So yesterday, on Thanksgiving, as is my tradition (for more than 25 years), I did my Christmas Cards.  I filled out 83 cards, addressed the envelopes, sealed them shut, affixed return address labels, and put stamps on them.  I started at 3:30 pm on the dot and finished at 7:03 pm: 3 hours and 33 minutes to do them all. 

Before and after. 

I also have a map showing where the cards are going. 

Purple: 30 cards (PA)

Blue: 26 cards (MD)

Green: 7 cards (NY)

Orange: 2 cards (CA, FL, WV and Canada)

Red: 1 card (OR, MN, LA, AL, SC, VA, DC, NJ, CN, RI, MA, and Portugal)

Also, this year I kept track of how I know the people I'm sending the cards to.  First time I did this and I was curious. 

20 of the people I know from my current job.

14 of the people I know from being Puntabupeeps

12 of the people I know from a mutual friend (a friend of a friend who became a friend of mine)

11 of the people are family

9 of the people I used to work with at Borders (2000-2003, and I still keep in touch with them)

8 of the people are guys I fucked around with or dated (so I met them through sex)

2 of the people I met through the D&D group I was in in the 90s

1 is someone I went to high school with

1 is someone I worked with at CVS 35 years ago

3 are for other reasons not mentioned above, the didn't fir into any of those categories

POLT