I have an issue with Google Calendar. It's not that it's a bad program (it's not). And it's not that it's not easy to navigate and use (it is). It's that I don't use it.

And when I say that "I" have an issue with Google Calendar that means "my wife" has an issue with Google Calendar. And that issue is (you guessed it) me not using it.

With Google Calendar she posts birthdays, anniversaries, flight arrivals, parties, festivals and events, days off, etc. I use it as a feature to pitch to my clients when I try and sell them on using Google Apps with their business. But I don't actually use it for myself.

This weekend all things Google Calendar came to a head when we realized that the wife's mother is coming to down the same weekend that my mom is having a birthday thing. "Why didn't you put your mom's thing on the Google Calendar?" my wife asked, eyes drilling into my soul. And in that situation what can anyone really do but admit they're not really using their brain as much as they'd like and crawl up into a hole to hide?

Luckily we worked things out, but this isn't the first time I've gotten metaphorically hit on the nose with a rolled up newspaper for not using Google Calendar. So my question is this: does anyone know any 3rd party apps or easier ways out there to add events to Google Calendar? Ones I'd be, well, more prone to use?