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Right now I'm thinking I could go my entire life with no greeting cards other than this LOL printed on some nice blank ones:



I'm also sort of sad that I haven't yet figured out how to make it into an icon.

I made a mini cardboard christmas tree out of two shoebox/book shipping box sized brown cardboard boxes squished flat (and a hot glue gun and a box cutter). Since I've just taken it down, I figured I would post the pictures I took of it. I got the idea from this blog, but mine's a good deal smaller.



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It's the expression.

This must be from Finland. I can't even count the amount of times Finns have made this mistake out loud to me:



The local system doesn't differentiate between V and W for purposes of alphabetization so it's easy to see how this potentially could happen, I suppose, although when it eventually comes down to simply remembering which is which - ie, for non-novices - it gets a lot harder to understand. I presume they know that one method is for Russian (and some other languages) and one is for English and simply can't match them up on the spur of the moment.

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Nothing edible is on this list, because I rarely consider edible things a luxury, even chocolate. If you go to the store for milk or garbage bags and buy that and chocolate, I don't really consider it an impulse buy, because it's not like you don't need chocolate, and you don't want to run out, and it's not like you can have too much, either. And I don't ever buy utterly cheap chocolate like Hershey's bars (not that they even have the equivalent here, I don't think) because I don't consider it edible. Where I do draw the line is between decent chocolate (Fazer, Lindt) and gourmet chocolates (Guylian, Ferrero Rocher, handmade truffles). Gourmet chocolate is a luxury and I actually buy it very rarely because good decent chocolate is already so good that I rarely actually crave the fantastic kind (not just Guylian but this little local shop in my hometown, Nolan's, that made handmade truffles in all kinds of liquer flavours, but ohhh, how I crave the Irish Creme ones. *_* @_@ And amaretto! And Grand Marnier!). That said, Ferrero Rochers are always an appropriate gift. My parents used to give them to me yearly in big boxes for Channukah, Valentine's Day, and Easter, but I've never been able to convince Wax that I'm a pretty princess who deserves pampering with special chocolates - she's more the kind to buy a box of filled chocolates (but not the gourmet ones) every other time she goes to the store. Which, in the long run, is probably more useful anyway.

I've been planning to get good coloured pencils and other art supplies - markers, drawing paper, crayons - for my niece for Christmas, and I noticed today that the store I was planning to buy them at doesn't have Prismacolor. They've got a whole shelf of Faber Castell products and another display taking up the whole wall where they sell them one colour at a time and then a smaller one of that other pencil brand that starts with a W and sounds British and another of Derwent, but no Prismacolor! I don't know if Prismacolor are the best pencils in the world, but I know that they're excellent and they're my brand. (It's like, okay, Chevy and Ford people - and several of my uncles and cousins feel VERY strongly about those things, but I don't care about cars.) I know that FCs are good - I think I have some, in the big bundle of spare pencils my mom sent me last summer - so it should be fine - but... I hate having my plans upset. And they don't have boxes of Crayola crayons. :O I can't give her pastels. That would just be cruel (to her parents).

In honour of the fact that Wax just told me putting expired food from the fridge into the trash too early is "a bad scene". Ahahahhahaa.

It was Chinese bootleg DVD subtitles from Star Wars for "I'll never rule the universe with you". Link from cleolinda



Poor Wax has been up all night with an emergency toothache that painkillers can't kill after 24 hours awake due to coming off the night shift. She's getting ready for an emergency trip to the dentist now.

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