Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Bucket List #5: Send the Ultimate Package

When telling Saad about my as-of-yet in-progress Bucket List, I found myself saying, "I guess I already did that, but I want to do more of that" a lot. And in response, I heard "That is the worst Bucket List ever." Except with a more expletive-like word that "worst." And I realize that's true because you can't really have a Bucket List with already-complete tasks, but am I really to be penalized as having the worst Bucket List ever just because I did some things that were on an even less-official checklist in my head, just because I was late to the whole keeping-track-of-things game? I say no.

This is one of those things that I already kind of did a long time ago because most of my extended family lives in Taiwan and I would occasionally send some small packages of things to them. Also I have this weird desire to keep the US Postal Service alive, despite the fact that it is incredibly difficult for me to conveniently get to any post office near where I live and I ended up having to send this through UPS. My goal for this one was to end the Ultimate Package. I'm no longer five years old and know that you can't just wrap things up in a brown paper bag and throw it in your mailbox, but this is the packaging that went inside the box. It took me a month from when I decided I was going to send it to actually sending it. It also helped me realize that I really need to work on my response time. For everything.

I can't help but notice that everybody loves receiving packages and snail mail, if you will, and that's why I'm on this (personal) campaign to send more handwritten letters.
 
Avid burrito-eaters will know that the bottom package is a bag from Chipotle. Not only do I like the typography, but the Ultimate Package is environmentally-friendly, obviously. That reminds me, the twine is from the wrapping of Hoosier Mama Pie Company, the best pie shop in Chicago. But that's a whole other story.

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