It’s time for the grand Changing of the Calendars. I love calendars, and so end up each year getting far more than I actually need.
For Margie’s office, a nice Maxfield Parrish one, plus a Zobmondo page-a-day for the amusement of her office-mates.
For the kitchen, a Boynton family calendar, dates down the left, columns for Margie and Katherine and myself across the top. It’s an experiment to see if it helps us better with our planning of stuff.
Two calendars are going up in the basement, home of our gaming sessions — Hellboy and Usagi Yojimbo.
In the office, I have a Colorado Then-and-Now wall calendar — very nice and business-like, and no mildly embarrassing “that’s not nudity, it’s art!” images on it.
Also at the office is the Host of Page-a-Day Calendars, this year featuring:
Yes, I am insane. Why do you ask?
Every year since 1990-something, my kids have gotten my wife the traditional Christmas present of a Far Side calendar, including the traditional hanging of said calendar and re-reading the prior year’s cartoons. I think one of the signs of the apocalypse will be when they stop doing that (or they stop making them).
We got a family calendar last year. I looked it over before I tossed it this weekend. The first three months were all chock full of appointments and notations, then they started trickling off until finally the last 4 or so months were just big blank sheets with things like “Cell minutes exipire” scribbled across one of the dates. Hey – we tried.
Well, we’ve been doing okay with an all-in-one calendar (thick with notations) for a while. This looked like a way to better organize it. We’ll see.
>Yes, I am insane. Why do you ask?
Ah, but do you write in the dates as per Shire Reckoning? (Actually, I haven’t done that in nigh onto 20 years, but I’m tempted this year.)
Parrish! My favorite! Of course, you know that the picture on my site is a Parrish, right? (Go peek in my gallery…….more there!) My mom actually owns an early repro of Twilight. Glorious!
Joan: Ah, so it is. Nice. I’ve had quite a number of Parrish calendars over time. Though I think I’ve evolved more of a taste for some of the Pre-Raphaelites, MP remains a fave.
Avocet: No, I put aside Shire Reckoning dates some time ago. Stardates, too … 🙂
I have to have the right calendar every year. I never know which one will be the right calendar until I see it. Usually it is something Japanese, but last year I found a calendar showing old (fifties/sixties) magazine illustrations of domestic life from some British magazine. This year I waited, as usual, until after the new year so I could get the half-price calendars; I had a devil of a time finding the right one. (I haven’t cared much for the Tolkien calendars that have come out in the past few years, and the only one I could find was a desk-top day-planner calendar with stills from the movie, but I didn’t really like any of the stills enough to choose it.) Finally I found one with black-and-white Aubrey Beardsley illustrations that made me go “yes.” I still need to find one to use at the office, though.
Margie made the mistake wise move of appointing me the Minister In Charge of Calendarage in our household. As a result, I tend to … well … go a bit overboard. Especially since I’ve been burned in the past with seeing The One True Calendar only to find it’s no longer around in the halcyon half-priced days of the new year.
No, not insane!! Kindred spirit! I’m considered a calendar freak to my friends and family. This year I have 5 wall calendars, an office appointment book, a dry erase calendar on the fridge, and two page-a-day ones–one on learning Yiddish and the other with inspirational quotes from a wide range of spiritual and poetic texts.
I also have a capacity for quickly figuring out what day of the week a given date will be in the next month or two, and vice verse. People find this strange, but handy.