A Bit of a Slow Start...

Alrighty, so, there have been a few things recently which have stopped me from really launching this project here, namely:

• I graduated! Yep, as of last Saturday I am no longer a student. Now I just have to figure out what to do with a BA in English Lit. and a Rhetoric minor...
• I had immense amounts of family visiting, which was awesome but certainly left no time for writing.
• 1/2 of my grand scheme has not arrived yet - My big graduation present, a Wii Fit setup, has yet to be delivered, which has put a bit of a damper on the whole start a regular exercise and diet plan.
• I spent yesterday helping my friend turn her disaster area of a room into a gorgeously organized zen haven. Seriously, I have way too much fun doing things like that and I think I'm pretty good at it. If the whole English thing doesn't work out I could totally be a organizational specialist.
• I have just a few days I'm taking for myself before I start working full-time (to celebrate the culmination of 16 years of schooling) to have fun and get my apartment in complete order post-move.

So, I'll let you know what I've been doing with the small bits of time I've had. 

First and foremost, I re-organized my organizer. This is her:

Don't ask me why she's a woman, but she is. Isn't she gorgeous?!

So, to set her up post-grad I needed to switch things around and add some new things. I used these nifty little tab stickies, and the section titles are currently in pencil, but once I've decided I like them the way they are I'll write over them with nice pen so they stop smudging. Here's the inside:

I removed all but 3 months of the calendar (I never seem to have to plan anything further ahead than that). Then I decided what sections I needed. In addition to the calendar, I have To Do, Work, Blog, Notes, Budget, Grocery List, Meal Plans/Recipes, Reminders (to read, to watch, to look up), and Personal. I made my own pages to fit my needs in each of these sections. Feel free to download and use as you please! Here are a couple of those pages:

I also made a new pen holder to put in the front and I took my old plastic pencil pouch and put it in the back to hold coupons and such:

So, now that I've got this wonderful new set-up, I've started helping a few of my friends get theirs organized and personalized. S. over at Going Frugal is making wonderful use of a different organizer I had lying around (I really don't need more than one :) and I hope she'll keep you updated as she personalizes it to meet her frugally minded needs. Maybe she'll make some improvements I can implement myself.