[Subject line source: Cherie Johnson in Reject Me, Please.]

*swearing fluently and at length* Speaking of nothing out of something, I just spent over an hour packing, wrapping, de-wrapping, and re-packing a set of [redacted] before weighing the finished bundle and discovering it would be significantly less pricey to ship it if I transferred the contents to a flat rate box. I would like to tell myself that wrestling with packing tape can be considered a form of spiritual practice (and I did ponder assorted Profound Topics while extracting stray hairs from the adhesive, peeling it away from its tendency to stick to itself, etc.) but my language would give that the lie.

On the plus side, the [redacted] are now safe from the dog until I transfer them to the correct box.

Also on the plus side, I figured out the weight of the package using a trick I just learned from Good Housekeeping (December issue): step on the bathroom scale and weigh self. Then step on scale with package. Subtract weight of self. Voila! (It's so simple, and yet it wouldn't have occurred to me...)

Also learned that there is a discount for printing the label at home as opposed to having the counter clerk take care of it.

Also, I was taking care of this early enough (go me!) that I have time for USPS to ship a supply of the right boxes to me. (Not having to wait in line = win! Plotting future schemes = fun! Heh.)

Also, I have nothing due today, and there's no football game. So after this morning's services I can come straight home and nap. And then I can log in some hours on this and that and the other, and then reward myself with a combination of audiofic and mending (the mending itself is not the reward - I hate sewing - but I'm looking forward to wearing those clothes / clearing that heap out of the hall).

Praise also for hot coffee, goofy dogs, comfortable heels, e-mails from friends (hi Socrates!), glimmers of new poems, grapefruit-scented conditioner, non-greasy moisturizers, accordion folders, people who laugh at my jokes, people who make me laugh, jumbo paper clips, drugs that work (hi, Claritin-D! hello, oxygen to brain!), chenille and velveteen clothing, interlibrary loan and online look-inside-the-book databases, old magazines, and Sunday newspapers. Onward!