Postcrossing

I just discovered a website called Postcrossing.

This website allows you to send and receive postcards from random people all over the world.  I am positively vibrating with waves of recurring excitement about this.  One of the biggest reasons I'm so enthused is that I have participated in chain letter crap when I was in middle school which promised that after you send your letter allottment you would begin receiving letters from people all over the world.  Of course, the results of those scams never materialised.  But this is a bona-fide honest-to-goodness legitimate website. 

I've already requested five addresses.  I am sending postcards to five young women in Canada, Russia, Czech Republic, Finland, and Ukraine.

The only drawback at this precise moment is that I'm at work instead of at a store buying postcards.  That and the post office is closed on Sunday. 

I think this will be a FANTASTIC way to encourage me to visit more local landmarks.  Here are some places that I am looking forward to visiting around San Antonio at which I can pick up new and interesting post cards:  San Antonio Museum of Art (haven't been since high school), McNay Art Museum, SA Botanical Garden, San Antonio Zoo (I try to go almost every year, it's about time I made that happen again), the Riverwalk, the Alamo (I've only been once!!!), various Spanish missions around town, Witte Museum, state parks. 

I will post pictures of the postcards before I send them.

In other news:  I played with my spinning wheel for about an hour on my porch last night.  It was the first spinning I've done in about a month.  It was marvelous :)