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Week 3 of Wreck This Journal is complete! Here’s what went down…

Day 8: You’ll have to get ahold of the journal and find it to see it, even then it may not make sense!

Day 9: Probably the hardest one thus far.  First, I had to leave the journal with a friend. Then, I had to trust them to wreck it “responsibly”.  As if that’s even possible.  I was mortified when I saw what had happened.  However, I have to admit it was very creative…genius actually!

Day 10: This one was easy.  I new my journal would be safe with me in bed. (Drawing is not to actual size)

Day 11: This one was fun.  However, I chose to use sharpies cause all I had were mechanical pencils and they kept breaking. What can I say, I rock out pretty hard.  PS.  I also don’t like pencils cause they smudge.  So I guess you could say I’m not cured!

Good week of journaling!  The entries are getting more risque.  I’ve been skipping past the ones that me me really uncomfortable, but running out of the simple ones.  So stay tuned…shit’s about to get real!

So in my last blog I talked about Wreck This Journal…what’s about and why I am doing it.  I’ve decided to do a weekly post to update you on all my journaling that week.  So here goes:

Day 5:

This one was pretty liberating…who knew.  It felt so good that I had to scribble the other side too #breakingtherules. My only concern here, was that my parker was running out of ink. That bothered me.

Day 6:

So, the obviously the first thing I did was look for perforated edges.  *GASP* There were none. Seriously?!?!?! Anyway, I ripped it out of the spine which felt good (honestly I felt like a rebel) and crumpled it right up.  Now what? Do i put it back in my journal? I feel like I should but then I have a loose piece of crumpled up paper in my journal…not a fan.  However, I decided to keep it in there.  It is a journal entry after all!

I’ve had several people ask about my “Wreck This Journal” posts, so I figured I’d tell the world about it since it will be part of my world for the next few months.

I picked up this little gem at Target.  I was not seeking this book out…I like to think it found me.  

Here is what it’s about:

So, as someone who is very particular and OCD about everything I saw this as a perfect opportunity to “relax the F up”.  

Everyday, I will post my journal progress.  There may be some days that I take on multiple tasks.  That’s the great thing about this…I can do it whatever I please. That was my first challenge I faced.  I felt like I could only do 1 page a day and had to go in order. ..no jumping around.  NOT TRUE!  It’s crazy that something so simple can be so liberating.  (I’m already progress).  I also had a really hard time “cracking the spine.”  It’s gonna a long, fun journey!