Erin = Smiles

Good Afternoon,

I am wondering if being down in the basement is a good idea. Roy spray painted the flag holders for the front of the building and the idiot did it in the basement. I'm going to pass out from fume inhalation!

Its been a relatively uneventful day aside from your parcel arriving. I cleaned my room and shaved my legs, two big achievements in one day!! Ha!

In all seriousness I loved your parcel! I went through everything, looked at what was in the box before I read any cards or letters. So the toothpaste is great, thank you!! I'm saving the Reese's Heart until the 14th (and that's taking will power) and I giggled when I saw the heart shaped candy with words on it, the Sweethearts! You know why? Because I was actually going to send you some but I thought it would be a little too corny!! That's kinda funny!! We do have those at home, I had just assumed they had them all over the world. But thank you, I sort of feel like I should still send you some regardless now you've sent them to me!

I will admit that the Spiderman candy threw me. I have to say though, I hadn't actually picked up the box. So I shrugged off the Spiderman candy and thought maybe that was just an extra bit in the parcel. I go and read the card from Squirrel and laughed, read the card from Thunder Jumper and got a little misty, but laughed. Then I read the card from all the KOB puppets and laughed a lot more (Could hear Jo and Val in the show going on about articles and spine abiffida (spelling?)) but got a bit confused when I read Mike saying his mom helped pick out the gift. As far as I could figure I didn't have a gift from Mike...but then after I read all the cards again, read your letters and sat thinking about things, I picked up all the stuff that was in the main box and it was then that the penny dropped. The Spiderman Candy was from Mike (I later found the to and from on the back) and so I just roared out laughing at that and the notion that I'd received Valentine's Day cards from Puppets and a Cat and then quite spontaneously burst into tears!!

It was all a little too much emotion to deal with and the best way to get it out was to cry. Then I was okay, got back to laughing, missed you a little more but also understood why. So I've been smiling all day in addition to the smiling from your call last night. Is it any wonder my cheek muscles are a little sore?!

I found your journal entries to be amusing, but not in a funny hilarious way, so please don't take that the wrong way. Amusing in the sense that I always like to read the different types of ways people write. I love your one liners. Some of it made me feel sad. Some of it made me smile at the memory. One thing I did find quite funny was that you thought I would fit in with the Marie crowd. I knew from the word scratch that I wouldn't, purely because I didn't think the idea of taking me straight to the pub was a great one. But then you were looking at things from the outside. And yes, you did pick well with the scented stuff from the body shop, Oceanus (not entirely sure it's spelt that way!) is my favourite Body Shop Smell, only I never spent the money to treat myself to it. As a result I'm actually wearing some of the perfume spray stuff and it smells nice. The lotion is great for your legs after you shave. So it was handy to get it for my birthday because I ran out of skin cream not long after I got here!

For now I might just wander off back upstairs and read a book or something. The weather isn't all that nice out so I think it's an indoor day today.

Rachael