Brainzzzz!!!

I’m scatterbrained. Like a lot. Since the onset of my anxiety disorder, even before that, I started writing everything down. Maybe I would need it for later. Maybe I didn’t want to forget something. And mostly because if I write it down, I learn it faster. It sticks in the brain cells just a little bit better if I write it down. Who knows why it works that way, I’d need a shrink and we live on a limited income….
Enter what hubby and I call my brains (notebooks). I have little more than half a dozen of them. All for different things. I’ve got two daily brains- a slim one for small purse days, and regular sized fancy one that rides in my daily driver backpack. I have the KEEP app on my phone so that’s the digital brain that syncs with my Google accounts and keeps tabs on anything and everything I write in there from funny things I’ve heard, to do lists, grocery lists… You name it. And I have my creative brain, one notebook that’s actually two taped together- one side for poems & writing. The other side for art ideas, things I want to draw/paint…

Now, I introduce you to the desk brains. The ones that never, ever leave the house and sit perfectly perched on my desk & bookshelves as home reference only. “Photobook” is the oldest. And I’m currently working on filling book number 3. Five composition notebooks taped together to form one large book of knowledge. Started back when I started photography- each other these are filled with anything and everything photo related. Concepts I want to try, projects, photo challenges, images I love and printed from the internet, Pinterest mood boards I created and printed for photo sessions, notes on damn near everything genre related- like I said. I learn better if I write it down. 
Next up, based sheerly on girth- is the “Witchy/crafts Homesteading” brain. All my notes, knowledge, learnings, of herbalism and homesteading. Formulas for tinctures, teas, and salves, I’ve created. How tos of homesteading ideas… Poems about my gardens and life out here in nature. 

And brand new to the flock- my garden brain. We created that amazing huge garden last summer and I was so overwhelmed with it all, I kept forgetting things and what did I do last week, when did I fertilize last… Not anymore! This year I have my garden brain- a calendar planner taped to a graph paper notebook. In it I’ve already written monthly garden task lists. When I start seeds next week, dates, times, and what I planted will be added. And inventory of what I have on hand at the start of seeding, did I have a failed germination set, sketches of the new garden additions, note on things needed to be built (like a leaf mould making box)... It’s all going to go in there, and hopefully I will be more organized this year!
It’s weird, I know. But having anxiety makes you change things in daily life. Anxiety, at least mine, is a vicious little demon that lives in my brain and eats up thoughts for fun. So sometimes “I’m going to remember that…” doesn’t actually happen and I forget things. Like going to the grocery store for cat food, and coming home with strawberries, eggs, cheese snacks, and no cat food. It’s really fun though for me as well. It’s like journaling without the journals. Somewhere down the line, someone is going to get a kick out of these things. Screw boring old family tree stuff.