{ current ear worm: David Guetta's 'Sexy Chick'. idfk. }

[delga]

Found a truckload of post on the doormat this morning, half of which was for me. Arms of triumph! tigertrapped, powerof3 and solanpolarn, thank you for the cards! I have them on display in my room.

zeitheist and mollycares, I got your letters and will reply today. If I get them out on Monday then they should be whizzing their way to you before the Christmas shut down.

As I have clearly missed the posting deadlines, overseas flisters can expect to receive Christmas cards in the new year. I might make things interesting and send them in June. WHO KNOWS.

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Psssst, twincy! Your parcel is totally not making it to you in 2009. On the plus side, it now has tiny Christmas giftage in it, too. Huzzah! I'm tempted to keep it until May and send you next year's birthday stuff at the same time, but I won't. Hopefully.

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Christmas plans are up in the air because of family Things. I don't know. I don't see 2010 getting any better, and I think we should be together for that, but I'm not exactly high in the chain of command.

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So: the snow. Despite the fact that the severe weather warning in the East of England didn't extend to include my portion of the Fen, we happened to get the worst of the snow fall. I set off for work at 6.40am and got in at 10am. Yeah. That was great. I left work at 2.40pm and got home by 5.30pm, so at least the timing was consistent. Walking through Cambridge was both depressing and disgusting.

The lovely thing about living in a rural community is that there aren't enough people to disturb the snow. The double plus benefit of living in the Fen is that on a morning like today you can have miles of untouched white and miles of unblemished sky. Fuck hills, man; I'll take the atmosphere any day.

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I will definitely be typing today. Definitely. No, really. TYPING TYPING TYPING.

Comments

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

You mean the letter that is actually a small book? That letter?

Anyway: take your time. I have one more thing to send you before Christmas, which will probably go out on Monday, now. (I was.. unaware of any Christmas shutdown in the Postal System. I was also hoping I hadn't missed the last date for overseas mail, which is unfortunate).

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Hee! The thing is, being an avid letter-writer, I have actually seen and sent much longer missives. I love it. Long, short, whatever. I WILL TAKE IT ALL.

(Some weird unintentional innuendo going on over there. Aie.)

Well - post doesn't shift during Christmas, so. Last day for things to be sent for pre-Christmas arrival is 1st class on Monday. I have something to send you that day, too, so, huzz.

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as you're sure. It felt very long when I was writing it!

Ah, I see. I just received your card, by the way, and immediately ran around the house showing my family: "LOOK AT THIS CARD ISN'T IT ADORABLE". It made what was starting out as a bad day roughly 80% better, so thank you.

[twincy.livejournal.com]

No problemo chiquita! I finally managed to dump your letter in a postbox yesterday so hopefully that'll drop through your door sometime Monday. x

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I am pleased to hear the card arrived. It is always nice when you find a lot of post and realized most of it is for you, isn't it? Especially if it isn't bills or other non-personal notices. As for the Christmas posting dead-lines, they are clearly over-cautious. I posted my Canadian Christmas cards last Sunday, about a week after the official cut-off, and had a friend-request from one of the recipients on Facebook on Wednesday mentioning the card had arrived. Besides that, I always like getting some Christmas cards after Christmas -- it extends the joy! :-)