We had our mail held for almost exactly two weeks. Initially, I had requested the mail lady bring our held mail today. I knew yesterday would be chaotic after the post office was closed Sunday and Monday. Then .. Miss Babs had her Gratitude Sale and I had some credits at Eat, Sleep, Knit, and apparently I had ordered various yarns from Germany and other far away places and they all decided to arrive while we were gone.
I walked into the post office . .
Me: I need to pick up my mail that was being held.
Post Office Lady: What’s your address?
I gave her two of our four street numbers but before I ever finished the address, I could see her trying not to crack up.
Post Office Lady: How do you say your last name?
Me: Pronounced it
Post Office Lady: Around here, you’re known as “Laquistadore”. Everyone in here is always trying to figure out how to say your name.
Me: So, everyone in here knows my name but no one knows me, right? I guess we get a few too many packages.
She was cracking up and she said “Yep, you do get a few!”
I handed her my Ikea bag and she laughed and asked if I brought more than one bag.
Packages
I told her that Vince volunteered to go down and get all the mail so I didn’t have to get out in the cold and I said “NO WAY!” Oh, my . . I crack up just thinking what he would have said if she had handed him that bag full of packages. It would not have been nice words I’m sure! I really did have more than normal packages but every seed catalog, hunting/fishing catalog, bead catalog arrived while we were gone . . that was one heavy bag.
Then I told her they would probably never see another package with my name on it because Vince had put me on a strict budget and he was scrutinizing every expenditure. We both sat down and cried for a while. No . . not really. She didn’t cry because I didn’t tell her about the budget because, between you and me, I have income he don’t even know about! 🙂 I’ll just have to be real careful how I spend it without raising his suspicions.
When he got home from work ..
Vince: Did you get the mail?
Me: Yes, your mail is in your chair.
Vince: Is this all there was?
Me: There may have been a few more things.
Vince: Where is it? I want to see it!
Me: It’s all put away but I can show you a picture. Oh . . darn . . the internet isn’t working. I can’t show you a picture. 🙂
But I can show you the pictures.
Purples
Remember the purples Miss Babs had dyed? The multicolor is a totally different yarn that arrived yesterday but dang . . don’t you think that combination was just meant to be? The multi is from a yarn club I joined last year. It was paid for in 2016 so it doesn’t even count! That’s no all the yarn but pictures can come back to bite you so that’s the only picture I took of yarn. I’ve already told you about the other Miss Babs yarns I bought.
Beads
Beads. I do not even remember ordering these beads. Maybe they were a gift. Yes . . a gift. Someone just sent all these gorgeous beads to me. That’s my story!
The packages have all been opened, the contents have all been put away, no evidence remains that yarn arrived yesterday.
Everything is peaceful and lovely at our little love nest, which is padded by much wool fiber! 🙂
Donna M says
ROFL. Can’t stop giggling.
Sherrill Pecere says
OK, so if you don’t remember ordering the beads does that mean you don’t remember what you were going to use them for? LOL!!! That’s not good….but I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
Dotti says
You ordered those when you were working on a shawl.. Black I think. Lots of choices. You need a journal for your orders. Maybe you might have to take a POBox for your packages. Where there is a will there is away. Poor Vince.
ruth says
And just the other day you said you were a great storyteller….now I am wondering about that othersource of income!
Deb P says
ROFL I always pray that the mail will come before hubby comes home! It has been close a couple of times…
Judy Laquidara says
Sometimes our mail comes while Vince is home for lunch. That’s never good either.
Carolyn says
Another source of income? What exactly DO YOU DO when Vince isn’t home? My mind boggles with the options! Love those purples, just stunning! And the multi? Swoon…
Stephani in N. TX says
Having done some unexpected babysitting for glorious grandson, I just came from the yarn shop on the way home, never empty-handed! You do have some perfect purples there. No one to ask about what I bought anymore, thank goodness.
Judy D in WA says
Around here that is known as happy mail. 🙂 This is the best thing I’ve read in a while!
Lynne in Hawaii says
I think you ordered the beads when you were looking at doing a project that required a huge amount of beads (maybe 5000?) and you ordered beads then found you had some that would work and you had enough. You just couldn’t drop any or you wouldn’t have enough. Besides, these packages were stuff ordered before the start of the “BUDGET”. Don’t count. 🙂
Judy says
I laughed all the way through this post, even read parts of it to my husband ( he won’t tell Vince).
Nelle Coursey says
You are ok as long as he doesn’t read your blogs!! LOL
cassews says
Hmmm … pictures to help me remember … Now what was I gonna do ? HAHAHAHHAHAHAA okay that is the way it is around here.. So I have scraps of paper which I hope that when I get something I have ordered I can remember what it is for … Oh and something is written on the other side .. hmmm what was that for ? Sigh ….
I put things on the calendar but ummm code doesn’t always jumpstart my brain or my one cell that it is operating on everyday especially before coffee.. HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
Even my dog shakes her head at me all the time .. Especially when I go into a room and cannot remember for the life of me what I went in there for .. Hahahahaha (Good thing I can laugh at myself …Yep Yep)
lacefaerie says
Gorgeous purple!!
I subscribe to the I Love Lucy method of budget/husband vs spending issues. Once it’s been stowed in the back of the closet, then you can say, “what this? Just something I pulled out of the back of the closet!” He never thinks to ask how long it was in the closet ! *wink wink*