Post Haiatus

So here I am back after my heart+ haiatus. Last year, in June 2014, I enrolled in the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. I found out rather quickly that I could not manage studying and keeping up with scanning and posting like I used to. Well, one of the reasons was my scanner was on the fritz for a while, so my lovely track kind of skewed, but - that's okay. I am graduated a certified Holistic Health Coach and I am back. So now, I am back to scanning and posting my postcards. Yesterday, I sent these three out...

To the Netherlands

To Hungary

...and to Poland

Curiouser and Curiouser

After getting assigned 5 'send tos' to Russia, in a row - I then received 4 postcards from The Netherlands in a row!

from Marie-Jose

from Martin (and it's a vintage card
that he found in a curiosity shop, too!)

 

from Marion

and from Hennie

Rather good cards, too.

To Russia, With Love

All three of the postcrossers I was assigned this morning to send postcards to, are in Russia. The novelty has added a bit of fun to what is already a blast - (sending postcards out into the world).

I even addressed one of them by hand in Cyrillic script. Mad fun.

Ta-Ta, for now...

PenPalWorld

I have a list of penpal sites I have been methodically checking out. They are not all equal. PenpalWorld is kinda sketchy - at least my experience with it has been thus far. The one person who seemed promising - says she sent a letter to me and it bounced back to her saying something like, 'no one lives there.' ... But we do! We do live here! And I have gotten really great mail all week long. Monday, I got a whole stack of catalogs and magazines - it was like flapping Christmas!

Anyway, I digress. On PenpalWorld it seems I am a magnet for those foreign scammer creeps with poorly accented English grammar ... And of course they're all just sure that I am the perfect match for them. Jeezum Crow guys - I just want to pass notes through the postal service not be drowned in insipid attempts to set me up for some scam or another. Sheesh!

PenpalWorld is a little too penpalweird for me.

Swarm

It's always great when a whole bunch of postcards come in at once; these four came today...

The one 'hidden in the envelope is from Logan in Ohio, and it is of an Amish Country garden...

Yippee!

I've been wanting one of these...

Finally got one.

Hallmark Passed / Posts Well-met

My 1-year anniversary with Postcrossings passed me by unnoticed, last Saturday. What is silly about that is I had been counting the date down for weeks, only to miss it once it arrived.

This afternoon, two of my postcards got registered and I got to hurry and send out yet another one with the 4 that were already going out today. What is fun is that, as I was filling out the new address to a fellow in Brazil, a new postcard arrived in the mail for me today - also from Brazil!

Now, had this been a send/receive thing from Germany, the Nederlands, or the U.S. - this might not be such a big deal, but I NEVER get or receive postcards from Brazil (or Brasil) ... It's like registering and receiving cards from Croatia or Uruguay, or something.