don't have one of those bags uh and I'm just
[00:38:49] still so sick about it because I had to give it to somebody and that like the one set that I had
[00:38:53] like we had just enough and had to give it and I'm still so sad that I don't have that bag even
[00:38:58] though the other bags just sitting in a drawer seriously like the sheer number of tote bags in
[00:39:05] my life is oh I think that's the thing is like I I just want to like what I want to do for this year
[00:39:11] for like 2026 like or 2025 2026 I know I'm apparently rolling back no 2025 I really want to
[00:39:22] um engage more with my creativity like I know you've been doing like quilting and other stuff and I feel
[00:39:28] like that's a piece that with just like my health and my energy level I didn't have and now I'm like
[00:39:35] no now I do and so like so I've gotten rid of tv and things like that basically to
[00:39:41] create the space where I get bored enough to really be creative because when I actually
[00:39:46] sit down and do things it's so damn satisfying it's so much fun to play with ink and it's so much fun to
[00:39:53] see what things do and um so yeah so that's really at the end of all of this is I just want a space that
[00:40:01] I can really be creative in and that feels welcoming and so I think that's where like I I'm excited to
[00:40:11] to switch up the energy a bit and to try out and I actually think this might be the layout
[00:40:18] no it's similar but it's it's almost a layout I wanted when I started originally planning the
[00:40:23] craft room and then the person I was dating at the time suggested the last layout and he was right-ish
[00:40:30] for the time but now I'm like yeah I want to do my plan where I like because what I want is basically
[00:40:35] to think of the room sort of like I have a evil uh twin sister and we have to share the same space
[00:40:40] but we're putting a line down the room kind of like Jamie when I sit next to you at a table and I
[00:40:44] put a washi line down um so I want the work side of the room and then the other half of the room is
[00:40:50] the craft side of the room and I want it to be kind of like a imaginary wall um so we'll see I like it
[00:40:57] yeah I think the the quilting thing has there there's like when we came out of the rv uh and
[00:41:06] then got settled there's like a level of boredom that crept in for me but then also tiredness where
[00:41:12] I didn't really want to do a lot of stuff and I fell into this like I really love tiktok like
[00:41:18] I'm addicted like it I remember like I am my tiktok videos I share with you I yeah I I'm a
[00:41:27] tiktok like I will brain rot through a couple hours of tiktok especially at the end of a work day
[00:41:34] like I can just sit on the couch and tiktok until I gotta cook I'll I'll tiktok while I'm cooking and
[00:41:41] just watch the same video four times by accident and Kelsey's like what are you watching and I'm like
[00:41:46] I'm not watching anything I'm cooking but I can't switch the video because I'm in the middle of
[00:41:51] steps and so um the thing that has been good about the quilting is that I it forces me to put the tiktok
[00:41:59] away and listen to an audiobook or turn on a show and then and then do the quilting and you have to
[00:42:06] freaking concentrate when you're doing like that if you want to talk about cognitive like you're
[00:42:11] cutting you're paying attention to math you're paying attention to like what you're running through
[00:42:15] that sewing machine piece and stuff together and so I have to actually really pay close attention to
[00:42:20] what I'm doing when I am quilting which means putting the phone down and and actually doing
[00:42:24] something and so that's been good for me just like creatively but even then you take a pattern and you
[00:42:30] start doing you know you got to go pick out all the fabric and it's just it's been a nice like
[00:42:36] design-y thing that you know to be able to design like look at and look at at new I don't know
[00:42:42] just be inspired creatively so I I've been really glad to have that and that I'll continue to have
[00:42:49] that and you know so that I don't have to play card games with nerds you know I'll keep my cognitive up
[00:42:56] still I love that the extrovert is telling the introvert to stay home you're like no maybe you
[00:43:04] should just stay home instead of doing that thing but look they those are the best weekends if you can
[00:43:09] find a dude like that and you decide you don't want to play that game anymore the best thing is
[00:43:12] when like when Kelsey goes to do his gaming weekend he's gone on Friday night this is prime crafting
[00:43:19] time he's gone on Friday night he's gone all day Saturday he does not bother me he does not come
[00:43:25] home and need anything when he does come home I'm like what full rage like don't ruin my space
[00:43:32] I order a little food for Kendra and I we usually get pad thai and I mean like I've got a whole routine
[00:43:39] and so I'm like this is fantastic so you know I as we wrap up I just I encourage you to find
[00:43:48] someone like this but then mostly you can be more creative you're giving me mixed signals right now
[00:43:53] I know I feel really mixed about it yeah it could work out it could go disastrously is all I'm saying so
[00:44:00] look everything can so Jamie and you know I just have to give myself opportunities for new disasters
[00:44:07] for funny stories we don't get funny stories without trying yeah I mean at a minimum I think
[00:44:12] your focus needs to be getting through painting that wall and this really ambitious holiday season
[00:44:18] that you plan for yourself because painting ain't no joke either so there's a window on the wall as well
[00:44:24] so I feel like I'm going to go stay at a resort and do nothing we have very different holidays planned
[00:44:34] here so I guess that's also okay but all right Jamie well well I'm so happy to have visited with you
[00:44:41] on this lovely lovely pre-holiday week uh post podcast we're in the glow of the new podcast episode
[00:44:49] so this looks really good on us for now I know we're like oh it's so fun to podcast when we want to
[00:44:57] exactly so in the new year we'll see you in 2025 friends so until then keep planning stay awesome
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