December Mail

Holiday cards are out! Happy Holidays!

November Mail

Sent a sympathy card.

October Mail

I'm starting to think that 12 months will be too long of a time to run a blog. I seem to be losing interest.

Anyway, dropped a card in the mail today. November tomorrow! Hope you all survived the hurricane!

September Wrap-up

Volunteering:
I feel like I'm cheating a bit with this, but it's all I have presently. I watched my niece. Not that I don't love baby-sitting her, nor do I usually count it, but I need something this month, and I didn't get anything else in this month. I'm currently teaching her to say "cookie" like Cookie Monster; Head Shoulders Knees and Toes in German; and This Little Light of Mine. Please note, she cannot actually do any of those, as she's basically in the phase where she copies tones, but really just says "eeeee". She tries to do the dance to Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, but doesn't really have the balance to touch her toes, so she almost falls over every time.

Mail:
Sent a baby gift to a very pregnant friend. (Totally actually counts).

Bike ride:
Did the loop to the Art Museum last weekend.

Pictures (to be posted later):
A few from my cousin's wedding, including one with my husband.

August Mail

I'm going to see Newsies on Broadway! You either have no idea what I'm talking about or are exceedingly jealous of my life choices that have lead me to this point-living within a day's drive of NYC, enough disposable income, the drive to pick a date, and having a sister who fronted me the money. Anyway, I mailed her the money I owe her for the ticket.

I also mailed another RSVP. That should be it for RSVPs for the year.

July Mail

Wedding RSVP. These are boring.

June Mail

I'm late this month with just posting, not with mailing. The card is in the mail. Happy July!

May Mail - Slightly Belated

May didn't really present any natural opportunity for mail, and I failed at getting something out. I did send two pieces in April, and I'll strive to send two pieces in June to make up for it. And I was only 2 days late for sending it. When it comes to paying bills or RSVPing that's practically on time.

This piece of mail is particularly exciting to me. It was my RSVP (for the record, very much on time) for a Bat Mitzvah. I've never been to a Bat Mitzvah before (or a Bar Mitzvah, or any other Jewish rite, for that matter, unless you count Shabbat and Seder at college). I'm really excited to go to a synagogue and follow along in Hebrew. I. CANNOT. WAIT. Thus far, this wins for the best piece of mail I've sent this year (sorry, Casi's package with the Always Sunny card).

April Mail- take 2

In case you don't know, my little sister ran the Boston Marathon earlier this week. Yes, the one where it was 90 degrees on race day and she was used to running in the snow. You can read about her experience here. (I particularly like the post for her run after the marathon, but the link is to her marathon post.) Anyway, she is raising money to go volunteer in Tanzania, and has pledged to run a mile for every $10 someone gives. The rest of my siblings and I decided to to sponsor her marathon. She is also taking demands about what to wear/listen to/do on the run. We demanded she yell "Liquid Schwartz!" every time she had water/gatorade/goo as well as after when she had beers. This is a shout out to our Ragnar Relay team, Ludicrous Speed. If you don't get it, rent Spaceballs. Or come to my house and watch it on Blue-Ray. It's the only Blue-Ray I own. If you haven't seen Spaceballs in HD, you should probably visit me. Maybe I should just throw a Spaceball-themed party... Though I don't know what kind of food I'd serve... Raspberry jam?

Back to the mail part of this story: To make everyone's life easy, my older sister made the donation and the rest of us paid her back. Despite seeing her twice and bringing the check once, I never remembered to actually give her the check, so I dropped it in the mail about a week ago. And then was properly chastised earlier this week for not blogging about.

April Mail

I was surprised to learn this month that it was possible to send mail before the 20th of the month.  Who knew? Anyway, I had collected a few box tops for education and sent them off to a teacher friend. Maybe I'll send two pieces of mail this month.

March Mail

This is my most exciting non-fiction trip to the post office yet! Yesterday, after over two years of doing nothing with my hair, I got it chopped. Chopped, I tell you. I decided since I hated my way-too-long hair, it was time for a complete change. Clearly, I scheduled my haircut through the mail. Just kidding. But I'm glad that Locks of Love provided me with something worthwhile to do with my hair. So, my mail this month is sending ten inches of my hair to be made into a wig for a child who needs one. For the record, you could make my current haircut with the hair I'm donating. No kidding.

Me and my donation.

February Snail Mail

One of my good friends recently bought her first house with her husband, so I headed to Penzey's Spices to pick up their housewarming gift. Can I just say that I think spices are a great small gift? Fun, tasty, and useful. Especially since I haven't seen the house and I have no idea what they might need to fill it or to decorate it.

Enough patting myself on the back. In true Carolyn fashion, I bought them a week ago, and last night finally wrapped it in brown paper and my trademark excessive amount of packing tape. I love that there's a post office on my commute that opens at 7:30. Since I need to be at work at 8, this means I can stop on my way in, rather than head out at lunch.

Now that I'm writing this, I'm remembering that I had a dream about a week ago about writing this post. It wasn't the same package, and I decided to take a picture of the package to post here. I forgot to obscure the address in any way, so all four of my readers knew his address now. Sorry about that, dream package receiver.

January Snail Mail Sent

In order to make my trip to the post office remotely interesting, without disclosing what is being mailed to whom, I'm going to pretend a dragon live in my post office. To my knowledge, my post office is dragon-free.

This morning, I found a shoebox, loaded it up, wrote a quick note, wrapped it in brown paper, then used excessive amounts of packing tape to ensure it would stay together. The amount of tape may seem insane, but, for those of you who do not know, my mom once sent me cookies, and all I received was the brown paper she had wrapped the box in. So, apologies to the package receiver.

I went into the post office, and was greeted by Claude, the dragon who lives at my post office. His kids (he has 37 of them) are now all grown up, and live a post offices all over the world. You may find it strange to learn that dragons live in post offices, but they're a great cost-saver. They heat the post office at half the cost of electric heating. It works out well for most dragons, too. They're fed through the winter, and have their summers free to do whatever they choose. They're always welcome in any post office, as they're great pest-control, so traveling is easy. Semi-domesticating them was a great advancement for people and for dragons.

Anyway, the package should be delivered on Monday. Enjoy, package recipient!