A Peek at Martha Stewart's January Calendar
Jan 1: Catch up on gardening--sew leaves back onto trees. Do all
cooking for the year.
Jan 2: Take dog apart. Disinfect. Reassemble.
Jan 3: Align carpets to adjust for curvature of Earth.
Jan 4: Drain city reservoir; refill with mulled cider, orange slices
and cinnamon sticks.
Jan 5: Lay Faberge egg.
Jan 6: Freshen air in home by sliding a dozen Dr. Scholl's shoe inserts
into heat pump.
Jan 7: Visit crematorium. Collect dentures. They make excellent
pastry cutters, particularly for decorative pie crusts.
Jan 8: Culture ancient DNA into dinosaurs for nieces and nephews.
Jan 9: Receive delivery of new phone books. Old ones make ideal personal
address books; simply cross out the names of all the people you do
not know.
Jan 10: Finish needlepoint colostomy cozy.
Jan 11: Organize spice racks by genus and phylum.
Jan 12: Attend workshop on obsessive-compulsive disorders. Take verbatim
notes.
Jan 13: Address sympathy cards for all friends with elderly relatives, so
that they're all ready to be mailed the moment death occurs.
Jan 14: Replace air in mini van tires with Glad air freshener in case tires
are shot out at the mall.
Jan 15: MLK birthday. Find out who MLK is.
Jan 16: Get new eyeglasses; grind lenses myself
Jan 17: Using candlewick and hand-gilded miniature pine cones, fashion
cat-o'-nine-tails. Flog gardener.
Jan 18: Repaint Sistine Chapel ceiling in ecru with mocha trim.
Jan 19: Update enemies list. Place in hermetically sealed vault.
Remove air, replace with nitrogen.