#22: Send a hand-written thank you note.

Date Completed:  1/9/2010

Right before the 2009 winter holidays, I had to make a trip to the South for work.  A coworker of mine surprised me the night I arrived with a special holiday gift that couldn’t have come at a better time!  We were having a pretty challenging day, so her thoughtfulness and timing were very much appreciated.  That night at the hotel, a couple of us cracked open her gift of a bottle of chocolate Cabernet because after all, I couldn’t carry it back on the plane!  For any dark chocolate-loving red wine-drinking readers, you definitely need to check this out.  With respect to the list though, I’m trying to make a point this year to ditch technology every now and then and go back to a simpler life in order to appreciate some of the little things.  So…snail mail, for example.  Remember it?  If someone asked me how much a stamp cost, I probably couldn’t even tell them because it’s been that long (actually mailing holiday cards is on my list this year, though!).  For this item, I actually borrowed a stamp and mailed a hand-written thank you card to MoLo.  It felt nice to take time to remember her kindness.