Too much mail!

I was gone one week to see my favorite gal and I came back to this :

I love mail! Honestly though- I don't even know where to begin with this pile. I have at least twenty pieces of mail to sort through and respond to.  Classic. I have to keep this post short cause I'm going to my best friends house to watch my favorite show which is  :

I almost love this show as much as I love Seinfeld. Check it out.

-Rob

Vacation!

I'm currently on vacation so I'm sorry for the delay on my blog posting. And I'm sure my mail is piling up at home. But I'm having a good time on vacation and that's what counts! I could tell you stories after stories but I will take the weekend when I'm back home to get everyone up to date. In the meantime here is a picture of me completing my first ever out of province half marathon in Regin, SK :

I had a sub-par time (I don't even feel like posting it) but I enjoyed the last 6km because a gentleman named Glen kept me company. So thank you Glen! You made the last leg of the race bearable, because at the 9km mark I was finished mentally and didn't know if I could finish.

And I must give a thanks to my favorite gal who was my navigator and did all the driving and took all the pictures on my trip.

-Rob

K and R!

So happy Valentine's Day everyone! And of course I must give a special valentine shout out to my fav gal of all time. And with that blog opening I will start with this:

This card came in yesterday from a fellow postcrosser. Thanks for saving my bacon because now I don't have to have a valentine card ready for Kate*. My work here is done. And as an added bonus I received this in the mail also**:

I could not have done a better job myself. Thank you Krista (postcrosser). So really I may have learned a valuable lesson which is - just don't worry about special holidays and let the postcrossers do all the work.***


-Rob

* I really did mail out 3 valentine cards to my fav gal and I sent them to Love, SK, Canada. From there the postmaster put a special postmark on them and mailed them to her current addresss. And best of all she received them today. I could not have done it better myself.

** See previous post : What are the odds 3 times in a row I received postcards in sets of 2 that can be grouped in themes.

*** Disclaimer  : All pen-pals and postcrossers are important to me and I do not rely on them to send mail just so I can take advantage of it. I cherish all mail and appreciate their hard work.


Oops. I cannot forget :

and :

Everything Comes In 2's!

So here is a weird coincidence.  On Thursday 2 postcards came in the mail :

This one was a vintage card of New York sent by a postcrosser who lives in New Jersey. I love this card. The next card was :

This was a photo that a postcrosser took when they were on vacation. So Thursdays mail theme was New York. Which brings me to Fridays mail :

This card is from the Pride and Prejudice Zombie Collection and sent from Finland. I guess Fridays theme could be called violence and mayhem when I looked at the second card received on this day:

I love samurai movies and I train in Kali (weapons self defense) so I love this card. The message on the back basically said be nice to my favorite gal or my head will be chopped off.   Errr. Thanks for the card?
I wonder what theme will be next week?


-Rob

Sidenote:  I can't believe I'm watching Ghost Rider on television right now. Normally I think Nicolas Cage is the king of all cheese (Season of the Witch, Drive Angry, National Treasure, etc etc) but I figured I should watch it because I seen a preview for the new movie Spirit of Vengeance and I kinda of want to see it. The movie is okay but Eva Mendes character seems a little flaky.

THIS IS NOT RIGHT!

Sorry for yelling in the title but I feel I must. Please allow me to explain and you will understand completely. I was browsing the card section at a certain store *  in the town where I live. 

I always do this because you never know what hidden gems you may find that can be used for postcrossing. I stumbled upon this :

Cool right? I thought so until :

I was stunned!!!!! This is a straight injustice! Let the comments fly everyone. I wish to hear your views.

-Rab


* The store owners took some photoshop liberties with the photo because that store does not look like that in real life. Trust me on that one. In reality the building is located in a crumbling downtown that has barely any stores people would shop in. It is not a picturesque shopping experience.

Someone guessed my age!

Well one person submitted a guess for my birthday contest:

AnonymousFeb 5, 2012 06:29 AM

may be 27? :)

Well Mr. Anonymous you are the only person to submit a guess and it has been a few weeks so I declare you the winner. Please email me at departmentofrab@hotmail.com if you want to claim your prize.

Unhack!

I'm back in full control here. Welcome back to myself I guess. So what have I been up to?Basically it has been a lot of mail and tv today. Normally I'm always on the grind and my weekends are taken up with various activities so it is nice to stay in and relax. Here is a list of things I did today:

Mail (Out)

Pen-pals - 3

Postcrossing  (mine) 4

Postcrossing (kate and rob) 3

Mail (In)

Postcrossing -1

Pen-pals -3

T.V. Shows Watched:

Comedy Network - Chelsea Handler, Billy Gardell

Storage Wars

Billy the Exterminator *

Miscellaneous Tasks

Took a picture of my goldfish

Took pictures of birds eating birdseed outside on the deck

read more of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (see previous entry)

read the newspaper(s)

I must always include a pic so here goes:

This was the second best birthday card received! (The best one was the worlds biggest one sent by my fav gal but unfortunately it is a bristol board card and too big to scan on here!) I must thank my brother for this card. It plays the star wars theme and apparently it is interactive online if you go to their website.

And this was an excellent gift to go with the card.  I didn't know they made this  book in a bigger softcover. I had an small paperback version but I lost it after university somewhere. Thank you again P.G.  But of course the best gift of all is seeing my fav gal in 2 weeks. Nothing can top that.

-Rob

*  Please don't hold it against me. I was in some kind of trance. I was watching it and then I suddenly snapped myself to reality and changed the channel.