Ideas for things to mail

lilmama1972 · #1 08-27-2003, 06:12 PM

O.K. I am not really sure if I am posting this in the right place, but I am looking for any creative ideas that anyone might have of things that I could send to help pick his spirits up. I strive to be the creative one, always keeping him guessing as to what tomorrow's mail will bring and I think I might have run out of ideas. I have sent cards, postcards, homemade puzzels (I have a great link if anyone wants it), pictures, homemade heart balloons out of paper, stories of us, and paper presents with intimate IOU's. Does anyone else have ideas that they could offer me? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!!!!

Joanna · #2 08-28-2003, 04:55 AM

Some of the ladies here have swaped postcards from their state and different countries, that may be an idea
Good luck

lilmama1972 · #3 08-28-2003, 11:02 AM

Joanna,
Thanks! That is a good idea.
-Linda

DreaC · #4 08-28-2003, 11:09 AM

Hi lilmama,

I like to send Matt little things too. Some of the things I find are funny jokes I get online. I send him lots of pictures. I also send postcards.I have even sent in a few articles from a sports magazine, because he loves the Lakers. I don't know if he got those tho..hmm now i'm wondering. I kinda feel like you, what else do I send. I love your idea about the puzzles? How do you make those? Is that the link you were talking about? I'd love to get that from you if possible please. Well I hope you can come accross many ideas by posting this. Good Luck!

Take care, Drea

toi_ama · #5 08-28-2003, 11:14 AM

How about collaborating on writing a story. That's fun. You write a paragraph to start the story and have him add the second paragraph, and so on. Instead of just writing a regular story, every once in awhile you could throw him a curve and go in a silly direction or something.

lilmama1972 · #6 08-28-2003, 02:12 PM

Hey thanks guys those were both good ideas. I am going to start my story today. I did do a "Tale of Two Opposites" for him once which was basically the story of us. We were fighting, anyway he loved it.

DreaC here is the link http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
It is actually I think geared towards teachers but I did a crossword puzzle - all about us that he had to complete. He loved it because no one would know the answers but us. I did another one all about Linda and surprisingly he did super. THen I did a couple of word searchers that were with intimate words. We've had lots of fun with the puzzles. Good luck and let me know if you have any problems.

Trulykath · #7 08-28-2003, 02:32 PM

www.pillowmail.com

great for fill-in-the-blank steamy stories!

kath

msveggie · #8 08-28-2003, 02:57 PM

Ever think about writing a letter with glow in the dark ink? He would have to wait until night time to read it. Of course you will want to write it on the back of a letter you write in regular ink since it would look like a blank piece of paper otherwise and that's not allowed.

Do you like to play games? I've made a chessboard that I posted on PTO in the past. Here's a link to it

http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/sho...d&pagenumber=3

I believe I also posted the directions on how to do this so that you can send the board back and forth to one another to make your move.

My man is into lot's of stuff so I never run out of stuff to send him. Actually he never runs out of request. He is very involved with the space program at NASA through JPL. So he has me send him articles about things he worked on for them and I know that he was particularly interested in the Mars projects since he truly enjoyed the days of combined effort in the creation of the Rover. There's ton's of stuff about that on the internet. Also have found some very nice pictures on the internet of space stuff. Sorry I don't know all the correct terminology it's his interest not mine.

I also found a site that has jokes about various professions. That had them all laughing. There's bound to be one he might find funny.

Another thing I do is use clipart I find on the internet on my envelopes. He really likes that and the stationary I make for him.

There's a few places that I've found paper models on line also. That was a huge hit where he is. Everyone wanted one. I've sent various old airplane, jet, and cars that they can put together.

