[rto] she wants me to start another journal!!!

[cthulhia]

A holiday memory book, or holiday gratitude book, to make it easier to remember what you're liking about this holiday wwhen dealing with your Scrooge-ified, Grinch-erific future self.

So, get a nice blank book, appropriately themed (for your preferred seasonal observation). She recommends spiral-bound and lined pages.

• start with a copy of your holiday greeting card (if you're sending one) and the current year, and to whom. (I would add: Maybe write down their addresses, since some of you e-mail or post to LJ every year asking for my address when it hasn't changed since 1999.)
  
• include holiday recipes tried this year, perhaps snapshots of the dishes.
  
• swatches of this year's wrapping paper, maybe as a collage. (note if someone wrapped their gift especially nicely.)
  
• I add: If you have a digital camera, and a color printer, well, go nuts with taking pictures of the wrapped gifts too.
  
• save holiday party invitations. (Have I even received a print party invitation for anything less than a wedding or a fundraiser since I moved here? Have I sent one? hmmm...)
  
• write reviews of the various parties and gatherings, including casual stuff if it really struck you well. (happy memories, she emphasizes) decor, food, entertainment, who looked really awesome, etc.
  
• holiday cards, including photos in cards. note names.
  
• seasonal lyrics that inspired you this year?
  
• ticket stubs/postcards to holiday shows that you enjoyed.
  
• gifts given and received.
  
• and just jot a sentence or so about something that is not documented these other ways, that helped lift your holiday spirits.
  

I like the idea. It's a great way to deal with all the memorabilia I never actually manage to get into a (s)crapbook.
Sure you're too busy. How many video games have you played today? How many times have you reloaded your friends page since lunch? I thought so.