Editing The Pen Addict 511/transcript (section)

== Confusion Clarification ==


'''Brad:''' Hang on a second. Hang on a second.

'''Myke:''' I've gotten lost now. Yeah, trust me. This was my morning on Monday.

'''Brad:''' So, there were two things happening. You skipped a week, but then also went forward in the journal?

'''Myke:''' Well, yeah, because I didn't know I was going forward. I thought I was in the right place.

'''Brad:''' I'm really confused, Brad. So, I should just say, this is really bad for me, this topic today. So, I've been sick. I mentioned on last week's episode, maybe, or afterwards. I think it was after. It was after. Yeah. I have a lot of COVID symptoms, but don't have COVID. So, I probably just have actual, like, flu-y symptoms. One of the things I've really been struggling with this week is comprehension. Yeah. Like, I'm getting very easily confused. So, let me do it. And so, now, I'm lost. I'm lost. You've lost me now. Why do you need to go back? I don't get it.

'''Myke:''' I'm going to keep this as simple as, I think, as simple as possible in a complex situation. I accidentally skipped a week in my planner. Uh-huh. Okay? And then, I started writing for two weeks before I realized I had skipped that week.

'''Brad:''' Okay. So, wait, wait, wait. Because this is what skipped means. Because, so, you saying you were meant to say, like, on April 1st, you just started writing on the April 7th page. Correct. You see, I'll tell you why I got lost there. Not knowing that I had done that. Because when you first said skipped, I thought you meant what you actually did was just you didn't write in it for a week. No.

'''Myke:''' Because that's also skipping it, right? So, I did that as well.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. That's, that's, this is why I got confused. Right. Is that you both didn't do it. And then, when you came back to it, went forward by seven days. Exactly. That's crazy what you have done. How did you manage that, Brad? I just grabbed the pages wrong. Now, I have a better understanding of why you're so upset.

'''Myke:''' So, yes. So, we're going to explore how that happened. Okay. And someone put it in my Instagram page.

'''Myke:''' When I have done, this has happened to me. Who wrote this? So, I wrote down a bunch of these scribbles and stuff. So, I wrote down a bunch of Instagram comments. This has happened to me. What you have to do is, on those days where you're choosing not to write on your vacation, you have to mark something on those pages. Just write vacation on them. Mm-hmm. So, my pages where I purposefully on vacation chose not to use my planner, I left blank. Okay. Mm-hmm. So, roll through the end of the vacation week. It's the Sunday. I have a bunch of blank pages. So, now I'm ready for Monday to restart my plannering. Okay? Mm-hmm. So, I go to, quote, Monday, except I had grabbed an extra three sheets and skipped that whole week after vacation because there wasn't a page marked prior to the Monday where I was restarting my planner. There wasn't a vacation mark. There wasn't a vacation mark in the book. Mm-hmm. So, I didn't see that. So, I knew that I had blank pages. So, it didn't even, you know, phase me that the Sunday before the Monday I picked back up in my planner wasn't written on.

'''Brad:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke:''' Mm-hmm. So, I just went to town. Back to work. Monday. Back to work. Started writing. I didn't compare the dates. I just, hey, Monday is today after my vacation blank sheets. So, I had an assumption that the sheets before were going to be blank. So, I just went to town. The problem is, again, I wrote for two weeks straight, never looking at that date.

'''Brad:''' Hmm.

'''Myke:''' So, yeah. So, I had blank pages on purpose at the end of vacation. Then, I gapped it accidentally.