Night Owl Cards

My guilt overcame me yesterday and I went to the post office. I haven't been to the post office in weeks, intentionally keeping my distance and keeping card mailings to PWEs I can drop off at the mailbox. But the packages kept coming. I got four in the mail Monday, plus a couple of envelopes. Obviously, somebody is still going to the post office, I thought. So, I'd better get these long-delayed packages out of my house. So I ventured to the one post office in town and I can honestly say I will not do that again until things calm down. I'm not sure -- because I'm not prone to such things -- but I think I had an anxiety attack when I was there. By the time I was done, I felt p.o'd. Not pissed-off. Post-officed. The face covering thing, I think, is just too much for my senses. I get why people say they're necessary, even for a place where I am that has among the fewest positive COVID-19 cases in the state. But I can't get over the sight of seeing eve...

Hi, there! Are you too freaked out to go to the post office? Do you view footage from football games from last November and recoil in horror at people sitting close together with *bodies touching*? Are you purposely avoiding the grocery store because: A) You don't want to be disturbed by the amount of people there B) You don't want to be disturbed by the number of people wearing medical masks there C) You don't want to be disturbed by shelves depleted of products that nobody could possibly need in the quantities that they're buying D) You don't want to be disturbed by how much farther your faith in humanity can plunge. All of the above pretty much sums it up for me. I WANT to go to the post office. I want to send people card packages. But it just doesn't seem like a good idea right now. So my stacks of cards for people just sit there waiting, waiting, like we all are, waiting, waiting. Today, I finally sent out a couple PWEs. I touched the ma...

I did kind of a dumb thing Monday. I went to the grocery store. I was aware of the mob scenes at Walmarts and grocery stores throughout the country over the weekend. And I knew that it was probably smart to avoid crowds. But it was 1 o'clock on a Monday afternoon. How crowded could it be? I've been running errands on Monday afternoons for literally decades now. I almost always have Monday off and since for everyone else the day is "go back to work/go back to school," it's the perfect time to do my shopping. I move about freely, never have to concern myself with crowds and if I have to go to the grocery store, there's maybe 20 people in it, tops. Plus, Monday is my day to cook dinner, so I usually get ingredients that day, too. So, no sweat, right? The crazies were out on the weekend, when the crazies are always out. Gonna be an easy-in, easy-out. Nope. I pulled into the parking lot and it was full. Full. On a Monday afternoon. This is probably...