Up-To-Date

Since I am not working, I don’t ever seem to know what day it is — especially since my calendar was still hiding in one of the three remaining unpacked boxes.  Luckily I found it today!

I am calendar dependent.  I carry a pocket calendar in my purse and I keep a personalized desk calendar right here by my monitor. The desk calendar is just for quick glances when I need to know the date for a blog post, letter, or Avon order.

I use the calendar in my cell phone a lot, too.  Would you believe that when I was trying to decide which cell phone I wanted to purchase the second feature I checked out on every model was the calendar.  I not only want to see the date, I want to be able to add a message to it and an alarm.

However, all this obsessing over staying on time and I still don’t know whether I am coming or going — and I have to take the time every other day or so to synchronize my calendars.

Amoeba wants us to have a joint calendar and keep everything online.  I only use it for appointments.  I schedule my Avon stuff, meeting, etc. on my purse calendar and my book review stuff on the wall calendar beside my desk.  Once upon a time I used to be able to keep everything in my head and never forgot a thing.  Nowadays if I don’t write it down I’m lucky to remember my name.

Quilly is the pseudonym of Charlene L. Amsden, who lives in the Pacific Northwest. When she is not doing book reviews or creating curriculum literature units, she is working on writing the next great American novel. You may visit her writing blog at http://charlene-amsden.com. Quilly is the pseudonym of Charlene L. Amsden, who lives in the Pacific Northwest. When she is not doing book reviews or creating curriculum literature units, she is working on writing the next great American novel. You may visit her writing blog at http://charlene-amsden.com.