... 'tis not the season for cost-benefit analysis...
Christmas is about giving without expectation of return...only the joy received.
If 1 in 50 of the cards I send without reciprication makes the season...its worth the low lift.
As a J.O. at sea, every year I always recieved 1 or 2 from people for whom I would fall in your 4th or 5th category --that made me stop and really recognize I was appreciated... even if I wasnt as great at sending cards to others.
...take off the ESTJ SWO, wanna be Director of CAPE hat and put on your Santa hat for Christmas cards.
I hear you, Bryan. Today I have on my must-do list to get my cartoon drawn and off to the printer, and the Christmas letter at least started. Last year, my family and I had Covid at Christmas, so it was the first year I didn't send my cards out in a loooong time. Talk about the Grinch stealing Christmas! This year I feel busier than usual, but reading your post here is helping me to say, "No. Stay the course. Send out cards. It's Christmas." I like goals. Maybe my goal should be to be the last one standing in the snail-mail Christmas card arena. That sounds like stardom right there. Or arcane-dom. For what it's worth, your cow card has become a part of my Christmas. I love to see what it'll be. I love the tradition. I, too, question whether people still like our paper cards, given technology, but maybe I just answered my own question. Merry Christmas! Wahoowa.
I am beginning to believe that practicing arcane-dom may be beneficial in maintaining what remains of Western Civilization. A social media post or an email just won't do. "Wahoowa"? Yeah. My own Personal Interjection is "Huzzah!" Always with an exclamation point. It's how I roll, or role.
Lol....
Merry Christmas, Bryan.
... 'tis not the season for cost-benefit analysis...
Christmas is about giving without expectation of return...only the joy received.
If 1 in 50 of the cards I send without reciprication makes the season...its worth the low lift.
As a J.O. at sea, every year I always recieved 1 or 2 from people for whom I would fall in your 4th or 5th category --that made me stop and really recognize I was appreciated... even if I wasnt as great at sending cards to others.
...take off the ESTJ SWO, wanna be Director of CAPE hat and put on your Santa hat for Christmas cards.
Pay it Forward
Yeah, that's me, a regular Scrooge and Marley Christmas hater.
I hear you, Bryan. Today I have on my must-do list to get my cartoon drawn and off to the printer, and the Christmas letter at least started. Last year, my family and I had Covid at Christmas, so it was the first year I didn't send my cards out in a loooong time. Talk about the Grinch stealing Christmas! This year I feel busier than usual, but reading your post here is helping me to say, "No. Stay the course. Send out cards. It's Christmas." I like goals. Maybe my goal should be to be the last one standing in the snail-mail Christmas card arena. That sounds like stardom right there. Or arcane-dom. For what it's worth, your cow card has become a part of my Christmas. I love to see what it'll be. I love the tradition. I, too, question whether people still like our paper cards, given technology, but maybe I just answered my own question. Merry Christmas! Wahoowa.
I am beginning to believe that practicing arcane-dom may be beneficial in maintaining what remains of Western Civilization. A social media post or an email just won't do. "Wahoowa"? Yeah. My own Personal Interjection is "Huzzah!" Always with an exclamation point. It's how I roll, or role.
....and now you know why you are not in tranche 1 (covid)! Will get one off to you.