It’s 57 degrees this afternoon; though again, it’s windy so it seems much cooler than that.

This morning Carmen picked me up and I mailed my huge box home (well, technically to Grammy, but it’s all the same!) It actually took a while: We couldn’t find a place to park near the post office, so we parked at her house (super close to the PO, prolly like a 3 minute walk, but when you’re carrying 40 pounds…it’s a bit more difficult!) and walked. It didn’t dawn on us until later that it would’ve been smart to drop me off with the bags and then have her go park! Oh hindsight, why are you always 20/20?

So we carry the bags and box to the office (whilst everyone stared at us…at felt like an alien) and the guy’s like “That’s a huge box. We weigh by volume and not just by the goods, so a smaller box would be better/cheaper (the box was, like, freaking ginormous). At that, Carmen ran to get her car, picked me up with the bags/box and we went to her husband’s family’s store to look for a smaller one.

The same guy as before helped us; super nice! He actually opened a newly shipped box of napkins and transferred them to another box, just so I could have the perfect size! He then taped it all up (which I wasn’t expecting) ridiculously well and carried the box out to Carmen’s car for us!

We drove back to the post office and actually found a spot across the street (Thank you, Lord!) and we carried it in together. I had to fill out this form and that was pretty much it! I think in all it was about 19 kilos/42 pounds. After some insurance it came out to be $217 and some change. I’d saved up close to 300, so I was happy with that!

Because the post office thing took a lot longer than either of us thought (like an hour and a half in all) we didn’t have time to watch a whole episode of Sherlock (with school getting out at two). We watched maybe half of it and are gonna watch the rest on Monday. I had never heard of it but it’s a really good series! I was getting really into it and can’t wait for Monday now! Carmen said I could find them online if I didn’t want to, but it’s more fun to watch with someone else!

I have class with Laura at 4:30; I kinda wanted to take a nap but she’ll be here in half an hour, so there’s no time!

Xoxo,

Court