Packages!

This was written last week and this was my first time online.

Today I was on my way to the market and stopped by the post office to send out a couple of letters. I was then going to go to the mayors office, then to the market, then I was thinking about getting something for dinner that was already cooked. I road up to the post office and saw that there was a lot of stuff in the post box. I saw that I had a package slip along in amongst letters for other volunteers. I went around the corner and I could see it. It was a box, I rarely get boxes as I tell people to generally send me bubble envelopes. Boxes seems to 'get lost' more often than bubble envelopes and frankly I would like to receive the things that people send out to me, they also seem to take about 10 times longer to arrive than bubble envelopes (if someone could explain this to me I would love to know why this is). I have been expecting Christmas packages from a few people and because the mail gets slow around the holidays last year I celebrated Christmas well into January, I may have even received a Christmas package in February last year. And there it was, a Christmas box, I could tell it was for me because I could see my cousins handwriting on the outside 'God Bless'. When the postman put the box on the counter for me I knew all my plans were going down the drain. Normally I receive food which would make going to the market a wasted trip, they also contain reading material most of the time. I knew I would probably now just sit in my house and read. I put it on the back of my bike and road home.
Every single package is special but let's face it, some just out do others. Little did I know this was one the better packages I have ever received, coming in third after a special package from my grandfather, and the one that contained a Christmas tree along with a decoration from home. I opened it up and inside there were chocolate bars and pasta sides galore! Then I notice that there is a candle, smelling of balsam, and a USB key taped to the outside of one of the chocolate bars. I then took a chocolate bar that the key was taped on the outside of and went to my computer. I plugged the key in and looked around on it. I expected it to contain pictures and some letters perhaps from my cousin and my aunt who sent out the package. But no, to my surprise it contained Christmas music.
Last year I had very little Christmas music to put me in the holiday spirit. But the amount of Christmas music on this USB key made up for it 10-fold. As I was looking around I saw that someone must have called my mom because hidden in a folder that just said 'music' there was my favorite Christmas album of all time. It is one that we play at our house every Christmas, I don't actually remember a Christmas without this CD in the player. 'A Holiday Celebration' by Peter Paul and Mary. I highly recommend this album to everyone who loves Christmas music. This is what made this package one of the better ones, the fact that it contained something of sentimental value to me. I lit the candle and then played the whole album through while I did some work.