Me, my mail and I

jeudi 28 février 2013

February's mail

So, another month is over! Time for February's stats now! It was quite a poor mail month as I only got 6 letters (a letter every 4-5 days). But thanks to this I'm not so behind in my mail ;) I only have 6 pending letters (so yeah, I'm one month late in my replies).

Here are the 6 letters:

Average distanced travelled: 1324.66 km

Shortest distance travelled: 489 km from Ulm, Germany

Longest distance travelled: 1753 km from Vilnius, Lithuania

Have a lovely March! (the beginning of Spring is coming soon by the way! Are you looking forward to it?)

Love, Tári

vendredi 22 février 2013

Insert an awesome title here

Sorry, I'm totally out of inspiration to find a nice title for this week's mail update. I'm really, really tired because of much stress and quite a lack of sleep these past weeks, so my brain isn't able to do extra work right now. Fortunately next week is a week holidays for me! Looking forward to relaxing then, though I'm afraid I'll have to work really a lot anyway.

So let's go straight to the "food" my mailbox got this week:

A letter from Simona in Lithuania, along with a belated birthday card:

And a letter from Andra in Romania. Look at the little message she printed on the envelope for the post workers!

And they respected it, since the letter arrived safely to me.

Along with the letter she sent me a "martisor" (if you don't know what it is, you can read about it here), which is a Romanian tradition. Take a closer look at it, it's lovely!

As for the outgoing mail, I managed to write two letters, which seems to be the average number of letters written by me in a week, actually.

The first one is for Audrey in Germany (forgot to take a picture before sealing the envelope and putting the stamps on it)

And the second one is heading its way to Kate in Czech Republic. Winter is still here (today we had 0°C), so I'm still using my winter papers ;)

That's all for now! I'm going to make tea, curl up in my bed and read a book. Have a nice week end folks!

Love, Tári

vendredi 15 février 2013

Oh, this is a letter!

This actually kind of was my reaction when I opened my mailbox on Wednesday and found an envelope in it :P The last time I got a letter was on February 1st, so 12 days before, so I was starting to wonder where the mail lady had gone (yes, in my area it's a mail lady, not a mail man.)

It still was a slow mail week for me, because the mail lady only dropped one letter in my mailbox. But while I don't received much mail I can catch up with the pending letters! My pile is starting to decrease which is a good new :)

This is the letter I got on Wednesday, from Almante in Lithuania. Love the envelope!

And the stamps :)

And of course, the letter itself :) I love how long our letters always are. Almante is one of my closest pals and I always have a lot to tell her.

She used beautiful letter paper (they sell letter paper in post offices in Lithuania, I'm so jealous!!) and she sent me two unused sheets of each design. Very nice of her! <3

As for the outgoing mail, I had a rather calm week at uni (not too much homework), so I could find enough time to write three letters (well, two, because the first one was almost all written last week already, I only wrote the last page on Saturday)

This first one is to Tanja in Germany:

Then I wrote to Laura in the USA. Funny, the envelope actually is a present from another American pal, so it will go back to its home country, hehe! I'm only realising it now ;)

And finally, a letter to Marita in Norway! Very winter themed :)

And talking about winter, finally the first snowfall arrived over here! Better late than never... I was so looking forward to it! There's nothing in Lyon at all, though (sadly), but in my village, where I spend last week end, there was at least 5-10 cm of snow overall. Awesome, isn't it :) Have some pics for you:

I love this one because you can barely distinguish the skyline, the sky almost is a white as the snow *-*