Counting. 

I mean.. what… we all learned to count when?  By age 1 or 2  (maybe you were 3 or 4.. it’s ok late bloomers.. we’re not going to make fun of you) ?  By the time you’re twenty-holy-cow-I’m-getting-old-eight,  one would think that you would have the whole counting thing down pretty solid right??  

Soooooo…..last night, as I’m stuffing our Christmas cards into the plain white envelopes that came with them, I was attempting to keep a running total in my head.  I had ordered 100 and I knew we didn’t use them all.    At the end of the night (a la around midnight) I had counted 88 cards in total.

Fast forward to my lunch break today.  It’s been raining here for the last 80 years two weeks and while I love a good cloudy rainy day… quite frankly, I’m sick of it.  SNOW ALREADY!!!  I forgot my umbrella (as usual) so I was planning my escape lunch break around the strength of the rain fall.  At around 12:35, the rain had let up enough, so I made a mad dash for the car and I was off to the post office.   I should have guessed this wasn’t going to be easy when the first thing I’m greeted with is a line 10 people long and a GINORMOUS sign that says, “WE ARE OUT OF CHRISTMAS STAMPS”.  

WTF??  How is that possible ?  Your the fucking POST OFFICE???  How are you out of Christmas stamps??

I became ever so slightly ‘huffy’. 

Nevertheless, I wasn’t deterred.  These cards were going in the mail TODAY, Christmas stamp or not.   After waiting 25+ minutes in line, it was finally my turn.  I asked for 88 stamps.  I was rewarded with 80 mint green 42¢ heart stamps and 8 Disney stamps.   Weeeeee

Being the supurbe customer I am, I took my cards and my stamps and headed to the lobby to put stamp to paper and drop them in the mail.   Easy-Peasy right?

Psshh… Oh you do’t know me.   It’s never easy.  

You guessed it….

One is the loneliest number by you.

OH SWEET JESUS!!  Apparently I had 89 cards to mail!!

Thankfully the line was only 2 people deep and after another 5 minute wait… I purchased my 89th stamp (this time a purple heart stamp.. Hey.. it’s what she gave me) and handed the entire batch over to be mailed.   

The irony of it all (the always prepared, counting/sorting OCD, analyst, who stood in line for 25 mintues at the post office looking at nothing but the comings and goings of other people, didn’t RECOUNT  the damn cards!!!) got to me and I chuckled as I took the picture with my phone.  When the post office lady looked at me all funny.. all I could say was:

“Um… I write a blog”.

**Side Note**

Is it just me or is “I write a blog” the blogosphere’s equivalent of  “I carried a watermelon” ??  (10 extra points if you know where that line comes from!  minus 1000 if you don’t or you have to look it up)

Anyway.. the cards are in the mail.  It took me every bit of my lunch hour to mail them, but that’s one thing I can cross off of my “Shit that has to get done before Christmas” list. 

What’s still left to do on your list??