One of my biggest goals for this year is to be more organzied. Sidenote: "goals" sounds much less lame than "resolutions", don't you think? I pretty much automatically expect a resolution to fail, I guess because I associate it with all those people that crowd the cardio machines at the gym for the month of January.
Despite the impression you may have gotten from my last post, I am making valiant efforts to become more organized this year. In 2011 my most major task so far has been cleaning out and re-organzing my closet. It now looks less like a pile of laundry and abandoned shoes and more like an adorable little dressing room!
I also started making a lot of small changes in the everyday to make things run more smoothly: I now make my bed every morning, set out my clothes the night before, respond to emails as they come instead of letting them pile up and cause stress, keep just 2 books and 2 scripts on my bedside table at any given time (down from the 9,000 of each it was before) and store the "to read" materials neatly on a desk shelf. I've even been keeping up with mundane household chores like a regular June Cleever! 18-year-old me didn't even know where the trash recepticle was in her building and now I have a sparklingly clean apartment! (Don't be too grossed out, I didn't live in a Hoarders-style garbage cave, I just pawned all household chores off onto my roommates. Much better.)
However, the one area that remains quite scary would be my mess of an overworked day planner.
As life began speeding up my poor little day planner just could not handle it. Daily "To-Do" lists spilled over multiple entries, the single pocket in the back was not enough to fill my daily magazine tears, work papers, parking tickets (damn you! You are always messing my organization up!) and the huge pile of trash that is LA Small Business Tax and Car Registration documents (you can read all about the-migraine-that-won't-go-away
here).
I'm on the market for a classy, grown-up day planner. I don't want anything electronic. I don't want anything black. I don't want anything tiny.
Kate Spade had some adorable options over the holidays, but they look too similar to 2010's planner.
No, the dream has become
THIS gorgeous beacon of organization and style, from
Hermes. Completed fully by
THIS and
THESE. Oh, Hermes. How I love you because you hold on so tightly to being an old-school handmade luxury goods company. Everything made by you is beautiful and gorgeous and meant to be passed down for years and years. And oh, how I cannot afford you due to the very reason why I love you so much. It's like Romeo & Juliet without the suicide and feuding families. So really, it's nothing like Romeo & Juliet but just go with it I'm on a roll.
The oversized interior pockets help keep my giant piles of papers to an organized minimum. The bright purple calfskin and contrasting orange page-marker are cheerful colors that would give me another reason to smile as I make "To Do" lists (as if you really need a reason to smile while making lists!). The best part about this is that Hermes is so high end they don't call it a "day planner". It's an
agenda. A "day planner" is something with a floral motif your mom stuffed coupons in and used to keep track of when she had to pick your ungrateful ass up from ballet and clarinet practice. An "agenda" is something a high society lady owns and uses a fountain pen to write down the times of her luncheons and philanthropic committee meetings.
I am neither of those things, but I would like an
Hermes Agenda so I can keep track of when I need to get coffee with my friends or when it's a new episode of 30 Rock.
Your Golden Girl,
Olive
