Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	We're still getting mail addressed to the former resident of our apartment... his name was Cornelius Dirk Kop. I'm not kidding. I couldn't make up a better fake name if I tried.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-02 01:01:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	I just wanna send a postcard with a Hai on it or something... I'm not really into all the fancy-schmancy verbosity-laden theme-driven schemes. Can I just send a post card? Yes! Absolutely! Feel free to just send a post card!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-01 19:48:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	Awwww. I was thinking this would be really fun to participate in but I don't want to put my full name out there..... I would have gone with "Krikit", though. I know I have sent and received postcards using 1st names only, but are you guys saying that the USPS won't deliver if there's no first and last name? I was also put off with the "control-freak" type input. Sorry. I didn't think they would deliver to just first names, but if they do then that's great! A month or two ago I was getting stuff from Canada (from the government no less, about EI) in my maiden name, they wrote a big question mark on the envelope, so that kinda scared me. lol I'm in an apt building and we just have one area where all the mailboxes are though... I've never actually seen or talked to my mailman/woman unfortunately so I have since had my maiden name added to the label on the box. I'd be fine will just first names, depending on what people think will work, and what they're comfortable with. I guess that's something that could definitely be up to everyone's individual discretion and mail experiences. I don't want anyone to feel pressured, or for it to be unfun for anyone! I know when I was in college I sent a few things back to my parents addressed to "Mom and Dad (lastname)" and they got them! For anyone else wondering too, I really don't want a lot of rules on this. Just a fun random monthly draw of names, and postcard exchanges. If you want it addressed to your VJ name, or just first name, that would be fine! And if you don't want to take part in themes, that's also fine! I do think this will be really fun, and I'm grateful so many people agree and have shown interest!! I just don't want anyone dropping out for reasons like that. It makes Sir Finnegan Walter O'Malley sad sad ---> hahah jk... he was not sad when I took that, he was in fact purring. But really.. what new kitty picture doesn't cheer ppl up	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-01 19:27:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	Well there's no obligation to do themes if you don't want to. You definitely don't HAVE to do the theme. It's just for people who need or want some inspiration on what to send out. But I know you also weren't sure about participating once a month anyways, so phooey on you LOL	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-01 17:48:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	Maybe I can put the postcard themes in my siggie each month so that it's easy to access and a good reminder! ? yes/no? haha, I wrote that before reading lgg's post. Thanks for reposting the thingie Ant! lol I was thinking about posting the email address in my siggie, but I didn't want to get spammed uh... what else... oh yeah! I was thinking future themes could include writing limericks, haikus, favourite quotes.. etc.. hahaha... ahhh this is gonna be fun!!!! Oh, and the list is alphabetical You get to stay first Ant! lol!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-01 13:55:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	I also like the idea of writing VJ names on the post card as well, Ant. I'll give all necessary info with the contact info. Also, re: themes, I think an EARTH theme for April's upcoming Earth Day would be fun. So anything landscape/nature/flowers related. This one should be easy And for writing... hmm... Write anything, but you have to use the word 'sun' at some point in the postcard. lol How's that? For anyone interested right now, here's my list as of this morning (This is the most updated list, I'd been hearing from people throughout the day yesterday, so I will post a new list tomorrow, just so this thread can focus on ideas, and not lists!): CONFIRMED: Ant+D+BabyA ashenflowers Canadiandggal CdnMN Colleens Dan and Ali Hugglebuggles Kathryn41 Kayla*Mathew lilacvioletiris OBX Pauley sdw steflovesbran Need info: Bern. Christi and Ian leonsgal70 lgg tHund3r Wyatt's Torch Y&E Edited by ashenflowers, 01 April 2010 - 01:08 PM.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-01 13:06:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	I don't mean to sound like a control freak or anything, so I'm really sorry if I do... please let me just post the list though. It'll avoid confusion, and just makes it easier for me that way. Then I know my list is current based on people contacting me, and I don't have to make sure it matches another list in the thread, which may or may not be right as well (for example, right now my list is different than the updated list that was posted... lol). I am keeping a list of participants on my computer, and keeping their addresses in a separate contact folder as well. Don't worry, it's all under control. lol I can post an updated list of participants a day or two before each draw of the month. And if people want to opt out of or jump into that particular draw they can. I will make sure each participant receives an equal number of postcards. As of right now, I have 14 confirmed participants (confirmed as in, they've shown interest and I have received contact info). There are also 7 other people who said they would like to, but I have not received