I received a large box in the mail today. Large and heavy. I’ve been waiting for this box to arrive for a week now. It should have been here last week, but you know, snow and such. As UPS put it, “adverse weather conditions” caused my box to sit, lonely and unloved, in a warehouse in Mesquite (ick) for days.
I’d been checking the tracking info for this box pretty much 4 times a day, every day. So today, when it said “Delivered!” in bright green friendly letters, I said, “We need to go to the apartment office like NOW.” So we went. And as I carried this large, heavy box back to the car, I could feel myself smiling like a total goof. Ben said it was the biggest smile he’d seen on my face in at least 2 days. Hmmm.
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