welcome back, old friend

remember how, for many years, i would buy my page-a-day horoscope calendar for the cosmic guidance -- however simple or vague or freakishly fitting -- it provided me? remember how much i loved those calendars?

remember how they were discontinued a few years back and my page-a-day-ing evaporated?

remember how that sucked? (okay, maybe not for you, but for ME?)

oh, sure, i tried to fill the daily void with a page-a-day zen calendar (useless, and i didn't bother turning its pages past about mid-february that year) and the page-a-day origami calendar (fun while it lasted, but i eventually gave up on the daily creations), but nothing worked. instead of eagerly turning a new page each morning, i felt apathetic about my calendars and, eventually, stopped buying them altogether. what was the point? i missed my daily messages from the universe. and from author jill goodman, who delivered them in the form of 365 teeny pages.

and then, like an astrological phoenix rising from the ashes of page-a-day disappointment... cue the chorus of angels... the calendars RETURNED FOR 2013!!!!!

instead of a separate calendar for each sign of the zodiac, there's now one calendar for all of them together -- one general horoscope for each day and then, on the reverse of each page, 12 unique horoscopes for the day for each sign! and they're authored by jill goodman, just as they always were.

i almost cried when i made the accidental discovery a few weeks back. (every december, i check amazon to see if, by some fabulous twist of fate, the calendars are back... and, this past december, THEY FINALLY WERE!)

i'd planned to head to chapters to pick one up after new year's and then, while out shopping with YB last week, i came upon a small calendar section at a big grocery store and there, on one rack, was the horoscope calendar... for 50% off!

with so many of my favourite products being discontinued, never to be seen or smelled or tasted or heard from again, this was a downright miraculous resurrection.