Art Journal - Still playing catch up

I need to think about my art journal in a different way - it's not playing catch up if I do a little bit when I can.  I don't want to feel badly if I don't complete a page every week, because that's not the point of keeping an art journal.  I did complete a page I've been working on for a few weeks now, and I think it's a pretty nice page.  I like how the large black elements stand out:

I like some of the "sketchier-looking" qualities on this page, too.

I'm struggling with my boxes - it's driving me slightly crazy that they aren't perfectly squared off and the lines are wobbly.  I am thinking maybe I could solve that by making a few templates to work with, like a stencil of squares and rectangles.

What I really like about keeping a journal like this is doing something that appeals to me on whatever day I'm working on it.  Sometimes it's capturing an event that happened that day, sometimes it's a thought that occurs to me, sometimes it's just a sketch or a design.  I know that looking back on this journal is going to be a fun way to remember each of these times I created a little box of art.