info from (you know who you are. lol). Just a reminder you can either PM me or email vjpostcards@gmail.com But no worries. Like I said you have until April 5th. I'm so glad you guys are all on board for this!! I use a lot of emotions! Here're your questions Ant with answers bolded 6) What are we supposed to write on the postcards? Anything goes? Something specific? Leave it blank? I say anything goes (but see below re: themes)! Friendly, of course LOL 7) How about if we do a "writing topic of the month", or something like that, which we can all commonly write about on our postcards, to make things more interesting? You can choose the first topic, Ashenflowers, since this project was your idea... This might be actually really fun! It's a great idea! hmmm... let me think about a theme and get back to you. 8) Umm..On what we will address each other, name-wise on the postcards: I think we need first/last names too, when you give the contact info, ashenflowers...Lol..As I don't think that the USPS/Canada Post will deliver using our VJ names....(lol..mine won't deliver to Ant+D+BabyA....). So make sure to include your first and last name too, when you sent your contact info to ashenflowers... Yes, people have been giving their first/last names If they haven't, I have been asking. I want to make sure everything gets where it needs to go! My mail'person' barely accepts my maiden name, let alone 'ashenflowers' 9) What type of postcards do you want to send? Or is it, anything goes here too? Or would you like a specific theme? I think anything goes, but if you can find one related to the monthly theme, all the better! But no pressure. Some people might have access to a better variety of postcards than others. lol I don't want to put too many restrictions, but themes might spark creativity and make it more interesting.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-01 13:00:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	Sorry for the double post, I just wanted to clarify something for everyone who's curious.... POSTAGE COSTS for Postcards: FROM USA: according to www.usps.com Within USA: 44¢ for a LARGE postcard, or ONLY 28¢ for a small postcard up to size 4" x 6" (standard size, really) To Canada: 75¢ Internationally (overseas): 98¢ FROM CANADA: according to www.canadapost.ca: Within Canada: 57¢ To USA: $1.00 Internationally (overseas): $1.70 I'll be honest, I didn't even know you could get 28¢ stamps. Now I'm curious! lol	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-03-31 18:26:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	Got it! Thank you So far, if my calculations are correct, I have contact info for: ashenflowers (duh ) Canadiandggal CdnMN Hugglebuggles Kayla*Mathew lilacvioletiris OBX Pauley sdw steflovesbran (also... the following have shown interest, but I do not yet have your info... email vjpostcards@gmail.com or PM me!) Wyatt's Torch Dan and Ali lgg Ant+D+BabyA Christi and Ian Bern. Kathryn41 tHund3r Colleens leonsgal70 Y&E I'm not pestering. I'm just Friendly Remindering Edited by ashenflowers, 31 March 2010 - 06:03 PM.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-03-31 18:01:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	That would be cool! Any idea how much postage it costs to mail something from the US to the UK? Probably not too too much I'd think. I have a friend who lived in Pakistan for a while and that was a confusing postage situation. I think I spent $15 to send her a envelope with a little extra thickness once. Not so cool! I believe it's 98¢ internationally for something like a postcard	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-03-31 15:10:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	I think this is a cool idea and I'd love to send some postcards from the UK while I'm still here. But if it's only open to Canadian VJer's then that's alright No worries! Join us!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-03-31 14:26:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	Thank you both! Got 'em!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-03-30 19:18:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	So, I was gonna PM this to everyone, but then I was like 'dang, that's time-consuming' cause I'd have to do one at a time, so I figured I'd post it here, and hope you guys will answer. LOL If I don't hear from some ppl I will PM them before I do the 1st draw. Hurray! I'm excited to start this. Here is "Generic Postcard Msg Questionnaire Thingie #1": To help me figure out how to facilitate the best way to approach this task, please answer the following Qs for me. Either just reply here, or feel free to PM me, or email VJPostCards@gmail.com (yeah that's right... I set up a separate email for this... I'm hardcore). Thanks so much! * Are you willing to send postcards to both Canada AND the U.S. (and possibly elsewhere if other VJers get involved as well)? * How long do you want to participate in this? Once a month until it dies off, or would you prefer to only send one or two postcards? Please be specific. * When is your birthday? I'll let the sender know during the draw of the month of your birthday, and maybe you'll get a 'special' card!? * Do you prefer to be contacted via email or VJ PM? Please PM me your email address if you prefer that. * Please PM or email me your mailing address. If you will be moving soon, please PM the one that would be current for the month of April. I will let everyone know ahead of time when the next random postcard draw is (likely around the 1st of the month), and future address changes can be made any time. * Please know that I will give your address to NO ONE except the person(s) randomly selected to send a postcard to you. These 'guidelines' and method of play may change at any time. I am not held responsible for any postcards that you receive that you don't like. * Please let me know if you have any suggestions! * P.S.: Yay! * P.P.S.: DON'T post your address in this thread. PLEASE only PM me or EMAIL your addresses to me. Thanks!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-03-30 18:45:00
