Alex wandered into the kitchen this morning while I was vigorously shaking hot milk in the Nutella jar. The *blink-blink* was mostly Mornings, because the hot chocolate situation was fairly understandable. This time I did a better job than the last time I did the same operation: I put the half-and-half in first, then poured a little hot water. Last time, I just poured straight-up boiling water into the plastic jar. The jar decided it was time to stop holding its shape and started shrinking weirdly, and I think that then shaking it made the air inside expand too much for the lid to contain properly (see also, jar shrinking weirdly) and then I was wearing enough of it that I did not want to be wearing any of it. No explosions or spray this time, so I call that a win even though there was just a little spot of spread left on the jar after I'd done enough shaking.
Bullet journaling: finished moving my December and 2021 lists over to the January and 2022 versions. Lots of tracing the headers that I'd used a specific font inspiration for. Flagrant use of the stencils I'd uncovered. A lot of sparkly gel pens.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
amberfox asked last night what the gel pens were, and the answer is, first: nothing special, just there are a lot of them and I paid money for them, and I just knew that if I attempted to replace them, they'd reappear and I'd be medium-size mad that I now have too many sparkly gel pens, and less money. Specifically, they are at the price point that they are made cheaply and the experience of getting the cap off the first time reflects that. The quality of the ink doesn't seem to be (too) crappy, but honestly I think these are par for the course for a $20-ish set of 100-ish pens off Amazon. That said, the brand is REAEON but I bet there is a manufacturer that does gel pens and a couple hundred ambitious companies commission packs with their brand name upon them.
There's an LMB discord and it's great. There's also a discord for https://archiveofourown.org/works/20644262/ and it is unhinged in the best possible way and I get so many memes from there. I'm extremely far back in the Yuletide discord, which is as expected at this time of year.
Bullet journaling: finished moving my December and 2021 lists over to the January and 2022 versions. Lots of tracing the headers that I'd used a specific font inspiration for. Flagrant use of the stencils I'd uncovered. A lot of sparkly gel pens.
amberfox asked last night what the gel pens were, and the answer is, first: nothing special, just there are a lot of them and I paid money for them, and I just knew that if I attempted to replace them, they'd reappear and I'd be medium-size mad that I now have too many sparkly gel pens, and less money. Specifically, they are at the price point that they are made cheaply and the experience of getting the cap off the first time reflects that. The quality of the ink doesn't seem to be (too) crappy, but honestly I think these are par for the course for a $20-ish set of 100-ish pens off Amazon. That said, the brand is REAEON but I bet there is a manufacturer that does gel pens and a couple hundred ambitious companies commission packs with their brand name upon them. There's an LMB discord and it's great. There's also a discord for https://archiveofourown.org/works/20644262/ and it is unhinged in the best possible way and I get so many memes from there. I'm extremely far back in the Yuletide discord, which is as expected at this time of year.
