That’s what my daughter says I am—Calendar Challenged. That issue first came into focus when I was writing the first Beaumont book. I convinced myself it was Saturday in real life because it was Saturday in the book. Turns out it wasn’t Saturday at all, and the kids had to set me straight. The same thing happened again earlier this year when, while working on a book, I had my computer’s calendar set on another year. My daughter wasn’t thrilled when I suddenly decided her birthday was on a Saturday instead of on a Tuesday.
This morning’s case of being Calendar Challenged was one for the books, as it were. I woke up convinced it was Saturday morning and that I had somehow neglected to write this week’s blog. Part of the problem is that the last two weeks with weekend celebrations and mid-week holidays have left me totally out of sync with the real passage of time. I would have checked my watch to be sure what day it was, but it turns out I was also having an attack of vertigo. In my spinning world, reading my watch right then was out of the question.
I spent a lot of this morning snoozing on my chair in the family room. When we finally got around to eating something, it was Mary’s dinner time, so what we had—leftover Shepherd’s pie—wasn’t really breakfast, brunch, lunch, or dinner.
At this point, I’m still a little wonky as far as walking is concerned, but I’ll still get my ten, probably by marching in place in my chair. (If my watch counts them as steps, I’m going to count them as steps!)
So Happy New Year everybody. Maybe when I wake up on New Year’s Day my interior calendar will have reset itself, and I’ll be back on the right track.
I constantly have to look at my phone to make sure I am on the right day of the week. There were a few times in my life where I woke up, got dressed for work, woke my wife up to get her going – just for her to tell me it was Saturday. Definitely embarrassing.
Hope you had a wonderful New Year and my prayer is that it is a Healthy one for all.
Totally understand the calendar challenge. When I retired, 12 years ago, I could not keep up with what day it was, every day was Saturday or Sunday until I got a desk calendar, so between my computer telling me the date, and the calendar telling me the day I made out okay. Last week we took a driving trip to D.C. Left on Christmas Day, returned home on New Years day. No computer, no calendar and the holidays falling mid week, I am still counting on my fingers trying to figure out what day it is. No problem today…BLOG DAY, YAY!
Blessing to you and Bill.
I’m glad I’m not alone in feeling this week is off somehow. That we haven’t already gone through the weekend – and it’s not even here yet. You go ahead and be “Calendar Challenged” if you must when you create your wonderful stories. I can totally imagine how you get so involved in your stories that you have a hard time bringing yourself back to the present. I find it the same reading them. I get very involved in the stories that when I take a break I find it odd that the room is so quiet. If that makes any sense.
So sorry you are not feeling well due to the vertigo…praying for you. I am also calendar challenged – in my mind, today is Sunday and it’s only because of your blog that I know it is Friday!
Be safe!
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Sending prayers for your health in the new year. Don’t sweat the small stuff.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to one of the best writers God ever put on this planet. I wish you all the best in the New Year. Keep those books rolling off the press. Without them, my reading life would be in a mess.
Stay safe and warm & cozy in the New year.
Alexander.
From Fuller Brush Land in Nova Scotia, Canada.