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Dear Reader,
I know it's crazy thinking but I'm worried I've cheated myself out of at least 31 of the 365 days in 2010, because I bought the wrong day planner. My idea was to buy skinny this year--an entire week, presented on only two pages, (also I kind of felt I was buying "green," saving on paper you know), but the last couple of weeks have went by way too quickly, and now I'm panicking.
When I open my day planner to review the week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, (well, you know the rest of the days, no sense spelling them out and eating up more hours out of my year) since the days are laid out in front of me, an entire week on only two pages, I feel the need to speed up my daily activities, because the days are spinning by way too fast.
Looking at the weekly, two-page planner before me, if I simply turn the page another entire week has gone by. Two weeks shot in two minutes. Another seven days down the drain. Turn one page and it's another week closer to me turning 56, my book launching in June (and I'm not ready with promotional materials), summer vacation (I haven't bought airline tickets so our two grandchildren in Wisconsin can come and visit), Memorial Day, Labor Day, Easter's in there somewhere, I can see myself hanging Christmas lights again (why even bother taking them up to the storage shed this afternoon?) and suddenly I'm toasting another New Year. My life is flying by all too quickly looking through this measly, skinny day planner.
Instead of thinking thin, I should have bought the value bundled planner. The loose leaf one that allows me to add extra pages, (which means for sure I'd gain extra hours this year) and it even comes with future year calendars, time zones for the entire universe, reference pages in case I want to call Reader's Digest, 12 colored tabs to divide the year up so it's even farther away from being over, additional tabs to extend the hours in a day, organizers to file topics, refill components and a distressed leather binder to keep my life all zipped up, so it can't get away from me.
But instead my days are numbered, seven at a time, on two single pages and they're swiftly passing by. Today's weird giveaway is an original day planner I bought for myself, (before I found the one I'm using now). My unused original day planner still covers a week on two pages, but overall it's bigger in size, 5x8, mine is 5x7, so I think you'll probably get at least two more weeks out of 2010 than I will. To enter the wacky giveaway, go to: http://tinyurl.com/yam4mmd
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.DearReader.com
KIDSBUZZ: This week, books about bravery, clothes that are just too much, animal alphabet and a collection of short stories from: Joyce Stengel, St. Patrick and the Three Brave Mice; Jean Reidy, Too Purpley!; Barbara deRubertis, Alexander Anteater's Amazing Act; and Holly Black, The Poison Eaters and other Stories. For a chance to win free books and more, see http://www.authorbuzz.com/kidsbuzz.
* This month's Penguin Classics book is Who Would Have Thought It? by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton. To start reading and find out how you can save by purchasing this Classic from Penguin, go to: http://tinyurl.com/January10Classics
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