Hi, let me introduce myself, my name is Pinta, I'm 24 y.o. I'm from Indonesia. And I am the Blue Planner :) If you see my Instagram account, you can see that I'm obsessed with blue and combine it with my newest addiction, which is planner (well it's not that new, it's almost 2 years that I called my self as planner addict). And I think I'm pretty good at it, so I dig deeper in this field. My newest notebook for bullet journal have come two days ago, and I have to admit not everything came as what I expected, so have I have to do some adjustments. And I'm not very happy with that. But I've been vacuuming from planning activity for about 2 months, so when I got a new notebook (even it's disappointing), I plan a lot! And as you can see, here's the final look of my bullet journal right now. **My laptop has driven me nuts so I had to postpone this post and wait until tomorrow at work so I can use my office's computer** So I'll tell ya what's happen. I always love bullet journaling in a dotted paper, I like it more than grid paper, but somehow I think I might need squared paper too. So few months ago, well okay, last year, I decided to order a custom notebook. It's not that I don't want Leuchtturm, I want it so bad. but it's nowhere to be found in Indonesia, so hard seems like no one is selling them, I want to buy online but the shipping cost took me so much. Usually I don't like to go mainstream when it comes to planner choice, I know everyone is using Leuchtturm and I want one too! Especially the Nordic Blue. At second I want to purchase Cognitive Surplus's soft cover notebook in dotted page, looks like the stitching is good and the solar system themed cover is gorgeous too, and it's quite cheap, only 10 USD, about twenty on shipping, but somehow I thought I want a hardcover notebook (too bad Leuchtturm is softcover too). So I decided to create my own perfect bullet journal like I've always wanted. And I ordered it online, a custom notebook, I gave my own design, I asked for 50 pages dotted and 50 pages grid, and its also hardcover. When it came and I see the cover it was so pretty, I like it so much tough the printing quality is kinda bad, the pages weren't straight. But I continue to used it. After few weeks, it torn apart. It breaks my heart that my perfect bullet journal is broken and cannot be fixed. I try to bullet journaling in ring binder after that, I printed dotted paper and punch the hole and insert it to my Kikki K Ice Blue inspired planner, but it doesn't feels right. I'm still planning and journaling in other books too, but, looks like I'm losing my spirit. So I decided to buy a new one, I searched on AliExpress, I found a journal which is very similar with Leuchtturm because it has an elastic band strap on it, and also available in Blue, and ooooh it's hardcover! But pity the dotted page is sold out and the seller said that the factory is no longer producing that journal again, HEARTBREAK! Even the ruled or grid options are still available, but I prefer the dotted. And I found another one, tough this one is softcover, and the detail said that it's paper is grid and dotted. So I purchased it, along with a PVC cover that has a little down design, so cute, I think. Both of the size that I ordered is A5, so I thought it would be fit, but it's not. Goooood it really pissed me off, the cover is bigger than the book, okay okay okay, so I try to calm down, maybe the cover will fit in another kind of journal, planner, book, or anything, BUT IT'S NOT! I am very devastated knowing that my $4.55 cover will be useless. I also figured out another unpleasing fact, so in my mind the inside paper would be 50:50, 50% dotted and 50% grid, but what happened is the grid is 80% and the dotted is 20%. If I would have known that I'm gonna mostly use a grid paper I'm gonna purchased the hardcover one! This is so very frustating :( aaaaand, the paper of my bullet journal right now is not thick, so I can see my writings from the back of the page. Actually the thickness dimention of the journal also disappointing but I'm tired of complaining. So here's my bullet journal right now. I hope I'll get along with it because we both are the same, Imperfect :)
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