While writing some thank you notes to people who gave us wedding gifts, my responses became slightly automated. I was thinking in my mind to tell someone that their friendship was of infinite price, or priceless. Instead, it came out that they were of infinite worth, or worthless. Whoops! Lousy inconsistent english. Ever since my English teacher mom asked me, "Can a finger fing?"...
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"You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head." --Marge Simpson
I think Mr. Poncho wrote a few. But, yes after awhile writing thank you's become monontonous and you wish you had a pre-printed stamp that you could use instead. But, thank you notes are always a good idea to do. It's courteous. I remember my Mom telling me I don't know how many times ,"Make sure you write thank you notes. I don't know how many wedding gifts I've given and have never gotten a thank you note!" (It was one of her pet peeves).
My problem is that my thank you notes are never notes... they turn into these long personal epistles that well... are great to receive but killer to write... and so I seldom get them all done in a timely fashion that satisfies the woman... :)
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
Ray, are you only writing thank-you notes to "the woman"?
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
Instead, it came out that they were of infinite worth, or worthless. Hey - that's a 50/50 chance that you consider them the best friend in the whole universe. I'd rather go with those odds than have a 95% chance of just being "a good friend".
Matt started writing them because I took too long when I was doing them. It took me about 2 hours to write 10 because I was putting lots of thought into them and it takes me long to figure out how to phrase things. I'm just glad they're getting done, but now we have to get the ones done of the people he doesn't even know, or I don't even know!
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
— Oscar Wilde
I think I finally finished my wedding thank you notes about 9 months after the wedding. So, um... Yeah, at that point, I was wondering if it was even worth it anymore, since the people had likely long since written us off as ingrates. But I kept telling myself, "Better late than never..."
I wrote ours because hubby found some weasely wedding advice saying that notes should be written in feminine handwriting.
