Here's A Switch

Dear Karen-

So normally, we don't have a lotta love for the post office, right? Well today I just discovered the joy of buying stamps online! Who knew? I knew you could do your own postage labels if you had the proper scale and all, but just plain old stamps? Heck yes, I'll pay shipping for stamps! If it saves me from having to actually take my children into the post office...absolutely.

I am going to attempt to do some Christmas cards this weekend, so I figure by the time I get them finished, the stamps should be here. I quite liked the traditional Madonna and Child stamps, but then I saw these and knew it was fate:

You may have something with your chocolate/smoke break concept, though I'm not sure it would be quite as effective for someone like me, who is at home all day. Could be worth a try, though.

And just fyi, don't go to Target on Fridays during the month of December. I'm sure it's worse on weekends, but probably not by much.

LOL, for reals

Dear Karen-

I really cannot top that last picture you shared. Yet another priceless example of why I need a camera phone. However, viewing that picture was actually a case of LOL. I really, truly was LOL!

While you've been off in such exotic places as Chicago and Kankakee, I've been trapped in the house, going through more stuff than anyone should ever have in their 1250 square-foot house and full basement. At one point last week there were 16 bags of trash in my kitchen. Sixteen. I really think that's about 15.5 bags of trash too many in one's kitchen. Thankfully, they have since been hauled off to the dump. Sadly, there will soon be another load that will need to go to the dump. That's the trouble with automated trash trucks...we can't put out extra bags. It all has to fit in the trashcan.

I'm pretty much finished with the upstairs, so that's a relief. We had the Salvation Army take away our entertainment center. As you know, it was nothing special - and since our new TV has dvd/vcr built in, there's no need to keep those players. Instead, our TV now sits on a very lovely mission-style table that we found at Target. We even got the matching end table to replace the old glass-topped table we had. Over the weekend, I pressure-washed the house while Greg worked on removing the stump of the huge crepe myrtle that was in the front yard. It's a pity you probably won't see this house again - you'd hardly recognize it now.

Today I need to make yet another run to Goodwill but I'm not sure I can summon the energy to load everything into the car. Goodwill will still be there tomorrow, right?

Love,
Your tired sister