During the Christmas season, I try to ship my domestic parcels in the USPS kiosk, and I try to do it late at night when there is no line (they are open 24X7).
I planned to do it on Saturday, but since I didn’t have access to my car, I could no do it, and Vlad came only on Sunday afternoon, and after all the other things I had to address, I when to the post office late at night on Sunday.
Unfortunately, the outcome was expected: by that time, there were so many parcels left in the course of the weekend that the loading door won’t open. I thought that I could at least print the labels, but the kiosk screen was also stuck in the “Please wait” mode!
i did not want to stay in the line on Monday, so I finally learned how to use Click&Ship, and printed all the labels at home, and paid online :). I could even arrange a pickup at home, but I didn’t want to wait for another day, so I drove to the post office to drop them off.
Christmas baking – the second installmentChocolate-almond tea cakesThumprintsWhite chocolate macadamiaOutrageous double-chocolate cookiesAll labels are printed!
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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Hettie, we’ve got the cookies this morning! They are wonderfully tasty, thank you so much, and thank you for all the Christmas wishes and inspiring words! / chamaimelon (Lisa)
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Hettie, we’ve got the cookies this morning! They are wonderfully tasty, thank you so much, and thank you for all the Christmas wishes and inspiring words! / chamaimelon (Lisa)
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Great! You were the first to receive them this year! Did they arrive with no breakage? I know they are tasty anyway 🙂 Have a wonderful Christmas!
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No breakage, and the postman delivered them directly to the door during the breakfast! So we started eating them immediately 😉
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Great!
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