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International Letter Writing!

This week I wrote two letters whose arrows won’t fit on my map because they’re going to the UK! One for Brian and for my ex-flatmate in Scotland! Although now she lives in North Yorkshire. Exciting times that necessitate an actual trip to the post office for correct postage!

Most of the letters I’ve written have been about 1.5-2 pages, front and back, but Brian’s is definitely the longest so far, at around 3.5! I think because I was sort of tired when I wrote it, and felt it started off kind of strangely, so kept trying to write more to offset that. Then I just got bored and decided to write down ALL OF MY DARKEST SECRETS because something about sending it to London means it will be too far away for judgement. I will, of course, be sorry when a week from now Brian writes a dramatic expose on his blog titled: “Patricia Ladd: SECRETLY ILLITERATE??” Best kept secret ever! Who would suspect a librarian?

Letter Writing During a Blizzard!

The best part about this New Year’s Resolution is that I have blog fodder for at least the rest of the month. Although some blog-worthy things happened yesterday. For one, snow!

Some of it had already melted by the time I woke up!

It wasn’t that much snow here, but of course people were all freaking out beforehand. Apparently there’s still “icy conditions” on the roads so it will be a fun drive to work later!

Also, my friend Meghan and I discovered that we were also BFF in preschool before we both moved away! Then her mom found all these preschool pictures of us! Crazy times.

Also, I’ve been writing letters!

Two of the letters I wrote this week were sort of unusual. One was to my brother in Houston, which will arrive in my signature cloud envelopes in a box, since I also had to send him this:

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The Letter Writing Continues

I think I’m just starting to realize that 31 letters is a lot of letters. When I decided to do this, I was adapting the idea of writing a letter every day for a year, so in comparison a month sounded like a piece of cake. As it turns out, it’s one of those cakes at the Chocolate Bar which have like ten layers and you can never finish a piece and even if you do you feel kind of ill afterwards. Okay, not quite like that. I haven’t felt ill yet. But this is only Day 7!

Luckily some people responded to my facebook plea for their addresses because otherwise this would have stopped on, like, Day 4. I was happy and a little bit surprised with some people who volunteered their whereabouts since I haven’t talked to some of them in a really long time. This initially made the letter writing kind of awkward; should I try to sum up the past six years of my life somehow? How much do they even know about my life now, gleaned from facebook status updates and random, ninth-hand gossip? Is it as little as I know about theirs? What do they even care about now that I can write about? No idea! But eventually I decided that was okay, and just kind of went with it.

For some reason it’s easier for me to say things in letters than in conversation or email. I guess it’s the time you get to compose your thoughts that you don’t get face to face, plus the time delay in their receiving it which lends a measure of distance too. Not that every letter I’ve written so far has contained dramatic confessions. Or at least true dramatic confessions. Sometimes I get bored and just make up gossip about shared acquaintances, such as when I revealed to Trevor that someone in our O-Week group is an undercover CIA operative. Although I’m not sure that’s made up; it seems pretty obvious. Bet you can’t guess who!

Here is the current letter map, as of today!

Hopefully the first few people I wrote to will be getting their letters today or tomorrow! Just because I promised to write one a day doesn’t mean I actually mail one a day. Sometimes it’s dark and I’m afraid if I walk to the mailbox I’ll literally freeze to death! My greatest regret would be not finishing my New Year’s Resolution. That, and dying.

New Year’s Resolution Update!

I know it’s only been 4 days, but so far my New Year’s Resolution to write a letter every day has been a success! So, yeah, I’ve written four letters. Here are where my letters are on their way to right now!

I realize I should maybe have bought some real stationary instead of plain computer paper. Also probably some up to date stamps instead of putting on more postage than necessary because I only have 41 cent stamps for some reason:

Although my cloud envelopes are killer

I assume if you receive such a letter you will just think “WOW! Two stamps! So much better than one! Patricia is amazing!” Exactly.

New Year’s Resolution: Letter Writing Project

So, normally, I am not one for New Year’s Resolutions. In fact, my feelings about them have already been summed up in musical form by Rhett and Link:

However, this year, I have been inspired! After reading about a bunch of different people who wrote a letter to a different person every day for a year, I have decided to rekindle my love affair with the USPS. Yeah, we’ve flirted pretty regularly for the past twenty years, and a few times I thought it was going to turn into a more serious thing. Then I hooked up with the Royal Mail while in Scotland and it stopped speaking to me for awhile, but I am making a resolution that this year will be different. I am going to win back USPS the only way I can think of: by writing a letter to a different person every day for a month in January.

I know, it’s not as cool as for a whole year, but I want to start off slow. Can’t rush these things; wouldn’t want the USPS to feel pressured into entering into some sort of commitment. So I’m just going for a month. This still means that I will need 31 separate people to send letters to, which is less than my number of facebook friends, but more than the number of entries in my address book.

So, if you would like to be the recipient of an awesome letter sometime in January, email/facebook message me your address! Or maybe I already have it and you will receive a letter WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT! Ha ha. Fools.

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