Quotes to remember
I didn’t bother getting a 2016 desktop calendar in December or January since it would’ve just been another thing to pack up during the move. But I missed having a page-a-day calendar. So moving weekend (February 7), I saw this one on sale at Menards for hella cheap and picked it up!
My mom was in town, and we went through each page until we got to the current date. Steven showed up for the end of that reading session, and we all discussed which quotes we liked enough to remember or actually think about (and which were horrible and made no sense to us). And I saved my favorites*:
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Since we had so much fun reading through them together (and, to be annoying), I now take a picture of the calendar each day and text it to them. Ha!
Sometimes we discuss them, but so far, there haven’t been a ton of memorable ones.
It wasn’t until today that I actually found another quote worth saving:
It’s no surprise to me that the quotes I like the most are about being passionate, enthusiastic, and making your own happiness! I hope there are some other good ones in there. As cheesy as it is, I look forward to texting them the photo each morning! I will have to find something good for next year. Muah ha ha.
*Which I can now recycle since I have a photo of them, here
Another page-a-day calendar story – years ago, I bought my dad’s mom the Bad Cats page-a-day calendar. She loved it so much I got it for her the next year, and the year after that. And so on. She likes to save the funniest pages and take to the vet to show them** (then apparently the vet keeps them and passes them on to someone else until they’ve made their rounds – fun!).
Anyway, we switch which family we see on Christmas each year, and see the other family in January. The first time we did that, and I saw her in January, she was worried I didn’t get her the calendar and went out and bought one on her own! Ha! I did have one for her and gifted it to my dad, instead. This year, I let her know I would definitely get it for her, and mailed it in advance to get there mid December. She has her page-a-day calendar routine, too!
**She does this with the animal cards I send her, too.
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I really thought you’d have a Data picture calendar…poor Data so unloved, such a hard life ha ha! Maybe next year you can do Data and friends (i.e. all your furry visitors) but I do like your current calendar.
Ha ha! I should do a Data and Friends calendar. I have a digital photo frame and it’s about 60% pictures of him!
Oh, so some good did come out of the daily Menards trips??? 🙂
I love page-a-day calendars in general, and quotes are fun! Unless they’re lame and not memorable. But it would probably be hard to find 366 really awesome quotes, and then do that each year.
Ha ha, yes. We get good prices on lots of things there, I just don’t like going to the hardware store 3-4x a week.
Good point, that extra quote this year probably really threw them over the edge! When I got this one, I got a sisters one for my snis – I wonder if any of the quotes in there are good!
I want to see the bad quotes! Hahaha. I’ve had a page-a-day calendar for years – I started getting one every Christmas some time in high school (middle school?) and have gotten one every year since. My family’s been getting me dog/puppy calendars for years and years, and while I wouldn’t mind something different, I don’t feel like putting in the effort into coming up with other ideas. Plus I don’t mind starting my day with a new puppy every morning 🙂
Ha! That collage is a lot of them! I will save any gems for ya 😉
Puppies are always welcome!!! There are a TON of options out there for page-a-day! Why not have two – one at home and one at work?! 🙂