Calendars for the New Year

Things have been slow around here - as I have been laid up with a cold or a similar bug - but it does occur to me that I HAVE made progress on the new year of 2009 in terms of my CALENDARS! 

I  have one for the entire year sent to me by the Calif. Oil Museum of Sta. Paula hooked up to my desk hutch - and a pocket-sized one leaning up against the nice calendar stand from last year next to the computer monitor.  I found a nice bargain wall calendar of sea scapes at the Dollar Tree for Mark - we always hang one up in the dining room for him - and before Xmas I picked up a pocket calendar at the 99 cent store and then another one with one month per page, bcause it's easier to scope out the flow of the month that way...

I try to keep track of what's going on with my pocket calendar (which should be small enough for my purse) and I have a little address book I pickedup at a Oaxacan restaurant years ago and covered in clear plastic which has my phone numbers in it and is easily transferred. (I also have a larger permanent red address book next to the telephone for important #s and addresses - you can just put them in with post-its, if you like..)

Some people have elaborate tracking devices to keep track of all the contacts that they have made - but I try to just put it all into my date book for further reference....

I flirt with planning every so often - but as my schedule is so terribly unpredictable - I can only plan in a general way - I have signed up for my gratis acting class at Santa Monica Emeritus College (Bless them, I wish I were closer so going over there more often would be practical....)

A guy named Bob Frasier on the net is giving away templates for theatrical recordkeeping if you sign up for his newsletter -  (See "Show Business How-to") and there is also expensive software like the Holden Log - (also available in paper)....

I am also on the social networking sites - and have had some requests from LinkedIn - one from a classmate in my German classes of 40 years ago who was kind enuf to say that I hadn't changed - (Wish I could tell myself that same...)

So - it's BACK TO WORK!

P.S. If you like, there are loads of FREE 2009 calendars available as downloads on the net - I got a lovely one last year from about.com.....

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I got some lovely free calendars from Pillsbury and Betty Crocker. They have nice big squares to write in, with recipe ideas and best of all FREE!

I love your writings and I would really like a picture of your candle heaters as I can't figure out how you are doing it.

Ever see colonial candlesticks with the tin reflector behind them? I took that idea and folded up an aluminum pie plate and propped it up behind my candle grouping in one case (& in the other I put it behind my cast iron candle holder). Both were on fire-proof bases (pryrex plates work or tiles). The idea is that the heat is saved and directed toward you - and what's more, the aluminum pie plate itself heats up and then radiates heat. It's crude and jimcrack - but it did work in heating my desk area up. I will do it again.

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