Toothpaste Kisses- The Maccabees

As usual I was running late. 

Saturday 15 January, the original postmark date for The Sketchbook Project (the date changed, literally days before, to the 18th due to all the floods around the world. And with that topic, keep the people affected by these floods in your thoughts and prayers and other karmic wishes. Lives were destroyed, people changed, children forced to grow up in a couple of hours..., livelihoods washed away, crops underwater. The floods have caused a worldwide tragedy. (And some will never be able to recover it, physically, economically or emotionally.))

As it was to the other South Africans and Australians and Brazillians who couldn't make it to the post office soon enough (because of these disasters) that this extention was intended, and I felt that using that to my benefit was a bit too pretentious.

So the day before I had photocopied the entire iPod so that I have a copy for myself, and more importantly, that I could show the friends whose playlists I have made but never saw the iPod before I posted it. And Alice (Alice in Wonderland, from the song "Heroin" in "The Wonderful Playlist of Fantastic Mr. Fox") didn't come out nicely. She was done in watercolour and she came out black and white. Also, I wanted some copies of the originals for fun.

I left home late, toothpaste still around the corners of my mouth, ran helter-skelter into The Print Shop (at 11:40) out at 11:58, race to the post office....to find out it only closes at one. 

I queued politely, wrote on the envelope, wrote a note to the thief on the other end telling him/her that the earphones that he/she was feeling were attached to a sketchbook which was worth nothing to them, watched the post office lady stick pages among pages of stamps on the A4 envelope, hoping that I wrapped it in enough bubble wrap, making sure that the postmark was clearly visible, double checking she didn't lose the package on the way to the scale, and lastly giving it a Toothpaste Kiss(es) and letting go. 

Above is the post office calendar and the wrapped up package which is my iPod.

Here's to you, my sketchbook, a true Aeroplane Jane! (-Karen Zoid).