Canada	Postcard Exchange!	This is great everyone! Thanks! I'll start keeping a list, and will PM each of you with a mini questionnaire this afternoon. lol I'll give until April 5th. Just cause it's Easter Monday and seems like a round number. LOL So anyone who hasn't signed up yet has until April 5th to be included on the first draw weee! This'll be fun!!!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-03-30 13:00:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	mmm cookies... normally I'd be all over the conversation like chocolate on strawberries, but I had to bake cookies 3 times this week so I think I'm cookied-out. lol	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-05-30 14:29:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	whatchoo talkin bout willis? hah... I know... I put that in my FB status too. lol sigh.. sad.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-05-28 14:12:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	Holy #######.. Gary Coleman died... http://www.google.co...l=&oq=&gs_rfai=	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-05-28 14:04:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	On the subject of quality...I need a real Starfrit can opener...can't get them down here and mine got broken somehow (strange child mystery...) I liked how it held onto the lid and i could just drop it into recycling...have not found an identical one here I don't know if it'd be identical to the one you're talking about, but check out the Pampered Chef can opener. It's all kinds of awesome. I really miss mine (it didn't make the trip to the U.S.). Side note... whoa. Typing that gave me a deja vu. I have no idea why. lol	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-05-13 12:29:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	Thanks guys Chipper was about 2 and a 1/2 yrs old. I got him in Nov. of '07. He was a lover of peanuts, cashews and lettuce, and paper towels and kleenex. lol He only really bit me hard once, and that's when we were trying to get masking tape out of his fur in January... We had used it to hold up his water bottle in our makeshift travel box during our road trip and it didn't work so well.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-05-03 21:07:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	Sorry about the house Krikit. It can be heartbreaking once you get your mind set on something and start envisioning your new life there (at least that's what I do.. lol get ahead of myself a bit). Flames is right though. It just means that the 'one' is still out there. In other news... my hamster died today. He was just old. We had actually taken to calling him Stinky/Silly Old Man. lol I'm sad. He even moved with us on our cross country drive from Canada. Sigh. We buried him under the apricot tree in my in-law's garden. His name was Chipper.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-05-03 17:18:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	I don't think I mentioned this... ? For anyone interested, tomorrow (May 1) is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. check out www.freecomicbookday.com for info on your local participating stores. It's a lot of fun! London had 4 stores that participated all within a few blocks of each other, and I'd end up with a huge stash. Sigh... I miss those days. lol	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-05-01 01:06:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	I need a quick opinion on this: I'm writing my resume. Putting "Woodstock, Ontario, Canada" is too long. Should I just omit the province and leave it as "Woodstock, Canada"? And also to the people who live in California and have taken the driving portion of the test recently: Do they test you on parallel parking? If they do, I need to practice that soooooooo badly Maybe just Ontario, Canada? I dunno... or Woodstock, Ontario? If you have anything else showing you're from Canada on your resume. I haven't gone for the driver's test yet. Waiting on GC/EAD/whatever. lol	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-30 23:56:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	i caved in and baked like 4 dozen David already tried to eat half of them! if your in illinois sure! otherwise i dont know if they'd last!! i made regular oatmeal and oatmeal chocolate chip Cookies last Just have to pack them nice. I sent some 2 Christmas' ago from Ontario to California, and they arrived in fully edible condition. lol	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-20 01:11:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	awwwww http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hul589uvi9s&feature=player_embedded#! you can read the story here.... http://www.thedailyt...ican-continent/ !!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-19 15:09:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	haha! I'd love to do the 'kid pics' sharing. My mom made me get my hair permed ALL THE TIME. It was very poodleish, and I had eyebrows from hell to go with it. It's bad enough my mom actually had a coffee mug made with my school pic on it from that year. yeah...... btw.. Huggles, congrats!!!