Night Owl Cards

The other day, much to my relief, the post office employee handed me my receipt and said, "it should get there by the 23rd." I was shipping out my Secret Santa card package, doing something I vow never to do -- stand in a post office line a week before Christmas. But I had fallen behind and was making a last-ditch effort to get my Secret Santa package out in time for Christmas Day opening. So I queued up with some jollyish people -- including an old man loudly flirting with a woman 40 years younger than him (when he left, the woman said, "I'm going to punch him out.") -- and zipped out of there quicker than I thought I would. And it was all worth it to hear that the cards would arrive by the 23rd. Whether they did or not, I may or may not find out. That's up to the recipient. As for me, I don't know whether I've received my Secret Santa gift. None of the packages I've received have identified them as such. And most of the packages I'...

You know when one of those bloggers lists all of the zip codes on their outgoing packages? And you excitedly scan the list for your zip code? Finding your own zip code is a thrill I can't describe. It's almost like finding your name on the roster on cut day. But what if you find your zip code twice ? I wasn't prepared for that. Wasn't even a thought. It turns out it's a little bit different feeling than seeing that zip there once. And that feeling begins with: "Uh oh." I sat and stared at the list on Jaybarkerfan's Junk mentally determining where these cards were going to go, and how long it was going to take to file them, and what I was going to say about them. And then going through that process a second time, because my zip code was there TWICE. I was just about to make an appointment to get my eyes checked, when I heard this banging noise out on the porch. The mailman was putting all his force into getting the packages into what had...