My Calendar Mess Turned Around
Okay, so yesterday felt like pure chaos. Deadlines whooshing by, forgot my niece’s birthday call – total facepalm moment. Enough! Grabbed my lukewarm coffee and decided October 2025 won’t beat me. Operation “Get My Month Together” was officially go.
First thing? I needed a visual. Hopped online and searched for something simple – no fancy apps, just paper I can scribble on. Found this “Calendario Ottobre 2025” thing that looked clean. Printed it out on slightly crumpled paper – printer jammed halfway, of course, because why not? Fixed it, printed again. Physical copy in hand felt weirdly powerful.
Sat down at the kitchen table, markers sprawled everywhere. Grabbed my bright red one – that’s reserved for BIG DEADLINE DAYS. Scribbled ‘Client Project Due!’ right on the 17th. Felt good, underlined it twice. Then, grabbed the blue for personal stuff. October 10th – dinner with Sam! Wrote that down. Already feeling less scrambled.
Then I hit the boring but important stuff:
- Bills: Marked every payment date. Hate forgetting those.
- Doctor: Big check-up on the 8th? Yeah, no forgetting that either.
- Trash Day: Seriously, why is this so hard to remember? Highlighted every Thursday green.
Noticed big empty patches, especially weekends. That felt wrong. Ain’t about filling every minute, but needed structure. Blocked Saturday mornings for “Coffee & Planning” – basically just me staring at next week’s mess. Sundays became “Do Absolutely Nothing Important” time. Glorious.
Made tiny squares for habits I wanna build:
- Read 20 pages: Put a tiny book symbol every evening square.
- Walk: Scribbled little sneakers on Mon/Wed/Fri mornings.
Near the end, my cat jumped up and stepped on the ink pad, leaving tiny paw prints on October 24th. Marked it “Paw Print Surprise Day” – guess that’s happening now. Adds character.
Pinned the whole thing right above my monitor. Finished my cold coffee. October suddenly feels less like a black hole and more like a map. Wrinkled paper, wonky handwriting, cat prints – it’s mine. Way better than a perfect digital calendar staring back. Now? Gotta actually do the things on it. But at least I know what ’em are!