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-16 12:56:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	I feel your pain on the house hunting. We're not in the 'house' market yet, but even just apartments are ridiculous here. For example... in London, ON I rented out a HOUSE with two roommates... cute house with a BIIIIG yard, upstairs loft, nice neighbourhood, etc... for about the same amount we're paying for our ONE BEDROOM apartment in Santa Barbara. And it's not a 'fancy' apartment, by any means. I'd call it average. Next year we might end up moving to another town depending on our employment situation. There are cities about 30 mins away from here that are much, much cheaper. Another thing we could've considered originally had we know my husband's boss would turn into an jerk.... Now we're stuck in a lease.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-15 13:36:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	Announcement! I almost feel this deserves it's own thread. lol http://www.starbucks.com/thebigpicture For more info Bring a reusable travel mug to Starbucks tomorrow (April 15) for a FREE COFFEE	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-14 22:54:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	This thread is starting to bum me out. Even miserable people need a hug once in a while! (ah, read the ultrasound post after I posted this originally..) LOL @ earthquake! that's awesome! Have you any names picked out? Edited by ashenflowers, 14 April 2010 - 02:05 PM.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-14 14:03:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	Does she have bridesmaids? If it were me, I'd wear the same colour as them unless it's fuchsia... or teal.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-13 18:12:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	Hang in there Huggles Something will come up! On the plus side, you're still getting calls and interviews. That's great progress. My husband has had very few leads in his nearly 3 months of looking, with only 2 interviews the whole time. California's employment situation is the pits. Can't wait til I start looking too You never know what sorts of volunteer opportunities are out there, or that you can make for yourself. I volunteered for a local dog shelter here, somewhat on a whim, and now it's evolved into me running their twitter account (@sb_DAWG *cough*... lol), and writing articles for their newsletter. Definitely more resume enhancing than just walking dogs!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-11 03:27:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	Don't forget, you get free instant watch movies with your plan too! =D I sure do! I started watching Princess Bride last night... haha But there was actually a movie on TV that I was watching instead. lol Unfortunately we don't have anything that we can use to stream movies from Netflix to our TV, so we have to watch those ones on the computer.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-09 16:04:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	Speaking of movies (which we were before)... I finally convinced hubby to join Netflix (but somehow it managed to work out to seem like his idea, even though I've been wanting to do it for a few months? Whatever works! lol!) I'm addicted to rating movies, and have 11 in my queue! yay! We should be getting the first movie in the mail tomorrow. I'm so excited!!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-09 03:52:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	We have a slightly extended channel package... but only getting about 120 channels if I had to guess. We watch movies 80% of the time we watch TV, since we got the encore movie channels. lol Otherwise it's usually like Discovery channel or food network or something. But I watch Lost (my favouritest evar), Vampire Diaries and Glee regularly (Glee is back in 5 days!). And Ellen, when I happen to have the TV on at the right time.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-08 14:40:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	omg! That's horrible Huggles!! I'm glad Bill's ok!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-07 15:14:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	I'd say it might be stress related, but I hope you're not that stressed out for that long On a similar note, my nephew, about 2 and a 1/2 at the time got hives for a day or two when my niece was born because of the stress of the situation.... hahaha poor little guy.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-07 00:07:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	This is the monstrosity I walked into at work today. Is that not the ugliest thing you have ever seen? It doesn't match with the decor or anything. I get to walk by this every single day for the rest of the summer. Bleh. Oh and look carefully! Do you see the birds nest and the fake butterflies? ... omg it's like Easter vomit.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-06 15:12:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	hahah... yes, that's fair. Did you ever end up doing the yahoo interview?	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-06 13:55:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	If I see or hear anyone complain about getting a job, I will freak the eff out. You have been warned. LOL Edited by ashenflowers, 06 April 2010 - 01:39 PM.	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-06 13:38:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	We went out hiking today, but didn't feel the earthquake though apparently some up here felt it too. I guess people tend to feel them a little more when they're inside, and sometimes it can just be a dizzy feeling? We were out on the rocks and stuff though, so I don't know. I didn't notice anything. I heard an update that they actually put it as 7.2 now. My mother in law made us some Easter baskets It was really cute. I also got one from the hubby too. Yay Easter! lol	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-04 22:11:00
Canada	Off Topic Part Quatre	hahaha!! OMG Joyce that might be the best one yet!	ashenflowers	Female	Canada	2010-04-02 23:26:00