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Since apparently Chewy isn't sending out holiday cards anymore, here is the official start of the holidays, the post about the Origami tree.

This is NOT the Origami tree of my childhood, we apparently did not visit the museum around the holidays and didn't see the one in the museum.

If I am not mistaken, when we would visit New York City around the holidays, we would see the origami tree in the windows of Japan Airlines, which used to have offices there.

From their Facebook page:

Here is a #throwback to one of our special holiday displays, the JAL Origami Tree!

Featured in New York City, visitors strolling along Fifth Avenue could enjoy a magical view of our tree inside the JAL ticket office. From animals to a replica of the Statue of Liberty, hundreds of unique origami were folded into ornaments. We fondly miss seeing the smiles and holiday cheer it brought to all who admired it.

During the holidays, do you go out to see the festive lights and displays around your city?

This is the origami tree I remember.

🎄Explore the Origami Tree during your next trip to the Museum! It’s produced in partnership with OrigamiUsa and is a holiday tradition that dates back to the 1970s. 🦃 The Museum is closed on Thanksgiving Day. But the Friday and Saturday after the holiday, we’ll have extended hours! On November 29 and 30, the Museum will open early, at 9 am. Plan your visit.

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This made me laugh.

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I can give injections to mice and insulin to cats.

*FORMAL training/certification, whatever that may look like for you

**includes pre-med

reblog for reach/bigger sample size!!

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LOLOL this needs to be a fanfic about either Palpatine's double for security purposes or his clueless similar looking cousin.

Palpatine looks like an evil Colin Mochrie

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This is starting to sound like a villain origin story. Are you showing signs of super powers?

i have fired SERRANO JUICE directly into my EYEBALL

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because it actually is slower than regular handwriting

Um, are you all doing cursive wrong? Because the whole point is it's NOT slower than writing in print. You pick up the pen much less.

As a former college instructor, I can also say we were told to write in print on the board because it's easier to read AND it makes us SLOW DOWN and not speed through everything.

The students who still complained that I wrote too fast were the ones who were writing in print.

On one hand I understand not teaching cursive in school anymore, because it actually is slower than regular handwriting and almost everything is typed on a keyboard now anyways.

On the other hand, so much of our (even recent!) history was written in cursive, and having a whole generation of kids who can't read letters written by their grandparents, momentos saved by their great-grandparents, or even photo albums from theur immediate family seems like a dangerously quick way to detach us from previous generations.

And on the third, related but slightly malformed hand, I feel bad that yet another form of small, everyday art that brings joy in the middle of mundane tasks, which celebrates personality and individual style and self-expression, is about to fade into obscurity because it wasn't efficient enough for today's world to put up with.

Like... if we continue to whittle away the small arts out of every day life, what's going to be left except stark, ruthless pragmatism?

Maybe writing a grocery list is less mundane when you get to feel elegant for a moment. Maybe you're a little more proud of what you write when you see it flow together like a painting

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It could be the Devil. It could be your muse who knows you need to be lied to.

The “oh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking

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As much as I'd love to I'm having a 'getting ready for Xmas, work is busy and cat is sick' November.

Hoping to get chunks of writing done over the upcoming holidays.

Some of us really need to be doing “Finish That Fanfic We Haven’t Updated in a Year November” 💀

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I always mean to do it earlier, but if I do it, it's usually 1 am on Christmas Eve and then I don't take it down until April. It's a small tree.

mariah carey is nearly defrosted and they're playing christmas music in shopping malls

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Their age wouldn't have been problematic (they were born 8 months apart), but it would be interesting how a generation hyper-focused on feelings would have dealt with two emotionally dysfunctional people getting together to produce an even worse dynamic between them. Would they have faced disapproval and broken up, or would they have just bound to each other tighter?

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Inktober 2024 Day 25: Scarecrow

No stock photos. I've drawn the same Scarecrow for a previous prompt. He doesn't like scaring the crows and has terrible fashion sense.

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N the Cat is Sick.

She's had a cold for about a week, but she got super dehydrated over the weekend (of course on Saturday afternoon, right after the vet closed). My friend the vet warned me she might not drink enough while with a stuffy nose, and apparently she did not.

I gave her fluids twice Sunday, and she was much brighter and bushy-tailed Monday morning but we still went. They gave her fluids again, but she kind of wigged out on the bus ride home, (we suspect she needed to pee) and was Very Angry when we got home. She yelled at her water fountain and clawed at it until I put in fresh water (it was actually quite full) and was basically raising hell when I left for work. (I'm intending to do the essentials and go home).

Her kidney issues are at the root of this. The good news is that she's still eating like a horse. (M the Cat also had kidney issues but he stopped eating during his final illness). I asked the vet if potassium supplements might help, and we'll try that with her dinner.

Hoping for the best, because she was doing so well since we started with the fountain.

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I have the high gourd.

One of my Halloween attempts

It's over Anakin. I have the high ground

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Inktober 2024 Day 24: Expedition

Clearly no stock images here.

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Part of me kind of wishes I could write myself into an AU of the current reality.

I know I can't, and know I'm not the only one. There were plenty of people back in the day who liked to pretend Martin Sheen was president.

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Hope everyone in your neighborhood has had rabies shots.

god i wish that were me

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N the Cat in Times of Emotional Turmoil

Apparently, N the Cat has picked up another behavior from M the Cat: compassion when Cat Mom is feeling really bad.

N the Cat is not without compassion, but it takes a lot to activate it. She stayed right by me years ago when my house was repeatedly broken into and even would come when I called her name for about 6 weeks until everything calmed down again. (Now she just looks at me if I say her name in the same room. She's not getting up for that).

Last night it became obvious around 3 am that Harris had lost the election because I was not getting any text messages from the campaign.

N the Cat looked me in the eye, recognized my emotional state, then decided to lay down on my lap and purr for a while. M the Cat would have marched right up on me and head-butted me, but N is more reserved. She rarely just opts to sit on me, but she has been more tolerant and supportive since M's death.

At 7 am she stood over me and meowed for breakfast. Support time was over. Time to get with the program.