THE MONTHLY PAGE 👩🏻💻 December 2024
Tech wallpapers, calendars, + resources to help you focus for the month ahead.
Welcome to The Monthly Page for December — and for those of you in the US, I hope you’ve had a cozy and delicious Thanksgiving!
This week is always a busy one, because along with this newsletter I also run an online paper goods shop called The Daily Page, where I sell planners, calendars, and notepads! Running a small business during the holiday season is always a little hectic 😂
My shop has been offering 20% off your entire order allllll week long (use the code DAILYPAGE20 at checkout!) and it continues through this weekend! This is the largest discount we offer and we only do it once a year!
My best-selling product is a planner that aligns your work + wellness in one place, and is designed to complement your favorite digital systems rather than compete with them:
All my products are also:
🧡 Produced on a woman-owned printing press in my home state of Minnesota.
🌲 Created with FSC-certified paper, which means it is sustainably harvested.
If you’ve never visited my shop before, pop over and give it a little scroll before the sale ends! And remember to use the code DAILYPAGE20 at checkout for 20% off your entire order.
📅 IMPORTANT DATES: Here are some important dates (mostly U.S.-centric) you might want to add to your calendar while you’re here:
💻 December 2 is Cyber Monday + our Monthly Review Day
🤝🏻December 3 is Giving Tuesday
❄ December 21 is the Winter Solstice
🎅🏻 December 24 is Christmas Eve
🎄 December 25 is Christmas Day
🕎 December 25 is the first day of Hanukkah
🕯 December 26 is Kwanzaa
🎉December 31 is New Year’s Eve
🎶 PLAYLIST: I have a love/hate relationship with holiday music (I assume any of us who ever worked in retail suffer from this?) so last year I finally took the time to create a playlist full of holiday songs that don’t send me into a fit. Hope it fills your month with JOY.
🥗 RECIPES: Below are recipes that were featured in The Weekly Page over the past few weeks. Add them to your meal plan if you haven’t had a chance to try ‘em yet!
One Pot Spicy Rigatoni
Creamy, Spicy, Tomato, Beans, and Greens
Pumpkin Pie Energy Bites
Creamy Butternut Squash Gnocchi with Sausage, Thyme, and Sage
Thai Pumpkin Curry
Pumpkin Spice Baked Oatmeal
Sweet Potato + Apple Fall Salad from Aftann Fit
Mexican Street Corn Dip from Half Baked Harvest
Banana Cake with Coffee Cream Cheese Frosting
Blackened Salmon with Grilled Naan and Lime Slaw
BBQ Salmon Curry Bowls with Mango Avocado Salsa
Chef Monosilio’s Pasta Carbonara
Hugo Spritz
Crispy Cauliflower & White Bean Grain Bowls
Fried Halloumi Quinoa Bowls
Creamy Tomato Gnocchi Soup
The Modern Proper Golden Soup
Moroccan Meatballs with Tzatziki
Hydrating Orange + Cinnamon Tea
🤝🏻 EVENT: This month we have a SPECIAL Monthly Review Day coming up on Monday, December 2nd. Grab your free download of my 2025 Habit Tracker and join me next Monday for a virtual co-working session while I walk you through how to set it up and get started with habit tracking in the new year.
🎤 GUEST SPEAKER: Our guest speaker for November was Rachel Wynn of Feminist Founder. Due to scheduling difficulties I turned this into an article featuring a Q+A with Rachel. Give it a read to hear how invisible labor impacts women’s productivity and what we can do about it.
💻 WALLPAPERS: Update your desktop and mobile devices with some fun wallpapers! Visit the post to check out the free creations for this month:
☑ SYSTEMS REFRESH: Prep yourself for the month ahead with my quick 15-minute routine:
📅 3 MINS - Review your upcoming schedule to assess where you are spending your time. Does it align with your priorities?
✅ 3 MINS - Look at your projects and tasks and make sure everything is up to date. Anything you need to update or delete?
🗃 3 MINS - Curate the files on your computer and phone (including photos you took this month!). Delete things you don't need. Does your information feel organized and accessible?
📝 3 MINS - Look through any paper notes or random bits of info you collected last month. What digital system could you move it to so it doesn't get lost?
🧼 3 MINS - Clean your work area, wipe down your desk and monitors, and when you're ready — update your phone and computer wallpapers (see above for files!)
📅 CALENDAR: They’re here! Download my FREE 2025 Planning Calendars below so you can start planning for next year!
✍🏻 WRITING PROMPTS: Here are four weekly writing prompts to try out this month.
What is your most difficult relationship currently and what could you do to improve it?
Explain something you believed as a child that now makes you laugh.
What did you learn about marriage and relationships from your parents? Who else have you learned about relationships from?
If you could choose to see 10 years into the future or 100 years into the future which would you choose and why?
💬 Comment & chat! What was the best thing you Read, Watched, Listened to or Enjoyed over the past month? I’d love to hear about it in the comments and might feature it an upcoming edition of The Weekly Page.
hii just for clarification: chanukah (spelled however!) starts on the 25th like you said, but not the day of the 25th -- it starts the evening of the 25th. it's the least important jewish holiday ever but i always have to dig so deep to figure out what evening a holiday starts on so i figured i'd help others out. love, a jew (specifically a jew for a free palestine)