RBOC

• DH’s relative’s mom is the first person we know to have gotten the full vaccine.  She works in IT at a small rural hospital.  But it makes sense that she got vaccinated in the first round even though urban hospitals didn’t have enough vaccines to get all of their doctors and nurses vaccinated for logistics reasons.  This way the hospital can get everybody on staff in one round and they don’t need to worry about shipping another pair of doses to the same hospital.  MIL says that many of the even smaller rural hospitals aren’t getting any of the Pfizer vaccine at all because they cannot afford to invest in the refrigeration, so they’re not going to vaccinate until the Moderna vaccine is available.  I wonder if the cold storage units can move across different small hospitals after they get their staff done, or if they just stay there until there are doses available for patients.  If Hillary Clinton were president, her Covid Czar would have had an entire team on best practices for logistics.
• DH’s relative’s oldest has driven across the country to move herself and her five year old into a relative’s shed with no plumbing and a space heater for heat.  (Not a snowy area, thankfully.)  CPS is going to find out and take her kid away.  Who thought this was a good idea?!??  (Not DH’s relative, but she’s in her 20s so he really has no say.)
• Did I mention before that DC1’s science class had a Chemis-Tree?  And DC1 made a very tiny snowflake for extra credit– an origami H2O molecule?  (Zie got full points.)
• There are not one but TWO leg lamps from a christmas story in our neighborhood.
• On Dec 23, my sister was like, “what should I make for Christmas dinner” and I was like, “just order something” and she was like, it’s too laaaate.  And I was like, “we always have luck with ethnic restaurants even if you can’t order like a turkey dinner” and she was like, ooh, how about that Mediterranean place.  And then I looked at their Christmas catering menu and suggested stuff.  And then she got it all plus “a broccoli thing BF wanted.”  So either my sister and I have very similar tastes, she’s super tired of picking out food, or she trusts my food suggestions completely.  I think I missed my calling as Grand Duchess presiding over menus.
• I am beginning to suspect that people who bullet journal just don’t have as much stuff to do as I do.  (A lot of their journals are completely inconsistent with GTD in that a lot of those lines could be done in under 30 seconds, so should just be done instead of being written down.)
• I was looking at a bullet journal thread that Maureen Johnson started asking for advice on simple bullet journal designs.  And… like a third of them were just rustic hand-drawn versions of the Moleskine weekly planner that I favor.  So… why not just buy a Moleskine weekly planner?  Both the planner and the Moleskine blank bullet journal cost about $20 each… why not get the one that takes less work?  Where do they find the time to write all those boxes out by hand?!?!
• I mean, I want to be more organized.  And I haven’t settled on a single combined system to help with that.  And I do find myself gravitating back to paper whenever I try to go digital (though Trello has definitely been added to my project planning!  It’s mostly best for smaller projects with multiple RAs though.  It tends to get unwieldy with bigger projects.)
• What I’m currently doing is using a Moleskine lab notebook that DH decided not to use because he prefers some other company to Moleskine for lab notebooks.  (I like black hard-cover Moleskine.)  I don’t bullet, but I’ve been using it in place of the scratch paper lists and blue-lined NBER pads of paper (and the occasional google docs) I had been using previously.  It makes less of a mess.  Though I also have my weekly planner and have a stapled printed out copy of google calendar.  And Trello. These all serve different purposes.  DH takes care of putting all family things into the google calendar that warns him of things like music lessons for the kids.  It is not streamlined.  But I don’t think bullet journaling would help.  It would just take place of the lab notebook and be prettier and less flexible, depending on the system.  (There are a lot of systems.)
• I switched to the Moleskine notebook because I found a pen I really liked from a jetpens sampler pack (enerGel Clena– it is very thin but not scratchy) and I just didn’t feel like I could use scratch paper anymore.  Though I couldn’t find the kind of Moleskine notebook I wanted (it was out of stock) and would still be using paper anyway if DH hadn’t found this old notebook of his when he was clearing out his old office.  (Now “nice kitty’s room,” while he’s back to sharing my home office now that he no longer needs to have space for things like disembodied torsos.)
• To be clear, I’m talking about bullet journaling as a organization device, not a as a mindfulness/journaling device or as a piece of art.  I’ve got the blog for journaling(!)  And… I got enough art in middle school.  I’d rather leave that to other folks with better small motor skills and more interest.
• Courtney Milan sent me some Washi tape.  It is the only washi tape I have, but I can’t use it!  It’s from Courtney Milan!  (No, she probably does not remember me, but I did win an auction from her.)
• The basic bullet journal idea doesn’t seem so bad.  Maybe I’ll try it once I get done with this Moleskine (but pre-printed and inflexible!), or maybe I’ll get a vertical weekly planner with a right-hand side for to-do lists in 2022.  Most likely I will forget!