First, the annual Willett Family Christmas Card Deluge (WFCCD) has been consummated. 323 cards out in this morning’s mail. If you’re not on the list (did you get a card last year?) and you want to be, there are still a dozen cards left – let me know and I’ll make it happen.
This year we used the 2016 “Views Of Our Planets” stamps.
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Sweet! Sweeter was the fact that I actually was able to find them in the boxes – still sorting things out after the huge move earlier in the year.
Wait, you think that I went out and bought hundreds and hundreds of these amazing stamps from two and a half years ago? Yeah…no! They’re now only available as a collectible thing and on Amazon they’re running about $18.25 a sheet for $8.00 worth of postage. Thank you, I’m just slightly smarter than that and I am occasionally capable of thinking long term. Since I like having cool stamps for the WFCCD, when I see a cool new issue I go out and buy enough to do a whole year’s batch. Think of it as investing in Willett Christmas Cheer Futures (WCCF).
Last year was the Star Trek stamps
Image courtesy of USPS
(which are still available on the USPS Online Store, BTW), and in 2016 it was the “Pluto Explored” stamps.
Image courtesy of USPS
You should see what I already have lined up for 2019 and 2020!! (We need more holidays, I’m falling behind.)
Yes, I get tremendous amounts of Geek Cred Points for this nonsense. At least in my own head I do, and that’s the only place that counts.
Secondly, being in a household where the Hallmark Channel Christmas movies (HCCMs) are on about 24/7 from mid-November onward, I’m getting a great deal of pleasure from the @MallHarkXmas account on Twitter. It’s a bot that kicks out a new HCCM synopsis every six hours. For example:
or
Some of these sound better than the actual HCCMs.
Finally, while putting the cards together there were Christmas songs to listen to, including my all-time favorite:
Listening to this story I had a STUNNING Holiday Insight! (Thus today’s article’s title – took long enough to get here, huh?)
This song is basically an 80’s pop-synth punk version of a Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie!!
“And. They. Fell. In. Love!”
(I might also be easily stunned. Or maybe it was Christmas card envelope glue poisoning. We all know how deadly that can be.)
