Historically I have purchased very simple black planners with very little hoopla.  I don’t feel a need to have a place for every conceivable piece of information in my planner like some folks do.  I have always assessed planners primarily based on their utility.  My concern is with the amount of space I have to write in and having both a full month layout and a detailed weekly appointment layout.

Heretofore beauty has never been a concern and color within my planner has been of little interest; but this year I was drawn to a planner that featured the art of Flavia.  The planner is quite thick and very colorful throughout.  Actually, it is titled a “Personal Organizer” – but that makes me think of a human being who is assisting me in my actual organizing of my person, so I will stick with calling it a planner.

This planner has pretty pictures, nice sayings and different colors for each month.  It also has a full complement of 2012 monthly calendars, an address book, dozens of note pages and a birthday and anniversaries page.  It is about as far away from my typical black non-descript, bare-bone planner as you can get.   I don’t know what possessed me to buy it.  I must have been in a mood.

But darn it if that planner hasn’t grown on me since I picked it up in early November.  Somehow my year feels brighter and more hopeful because of it – silly I know – but it has an uplifting effect.  It makes me want to move through the year more gleefully…it actually makes me want to spend time personally organizing my life.  I guess with all the prettiness and color it is something more than a planner… it is perhaps aptly named a personal organizer. Even if it isn’t a human being it seems like it will cheerily assist me in the  actual organizing of my person…one colorful month at a time. 😉

Day five hundred and forty-six of the new forty – obla di obla da

Ms. C