Exciting Mail Day!

It's probably a little sad that the highlight of my

day is when the mail arrives. I love hearing the chink of the slot opening, the thud of the mail falling within. It usually makes the cat go a little bit crazy too.

Today I had a lot to send out! Swaps, mostly, and a few replies to swaps already recieved. I like replying to every swap I get that has a return address on it. Not necessary, perhaps, but fun, and I figure that those on the recieving end won't mind as they wouldn't be on Swap-Bot if they didn't like getting mail! I sent out a few replies in home made envelopes, and Haiku postcards. The haikus are terrible, but the postcards are pretty nice.

I got a great return in the inbox too! Two poem swaps, two postcards, and a pen pal letter with a lot of extra goodies, and a list of 25 random things about the sender. It was a lot of fun to read through! This is why I get excited about the mail.

Welcome!

I've just finished a Masters Degree in Literature, and so I find I am effectively underqualified to do anything in my chosen field, and overqualified to do anything else. I am also facing the joy that is marriage, and life with a husband who isn't always the cleanest guy in the world. In fact, it sometimes seems to me that the only way for me to live in a really clean environment would be to stay home and clean at all times. However, two degrees seems to make me a bit overqualified for that too!

For the moment, however, I get the pleasure of playing at housewife, as I stay home during the summer vacation. I've always been interested in mail, and so I've been sending an awful lot of it! And learning new arts and crafts to use up things I already had around, to keep my creativity up, and my spending down. This journal is to document my mail, my projects, and whatever else it seems likely an aspiring housewife might focus on.

Please, read and enjoy!