In January, I decided to order Chinese one night and paid a few bucks extra to have it delivered from a place nearby, even though its just down the road. When I went to check on the order status, I realized that my old address was still in the system (even though we haven't lived there for a year) so I called to make sure that they could just use the new address, but the delivery had already been picked up and I had no way to contact the driver. So I jumped in the car, and high-tailed it across town (3x further away than the restaurant) to beat the delivery driver to our old house to pick up the delivery.
In February, we went to visit a friend in Tulsa for the weekend. Before leaving, we realized we had misplaced our keys in one of our bags so we were searching through everything. Somehow, I managed to leave my Apple Watch behind. My friend offered to mail it to me so was watching all week for it to show up. We realized on Friday that she had accidentally sent it to our old address. So, as soon as it had been delivered my husband went to try to pick it up. The new owner of our house was home and had been saving a pile of our mail for over a year. Christmas cards, a couple of packages, and an official letter from the university where I did my graduate program. So last spring one of my professors submitted a writing project that I did for his class to a competition on campus. In May, the university sent a letter letting me know that I won '1st place in writing excellence in outstanding writing by a graduate student' and the prize comes with $100. I contacted the university today to find out about the $100 and it turns out that they distributed it electronically in May to my checking account, so the money probably got spent already on bills or something dumb like that. My husband went into the house and was discouraged to see that she had painted everything gray, taken down some of the things that we lovingly left behind like the shelving he built and the tiffany dining room lamp shade, and replaced them with generic, boring junk.
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