It's Karmic Payback Time
Since I started blogging, I've received some nice things in the mail here and there from other bloggers. It really is the thought more than anything else that touches me. It's hard to believe that someone who only knows me from what I write here would actually take the time and trouble to package something up and send it to me. And with each little gift, I get progressively more uneasy as I reflect that almost never have I ever done this for a fellow blogger. Somehow I've turned into this gigantic karmic black hole, existing for no other purpose than to suck up people's presents.
The situation has become intolerable. I really need to give at least as much as I get. So I'm sending a special gift to each person who has sent me something. It's nothing spectacular or fancy, but it's fairly appropriate and, with luck, no one will hate it. Here are the recipients:
- Bakerina who sent me a jar of her homemade lemon curd
- Mike who sent me a Blue Monday
- Orionoir who technically sent me nothing and is getting preferential treatment, because he deserves it
- Receptionista who sent me a couple of letters, one of which was written on pandy happy paper
- Snowball who proposed and also visited me on my trip
- Will who is sending me a t-shirt as a prize in a contest I did not win
And it should go without saying that no one is allowed to send me anything in return. Now that I'm finally getting my karma back into whack, the absolute worst thing that could happen would be for this to turn into an orgy of ever-escalating back-and-forth gift-giving.
Also, my apologies to all my other readers who may not have sent me anything but are still highly valued. Please don't think I'm playing favorites. These really are people I felt a need to pay back somehow, and I just don't have the resources to include everyone in this. Perhaps I'll come up with something else in the future. Anyway, it has nothing to do with liking some people more or trying to impress anyone.
