I have heard that people sometimes ask a person who seems disoriented or out of it, "What day is it?" That can be a difficult question.
For writing a blog, I often try to list, say, five prompts. Sometimes a prompt immediately grabs my attention when I think of it and I know that is what I want to write about. Sometimes, I can't think of enough ok ideas to list five. I have used notebooks stored around the house and typically I use a notebook for comments. That was before I ever heard of blogging and "web" services like Blogspot and WordPress. There was never a good reason to start a new notebook when my last one was very far from full but that was why the notebook from 2009 had only nine pages used out of 70. I guess when I felt like writing, I was too lazy to locate the last notebook I used.
Now, I memorize the color of the prompt notebook and I keep that one handy and use it over and over. I find it interesting to use the same notebook for each day's prompts, which take a line for the day's info, five or so lines for prompts. Maybe some more if that day, my head is full of ideas. To keep track, I put the day first.
What day of the week is it?
What is the month?
Number of today in the month?
Year?
My book group read Lisa Genova's book "Remember". As is typical with me, I didn't read the book but "looked through it" to prep for the discussion. I have spent too much time searching for my parked car after buying food. A passage of her book said you can't remember where you parked because when you parked, you didn't form a memory of the location. When I am wandering around looking for my car, I often think of those words. Writing the day's ID helps me know so I can answer the nice lady when she asks "What day is it?"
