How is it I can go for hours and hours doing nothing and not remembering I have a blog entry to write? But somehow I always remember come 11.
Sometime a few months ago I said to my mom “don’t get me a calendar this year”. She and my dad tend to like to give me and my brother page-a-day calendars for our birthdays. These always remind me of “The Lady and the Tramp”.
The first year was alright. It was a stupid quotes calendar. I don’t remember it now. There were some good quotes, some I didn’t understand, yada yada.
Halfway through the second year, Trivial Pursuit, I found it was immensely tiring, having to tear off a page every day. It’s something that I always had to do, lest bad things happen to me, and it was just something I didn’t want to worry about. I’d already cut the daily Neopets ritual out of my life, and I didn’t need a new one.
Despite my pleas to let me be unaware of the date for a year, they still bought me a calendar, a Jeopardy calendar. One thing I particularly didn’t like about the Trivial Pursuit one was that it required thinking, as would a Jeopardy one. Plus the fact that the Sports question was always on Saturday/Sunday so I had to stare at some dumb question about people I’d never heard of four two days.
I let the box sit there, unopened for a few days. I glared at the box with contempt. My parents get me some pretty dumb things — like those green towels from IKEA. I told them they were the wrong shade of green and that I would look at them and sigh every time I used them because they were the wrong shade of green.
I didn’t. They are actually quite nice.
I opened the calendar. The category for the first week/few days/whatever interval was “Spice of Life”, which unfortunately had nothing to do with pop stars but everything to do with spices. I failed at all such questions and contemplated pawning the calendar off on my brother.
But then, there it was. “Enter your final Jeopardy wager below for tomorrow’s category: Business”.
Isn’t that just so adorable? And it gives you a space to keep track of how much you won — I was up to $2800 but then lost $800 on a final Jeopardy, but now I’m back up where I was.
Anyway, it’s a really cute calendar, and while it does take some effort on my part, I will probably continue to enjoy it for the rest of the year.