QotD: Via Snail Mail

When did you last write/receive a handwritten, snail-mail letter? Who was it to/from?
Submitted by Places Unknown.

I can’t think of a recent letter, but I do get cards in the mail. The last ones were birthday cards I received from my parents, my aunt and uncle, and my girlfriend Carrie.

I just asked Sean if he ever mailed me letters. He hadn’t, but he used to write me notes when we were first dating. I knew that, but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t forgetting any actual mail.

When Sean and I first started dating, we were in high school. Since we were in different classes for 75% of the day, we would write each other notes. Nothing too exciting was shared in these notes – they were kind of like blog entries – what we did during the day, ideas for plans for the weekend, that sort of thing.

Being a teenage girl, I was a good note writer, and I used to do anything to make them creative. I’d use different colours, illustrations (of the stick people variety) and one memorable one was written in a spiralled square format that you had to constantly turn to read.

I actually just went and found one that Sean wrote me while he was in college and I was still in high school. I won’t share it here, but it was very sweet. The letters we wrote were much better than the fights we used to pick with each other on the phone and via IRC. Can’t say I miss those days.

100 Pictures: September 15, 2007

Here are the pictures from today’s edition of the 100 Pictures project:

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I’m starting to feel more confident with the settings. Some of the flowers are looking rough but it’s chilly here today – they’re probably freaking out!

I’m probably going to include the chili pepper in tonight’s supper.

100 Pictures Project: September 14, 2007

Here are the pictures from today’s edition of the 100 Pictures project.

Full disclosure: I only took 99 pictures because my battery died. I held on as long as I could.

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A note about the piggy bank. I got this piggy bank from my great aunt and uncle when I was a baby (it was a baptism gift). It has my name and birth date engraved on it, which I tried to capture, with little success. I’ll blame the tarnish for now, but hopefully I will be able to produce a better photo of it another day.

100 Pictures: September 13, 2007

Here are my favourite pictures from today’s edition of the 100 Pictures project:

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I know that I am not the best photographer, but I want to learn. Any feedback you’d like to share is welcome. Thanks!

100 Pictures: September 12, 2007

Here are my favourite pictures from the first day of my 100 Pictures project. I’m taking 100 pictures a day (minimum) to learn how to take better pictures. I’m posting my favourites on Flickr and here on Vox so I (and anyone else who is paying attention) can see the progress I make. Lets hope I make some progress.

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This work by Melissa Price-Mitchell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada.
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