Thank you card OBSESSION

I totally am obsessed with thank you cards. I love buying them, I feel the urgency to send them almost immediately. However, I think this is a dying art form. With Internet and e-cards, so many people shoot an email of thanks. I think that NOTHING BEATS a snail mail note in the mail. Plus, every year for my birthday and Christmas, one of my gifts would be thank you cards (and possibly stamps) and my mother told me I had less than a week to get them out. Now, I do them almost immediately.

My mother is STILL angry that she didn't get a thank you card for a wedding present she went to in 2001.... Seriously.

I am obsessed with snail mail - to me, minus the bills, it is like Christmas every day. I sometimes will just snail mail an article I read to someone because it reminds me of them or it is something I think he/she may find interesting. I also mail calendar pages (one a days) to people AFTER their birthday so they get to see their birthday kitty. I am sure MOST people throw these away, but there is definite sentiment in me sending them...

I think this also fuels my obsession to send cards to people for birthdays, anniversaries, mother's/father's day... I just like people to know I acknowledge them...

Sometimes I will send a thank you card for a kind gesture, not even an actual, tangible thing... I think it is important to let people know you appreciate them and their actions.

My biggest thing is sending a thank you card after a job interview. I can't believe that people don't know about this or just don't do it... IT IS KEY!!!!

Don't feel the need to send me a thank you card after reading this - it is just a little present from me to you!

flu bug blecka

Just wanted to say that once it bites ya, it sticks!!!! For like over a month or two...

Black Friday

WHY did I volunteer to work today?

Hammer and Sickle

My boss gave Steph and myself a bottle of Hammer and Sickle Vodka today for the holiday and that we are kicking ass and that we are bringing in a lot of business... YAY!

Derby #

Also found out that since NH Roller Derby is going with WFTDA rules, MEOW can't be my derby number. So, my new Derby number is 9 lives.... PERFECT...
Not sure what I should do for my SKATEY KAT photo shoot on 12/6 - any thoughts?

Wow: Lapse in entries but not in judgement

I can't believe I haven't blogged in over a month. I love to blog and I think about tons of posts all the time. I guess I have been very busy, and interestingly enough, after a long day of work, I have been coming home and telling myself to not turn on my computer. When would I ever tell myself that I can't turn on my 'puter and dabble on facebook?

I think that my 80 mile commute a day and long hours at work has caused me to come home and run errands and then stare at a different screen (the TV screen) to catch up on my DVR... My DVR is another whole story... I HAVE ACTUALLY CUT OUT SHOWS FROM MY REPERTOIRE... Can you believe it?

I thought that when derby stopped at the end of October that for a little while, my life would slow down. Au contraire... It is almost like I am making more time for things I was too tired to do or I am trying to do EVERYTHING... Let's see... Last weekend was the Kings and Queens Reunion. This week is hair cut, Nerve Conduction Study, Thanksgiving, VOLUNTEERING TO WORK ON FRIDAY, Taunton for the weekend, skating on Sunday, Sponsorship Meeting on Monday and possibly a visit from my Best Friend on Tuesday. Serious... And that is only two weeks in November... Seriously...

December brings me to a Parade and a photo shoot the first weekend... Then a sleigh ride, Brows and lashes appointment, Gymnastics, a girls night out/dinner with friends.... Which happens to coincide with a friend's b-day so I can't go to his festivities.... So, that is a month of stuff spelled out into those two paragraph... WOW.

With work, I am loving my job, and I try to do everything in one day... However, I have been really sick this fall too... Out one week in September, lost my voice in November and then a minute relapse this Monday. Candle... burning... both ends, right?

So, the other thing that has been weighing on me lately is I definitely hate my commute but I think I really like living in Concord. Am I growing roots? I know what isn't growing... BRAKE PADS... I need to get my car fixed too. When I step on my brakes it sounds like a snow plow...

Okay - a month worth of stuff... What do you think?