Now this is just cruel. :cry: I got a package in the mail today that says: Your May Day Book. Don't Peek!!! And I'm supposed to wait two months to open it? Sheesh.
May Day Partner :whip: :whip:

Wow. :blink: Someone is organized!

Oh!!! I got something!

Its from the Caribbean Conservation Corporation. It says May Day Exchange on it. :bananadance:

Not to hide it from myself... :P

Turtle behave! :whip: It says May not March! Go hide that package!!!! :bash:

Wow! Y'all that are getting packages so early! Eeek! How cruel of your partner to make you hold onto it for over 2 months without being able to open it. :evil: :shedevil:

Dear May Day Partner:

The closer to May Day my package arrives, the less chance my puppy will "accidentally" chew a hole in the package and the contents will "accidentally" fall out of the box onto my lap... :wink:

Love, Sara

Note taken! In the event it's sent a couple of weeks before May day, it will be sufficiently Puppy-proofed and Appa-proofed until May day. :D

miss SandDance,

I'm starting to wade through your wishlist to compile a list to take with me out book shopping.

I know you tend to go crazy when finding good book deals, so I'm warning you, don't go to crazy on the wishlist aquasitions before may day!!!

or else I'll have to :shedevil: :whip: :shedevil: you!

:whistle:

That will just encourage her! :rolleyes: :lol:

The fabulous ghir has just written to offer me Anansi Boys off my wishlist. I was just about to jump at the chance and say YES PLEASE :bananadance: , but then wondered - should I post a little note here and make sure my MayDay partner won't be disappointed if I do?

I'll ask her to wait a day or two and then mail it if nobody's warned me that I'm likely to end up with two copies :whistle:

I'll *TRY* to be good... I've actually been on a horror kick due to the bookbox getting ready to start up and I don't think I have much of it on my wishlist. I'll go check my wishlist now to make sure I don't have any updates to make. :whistle:

Okay partner... I think I've removed all the stuff from my list that I have already bought, but I might've missed a thing or two... hopefully I didn't mess with your plans. :unsure: :blush: :kiss:

Your package is winging it's way across the water. They promised me it would get there before May 1.

Don't look at the customs form or I'll have to :whip:

A book is on it's way to your doorstep via a circuitous route. It will be marked as a May Day package so be sure to hide it away till the special day. Don't even think about peeking! :nono: :shedevil:


This is not your main package, just something I happened across in my browsing. :giggle:

You guys are mean to make your people have that temptation sitting around! :whip: But I do have to admire your organization to get it done!

I promise not to peek!

I know the feeling. I came home from my trip today to find my May Day package!! Yikes!! Hope I don't hide it then forget where I hid it...

Thanks Dear May Day Partner!! :whip:

Does that mean you received something? You should have done :whistle:

A book is on its way to you (from New Jersey)! It should be marked "May Day Exchange." Would you please post here when it arrives? Thanks!

:wub: Thank you May Day partner.

Appa-
Just thought to ask, do you have any other books by Peter Gethers? (I saw some in a store, and since I only saw the one on your wishlist, I just wanted to make sure before I bought it!) :) :) :shrug: (Another thought, I was trying to find the book by Noreen Clark, and I haven't found it anywhere, is it a to be released book?)

:whistle: :wink:
Your not so inconpicuos partner...

Ok. I'm going to accept ghir's offer. Fair warning! :lol:

You are okay to except this book! However, NO MORE BOOKS off your wishlist!!!!! or :whip:

I will be winging your gift to you the first part of April! :bananadance:

Have a great week!!!!!

Woo-hoo! :bananacheer:

Thanks for posting here, partner. It's nice to know that ...
i. I haven't made a big mistake by accepting ghir's book :rolleyes:
ii. your plans for my package are underway :D
iii. I won't have to exercise self-control all through March like the people who've got their packages already :P
iv. hopefully your good wishes will get me through this week, which is kind of a doozy (mostly due to me procrastinating earlier and now deadlines are whooshing by me at an alarming rate) :o

Heh I dunno if my May Day partner will hate me or what but in like the last month, at least 10 of my wishlist books have been coming in from PaperBackSwap, so of course I've been accepting them. :D I mean, how could I not when I'm up next in a list of a hundred people and there's not definite my partner would get it for me??

So I apologize in advance, but at least with regards to such wishes coming up in my queue, I'm not gonna stop!! :P Heh, at least I'm not going out actively seeking them. It's just a passive action on my part, being that I was already in queue for them. So that's my justification, and I'm sticking to it!! :rolleyes:

:giggle:

That and me sending you a book now and again off your wishlist doesn't help either. :lol:

Question for my partner: Can I purchase something from my Wish List or am I too late?

Nope, nothing else by Gethers. I have "The Cat Who Went to Paris" on my wishlist because another BXer recommended it in a thread about good books for cat lovers. :)

A Dog Called Blue is one of those books that I think I'll either either be fascinated by or it will bore me to tears. LOL! :rolleyes: I think it's probably made by one of the little no-name publishing companies, which is why it's probably hard to find.

Ummm... that would depend on what you want to purchase! :lol:

The Cat Who Went to Paris is awesome. You'll fall in love with Norton Appa. :wub: I finished it and A Cat Abroad, which I didn't like as much, this weekend. The 3rd book, which he said he wouldn't write anymore about Norton in the 2nd, is The Cat Who'll Live Forever. He wrote this after Norton died though. He was 16. :cry: (Norton not that author)

:lol:
I wanted to say if you prepared parcel (or have mailed it already) I’ll try to restrain myself from buying new books, but if you’re beautifully relaxed with sending ...

I'm still preparing the package, but I would :cry: if you bought yourself the same as I've bought for you...

:lol: So you already prepared book for me (that is what i wanted to know). OK I'll try to restrain myself from buying. (Giving you the list of books I wanted to buy would be cheating so I'll not do that :rolleyes: )

How's this? Feel free to buy anything that's been on your wishlist for more than a year. :D

It appears that I am not as quick as everyone else seems to be so there's no problem! As long as they aren't on your wishlist anymore, we're good to go. I'll probably be putting it together and shipping it the first or maybe 2nd week of April (Don't want to tempt you too much). I'd say you're fine until, hm, March 31st. :)

The bookbox forum wouldn't let me post, but I do have a message for you! Do not and I repeat DO NOT take anything that has Pepper's name attached in the Sci-fi/Fantasy VBB! If you do,I'll have to come all the way to NY and :kinky: .

(sorry pepper!! I'll get off my :soapbox: )

Eek! Okay, I'll be good (probably... :innocent:)

Okay that's cool! And anything still expected to come in, that hasn't yet, is marked as pending on my WL so I've been very conscientious keeping that up to date. :D

Of course, I hope you're from outside the US mailing it that early. So I don't get too tempted... :P :whistle:

I picked up my p.o. box mail today, and there it was. Thank you May Day partner, I have safely stored it away. :)

:hug:

Great! only one book is matching that criteria :lol: