This is a small envelope from Mia in Canada. The photograph does. not do it justice. Those stamps are gorgeous and she found the right colors to go with the stamp. Her enclosed note had a *grrrr* at the dot on the i, but it does not bother me at all.
The note was written on the back of this.
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Nobody needs to hear me having a holiday rant during the holidays. The middle of January is a perfect time to reflect on how *the season* went. It started out fine. I only have one envelope addressing client left and I wasn't worried about getting her holiday envelopes done because I wasn't going anywhere. Then my plans changed and I was going to be gone Dec 23-29. So I let her know that we had a worrisome deadline. I said I'd pick up the stamps. And then I kept forgetting.
She brought her envelopes early on Thursday the 19th. I started addressing, assuming that I could get the Holiday Joy stamps so I was addressing in red/dark green/gold. When I headed out to the PO to get the stamps - there was a sign on the door that they were out of holiday stamps at that station. I was in no mood to drive all over town looking for them, so I called my son at his station and luckily his station had what I needed. Crisis averted. But the anxiety that I experienced, knowing I had about 30 envelopes in gold/red/green - and if I couldn't get those stamps - I was going to be up-the-proverbial-creek.
But there was another crisis going on at the same time - the gold Sharpie marker crisis that I have Every.Dang.Year. It's not worth going into the details. I told the client that next year we are going to order the envelopes in November....and she agreed that we didn't need this yearly stress....not that she even knew all the details about what I had done to myself.....grrrr
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