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.

Mystery Mail

The letter is from Nepal and the postcard is from Finland but I do not know who they are from. I kind of think that the postcard might be from my penpal Niina so I need to retrace to see if she signed her letters as she has on the postcard. I have not opened the letter yet to read it - that is something to be savored.

It is my son's (my eldest child) 22nd birthday, today. I made quiche tarts for brunch for Cerridwen, Daddy, and I. We had each gone back to our own pursuits when Joseph and Alicia came by en-route to an afternoon/evening of birthday fun, followed a minute later by my godson Michael. So it has been a bit busy, and there are other things... Later tonight when everything is quiet, I will open my letter from Nepal. The writer will fare better than some other penpals who have waited quite a while to hear from me but the latest ebbs have finally transitioned back into a flow where I can catch up with my letter writing and such. Finally. I miss the busy fun of it all but yesterday I finally got all of my postcrossing postcards up-to-date on my postcards page.

PERFECT for postcards...

Another good thing from Martha ... I love it!

Outgoing

I am almost caught up on postcards going out. This lot makes up the maximum I can send out at Postcrossings so far, included are two re-sends to cover expired cards ... Hate it when my postcards expire.

I am able to send out nine postcards at a time but once the next three recipients register their cards from me, I'll be able to send out 10 at a time.

Hoped to get more of my received cards posted by now but I am not even close! It is NaNoWriMo time and that is definitely going to be cutting into the time I have available to catch up to penpals I owe letters to. But I figure if I can do at least one a day, I'll be caught up before long. The challenge is doing the envelopes. I cannot make myself mail a dreary envelope ... I'll have to be inventive.

With the postcards above I must post the swap going to Canada and a package to Amy in Maine and a late birthday package to Esther in the Netherlands. But first I need to cut into the amount of words I need to accomplish on my novel today, so I am off to do that now.

 

New Mail To Be Answered

Mail from Cylvia, Esther, and JoAnn.