The IT Girl (I Wish!)

M, Y, and A, my lunchmates here in the office, and I had our christmas dinner and "exchanging gifts" mid-December last year. it's so amazing how they all know what to get me and i was so happy that they loved my gifts for them as well.

M doesn't read my blog and i haven't mentioned my wishlist to them save for the usual book titles and shoe size and preferred bag color so there wasn't any chance she had any idea what i really want for christmas. plus, this particular gift i already assigned to the husband because i showed it to him during one of our trips to the mall. so imagine my surprise when i opened M's gift and found this very lovely Belle de Jour planner! and what's funny was that when she handed me the gift, she was saying something like, "before you react to my gift, let me explain first why i decided to get you that, ok?" hahaha. little did she know that i was already eyeing this planner when i first saw it on powerbooks' online site.

belle de jour is french fashion lingo for the IT girl

what prompted M to get this planner for me are the discount coupons included. she knows i love to shop! hahaha. but now that i vowed to shop less, i am thinking of giving out some of the coupons (except the food coupons, i think. glutton! hahaha) to my friends who might be interested.

flipping through the planner's pages, i realized that it is indeed every kikay and go-getter's best companion. aside from the hourly and daily scheduler, there are spaces for "most important tasks" and even an expense tracker and "i'm grateful for" list! talk about setting priorities. what's cooler even is that it has this 2009 Goals page where you can put in your personal life goals, fitness goals (ahem!), financial goals (more ahem!), career goals, habits to start/break and new experience and things to try and learn. isn't it neat or what?

the 2009 Goals page

another nice feature is the dream board where yes, you can jot down your dreams and ambitions in life. hahaha. what i'd like to do with this is to post some pictures (of a rav4 or an altis, a nice house in a nice neighborhood and i don't know, some tourist destinations, perhaps) to further enhance my visualization. *wink, wink*

the "someday, maybe list" and dream board pages

i haven't gotten used to using our email's calendar so what's on top of my desk now is my belle de jour planner, filled with meeting skeds and parties and lunch and dinner dates. and yes, contact numbers of several shops, restos and whatnots that i am too lazy to encode in my online phone book (which is the phonebook ng bayan because when somebody needs the contact number of a certain establishment, they go directly to me). the only downside to this pretty planner though is it's size and weight. it's too heavy and bulky to be placed in my bag so i end up lugging it around, with the good chance of me leaving it somewhere. so i am thinking of just bringing it home on fridays so i don't forget weekend rendezvous.

so if you're still looking for that perfect planner, head to the nearest powerbooks or national bookstore and grab a belle de jour one now.

p.s: this is not a paid ad. hahaha. pictures from the belle de jour website.