On Christmas Day, Bill told me that there was one more thing on the way, but it hadn't arrived yet. Yesterday, it did. He got me a secondhand, simple, small camera! Guess he got tired of me waving him over on our walks and giving him instructions for a photo that I envisioned--LOL. So if you notice that some of the photos on this blog are not up to the previous standards, it will probably be because I took them instead of Bill. I have no idea what I am doing, but I will have fun being creative and I already have ideas for art projects.
This calendar has been up for a few days. We picked it up at the library last month. It was only this morning that I noticed what was odd about it!
I shall have to remember the order of the days when I look at that one!
I am also careful about dates here. Today is 3/1/15, not 1/3/15. I have taken to writing or saying the month when I need to--Jan 3, 2015. I think many or even most people here would write 3 Jan 2015, but at least there's no misunderstanding there there, either way it's written!
I don't know why US calendars insist on splitting the weekend. I remember as a small child asking my mom about it.
ReplyDeleteCalendars, metrics... come on US! Join the rest of the world!! You can do it!! :)
Oh I can just imagine the outcry if such a thing was attempted :-) It would be pretty amusing to watch, though.
DeleteI consider it a part of cross-cultural communication and remain grateful to Google, who does all those nice conversions for me! I still have to do a lot of searching for some things, but I am getting used to Celsius instead of Fahrenheit and I do the rough calculation in my head at the grocery store from g/kg to pounds and fractions of pounds!
The fact that the calendar has been hanging there for several days, and today was the first day I noticed that weeks start on Monday shows me how much I do not pay attention sometimes :-)
DeleteOh yes, this can be so confusing!
ReplyDeleteI am used to Mondays being the first day of the week on calendars now. I also have learned to write 4 January 2014, to avoid any confusion. ;-) And there's the spelling, which I admit is quote the drama at times (Austrians use British spelling).
Happy New Year from Vienna,
Merisi
Oh yes, the spelling!--and the language usage! That is fun for me--I love that kind of thing and still get excited and amused when I hear a new turn of phrase! Amazing how the same language can be used in such different ways! We were in Norway years ago and a Norwegian woman who taught (British) English was telling a story that involved a guy knocking on the door. She said, "Then he knocked me up." We laughed before we could stop ourselves--I don't think she was very amused! We are learning Irish place names by listening to the news on the radio--some of these spelling combinations are not intuitive!
DeleteA very happy 2015 to you, too :-)
Shari