Does highlands ranch have drive thru post office?

If you wait until april 15th to do your state taxes (no biggie…can do them online with turbo tax and submit, right?) you will learn that colorado won’t let you submit online if you have something to amend. And yes, at 11 pm, there is a long line of traffic waiting to go thru the pseudo temporary drive thru at the one lone post office in highlands ranch that has been set up to accomodate all those bright people that waited until the last minute to do taxes. Note to self, don’t do that next year.

April 12th Castle Rock becomes Siberia

Not sure if this is a good or bad thing to be proud of the fact that I have been in colorado over a year and have not yet gone in Park Meadows mall. Not a huge mall fan. So SAS suggests going to the outlets at Castle Rock. I am a little leery that this will be the best choice of how to spend my saturday afternoon. But, dang, we had a good time. I was on a mission to find some “kick around” shoes-we ended up being “those shoppers” who go back several times to the “free samples” in one of those kitchen/gourmet food stores and then make the woman behind the counter in the perfume/cologne store that makes her spray nearly everything on the expansive shelf. (why would they have all the samples BEHIND the counter?  They are just asking for high maintenance shopping:)  Not sure how the entire afternoon passed so quickly, but it was dark when we were leaving and now snowing like crazy. We were really glad that we were wearing shorts.

April 11th Wow-thought we were just looking?!

Sometimes, a very innocent, but well thought through, window shopping trip ends up in a “whoa-need to catch breath, collect thoughts and definitely get a drink at the closest bar/restaurant (which happened to be the elephant bar)” moment. So from the very first week, we were already aware that we had found our best friend in one another and were pretty happy in knowing that this was “it”…no brainer to move into my place, (after all, being the same person, it is very easy to get along. Finishing each other’s thoughts..llke saying within the same second the same name for the first dog (german shepard) that we will get…too funny!) But, had only planned to go look-not walk out with a ring for my left hand! So, Jenn Swaney it is going to be!