One of the few weekly emails/newsletters I get from stores that I actually make a point out of reading is Moosejaws's newsletter. Normally newsletters I recieve are filled with the same weekly specials that very rarely are interesting. Well Moosejaw's emails usually mention a sale or promotion going on, but then the owner of the company will add a note to each email telling what he has been up to, and it is usually hilarious. Here is the excerpt from a recent email from moosejaw.

I always take a vacation before we get super crazy during the holidays. Vacations are a rarity and something I look very forward to. I was going to change that sentence and write ..."to which I look very forward" but I didn't think you'd care. So I went on vacation to San Diego with the girlfriend and after fighting about it for seven minutes, I agreed to stay at her sister's apartment. I figured the two sisters would spend the whole time talking and I could just do my thing. Not sure what my thing is but I planned to do a lot of it. Anyway, the whole weekend was a disaster and it couldn't end fast enough. Yes, there was the non-stop rain but that was nothing. The sister had her boyfriend over the entire time! I didn't know she had a boyfriend and if I did know, there's no chance I would have stayed there. The weekend was one giant double date and I was left hanging with the sister's boyfriend. If you saw how
close I had to sit next to him on the tiny couch in the tiny living room, you'd feel my pain. I think we touched two or three times. If I knew him better I would have put a dining room chair between us. I don't have to worry about him reading this email because he's anti-technology. He thinks it makes the world too impersonal. I made a point to check my Blackberry every 10 seconds instead of every fifteen seconds which is more typical. Besides all that, I had a very nice vacation.

Check out the site if you get a chance. http://www.moosejaw.com/.