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My entire weekly spread got wrecked by a coffee spill yesterday morning

I was setting up my week on Sunday night, had everything laid out just right with my mildliners and a fresh page. Left the journal open on the kitchen table overnight. Next morning, my partner knocked over a full mug right onto the open book. The paper soaked through three pages instantly, smearing the ink from my fountain pen into a huge blue blob. I tried to blot it with paper towels but the damage was done. The whole left page for Monday and Tuesday is just a stained mess now. I felt so frustrated because I'd spent like an hour on it. Ended up gluing the two ruined pages together with a glue stick and starting the week fresh on the next clean sheet. Has anyone found a good way to salvage a page after a major liquid spill, or is it always a total loss?
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rodriguez.mia
Ugh that's the worst feeling! Honestly I've started seeing spills and little messes as part of the journal's story now. My own notebook has a weird warped page from a rainstorm last fall. It's like the perfect plan never survives contact with real life, you know? You just have to glue the pages together and move on.
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drew_rivera
Wait, does that mean my old gym notebook with coffee rings and sweat smudges is actually a deep work of art? I love that idea from @rodriguez.mia about it being part of the story. My own stuff is basically held together by stubbornness and a little bit of glue. I tried to keep a perfect training log once and gave up after a week because it looked too clean and fake. The messy one feels way more real, like you said.
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phoenix_martin40
My last three roofing estimates got rained out.
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