Re: Calendar selection
Usually, it’s pretty easy for me: on or about January 2nd, I go down to Pegasus on Shattuck and buy a discounted calendar. After New Year, those calendars are just taking up valuable shelf space, so they sell them for about three dollars each. I have a standby: every year, I buy the Sanrio “Hello Kitty” wall calendar. I like it; it cheers me up.
However, this year was different. I didn’t get a chance to get out there until today. Naturally, all the Hello Kittys were gone. I then had to go through the tortuous process of selecting a wall calendar.
Maybe it’s because I spend a lot of time looking at mine, but I’m just not the type of person who can pick any old calendar and be done with it. I’ve ripped calendars I hate right off the wall. I can’t stand a bad calendar. So, you see my dilemma.
The array of calendars available is unbelievable. Any breed of dog or cat, any artist who has reached any level of popularity, and any particular interest has a calendar. I was totally discombobulated.
Rules:
1) It has to be cheerful with interesting subject matter (no cats, landscapes, or babies). If I’m going to be looking at something every day for an entire year, I need something uplifting. Unfortunately, this ruled out the Neil Gaiman “Sandman” calendar. I love Neil Gaiman, but who can look at Death every day for a year?
2) It has to have big squares I can write on. I don’t know who came up with the all-black month sheets, but they’re out there.
3) It has to be a 13-month calendar. If I can’t plan through the next New Year, it’s not going to work for me.
After about an hour, I couldn’t find any one calendar that fulfilled all my requirements. I found a desk calendar with great 3D renderings, a mini-calendar with Japanese prints, and a wall calendar of orchids, which happen to be an interest of mine. Hopefully, getting them all (one for the kitchen, one for the bathroom, and one for the bedroom) will compensate for the shortcomings in each.
10:48:27 AM 
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