Dan and I use Google Calendar to keep track of the family schedule. It’s a very handy way to record crap so we don’t double-book ourselves and then piss each other off (which happened a lot). It’s also great to be able to access the calendar on our smart phones from anywhere. We keep track of the kids’ school schedules, extracurricular activities, what we’re having for dinner, when I’m going shoe shopping, when I’m going out drinking with friends, when I expect Dan to mow the lawn or do other shit around the house. You know, the essentials.
Most of our calendar is fairly mundane, but these are a handful of my favorite events from the past year or so:
- Reprint the Pictures of Colin Because Colin Spilled Water All Over Them 🙂 (I added the smiley to make this invitation seem like more fun.)
- No Drinking This Week (This was a multi-day event that Dan declined.)
- Pie and Booze (Clearly, he accepted this invitation.)
- Make a New Dog with The Hair Brushed Out of Ziggy the Dog
- Fix Backyard Hose Fucking Piece of Shit Thing
- Figure Out What Crap to Order from School Fundraiser
- Drink a Shit-ton of Wine and Make Bad Decisions
- Be Lazy and Drink Coffee (This event was scheduled for the morning after Drink a Shit-ton of Wine and Make Bad Decisions.)
And my all-time favorite:
- Smell My Now-dry Leather Gloves to Make Sure They Don’t Smell Like Pee or Something and Smell the Goat Cheese to Make Sure It’s Still Good (Dan tried to decline this invitation, but I wouldn’t let him because I have anosmia. I ended up having to shove the items in his face.)
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hahahaha I love this. Espesh the “drink coffee and be lazy” event! We were doing this for awhile, but as my husband pointed out, it was just to easy to click “Ignore” and then ignore doing whatever it was! Scheduling these types of events would give my husband so much happiness, because then he would just start officially IGNORING EVERY-darn-THING on the calendar and he could say it’s all my fault!
Drinking coffee and being lazy is one of our favorite things to do as well. Since kids, it just doesn’t happen as much. So we make a big deal out of it when we can do it. 🙂
LOVE them all. But especially “Figure Out What Crap to Order from School Fundraiser” & “Make a New Dog with The Hair Brushed Out of Ziggy the Dog.” But I have 1 question. Does putting this mow the lawn on the calendar actually get your husband to mow the lawn? If Google calendar works I’m signing up stat!
Believe it or not, it actually does get him to mow the lawn. Mostly because I usually mow the lawn so he doesn’t do it that often. But also because we are firm believers in post-lawn-mowing beer consumption.
Your list too funny! I think my husband and I may have to sync up our calendars too…
(here via A Mother Life Hump Day Hook Up)
It was a marriage saver for us. Especially once we had kids. Thanks for reading!
“drink a shit-ton of wine and make bad decisions”- I love it. That’s my kind of invitation!
I’ll invite you next time. Cheers!
I try to drink coffee and be lazy every day until about noon, but usually it ends up going to about dinner and nothing gets done. I’ll snap out of it eventually. Right?
Snap out of what? It sounds like you’re a complete success.