i love filofax diaries and wearing a watch and keeping a notebook of my time spent on this earth, but i’ve never been a calendar person. i never used my sierra club calendars. i’m not a big fan of the sudoku a day or dilbert pads of 365 square sheets of paper. i used to rip out the photo side of a calendar that i thought was particularly stunning, but the side with all the squares…not so much. let’s face it – i just wasn’t digging the calendar.

last year, something changed. some spark of creative interest led my eye to the atherton lin 2010 calendar at ooga booga in chinatown. i was mildly interested, but quickly dismissed it and continued shopping. after a week of rumination, i decided to buy the calendar and enjoyed all 12 months of it. i even spazzed out this year at the thought that i might not get a 2011 calendar because they were sold out in a few places already. i mean, come on, athertonlin.com says they are sold out. (what am i going to do?!?) oh, how times have changed…

so, to indulge my new compulsion, i went on a mission to inquire about the very first atherton lin calendar created in 2009. i asked ooga booga if they had any. they replied no, but at the next delivery of atherton lin goods, they would personally ask either atherton or lin if they had any more. i followed up this conversation with an email and on january 3, atherton lin confirmed that they still had a few left and i was welcome to purchase one.

so, you could you say that i now dig calendars. and i dig excellent customer service.

i have also started drawing/coloring my own 2011 calendar. i’m on march and i’m hoping our drawing class will help me explore and expand my newfound creativity.