Comments on: When Calendars Make Guatemalan Goats Cry

By: Song

Song — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:45:58 +0000

Found you from GalaDarling and just thought that I’d tell you that I think you are the funniest blogger I’ve read in a long long long time. Since dooce actually, back when dooce was funny (now she is just passe. *sigh*)

at last count I had 4 calendars – 3 with at least an inch square of space for each day and one tiny one just so I can tell what day it is when I’m in the kitchen. It’s sad that I need this, but I spent until 7pm today thinking it was wednesday and fretting over the doctors appointment I have tomorrow. Then my other half assured me it was only tuesday, but I think that may be worse because now i have a whole ‘nother day to fret. You can tell now why I need lots of calendars. If only I’ve been in the kitchen today..

I ramble a lot. But I think you are cool and I’m scared of flying tree banches as well.

By: Zee

Zee — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:09:49 +0000

My very favoritest thing in the whole wide world (today, at least; can’t say about tomorrow!) is the Moleskine notebook. They’ve got blank books and lined books and graph-paper-page books and also CALENDAR books – for to writing down your things to do! And you can carry them with you because they are small and compact and yet lie flat for writing. They come in all kinds of varieties and many of them you can get from Amazon.com for less than you’d pay in a place like Borders. Anyway, it’s not a wall-calendar but since I love these notebooks so dearly I thought I’d throw out the suggestion.

By: Camels & Chocolate

Camels & Chocolate — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:31:45 +0000

I get really annoyed with calendars like that, as well. This from a girl who won’t buy a planner unless it designates a full page to each day of the year. Then said planner is only marked up through the first half of the first month, because said girl loses all interest and results in post-its and redneck palm pilot (i.e. WRITING ON HER HAND).

By: Kristie

Kristie — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:28:56 +0000

I would sooooooo be irritated at the calendar too. Hello, doesn’t everyone need room to write stuff down?!

By: Moose

Moose — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:48:12 +0000

I have to say, I do love the calendar. In spite of its TREACHERY. The prints are beautiful and they match the kitchen so well. And since I use google calendar (color coded lists!), I really can’t complain. Please note that didn’t stop me.

Peter: I plan to adopt eye-strain-o-vision into my vocabulary immediately. And there’s something to the Minimalist Moose idea.

Sunny: You are quite right. Rome not goats! Rome not goats!

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:45:22 +0000

But the picture is gorgeous! And to be fair, which would you rather have – a glorious picture of Rome to escape to every so often or a reminder to go find yourself knee deep in goats trying to eat the pants right off your legs?

By: Peter Varvel

Peter Varvel — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:36:04 +0000

This is your Guatemalan fortune-message, obviously, that 2008 is the year of the Minimalist Moose.

Remember those free calendar booklets from Hallmark that were small enough to fit in your jeans’ back pocket? (or is that exclusively a middle-aged person’s memory?) My BFF used to write her journal in those, in teensy-weensy eye-strain-o-vision.

By: All Adither

All Adither — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:59:41 +0000

I can see how you were dazzled by the scenery. Perhaps you could buy another and have one pretty calendar and one practical.

By: catwalker

catwalker — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:15:53 +0000

ha! mine was not only without large white squares, but has Monday at the start of the week not Sunday! That’s gonna take some getting used to…

By: Angella

Angella — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:12:40 +0000

I TOTALLY FEEL YOUR PAIN on this one. Maybe you will become skilled with microscopic printing?