Good Eats!

Sorry for the delay in my blog posts. I'm having too much fun over the holidays with my favorite gal and I don't want the good times to stop. I feel on top of the world right now. I still have a another week off work so let the fun times keep a rolling.  For the record I am extremely tired.

Here are some funny pics of the holidays in no particular order :

The Christmas dinner is served!

Here is how I eat it!

Cafe Mocha at my favorite coffee house.

Here is how I drink coffee.

Sometimes I get some help when I'm too lazy to stir. 

Alright I have a wedding to get ready for. For the record I think that scheduling a wedding for New Years Eve is silly.  Happy New Years everyone!

-Rob







Happy Festivus!

Greetings followers. Today is a special holiday!!! Can you guess what it is?  It's Festivus!
If you are over 25 you may understand what all the excitement is about! If you are under 25 please watch reruns of Seinfeld and check google for more information.

So without further ado I give you step by step instructions to make your own Festivus Pole. Caution: results may vary. Here goes:

Step 1 - Assemble materials

Step 2 - Wrap cardboard pieces with duct tape

Step 3 - Wrap foil around the tube

Step 4 - Make sure Festivus Pole can stand upright

Step 5 - Pose for the camera

I hope everyone enjoyed this Festivus lesson. Happy Festivus for the rest of us!

And I'm so glad I got a haircut and a beard trim up. Another Festivus miracle!

-Rob



Sleigh Ride!

So my Christmas vacation has officially begun. And I feel like the clock has started to the madness that I love and call Christmas time. I have tons of things to do (ie cleaning, wrapping gifts etc, visiting family and friends)  over the next week that I barely will have any time for the mail. So I have four hours right now of free time before the rush so I'm trying to finish up all my mail items.

So here goes :

This card is not really  Christmas themed but I sent it out to a person in Estonia. Their profile said they love any type of card. So I hope they like this.

This card came for my brothers account (which I ghost manage). I like it and I know my brother will love it.


I am jealous because the following also just came in for my brother :

This card shows how the first Finnish Christmas trees looked like. The sender also explained that they decorated the tree with "flag thread" which were flags that represented the closest Scandinavian countries. Finnish people also decorated the tree with candies, candles and glass balls (rich families). As I am part Finnish  (Laamanen) I appreciated this card and my brother will also. Thank you Minna!

Okay I'm out of time and have to head to martial arts. Merry Christmas everyone!

-Rob

Stop! Christmas Time! (Alternative Title: I'm Back Baby!)

I have turned a new leaf in life because up till yesterday I was not feeling the Christmas spirit. But now I'm all over the it and I'm in such a good mood.  Here is a pic of me playing Santa that made me laugh. Wait - I meant I was filling in for Santa as he is such a busy guy. Ha!

                                   Stop! Santa is in the house!



And here is me shopping in Quebec and helping Santa again:

Here is a postcard I received from Finland. Thank you Sari! I plan on framing this.

And this doesn't really fit the Christmas theme but I mailed this out to Finland today. This card was created by artists who do not have use of their arms. It was created by foot and mouth only.  The artists are based out of Toronto. I had meant to visit the agency last time I was in Toronto but I ran out of time. The postcrosser collects banknotes and stamps so I provided with some of my American surplus of money and stamps.

Well I'm out of time. I'm off to curling. Only 4 more days till I see my fav gal!

-Rob

Happy Christmas Time!

I love the Big Bang Theory! I just wanted to get that out of the way. Now I can focus on mail art and postcrossing. Here goes:

I am sending this card to a person in Australia. My friend is moving back to London so it is also a part tribute to him.

 

This is from Germany and is a school project that was turned into a postcard. I'm going to frame this and bring it out every Christmas. Thank you Sandra!

Everyone in postcrossing much know by now how much I love coffee. This card came from Russia.

I hope the rest of the world watches C.S.I. because I have been sending this Christmas card around the world. Ha!

Sidenote: I have no dvd player so I'm stuck watching TV. I'm stuck between American Dad or Beyond Scared Straight. They both suck. 

I received this for my joint postcrossing account with my favorite gal. Finally someone addressed a card to me instead of her. It took 63 days for it to reach me from Poland. Thanks Marta!

I received this from my favorite pen pal in England. She is the best. This was the first Christmas card I have received from her. We are almost at a year of writing each other. I hope we continue on for many more years.

This I received from the lovely Claire in the good ole United States of America.  How did she know I love baseball? I sent her a CSI Christmas card in return.

And here is a plug of Cora's.  I sent it to my favorite gal because we always enjoy eating there. If you haven't eaten at one you don't know what your missing.

Whoah it is 12:30 am and though I'm not tired I should at least try to wind down. This could be my longest blog post ever. I hope you enjoyed it. Good night.

-Rob

7 more days!!!!

                                   Christmas Holidays cannot come any sooner!
Only 7 more days until the greatest girl comes home for the holidays! So many great things to do and family to visit...

Cannot make this post about anything to do with postcards or video games! This is being taken oven by my favourite girl because I trust her haha not :)
Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!
See you soon!
Rob

Mitch All Together

I can never think of a good blog title so named it after Mitch Hedbergs third stand-up cd. If you are not familar with him look him up on youtube. And with that introduction lets move onto mail art:

Postcrossing accounts:

This beautiful card came into today and added some warmth to my day. The winter can be cold and depressing where I live.

I manage a postcrossing account for a relative so this is what the next person on his list will receive on  my behalf. The receiver is from the USA and he loves science fiction. This was the best I could do for him.

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I had more to show you but I'm extremely tired so this is a good time to cash out.


-Rob