Friday, September 09, 2005
Staggering along
Here we are at the end of another week! I meant to update Tuesday night, and then Wednesday, but I was just...bleargh, you know? Mentally incoherent from doing too much, seeing and hearing too much. I'm sure you can relate.
Tuesday I was a packing whirlwind, and I got five boxes of clothes and stuff together to ship to http://www.coffeecup.com/hurricane/ I like how you can play the home game and follow along with what they are doing on their picture blog!
The girl at the UPS counter here in Lamar was a doll. She hadn't heard of anyplace to send things, and asked if she could copy off the address and send some stuff too. As she was ringing up the charges, she leaned in and told me conspiratorially that she had short weighed them all a little, to give me a better deal. I thought that was just darling of her. It's the little gestures, you know?
I am doing fine on shipping by any accounting, though. My mom, who recently sold her house and moved and so has no Stuff to send gave me a nice check, and so did one of my LJ Flisters who shall remain anonymous because I think that's how they want it. But I thought it was a swell thing to do.
Also, I have a book up for sale on eBay I will use for funding shipping. The odd thing about this is that we had it sitting around on top of a stack for weeks, as a book intended for the Friends of the Library sale. Then suddenly it became topical. And although if you look around online (bookfinder.com) you can get one of many available copies for $6-7, in the first rush of emotional reaction someone sold one for $80!! That's eBay for you....
New Orleans: A Picture Book to Remember Her By
Tuesday I was a packing whirlwind, and I got five boxes of clothes and stuff together to ship to http://www.coffeecup.com/hurricane/ I like how you can play the home game and follow along with what they are doing on their picture blog!
The girl at the UPS counter here in Lamar was a doll. She hadn't heard of anyplace to send things, and asked if she could copy off the address and send some stuff too. As she was ringing up the charges, she leaned in and told me conspiratorially that she had short weighed them all a little, to give me a better deal. I thought that was just darling of her. It's the little gestures, you know?
I am doing fine on shipping by any accounting, though. My mom, who recently sold her house and moved and so has no Stuff to send gave me a nice check, and so did one of my LJ Flisters who shall remain anonymous because I think that's how they want it. But I thought it was a swell thing to do.
Also, I have a book up for sale on eBay I will use for funding shipping. The odd thing about this is that we had it sitting around on top of a stack for weeks, as a book intended for the Friends of the Library sale. Then suddenly it became topical. And although if you look around online (bookfinder.com) you can get one of many available copies for $6-7, in the first rush of emotional reaction someone sold one for $80!! That's eBay for you....
New Orleans: A Picture Book to Remember Her By
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