What day is it??

[susandennis]

When calendar integrity was critical, I was on it. When it didn't matter, I was cool. Now it's biting me in the ass. I need to find my calendar brain.

For years I worked jobs 24/7 and was the calendar's bitch. Very few minutes were unchoreographed. Then I spent a lot of years working regular hours with Saturday and Sunday off. I always had a feeling of what day it was and for those years alone, it didn't matter. Now I'm not working and I've totally lost it. Totally.

I have very little going on. Swim classes Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Chef Anita comes on the first Tuesday. Amira cleans on the second Wednesday. Seriously, it's really not that much to keep track of.

And so my calendar brain just died.

machupicchu is getting the brunt of it. He's Mr. Calendar and it's not like I ask. I don't need to. I have it written down. On my calendar. I just don't look. We're doing dinner a week from Friday. I spent all day today thinking it was tomorrow.

I asked him about the movies on Saturday and spent a long time trying to noodle if I could take the tree sweater photos I need to tomorrow and still get to both the swim class and the movie. Tomorrow is Friday.

He's very patient but it's driving me nuts.

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[susandennis]

I got a note from a friend not long ago - we'd been discussing retire/no retire - and he suggested that my tipping point might be when I find myself alphabetizing the stuff in the fridge. I'm not anywhere near there yet but I can tell you that the morning crowd at TJ's is weird...

[howeird]

On windows 7 I keep a calendar widget up on the screen. It gives me a big number for the date, and in smaller type has the day and month + year.

Or you can just look at the Squeezebox.

[susandennis]

This is exactly how pathetic I am.

In the bedroom, there is the squeezebox. In the living room there is another squeezebox and a computer screen with a 5" square on it with the date plus another 5" square on it with the calendar of the month and the day highlighted! I'm not kidding, Those two things stay on the screen all the time.

On my phone's home screen which I look at a dozen times a day is a calendar widget showing me the day,date and what's going on today and for the next 3 days.

I think I could have the info tattooed to my eyeballs and it wouldn't help. It's like I have a mental block.

[susandennis]

And... now... thanks to your comment, I also put the calendar on my email screen. Maybe...maybe...