I Hope

I took a big risk today.

If you'll recall, I mentioned yesterday that I'd need to go to the post office after work, and the reason for that is to mail something to my sister in Alaska.  She'd asked Brennan to pick up a gift for my youngest nephew, which I won't mention what it was just on the off chance he might see this.  I don't expect him to, but still...

Since it's a quite expensive gift, I didn't want to leave it in the car all day while I was at work, so I told myself I'd run back by the house to get it, then go into town.

Therein lies the risk.  Once I'm home, I'm home.  And once I got home, I was like, "Ugh, I don't want to have to go mail this!"  But it's for my nephew, so I put on my big girl britches and left the house again, to go to the post office. 

Aaand the man behind the counter didn't know what he was doing.  When it got to the part where I had to declare if there was anything liquid, fragile, perilous, or potentially hazardous, I said, "Well, it's got a battery in it."  

"Oooh, I don't know if we can send batteries," he said.  

Um, according to the giant poster on the wall behind your head, you can -- I didn't say out loud.  I just said, "I've had stuff sent to me that has batteries in it.  You just have to put that sticker on it."  

"All right," he said, and put a Hazmat sticker on the box instead of the battery sticker.  

I hope it gets there OK, and I hope I don't go to prison because he put the wrong sticker on!  That's a joke, by the way, for those of you who are humor impaired.

But I've got that headache behind me, and all the while I'm wondering why my sister didn't just go to the store's website and order the item and have it shipped straight to her house.   The only thing I can think of would be that shipping to Alaska would be too high.  Indeed, it cost me $27 to mail it -- and that includes the extra insurance I sprang for.  Eh, she is going to mail me a check to cover the shipping, so all I ended up forking out was the aggravation of having to go to the post office.   My favorite place...

Once that was done, I ran by Walmart and picked up a new coffee maker.  

I've already run a couple of cups of clean water through it, so it's all ready to make my morning coffee. 

And finally, a bit of good news.  I finally figured out how to pay my mortgage online!  Always before when I tried, the website said I didn't have any qualifying bills, so back when I was having all that trouble with those lost checks, I called and paid it over the phone.  I mentioned to the customer service rep the trouble I had been having with their website, and she told me how to find where to pay my mortgage.  

This afternoon, I did just that.  

Don't think for one minute that I'm no longer a Luddite, though.  I will always be that.