keeping up...

with birthdays, anniversaries... etc...

it is hard work...  aunts uncles cousins in-laws nieces and nephews... brothers sisters parents....  at times it seems there are tooooooo many to count...  and then there are the friends...  they are the ones who don't get all cranky and bent out of shape when you miss or are late on the birthday or anniversary greetings...  families... they get downright pissy... some of them... most of them are glad about a call....  but if you don't send a card or gift... they can get upset...  ( oh... if anyone is upset because i didn't include grandparents... its because all mine are gone...)

so every year, about november or december... when i get my new calendar for the next year.. i spend hours trying to label all the dates i need to remember....(birthdays and anniversaries...).. not even considering the kids school schedules, games or whatever...   then i go through and try to remember any other important dates...  school meetings... work deadlines whatever...  my school deadlines...

so... by the end of my hours of toil on the calendar... it pretty much looks like chicken scratch...  one year i even tried using different colored ink pens in order to differentiate between birthday, anniversary, school for kids and school for me...  that lasted all of about a week.... until the colored pens mysteriously dissappeared from my rolltop desk...

so instead of using the community callendar/bulletin board in the kitchen.... i buy my own planner/calendar...  (along with being the wackymom... and wife... i am a full time student and also work...  is a busy life... but it is mine...) so on the same dates as some of my heftier assignments are due...i have listed the important dates in others lives that i need to remember and commerate in some way...    it works for me...

my best friend of almost 30 years knows that if a birthday or christmas gift is not 6 or so months late... it is not from me...  she knows not to look for  a birthday gift til around christmas and her christmas gifts usually make it to her front door around the middle of the year...

my other best friend...  whom we recently re-established contact ....  still has to find out this little bit of info... (she might seem to think that since her birthday card and anniversary card arrived early that this won't be the case of terminal lateness...)  wow.,.. i have two best friends...

but that is another post on another day...

just my thoughts on this rainy arizona day... (which in itself is an oddity...)

toodles

wackymom