{"id":734,"date":"2021-12-29T16:57:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T23:01:42","slug":"wtf-planner-pod-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"WTF, Planner Pod People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spent over an hour on Amazon looking for a simple, pretty 2022 planner with a basic monthly\/weekly view <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sans<\/span> advice on how to live my life, and I have *thoughts* to express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After seeing what is on offer targeted towards women vs. men, I am genuinely astounded. How did I never notice this happy horseshit before? I don\u2019t know whether to howl with laughter, or just buy myself an ugly-ass man-planner and call it a year. (<em>hahahahaha, I slay myself &#8211; yes, I am drinking wine, why do you ask?<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a binary female, and I like pretty, girly things sometimes. I enjoy flowers, and using different colored gel pens to document my appointments and weekly tasks. In short, I\u2019d like to be able to essentially create a paper copy of our household Google Calendar in a pleasing format that I can customize as I see fit. Nothing fancy. I want somebody else to tell me what day it is (screw that blank date bullshit). I need just enough of an organizer so if the power goes off, I don\u2019t miss anything important like Mom\u2019s birthday or paying the mortgage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In particular, I don\u2019t care for any \u201cguidance\u201d or imperatives exhorting me to be a freaking Stepford Wife. I need the calendar, and I need to be able to write comfortably and legibly in it. Seems like a simple ask, right? Not hardly, as it turns out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most planners on offer that are targeted at women are <em>waaaaay<\/em> over-engineered for the likes of me. My calendar is supposed to assist me, not stress me out even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Here is what I DO want<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Strong spiral backing<\/li><li>Hardcover<\/li><li>A list of annual US holidays<\/li><li>An annual view of months like from a checkbook register<\/li><li>A tabbed monthly view with lined daily boxes at least 2&#215;2 inch in size<\/li><li>A lined weekly view that does not assume that life scrunches down to 25% of normal activity on Saturday and Sunday and allocates itsy bitsy spaces to those days &#8211; working women do most of our personal work on the damn weekend, hellooooo!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Here is what I DO NOT want<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>100 random cutesy stickers<\/li><li>A list of suggested weekly, monthly, or annual goals focused on my personal appearance and ability to fulfill 12 different roles for 50 different people I probably give zero shits about<\/li><li>A daily affirmation crapshoot written by people who have never, ever, ever tried to be a mature working woman juggling obligations to multiple generations<\/li><li>An insulting assumption that I am incapable of managing my household budget with just a calendar and a spreadsheet<\/li><li>An implicit obligation to actually think further ahead in my life than a month at a time &#8211; get real, okay?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So what did I do? Well, I took a chance on one that *might* meet most of my requirements, and ordered it. It came today, and it\u2019s functionally solid albeit a tad flimsy, and it\u2019s pretty enough. It even comes with a plastic sleeve over the cover that I can tart up as I see fit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can work with this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6D38DF33-7E7C-4B0F-AB49-452AC721727B-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6D38DF33-7E7C-4B0F-AB49-452AC721727B-822x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-735\" srcset=\"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6D38DF33-7E7C-4B0F-AB49-452AC721727B-822x1024.jpeg 822w, http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6D38DF33-7E7C-4B0F-AB49-452AC721727B-241x300.jpeg 241w, http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6D38DF33-7E7C-4B0F-AB49-452AC721727B-768x956.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6D38DF33-7E7C-4B0F-AB49-452AC721727B-1233x1536.jpeg 1233w, http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6D38DF33-7E7C-4B0F-AB49-452AC721727B-1645x2048.jpeg 1645w, http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/6D38DF33-7E7C-4B0F-AB49-452AC721727B-1600x1993.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong>There, that\u2019s much better!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent over an hour on Amazon looking for a simple, pretty 2022 planner with a basic monthly\/weekly view sans&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outsidevoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}