Well. I can't recall why I didn't post yesterday- but I DID write all my Christmas Cards. And put stamps on them and sent daughter off to the post office as one European card needed the European Airmail stamp.
I used up all the cards....and had people left over....so I will dig around in the card drawer to see if I have a few orphan cards...
The mail brought ME two cards....one from a lovely friend who I knew from 5th grade thru high school graduation...we stopped seeing each other as often when I went away to college- as her father had the impression that girls who went off to college- and no longer lived at home- were whores. I was allowed to come to her house (supervised) but that was it. A few years ago she asked me to call her- iPhone- and we chatted for the first time in many many years. She was preparing dinner for her husband. On her card she asked me to call her after the holidays. I will.
Daughter went off to the postoffice and then drove to the next Town to see about a watch we found in husband's collection (her assistant duties). Then she had new tires put on her car and still remembered to stop and buy me a small carton of coffee cream. Son had thrown out the carton I had- said it had expired....I guess it had but was still quite okay by my "standards" which he says are questionable.
I switched to the wider screen version of Hallmark...better image...I get two versions of everything. I usually watch sports on the wider version- Soccer and Open Wheel Racing.... but yesterday the Hallmark Christmas Mystery looked very very nice. It was an old one that I liked years and years ago.
I went down to the sewing room and dug thru the wastebasket and pulled out scraps...made myself a square....very nice....I have more scraps and will be making another square today.....Mindless handwork as I watch Hallmark..
It's Medicare whatever time and I got four phone calls that woke me up.....I hung up on all of them. So..that's the news....My cards are in the mail.....I only had the one package of ten- Daughter offered to go buy more but I said..."I ran out of people".....the address book is full but I haven't seen or heard from people listed there in decades....who knows where they live now. Or if they are alive.
I do have extra cards in a packing box....and I do make a card (I draw, paint or color) for the neighbors and my lunch buddy. That's enough. Getting old...it breaks your heart somedays.
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