it's the most musically irritating time of year

[cimorene]

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.

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[princessofgeeks]

No rush at all. Thank you in advance!!!!!

[cimorene]

Oh hey, when I was researching something else for my niece I found out the Metropolitan I'm sending you actually doesn't take Pilot cartridges, it takes international standard cartridges! Much more easily obtained. You can use Diamine, which is the cheapest brand with the most colors available! That's the main difference between the European market version of the Metropolitan and the Asian and NA ones for some reason. Actually maybe it's just that Pilot doesn't want to be bothered selling their proprietary cartridges here, because I had a hell of a time even finding plain blue and black ones for my niece.

[princessofgeeks]

Thank you for the heads up!

[yvannairie]

At least at my job nobody is insisting listening to christmas music other than what happens to be on the radio. And there is none on the radio yet, thank god.

[cimorene]

I didn't know about the tragically horrible Finnish vintage versions of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus before. But now I do. I'm grateful they're still just mixed into the rest of the playlist though, it's not full-time Christmas tunes.