Happy New Year!! We’ve made it 2016! I’m so excited to start a new year and get to work on so many goals, which I’ll be sharing with you next week!
Since it’s the first Saturday of the month, I’m linking up with the Ultimate Coffee Date, hosted by Coco, Deborah, and Lynda! It’s a fun way to share what’s going on in your life and get to know other bloggers, so check them out!
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Ultimate Coffee Date – January
If we were having coffee, I’d tell you…Christmas was great! Apparently my Christmas wish list was read by my family because I received some super cute work clothes from The Limited, a Kate Spade Planner, and a new running belt, among other wonderful gifts! My sister did a wonderful job hosting me for the weekend and we had so much fun watching a lot of Harry Potter, seeing Concussion (it was pretty good), and eating lots of cookies (no regrets!). On Christmas day, we went to my brother’s and had a delicious Christmas brunch featuring chicken and Star Wars waffles and mimosas. Good times!
If we were having coffee, I’d tell you…I’m really excited to organize my life in planner form, but it’s a bit overwhelming too. The Kate Spade Planner will be full of all of my everyday activities: running, working out, meal planning, social activities, errands. It’s been fun creating a color-coding system and writing instead of typing things out, so I know that it’ll work perfectly for me! I also bought myself a blogging-specific planner from Wonderlass called the Blog + Life Planner, and it’s awesome! There’s space in the blog to brainstorm, reflect on your progress each month, and keep track of expenses and social media stats! But it’s overwhelming because I have SO much that I want to review and work on these next few months that it’s tough to know where to start! As it starts to fill up, I’ll share how it’s worked for me with a review on the blog!
From wonderlass.comIf we were having coffee, I’d tell you…New Year’s Eve was really nice! I had a full day of work, but in the evening Bret and I had one of the best dinners we’ve had all year at Heritage, a fantastic new restaurant that features live jazz music every night and has not only Jazz Brunch on Saturday but Bluegrass Brunch on Sunday! Everything we ate was fantastic, and you really got your money’s worth with perfect portion sizes! We also went to a party at a friend’s house, playing games and drinking champagne at midnight!
How was your holiday? What would you share with me over coffee?
Oooo I love your Kate Spade planner! I’m a planner geek from way back – there’s something about writing things down that really works for me. Great idea to get a blog-specific planner – I really need to be better at planning my blogging.
Thanks Michelle, so far it’s working really well! I’m looking forward to it becoming second nature to use it!
Glad you had an awesome Christmas + NYE and yay for presents off of your list! 😀 I still need to get a planner for this year!
Thanks, Farrah! I definitely recommend both of these planners!
I’ll share more tomorrow on the blog, but I did do some shopping for things I didn’t get! That’s the best part of Christmas…
Haha, I wish I could do that after-Christmas shopping! I definitely need to get a few more things, like slacks for work now that it’s actually cold!
I’m ild school about liking to write all of my stuff down in a planner too. I use the same one for blog stuff and life stuff from Erin Condren. I love looking at January and seeing the possibilities. Thanks for joining us for coffee!
Erin Condren definitely looked like an awesome planner but I think all of the different options intimidated me! It’s so nice to have a planner that you can write in and look back on to see your progression.
I love that blog + life planner. I’m always saying how I need to be more organized with my blogging and that may help. Yay! Glad you had a wonderful holiday season and it sounds like 2016 is off to a good start!
Thanks, Jenn! I’m really enjoying the Blog + Life planner so far. Happy New Year!
Glad you got Xmas presents you wanted. So did I (winter running gear) and I was glad it was a bit chilly today so I could wear them. Happy New Year !
The temperature has dropped in Philly at last, and I’m trying to avoid the cold but it’s impossible! Nice that you got the gear you needed for Christmas!
That Star Wars waffle is amazing! I want to see Concussion. I was hoping my son would be interested but he said he needs more action in his movies. Thanks for joining us for coffee!
Haha yes, Concussion doesn’t have a whole lot of action but I enjoyed it and thought Will did a good job.
Oh I love both the planners Janelle. I don’t know if I would be able to keep up with two. I like the video you added in your post, super clever. Thank you for coffee this weekend.
Thanks! I just have SO Much of my life that needs to be planned that I don’t think I could include blogging tasks on top of it, lol! So far using the both is working pretty well, though I’m sure it’ll get a lot easier once I get in my stride. Thanks for the link up!