Hello, all. We’ve got some new people signed up. I’ll extend the deadline to midnight tonight if anyone new wants to sign up. Tomorrow I’ll organize the list of who sends to whom, and have the list out tomorrow evening (Eastern time) at the latest.
Address lists have already been assigned, missred, but I sent you a list of addresses and I sent your address to those who said they could send cards to many people.
I got all mine sent out yesterday. Sorry that some of them may reach their destination slightly after Valentine’s Day, but I hope you guys will like them.
I got yours, faithfool! I lovelovelove the little “fortuneteller” thingie. We used to make them in school all the time, mostly to predict who we would marry. So cute! I had forgotten all about them.
The fortune teller is one of those cool things that kids from all over teach other kids. Like hopscotch, jump rope, red rover, ring around the rosy. Please tell me that kids still do these things with no adult interference.
Back to fortune tellers, remember making them out of your notebook paper? You’d first have to fold them to tear of the long end so as to leave yourself with a square and then fold, fold, fold, writing all the numbers and colors in the corresponding colored Bic banana colored felt tip. Oy, am I old.
Oh, honey, I’m older than you are-- no felt tip pens when I was in grade school, only pencils and ball point pens. There were big fat Magic Markers (but no Sharpies yet).
I definitely remember the cat’s cradle.
I remember when playing hopscotch, it was important to find a marker that you could aim, but that wouldn’t bounce out of the square when it landed. Linked together giant paper clips, or bobby pins (remember those?), were good, and also a plain chain that you would wad up and toss.
I’ll bet none of you remembers the kind of skatesthat clamped onto your shoes. And you wore the skate key around your neck on a long shoelace.