OHHHHHH I am so glad to know that the cards are arriving!!!!!!!!
You know -THere is a funny story EVERY year.......so here's this years
I went and bought TWO books of Christmas ball stamps the DAY before thanksgiving. Now this is NOT that big of a deal for most of us right? But I work every day now (Thank you Jesus) and I have 30 minutes for lunch and the closest post office is ten minutes from work and the people in it are the absolute s.l.o.w.e.s.t. on earth. I'm not kidding. These people have GOT to take a valium about every hour or something. I AM NOT KIDDING. Turtles move faster than them. AND they NEVER no matter how long the line is - move any faster. If the building was on fire? They would burn in it. If there was FREE money floating down from heaven outside and I was the only person in the parkinglot grabbing at it - ? They'd go home broke. They are that SLOW.
So I go there, and of course it's the ONLY post office for miles, and miles, and miles, and miles and miles, and miles and miles...........so everyone is there. And as it would happen Grandma is there to beat the CHristmas rush and mail her packages of fruit cake. OMG granny NO ONE wants fruitcake 29 days before Christmas. Oh and you don't have the zip codes? Okay I've been there without zip codes and they've made me GO TO THE END OF THE LINE with a book ------NOT "Oh let's look those up for you on the computer by typing in each address - S.l.o.w.l.y."
and here we are.......I just need two books of stamps and in my head the JEOPARDY theme song is playing.....and now Granny is digging out pennies and counting......twenty seve, oh have to start again.......one, two.....threeeeeee.......And I love elderly people but not her.......not today......and I fear I want to hurt her with a drive by fruiting.....
So it's almost my turn and they put up the CLOSED for lunch signs and walk off........and WTH is this? -BACK IN FIFTEEN? ARE YOU SERIOUS??????? I literally thought my head would pop. Two of the three walk away .......and of course theres Grrrrrrrrrrrrandma forty nine,,,,,,,fifty cents. Boy that feels good to get those pennies out of my pocket book. "I just bet it does GRrrrandma." So as I'm walking out I see the stamp machine and I feel like a dolt......I'm walking up and some woman cuts in front of me with TWO prioroty envelopes and says "I'll just be a minute...." and Oh no -------she has NO idea how to do the machine and is reading EVERY single instruction........and I mean right down to "Thank you from the US POstal service."
SO I leave and go back to work......I'm defeated......I go home, I get DF - we come back that night. HE wants to try to get stamps - OKAY that in itself was like those machines at the fair when the chicken has to peck the button for corn ........But we managed and got two books of stamps......I put them in the console of the car and we left and stop at the dollar store for dog biscuits. Okay - we go in, and come out - like 4 minutes. We then go to Bi-lo grocery store and I ran in and got the hot-rod cart for DF's knee......and I come back out to get my list and OMG some one stole my stamps. I was livid. WHO would take 2 books of stamps out of an old SUV? I looked and looked and NOPE - GONE. OMG. I was just SO angry. So I got into the store and tell DF and he said "OH I moved them." Okay I still had that fury going on - but at least they aren't stolen and WHY he moved them is beyond me - they were FINE where they WERE.
So we get home - and I'm getting the groceries out, trying to get my work stuff out, talk to the kids and gather up all my things......and in all this confustionabulley mess - WHEN do you think DF remembers he handed me those 2 books of stamps? Hmmmmmm Oh sure - then. So I get in the house and go to address my cards the next morning and went out to the car where he told me the night before he moved the stamps to - and no stamps...I asked him - he said "Oh don't you remember? I handed them to you last night." Of course you did NOT......and the did so's and did not's continued for ten minutes.....and now? NOW I have cards and lists ready but no stamps. OMG I just can't win with the man here.
So Thanksgiving passes.....and it's Black Friday and MY TRADITIONAL NEVER FAIL MAIL IT OUT DAY ------and I am working - ALL day - no break and HOW in the WORLD am I going to get to the post office? I need Canadian Stamps - some cards are oversized....some are for New Zeland. I'm just heartbroken. TO ask HIM to do this for me at the above post office would be just a favor I would NOT want to hear about EVER..NEVER EVER!!!! So as luck would have it - I had to run an errand for my boss - and next to the place I had to run to is a hardware store that has a post office in it. I dashed in - bought more stamps and let me tell you about THIS jack-o-lantern. This is an ACE hardware....that NEVER EVER has more than three people in it. EVER. So the words CRUCIAL should NOT ever be used in the same sentence with Lawn and Garden --especially while you're waiting on me - and selling ME stamps telling ME that MY business is taking up CRUCIAL time for customers in LAWN and Garden. HUGE mistake - Actually for Jack - it was a "crucial" mistake - because after not having a day off in over three weeks?????? I let HIM know ALL about every ache, pain, misery, worthless co-worker, tragedy.....and CRUCIAL time line that I was facing......and when I tell you I can be over dramatic? I should have gotten a TONY. Then I toyed with the idea of having TWO keys made......and on my way out I stopped in LAWN and garden and told the people waiting that I hoped JACK O LANTERN was nicer to them than he was to me - but he was SURE worried about THEIR sale......and they looked at me like I was nuts....I explained a little further and OH.....here comes jack.....His Look was priceless so I pretended to take out my phone and snap his picture - and said on my way out "FOR CORPORATE." smiled and left. Left him with THAT thought for continually making mention that I was taking up HIS time with ALL MY LETTERS and OMG how many did I have to send and I really have to get back to a crucial sale in lawn and garden....." Then talked over me - around me to other employees and kept exhaling and rolling his eyes as he printed lables and sold me (another book) of stamps - which I drug on and on about how mine MUST have been stolen.......and then I found out my FIance - had them -------and then lost them.......and ........and.........and...ahhahahah. ahem.
SO....dear ones. The cards are coming.........and I am delighted that you have them!!!!!!!! Or are going to GET THEM.......and the lists so you can send each other some CHEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LET THE SEASON OFFICIALLY BEGIN!!!!!!!! AND ENJOY ONE ANOTHERS LOVE!!!!!
LOOK FORWARD TO THE BEAUTY OF THE SEASON!!!!!!!!!!! (just get your stamps somehwere nice) lol