Track that package

I'm all about the anticipation. Planning and looking forward to a vacation, going over possible menus and readying the house for guests, all of the pre-event bits and pieces are just as pleasurable to me as the actual event. After all, the event only lasts for a predetermined amount of time, while you can enjoy the lead up to the event for as long as you'd like, if you start early enough.

That may be why I like the "track package" feature of on-line ordering so very much. Once the package is shipped, I can follow it from Kansas to Elm Grove, right to the very truck that will stop at my house to make the delivery. It lets me know I'll have the fun of opening a package (or two) after work.

Two boxes should be waiting on my porch tonight. One, from JP Penney, contains a couple of Christmas presents plus a gift for me - a portable language translator. (Don't even try to tell me you don't do the very same thing when you are Christmas shopping - "three for them, one for me...") The second is a totebag (I see I ordered just in time - mine is black with pale pink quilting and web handles - now they only have the pink ones left!) to replace my much loved, very well used Vera Wang tote.

That poor old totebag is well and truly dead, after a life of full service. I keep all my Bible study and related materials in the tote, easy to grab if I'm going out to study, easy to move around the house if I feel like working in the living room rather than the office. It's pretty well stuffed - Bible, moleskine page-a-day datebook, journal, crossword puzzle book, post-its, colored pens...plus whatever study guide(s) I'm currently working in.

Thanks to package tracking, I can tell you that I'm going to spend the evening finishing up some cookie baking and playing with organizing my new totebag. Something to look forward to after a long day at work.

Sometimes, simple things are the best.