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Holiday Cards, by the Numbers

12/15/2010

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# of cards we are sending out this year:  125

# of new friends added to the sacred Holiday card list:  6

# of people removed from the list:  4 (for shame! for shame!)

# of times I feel ridiculously powerful for wielding the power to add or remove names from the sacred list:  the entire holiday season.

# of hours I spent designing the card: approximately 2.5

# of phone calls received from the Tiny Prints rep telling me my carefully selected photo choices did not work, as the "pixels" were too large: 1

# of photos from Brian's phone we had to download to find a suitable "pixel-appropriate" photo: 4

# of days it took us to stuff, address, and stamp all the cards:  3

# of minutes Brian and I debated about using return labels sent to us ("for free," I believe, while Brian argued, "donation required") by the good people at the ASPCA and St. Jude Foundation: 12

# of arguments Brian won that night: 1 out of 1

# of minutes I spent designing and printing out new return labels on the upstairs computer:  45

# of minutes I spent swearing when I realized I lined up the margins incorrectly and thus wasted 4 precious sheets of labels and countless gallons of ink:  27

# of sheets of return labels Brian successfully printed at work, thus eliminating me from having to engage in the whole retched process for another night: 4

# of minutes I spent cursing myself for dragging a toddler sans stroller to a US Post Office during the holiday season ("I'm just buying stamps! It'll only take a minute!"):  4

# of times I had to stop Scotty from eating garbage off the ground while standing in line at the post office:  3

# of times he waved to disgruntled people in line:  6

# of disgruntled people who waved back:  0

# of times Scotty pulled down my shirt while in line, thus flashing the entire crowd:  1

# of times Scotty tooted loudly while standing in line:  1

# of times I wondered why the heck we are actually sending out cards this year, since it's always a ton of money and effort and totally pointless, as all 125 of our cards will be thrown away by the new year:  98

# of times this thought actually stopped my behavior:  0

Happy Holidays, everyone. Keep an eye on your mailboxes! :-)
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Michelle
12/15/2010 05:55:17 am

hahahahahahahaha! Hysterical!

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Tiffany
12/16/2010 03:06:02 am

LOL....when you get your card from us you will see where the cheapskate Abrahms fell on the argument of whether to use the free address labels!!! ;) hahahaha

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