The only problem I have with just using the header category tabs is that people are used to looking on the left for navigation, and the stock header links don't really look like links. If you could style them to look like buttons, that might work.
Thinking outside the box here (literally) but could you make your product listing 2 wide and use the image of the calendar (greyed a little) as a background? It'd take some template work.
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