Mail Quote of the Week

There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters... I could be their leader.

~ Charlie Brown

I've Missed You My Pen Friends

Taking a brief break from my currently un-scheduled program of non-posting, I thought I would clue you all in to something going on in my life while shamelessly promoting my significant other.

If you've received at least one letter from me, you know I have a boyfriend that I call Boyfriend.  Boyfriend is a photographer.  Boyfriend lives about an hour and a half away from me.

Right this moment, Boyfriend is over a week (and three time zones) away from me :-)

He's on an epic adventure: an 18 day journey through California and the Southwest.  His sole purpose on this trip: take pictures.  Thousands of pictures.

I diligently {and fanatically} mapped out the route {2500+ miles} for his journey, which started with me taking him to the airport at 5am this morning.

My point?  You can follow his journey because he will be vlogging and he promised me at 5am this morning that the binder I made him with the 150 page map will make an appearance.

He'll be visiting (in geographic order, though not exactly this order): The Mojave, Tucson, Phoenix, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Yosemite, Modesto, San Francisco.  He'll be ending his trip with a drive down the Pacific Coast Highway in the outside lane on the way back to LAX and then home.  To me.

You can cyber-stalk his trip of a lifetime here:  http://www.capenightphotography.com/ Please do.  Join me in living vicariously through him.

Mail Quote of the Week

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

~Lord Byron

Well Hello There

Hello my fellow mail lovers and blog readers, long time no write :-)

I know you all are a forgiving bunch, but I wanted to let you know I am alive and getting into the routine of working every day!  I got back from Colorado Springs on the 9th, then worked my second week at my new big-girl job.

Yesterday I made a cake, then I helped a neighbor make a cake and I spent the rest of the night working on some maps.

Today, I cleaned my room and did laundry.  Can I ask you all, when the heck do people who work for a living have time to do laundry??  Sheesh.

Anyway, my point is, part of cleaning my room was gathering all of the wonderful, beautiful mail I've received over the last several weeks that I have yet to reply to or post about.  I'm going to need to get a system and a routine down, but I will get back to each and every one of you.  I'll also send out some postcards I bought in Colorado and Acadia National Park.  And one luck pen-pal will be getting one of these.  I found them at a great postal shop in Colorado Springs.  I mailed two to my littlest pen friends and I bought a third for myself.

Also, I want to say that I am frustrated with the Postal Service.  Remember my adventures in mailing plates?  Well, I got to my Aunts house and I asked her about the green plate I sent her.  She never received it.  I mailed four other ones and they all arrived to different locations in Rhode Island.  I mailed one to Colorado Springs, with a return address, and it never made it and it never came back to me.  I am sad about it.  That was a cheap plate with a beautiful, heartfelt letter on it.

Anyway, I thank you all for your patience, for making sure there was mail for me when I got back from my vacation, and for your good thoughts.  I know we barely know one another, but I know you all are as happy I got a job as I am.

Mail Quote of the Week

I know, none better, 
The eyelessness of days without a letter...

~Philip Larkin

Mail Quote of the Week

The post is the grand connecting link of all transactions, of all negotiations.  Those who are absent, by its means become present; it is the consolation of life.

~Voltaire

Mail Quote of the Week

A stray volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman.

~Douglas William Jerrold.