It’s amazing for me to see someone go to their phone and pull up a calendar with all their important upcoming events listed. All in order and readable and making sense. How do they get to be so responsible and organized? I am still using Post-it-notes. I don’t even have them on my fridge. They are slapped on the part of one of my kitchen counters. As I sit here at my table, I can see several of them. Blue, red, yellow oh and one shaped like a little hedgehog. I like those. Yes, I am that girl.
Trina Machacek
Looking over at them, I can honestly say I no longer have a Fibber Drawer. Sadly some of my Fibber stuff has crawled out of that one kitchen drawer and is now on top of the counter. But! Yes a over stuffed “but.” I haven’t lost one meeting note into my cyber world. I do not have any type of electronic calendar.
It would be nice if I did have one. It would be even greater if I could ever learn how to use one. I admit it. I am of the old school. Paper and pen or even better a pencil with a HUGE eraser gets me through my life. It takes all of us a very long time to know, learn and stay within our limitations. This calendar thing is just one of my limitations.
When you look at a calendar, they really are amazing pieces of human creation. I really like the ones that are big and hang on the wall and you can see the date from clear across the room. Or when they hang in an office and you are at the little “may I help you,” window and you see the calendar and can tell right off if you are there on the right day. The time? Well you have to take some jobs on for yourself. Or look at your phone. You know. I really sometimes miss wearing a watch. I lost mine in a grocery store in Ely, Nevada sometime ago and never replaced it. Everyone around me had a phone and so did I. I would always know the time. Never did I even think I would learn to really hate to carry my phone, uh and my purse. So now no watch, no phone and I can go hours without knowing what time it is. But I have used enough time in a time bending way.
The thing is, a calendar can tell you so much. When the full moon will peak up and shine brightly overnight. I have one that lists the number of the days of the year that have gone by. AND the number of days left in the year. How cool is that? I have never really needed that information. But I have it if the subject ever comes up. Some calendars list the holidays in red. I see those as almost the same as seeing the words in red in the Bible. It’s like He is talking to me to be sure to take time for myself on those days. Hey, any reason to take a day to yourself has to be a good reason.
The electronic calendar has a life all to itself. I have a few friends who don’t make a move without looking at their cyber life directions. If something changes, they just whiz, bang, boom make the change. If something in my world changes? Oh it could be a day or so before I remember to tear up one Post-it-note and rewrite the new info on a new hedgehog shaped sticky note. By that time, the change could be right or wrong, at least I know the original date and time isn’t any good anymore. That, I figure, is close enough for me.
Appointments, like those for doctors’ way in the future, by months, are not something on my “counter designed” calendar. They always are on those little reminder cards stuck on the ultimate calendar, the refrigerator. Oh those reminder cards. Who, besides me, finds those cards stuck in a purse or wallet. Sometimes several days after the last appointment. HA HA, I think that is why follow-up appointments are usually three to six months in the future. To give us all time to run across those reminder cards in time to fit the date in our calendars. Oh it is such a circular world, isn’t it?
Remember this always. There will certainly be another round of “Is This You?” next week. Right here. No need to mark your calendars. I got this one for you.
Trina lives in Diamond Valley, north of Eureka, Nevada. She loves to hear from readers. Email her at itybytrina@yahoo.com
