04-12-03 @ 10:42 am EDT

Surfted...um...surfed new items at BS and found out about a project they've got going on. Everybody signs up to a list and adds their snail-mail addresses. Then apparently (I'm not sure I understand the rules...I'm rather dense) you send everybody on the list a postcard...and when somebody sends you one you send one back. I think. It's international and everybody is bubbling about all the neat postcards they've gotten!

I so wish I could join in; that sounds like lots of fun. They are people I would trust with my snail-mail address; not sure if that's smart of me, but I would. It's a controlled environment there, unlike most Web communities. I would so love to get lots of different postcards! Especially nature ones--caves, forests, lakes, oceans, the natural landscape of the people's home areas. The thing is, like I said, it's international, and it can cost up to seventy cents (too lazy to seek out the cent stroke on the keyboard) to send one overseas, plus, I just haven't mailed things in years, so I don't understand all the technicalities. I have never mailed anything internationally before, and I can't really ask my parents to do something like that.

Personally I would like to send other things besides just postcards. Like...pictures, maybe, printed-out ones since we don't develop film anymore. Maybe greeting cards, stickers from the store (as lame as those are--glittery stars, Lisa Frank, or Goku from Dragon Ball Z, anyone?!), or a real-life journal! Yes, through the commentary I noticed links to http://www.nervousness.org/ and http://www.1000journals.com/ . I am so jealous! I would so love to send out a journal to all parts of the country...I could never afford to mail such a thing internationally...but they are all taken, and all those that were in Michigan are of course MIA. Lazy bastards should never have been trusted with those journals. I can't think of how I could make that one work anyway since I don't know anybody to give it to, it would probably not end up with me in the end, and there would have to be a website set up for it, which I could never do. :/

I wish I knew of trustworthy projects like the postcard thing, only limited to the US, as I just can't deal with all the international postage. I'd like to get back into snail mail. I miss how Mya and I used to send each other doodles and in-jokes in the margins of our letters...I remember Mr. Slap-Happy! :D I would LOVE trading postcards and photos! Yes, the only such we have around here are lame local ones...not a very big selection at all, just the stuff you can find at the supermarket. :( But it shouldn't matter much. I wouldn't mind what postcards I got, as long as they showed some local color. Haven't I said before how much I love nature pics? If you lived in Tennessee and all you had was a postcard of a waterfall or something, as long as it's a waterfall in Tennessee, I'd be happy.

And you should see the journals at 1000journals. They are all so well traveled! Full of wonderful drawings and pictures and notes and everything. Yes, it would cost to send a journal, but in the US, it couldn't cost TOO much, could it? *dreamy sigh* I would love to be part of something like that, but that site is filled up with little hope of ever opening a space again, and I don't know other communities well enough to trust with my home address. It would have to be a controlled environment that this would happen in, because I think it's very stupid to just hand your address out to anyone. There are tons of Groups at Yahoo! with PUBLIC archives where people list their home addresses! Very stupid!

I'm so jealous of all those people getting all those wonderful cards and stickers and journals and such! I wouldn't have much to trade in return...if anything...except my printed-out photos and local postcards. :( Hardly a fair exchange. But I wish I could be involved in one of those.

Is this what is meant by the whole Internet idea of "swapping"? I never knew until now what that was. Swapped what? I always thought. I would be more interested in sending and receiving things rather than trading...unless of course you would consider me sending a card and somebody sending a card back a trade, which I guess it is...whatever...I'm just babbling now. I'm so envious! I'd love my own little collection of all sorts of cards and photos and stuff. I would make a nice box and put those in it and tuck it under my bed.

*sigh* :(

Well, I can't imagine it happening...I just can't handle the postage internationally at BS, and I'm not even sure if I could handle it stateside. I have not snail-mailed in ages, so we don't really use many stamps unless to mail bill payments and stuff. I remember once I tried to send out homemade cards but they were too SMALL! Get that, too SMALL! How dumb. I think sometimes the USPS just likes nagging for no good reason.

(Before I forget, another interesting link! http://www.acme.com/ Scroll down to "Toys and amusements"...back to my regular entry.)

And they don't sell blank postcards you can fill in with your own stuff around here...sometimes Cheboygan can be such a hick town, it's true...

Well, posting this entry serves no real purpose beyond wishing. I would ask if any of you out there know of trustworthy card-sending sites that serve only the US, but I'm pretty sure none of you would. Thought I'd try anyway.

Have to go now and feel more envy. Tar...