Where Can It Be?!

I know I know, First World Problem but… That’s right. Again another missing parcel! This time from Japan and no tracking update for THREE WEEKS since 12 October: “Sorry, delivery time has been updated. We’re unable to deliver your parcel today.”, and this is after it has passed Customs, fees paid and out of the sorting office” Or maybe it never left the sorting office, who knows. Numerous calls to our Dutch postal service PostNL was not of much help. I had to contact my sender a week later who had to fill in a form to get Japan Post to liaise with PostNL to start an investigation. Still no update, and that was 2 weeks ago. And when we called Customer Service again, we are now told investigation can only begin 30 days after the last update, ie 12 November! So I have to wait over a week now. Not happy about this.

Naturally I am very anxious, angry and annoyed. The parcel contained quite a lot of Hello Kitty merchandise I was looking forward to receiving after months of ordering. Many beautiful stuff as well including bags, plushies and accessories. To be honest, I don’t even want to know exactly what’s init because if I read the list, I will feel even worse. The thing that gets me is that parcel is first of all 50x65cm and weighs 15kg. Huge and heavy! How could they misplace it? Maybe it was put on the wrong delivery truck and the driver just returned it to the depot and left it there. Or the address label with tracking got somewhat damaged and of course untraceable. Or worse, just lost or even stolen! Seriously, what is going on??? I initially felt helpless and in panic, but after three weeks, I am now even starting to accept that I will never see it. I need to move on, right? But how do I do that?

And now a rant sketch venting out my frustrations (forgot to write that word down in the drawing). Pencil sketch first occupying two pages, then writing in Molotow acrylic markers and coloring the drawings in with some water-soluble oil pastels like Neocolor II and Art Philosophy. Staedler’s Ergosoft Colored pencils were used as well for fine areas like the eyes. At the last minute, I decided to fill in some of the background with yellow Ecoline ink. Painting this certainly made me feel more at ease with myself, but of course I still cannot help feeling upset. Over time, I hope it will settle even more but all I can do at the moment is just hope for the best and be prepared for the worst. And I now it’s just a parcel but… Please pray for me!