Shake your booty

[flemmings]

Proof positive that Canada Post hoards parcels. Late this morning I heard the screen door slam-- well, open and shut. Someone dropping pizza flyers in the slot, no doubt, except there were no pizza flyers visible when I went downstairs. But when I opened the front door to go to work, four, count them four packages tumbled into the hallway. Checking post marks after opening them tonight, I see that qwerty's and zan's were mailed a week apart but somehow showed up on the same day. Boo hiss to Canada Snail/ Escargot Canada, and much gratitude to everyone else.

Thus I wish to thank

a) i_am_zan for the pink split-toed socks. 'Japanese toed socks' is what the label says, and yes, it does sound like both 'Japanese toad socks' and 'socks for Japanese toes (which but natch are different from everyone else's)'. And the lovely red New Year's card. (I will in fact wear them because the easiest footwear to get on and off in the Baby section- where as in Japan one must have different shoes for inside the section and out- is thong sandals, but because we have no toad socks one can only use them in summer.)

b) xsmoonshine for the Big Man DVDs or whatever they technically are. Like all episoded discs they won't play in either machine, rot it. However there's a laptop in my near future and I shall make certain it plays in those.

c) incandescens for the multicoloured fingerless gloves she knitted. Perfect for that chilly room, my study. And your wool *still* smells of some perfume which wasn't the Lush soap-I-assume? packed in with it.

d) abyss_goat for the Kozerosum with the 'let's all get naked together to keep warm' Saiyuki manga and the Gojou/Hakkai bookmark. Trains go on and we grow old, Fearless Leader, is why God made heating patches and muscle relaxants for post-Comiket trips.

Thank you one and all!

Comments

[incandescens]

Very glad they got there safely!

I am a great believer in fingerless gloves for cold rooms.

The gloves probably smell of the soap that I washed my hands in while knitting them. (Proof positive that the handwashing is needed -- if I didn't take care to wash my hands between dealing with other possibly smelly stuff and doing the knitting, what might they smell of instead?) And yes, that's some Lush soap packed in with them which I happened to have on hand and thought might amuse you.

Happy belated birthday!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Is the soap you use very strongly scented, and is it always the same soap? I know my nose rivals that of a bloodhound and other people might not register anything, but the scent is very distinct, more as if the wool had been sitting next to scented soap for a few weeks. It seems odd that just the lingering smell of it on your fingers would transfer so strongly. It fades in time, alas, but takes a while to do it.

[incandescens]

At the moment I'm using one of two soaps: one is lemony, and the other is a fairly spicy one with bran bits in (I got carried away at Liberty's, ahem). Both are fairly strongly scented. I also previously used Karma soap from Lush, which is an orange-and-spice smell, and I often use their Karma handcream as well.

I don't actually find it that strange, because I usually wash my hands (with soap) directly before sitting down to knit in the evenings, and my particular style of holding the wool tends to bend it round my fingers. Stilll... I should probably be glad that you don't mind the scent. ;)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Mh. I wouldn't say it was either lemony *or* spicy exactly, but it's distinctly the same as the hat last year.

It's not that I 'don't mind' the scent: I actively love it. French perfumey is what it registers as to me.

[incandescens]

Odds are that it's the Karma scent, then. I clearly must get some to you for comparison purposes. :)

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness it arrived at last! Well, and we still have another three or four more days till the end of the 15 days celebratory New Year period. ^__^

I was despairing that it would never get there.

Also I AM glad that you can and will use it. I was thinking the only other thing it might be useful for were very thing oven mitts. ^_~ or something.

You're most welcome dear! Thank YOU for always sharing with us. Much love n hugs.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Two weeks and a bit isn't bad, actually. It takes longer to get packages from Seattle.

[abyss-goat.livejournal.com]

Glad it made to you unscaved. :D

What exactly are those Zero Sum booklets? Just random short stories or parodies from its mangakas?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Random shorts, sometimes series that don't run elsewhere. Minekura's first Honeycomb/ Beehive stories appeared in Ko-zerosum.