I've made him a paper slide rule since they won't let him have a calculator. I realize that most everyone else has them but I think they are afraid of what he can do with one. They even called one guy that has a graphing calculator in to talk to him about the fact that they knew he associated with someone that was knew how to program. Yes, my man tutors this guy with his college calculus course. So not only do they prohibit him from having a graphing calculator but they watch anyone he talks to. They are a bit afraid of his knowledge. Honestly he's not a threat to anyone and would do no harm, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have the knowledge to know how to do things they wouldn't approve of and I doubt they would understand it if he had tried. After all how many imates have pages from their favorite Nuclear Engineering book sent in on a regular basis? To tell you the truth I send him stuff that I couldn't even begin to tell you what it was.

You don't have to understand their interest just know the correct words to search for and how to find it. Then print it and send it and hope it's what he asked for.

Sorry I got so long winded. But there are a few ideas anyways.

lilmama1972 · #9 08-28-2003, 03:33 PM

msveggie - Thanks so much for your post. I am so excited, I am going to run out and get going on some of this stuff. He is really into to cars, racing and motorcycles so that will be my starting point. Do you remember where you found the paper models online?

Do you run your envelopes through the printer to get the clip art on them?

Oh and where do I buy glow in the dark pens? I am so excited about that idea I can't wait to send it.

BTW I work for a government contractor who directly supports JPL. Would you like me to gather some materials for you to send to your husband? I happen to manage the JPL archives. Small world huh?

Thanks for your great ideas, this is just what I was hoping for.

Linda

emilysimon · #10 08-28-2003, 06:13 PM

Could you please explain what JPL is? Thank you.

Emmy

CET · #11 08-28-2003, 06:21 PM

I was thinking about glow in the dark pens also. I've asked at art stores, toy stores, looked at office max. No dice. The idea of having something actually private appealed to me. I bet I could find a recipe somewhere for the ink, and then use an old pen, but that is a lot of work.

roro · #12 08-28-2003, 06:26 PM

That puzzles site is great! I sent the find a word puzzles, and what I did is not give him the words to find, I cut that part off, and only told him "stuff about our house" or "about our family" or "things about the SF Giants". It made it harder. Then I sent clues as to what some of the words were in another letter, or sent something like an article that had a clue in it. Ha ha he was tied up with those for days!

IrishEyes · #13 08-28-2003, 07:22 PM

Isn't the puzzle website the best?? David calls me "cricket" so I've titled all of ours "Cricket Creations #xyz" and he loves them!! You can get pretty intimate with them if you'd like, or just leave them PG rated.. David just asked for an "adult" one,.. go figure!! Well, I love y'alls ideas,.. can MSVEGGIE put her links on for the rest of us girls/ guys??

msveggie · #14 08-28-2003, 08:11 PM

Linda that would be great. You probably know what all he's talking about when he sends me his requests for that stuff. Hey you say you handle the archives for JPL, he's written a few articles for them. Do you handle that stuff too? What all do you have in the archives? What about information pertaining to those involved with designing various aspects of equipment like the rover. I understand that a good deal of the research and design of it was done by various engineers over the internet. He will be shocked if I can find some of the stuff you have access to.

Ladies some of the links that I use are

papertoys.com

this link has NASCAR racing cars, space shuttle, just tons of stuff

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/

the above site has several free downloads like the
Morane-Saulnier N Bullet airplane
R-1 Gee Bee airplane

Now about those invisible ink pens. I've not ordered any yet, but here are a few links I found with them online.

www.toys2wish4.com/rainglowpain.html

www.toys2wish4.com/glowpen.html

www.epartyunlimited.com/glowpen.html

http://www.akrondesign.com/Novelties...s/glowpen.html

There's a few to get you all started.

msveggie · #15 08-28-2003, 08:21 PM

Forgot to give you all the link to the profession jokes.

http://www.workjoke.com/projoke.htm

they are really kind of funny. Of course he wanted the one for mathematician's so I didn't get it. But check out the other's for the rest of us normal people. I tell you something not right about reading a book that only has pages of numbers and formulas for fun. But that's my honey. He's different, but I love him.