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I feel so inadequate.

All the stay at home moms here have blogs. What am I supposed to do? Just watch my kid and work?! No way, I need to re-start this blog thing. Because when I write it totally makes sense and things. And who else am I going to whine to? My husband? Friends? THE INTERNETS!!!!

So here's a story:

The mailman is afraid of me.

We live in an old schoolhouse (Prussian) turned into six apartments (one is empty). Our apartment has its own entryway, so we have a mailbox there. But, there's this big thing called "theft" here, and if anyone delivers anything larger than a letter (which goes into the letterbox on the door - we had to buy that because the mailman kept whining, but that's another story), then it has to be delivered to an actual person.

Anyway, I guess the mailman is sick of me and my foreignness (although last time he told me my Polish is much improved, because I said the word "tutaj" without an accent, I guess). Now instead of knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell to get me, he just delivers it to my sister in law.

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