Worst Calendar Ever

My Mother and I get on silly little Christmas traditions.  Some only last as long as the product is available.  Try finding fun, silly wind up toys any more.  Others happen by accident and may come and go through the years.

Two years ago on a whim I bought my Mom a desk calendar.  It was something along the lines of Sayings of Wild Women.  It was collection of sassy sayings from sassy women.  During the year the calendar provided a good bit of fun as Mom would share some of her favorite sayings with me.

This Christmas Mom got me a desk calendar for Women Who Do Too Much.  We both had high hopes for this calendar since we had so much fun with the previous one. 

The calendar has become amusing, but sadly in all the wrong ways.  This calendar has some of the worst sayings I have ever read.  At this point I can only think that some man, tucked in front of a 1980's computer was told to search for quotes and messages about working women and place them on the calendar dates.  Who ever was supposed to "check" the work was either busy that day or drunk. 

Here are a few of the inspirational messages provided to me by my calendar for Women Who Do Too Much.


*"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear." - Zora Neale Hurston
   It is good that we are all too busy to be envious, isn't it?

*Women Who Do Too Much tend to be very controlling.  Who knows which came first-our buysness or our need to control?  It doesn't matter.  Both will push others away and make our lives more difficult in the process-not a pretty picture.

*Our bodies,our clothes. Our clothes, our bodies. It seems women are always under a microscope.  Even if others placed us there, have we stayed there longer than we needed to?

* Often we ask those we love to make tremendous sacrifices for our work.  We become unfeeling and uncaring in the process.  Only work matters.  Women who are addicted to homemaking are just as consumed as those addicted to their businesses.  And this attachment can be an escape from intimacy.

*Is pouting on of our inalienable rights?  It should be.  Sometimes we just need to hold on to our negative feelings for a while.  It's best to warn others when we have that need.

*We Women Who Do Too Much are not "bad" people.  We are usually good people-sometimes we just do some pretty bad things to ourselves and others.