When You Want to Send the Very Best ...

it doesn't have to be a H*llm*rk! lol Okay, if you really need it to be, I guess. I'm trying to get my life in a more structured order (is that redundant?) and the one thing I put off until the last minute, or forget all together, are personal events of family and friends. I'm very bad about it in fact. I'll procrastinate till the cows have not only come home but have been sleeping for a few hours to boot! What advantage do I have now that I never had when I was a greeting cards misguided youth? The Internet! I'm not a go to the store and pick out the perfect card, sign it with a personal message, lick the envelope and address it, then stamp it and drop it in the box kinda guy! Never was, never will be. Sorry peeps! What I did start doing was two fold. I got some spiffy software that keeps all of my personal reminders on a timer in my pc and it notifies me when a greeting should go out to someone. I had to set up two levels of alarms. The first level notifies me when an Internet ready recipient is coming due and has a 3 day advance warning, the other is for the non-Internet recipient who needs 1 week notice for a 'snail mail' card to be sent. The next aspect was the provider of the cards. The H company was a bit pricey for me and I don't need their software on my pc to print a card I have to remember to actually mail out. I wasn't sure how they would be received but to my amazement it went over quite well and everyone, for the vast majority, was happy that they were remembered, and that's really what it's all about. Right? It beats feeling guilty when you've remembered that you forgot someone, especially someone close. Most of my brood live in Massachusetts and I'm way down here in Florida. Besides, it's an evil kind of fun when you send a greeting card to snowbound family and friends describing the difficulty you've been having with your lawn mower or the pool pump. :)