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we’re finally moved into our new place, my partner and I. well, all of our things are here. there’s still quite a bit of unpacking/organizing to do…wehcri

an A5 notebook pictured atop a wooden laminate table. the notebook is inside of a plastic cover and is kraft paper brown, but decorated with stickers and washi tape. the word 'Notes' is written in an italicized script across the top. along the top is a wide washi tape with strawberries and strawberry confections. directly beneath that washi tape is another, thinner, one that is a purple tartan pattern with the sanrio character my melody printed on it. across the bottom is a similar pattern of one wide washi and one narrow washi. The wide one across the bottom has images of watermelon slices on it, and the thinner tape is decorated with a repeating pattern of a ribbon tied into a bow with a heart in the middle of it. down the spine of the notebook is a pink and red tartan-patterned washi tape, and vertically down the cover is a wide washi tape with plump rabbit characters drawn on it, along with flowers, lollipops, hearts, sparkles, and fruits. some washi tape stickers decorate the cover, we can see two with my melody patterns on the right side of the cover. at the bottom left quadrant is a sticker of Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service flying on a broomstick in front of a full moon, and directly above that, at an angle is a rabbit sticker. the rabbit is holding their paws above their head, forming an O with their arms, and has a speech bubble reading 'ok' next to it. at the top left quadrant is an angled gudetama sticker, and to the right of that is a little twin stars sticker.
the beginning of my bullet journal journey….journaley?

a friend of mine is really into bullet journaling or bujo, and I’ve always admired the pretty washi tapes and stickers people use for that sort of thing. I used to work in a stationery store myself, so I’ve always been a little bit preoccupied with planners, taking notes, and organization in this way.

anyway, I figured this move would be a good opportunity to begin fresh with a lot of things, among them starting a bullet journal. now that I have a nice large new kitchen, I intend to start cooking again now that my health is permitting it, and it occured to me that a bujo might be just the thing for organizing meal prep each week and keeping track of grocery lists and tasks for about the house.

so, a week or two ago, I ordered an A5 kraft paper-bound notebook with grid sheets, a plastic A5 cover for it, and a few packages of colorful/cute washi tape, and some stickers. I wasn’t going to allow myself to decorate it until I’d sorted through some things first, and yesterday I finally had uncovered most of my stationery & journaling supplies.

So, I allowed myself to decorate and begin my first bujo yaay

I followed a tutorial given to me by my good friend lucidiot on how to set up & begin my bujo, so I now have a key on the first page inside, my index on the first spread followed by a monthly log for the next six months on the following spread, and then beginning the month of March following that.

I looked online for some inspiration on how to do meal planning in a bujo, and found the following template, however, since I am planning more than just dinners, I decided to use the left column a bit more efficiently and list multiple meals (breakfast for me/lunches for my partner to take to work and then also for me at home/shared dinners), so mine turned out a bit different. xD

my intent was to use tomorrow to prep and bake a large amount of breakfast quiches and freeze them so we could just reheat them for breakfast, since my partner has recently found out he is diabetic and we had to plan meals with lower sugar & carbohydrate content than we would previously, but it looks like my muffin tins won’t be here until saturday, so I suppose we will make do with cereal for this week 3c
either way, we now have the ingredients needed for quiche so as soon as I get my muffin tins, I can prep that any day.

an open page of the A5 grid notebook. It is divided in half. The left side reads 'meals mar 5-11' and has lines drawn horizontally across it at an interval of five squares to delineate the days from the fifth to the eleventh. there is no entry for the fifth. the sixth says: cereal or toaster tarts, pasta, curry. the seventh lists: breakfast quiche, chicken & GB - chris, leftover curry. the eight lists: hoisin pork loin & asp. the ninth says leftover hoisin pork. the tenth: green tea chicken. the eleventh: panini. on the right side of the page is the header 'shopping list.' beneath it, preceded by a bullet point for each entry reads: 14 chicken breast strips, brown rice, hoisin sauce OR kbbq, carrot x2, onion x3, bell peppers x3, 3 frozen green beans, light soy sauce, garlic cloves, potato (sweet), pork loin, bread (low-carb), baby spinach OR arugula, mustard, roma tomato, deli meat, half & half, 1 doz. eggs, pepper, bacon, flour, unsalted butter, cheese grater, mushrooms (shiitake), tub mascarpone, savoiardi/ladyfingers [tiramisu], amaretto, espresso. there is a space, then: muffin tins, tiramisu dish, roast pan. in the background of the image, we can see a pink wrist rest and a keyboard with white and pink keycaps visible.
my first meal planning layout

the other thing I knew I was making this week was my good friend’s nonna’s tiramisu recipe, as a sort of reward/celebrating getting everything moved over to the new place. an inaugural dessert, if you will. tehe tiramisu has always been my favorite wub

other meals I’m planning for this week are: green tea chicken (a pan-sauteed, then steamed chicken breast made with sesame oil, garlic, and jasmine green tea), which will double as my partner’s take-to-work lunches this week (with steamed green beans with garlic & soy sauce as a side dish), vegetable curry (Japanese-style, we usually make golden curry, medium-hot), and a hoisin/char siu pork tenderloin with sauteed asparagus and butter as a side dish. I should have my panini press by this weekend, so we’ll have panini as an easy meal this weekend while I prep the breakfast quiches for next week aww

I also made, on the opposite page of my weekly meal plan, a list of items we need for the new place: everything from trash cans, window coverings, command hooks and rugs to more cooking-oriented items like a stand mixer and loaf pan. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes for the future, but as easy as all this was to fill out, I can definitely see myself using the bullet journal in the future, even if it is just for meal planning.

I look forward to posting more photos of my bujo as i continue it, and pictures of food I make as well xD I may also decide to make a weekly cleaning list so I can keep track of what needs cleaning and maintain the cleanliness of our new place so that it never really becomes a chore.

wiping things down once a week sure beats the once-every-few-months having to deep clean to get rid of gunk…weh

published: 2024.03.06
by mana

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