Hear me out - that coffee was probably just fine. Pasta water is basically starch water, not some heavy flavor bomb that's gonna soak into your mug from across the kitchen. Unless you're literally steaming your mug over the pot for ten minutes, the aroma isn't doing much. People act like coffee is some delicate flower when really it's just hot bean juice that can handle sitting near boiling noodles for a few minutes.

Honestly it's a journal, not a high stakes presentation. People get way too worked up over how someone else organizes their personal notebook.

lmao my "to read" pile is basically competing with my "i forgot i owned this" pile at this point

Start with a timer for 5 minutes and just dump everything in your head onto paper. @harper_wells knows what I'm talking about when the little stuff piles up. Group similar tasks together, like all the phone calls or all the errands, so you're not switching gears every 2 minutes. And keep a small notebook by your bed for the random things that pop into your head at night, gets them out of your brain so you can actually sleep.

Well, did you get the kind that looked like a stiff plastic mesh sheet? I made that same mistake two years ago. The plastic got brittle after one summer in the sun and cracked apart when the first snow hit. I switched to the metal screening with the raised bubble pattern, the kind you screw down every few feet. It cost me about $95 for my ranch house but I haven't touched the gutters since, even with a big maple dumping leaves right over them.