it's the most musically irritating time of year

I haven't forgotten you, yvannairie and princessofgeeks. Today I have to hunt down bits and pieces necessary to assemble packages to take to the post office perhaps on Monday, if I can find the right boxes.

I'm making a second hat for my Dad and Wax is making a third to stick in my parents' holiday package. I've still only made it to book 4 in Foreigner, thanks to all the time not reading that this knitting has required.

At work this week I spent quite a bit of time constructing and revising the various Christmas displays, including a good 45 minutes yesterday trying to problem solve how to set up four more boxes of wrapping paper rolls and another box of cards in a place with negative floor space (you literally can't push a shopping cart through it anymore without either bumping things or moving them out of your way). I ended up with most of them stacked on top of the ones already there, vertically and somewhat precariously.

We've got Luci the puppy for the day again while her family goes to Helsinki. Tristana seems to have gotten over her alarm and they were playing together earlier! Super adorable.