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Dec. 15th, 2003 04:35 pmPlease keep an eye out for these items; they were stolen from a friend's van at Darkover. If you bump into them someplace, please let ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dglenn know. Thanks!
dglenn know. Thanks!Dec. 15th, 2003
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Dec. 15th, 2003 08:58 pmFor the first time ever, I got (most) presents mailed out with plenty of time to spare. My SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSwap package went out via Priority Mail on Saturday, presents for brian1789 and patgreene went out today also via Priority Mail in hopes of catching them before they leave, and I got 3/5 of the nieces and nephews take care of today as well. Even though today was supposed to be a horrible day for mailing things, the trick appears to be to go to the post office at 2:45 (after the lunch rush and before the post-work rush starting around 3:30); I got in and out in under half an hour. The remaining two presents are oddball sizes, enough so that I just got a 20x20x20 box from the UPS Store and am going to pack it with all the peanuts we've been meaning to get rid of. Two birds with one stone and all that. =) One of the presents I sent (I feel safe posting this here because the recipient 1) does not have a computer at home and 2) is two years old and can't read yet. ) was a Fisher Price Little People Noah's Ark, which proudly lists one of the pieces as a "rainbow flag". I was going to send it anyway because he likes the animals, but I couldn't resist after seeing that. It's an awfully cute little rainbow flag too, rainbow-shaped even.
Speaking of Little People, I find it funny that the version that I played with as a kid (the kind that were essentially round plastic heads stuck on what was basically a wooden dowel) are now considered way too dangerous for kids to play with because they're a choking hazard. Man, I loved those things. I had the airplane, and the little red and white minibus where the people inside would bounce up and down as you wheeled it around, and the barn that went "moo" when you opened the door, and the garage and the village and a bunch of individual pieces. Wish I knew what happened to them; same goes for a lot of toys I had as a kid, they up and disappeared when I wasn't looking.
brian1789 and patgreene went out today also via Priority Mail in hopes of catching them before they leave, and I got 3/5 of the nieces and nephews take care of today as well. Even though today was supposed to be a horrible day for mailing things, the trick appears to be to go to the post office at 2:45 (after the lunch rush and before the post-work rush starting around 3:30); I got in and out in under half an hour. The remaining two presents are oddball sizes, enough so that I just got a 20x20x20 box from the UPS Store and am going to pack it with all the peanuts we've been meaning to get rid of. Two birds with one stone and all that. =) One of the presents I sent (I feel safe posting this here because the recipient 1) does not have a computer at home and 2) is two years old and can't read yet. ) was a Fisher Price Little People Noah's Ark, which proudly lists one of the pieces as a "rainbow flag". I was going to send it anyway because he likes the animals, but I couldn't resist after seeing that. It's an awfully cute little rainbow flag too, rainbow-shaped even. Speaking of Little People, I find it funny that the version that I played with as a kid (the kind that were essentially round plastic heads stuck on what was basically a wooden dowel) are now considered way too dangerous for kids to play with because they're a choking hazard. Man, I loved those things. I had the airplane, and the little red and white minibus where the people inside would bounce up and down as you wheeled it around, and the barn that went "moo" when you opened the door, and the garage and the village and a bunch of individual pieces. Wish I knew what happened to them; same goes for a lot of toys I had as a kid, they up and disappeared when I wasn't looking.
