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I don't know, are shoulders warmer? Nutmeg had quit that habit of sitting on shoulders last year, but she's done that at least 3 times just this week.

I'm not much of a Gudetama fan, but, 1. I was in need of a keychain, 2. This was a special Gudetama x Macau edition, 3. This actually works like a top up cash card? But it's not a card, but a chip or something? So, I figured... also, the key ring itself is slightly thinner, so it fit one of my keys better. My previous keychain had a thick ring so one of the keys was constantly stuck if swiveled in the wrong direction.

I'm getting ready for the Chinese New Year. I got a new red dress for my first day of work LOL. Got my red nails done. I misjudged the shiney finger though. I didn't like how the sparkles looked without a base color, so did the same red, but the red was too dark. I probably should have done a white base for that.

Two more days of work and then it's a 5-day weekend and then an easygoing rest of the week because nobody's going to be back to work just yet. Most people are just going to take the next Thursday and Friday off to make it an entire week off. I'm saving my PTO for later travels. I need to see if I can score cheap London tickets.

I'm mostly well by now, thanks for all the well wishes!

Now is just shaking that last bit of a cough and the easily aggravated nose where every little makes me sneeze now. Change of smell? Sneeze. Then cough. Change in temperature? Sneeze and cough. Someone smoking nearby and the wind brought the smoke over? You guessed it, sneeze and cough.

And despite being plagued by this sensitive nose, I did some dusting around my plants shelf. I water the plants every now and then but I hardly ever dust and clean so there was quite a bit of dust on the shelf and on most of the leaves too. Today's big project was cleaning all that up and re-arranging the wiring.

I'm just hoping the ceramics workshop get their kiln fixed then I can finish my doggie planters... and make the kitty planters then I have a complete set :-D Oh I also bought that nifty tissue box that I can hang upside down, and works with tissue boxes of various sizes and packing. Very good for my now constant sneezing and running nose.

Also apparently those growth lights were a little too heavy for the acrylic sticks so I had to take a bit of a strong double sided tape and fix it to the wall. I hate gluing things to the wall like that, but well, I don't think I'm changing anything with the actual set up anytime soon, so, there's no need to relocating them.

Yesterday I decided to sit down and do my nails and it's those sticker nails again. I sort of failed the little finger sticker, when I was filing the first one I filed too much so I had to remove it and use the other half... and had to open a new sticker sheet for the left hand little finger. And then for the right middle finger, I trimmed too much on the side so the sticker was a lot smaller than the nail, but I didn't want to waste another sticker sheet, so I just went with it.

And geeze my hands look so swollen.

So I've decided to forego the expensive manicure packages, despite still having credits with the parlour. I'd rather forfeit that amount, because I'm convinced if I go to "use up" the credit, they're just gonna rope me into buying a new package then I've got all that credit again.

I already have a manicure UV light thingamajig from before, so I went ahead and bought some new colors. I do have more than on this photo below, but these are the ones I used for today's manicure: Base coat, a very transparent black, silver "shine", and top coat. The rod is a magnet, it's used to make patterns with the silver "shine" coat.

Actually I already did something similar on my previous manicure, only I used a very pale pink. This time I went with the transparent black. This is actually around 3 or 4 layers of that black. Then I did a layer of the silver, and hovered the rod over at an angle, so the silver congregates to that one line, and finally sealed it.

So there's this diagonal shine. In Chinese it's called the Cat's Eye shine. I just find it practical because when people see it, they are impressed and all that, and...... they don't see all the imperfections LOL. There's some spots I painted too close and have painted over my cuticles. I decided to try "square nails" and have missed a tiny corner. I don't even know how long I can keep them, because I know I hate square nails.

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