countdown: our wedding is in 63 days! on theknot.com -- yes, my bible -- it seemed like other ppl didn't have any problems either getting the post office to hand cancel their invitations or hand cancelling them themselves. s'posedly sometimes the ink from their machines bleeds through, thereby ruining the beautiful invitations you spent so much time and money on. we have tissue in ours, and we also have double envelopes, but i figure we should get them hand cancelled just in case. plus, someone at work said that she once got mail that had a big shrek all over the front, when the post office was going through their shrek phase. we definitely didn't want that! but of course, the closest post office said they couldn't do it. so i sent tim to a larger one, and he was told that it'd be ok. but when we showed up today, the guy said they don't normally do that many by hand, but since someone had already said it was ok, he'd let us do it, just this time. whatever. in any case, we finally ended up in the back of the post office, hand cancelling 97 invitations. (it was s'posed to be 98 invitations, but someone *ahem* didn't get his cousin's address in time!) tim handed me the invitations and i was the stamper. at first i was like, hey this isn't so bad! how come they can't do this many by hand? however, at one point my hand/wrist was starting to ache and i thought we were done... only to be informed by tim that we were in fact only halfway through! :( the second half wasn't as fun as the first. but, the invitations were sent out, and that's what counts! it feels good to get that off our chests. now we can get on w/ our evening.
