My pen hates me

[wordinista]

So I'm sitting down to do Christmas cards, right?  And I've got my super-spiffy Waterman fountain pen with a brand new cartridge of inky goodness just waiting to flow.  Let me say now that I love this pen.  I love it a lot.  It's the Best Pen Ever, and my favorite souvenir, ever.  (I bought it in Oxford in 1999.)

Today, however, my pen -- or perhaps I should blame my hands -- are rebelling against me.

Aside from occasionally deciding not to write (leaving me with a scrap sheet of paper with various test-scribbles on it -- but sometimes it wouldn't write even after a successful test-scribble), the pen is in collusion with my hands.

See, there is one person on my holiday card list who has, quite possibly, the neatest, most gorgeous handwriting ever. And I wanted to reciprocate, because when I put my mind to it, I can have nice handwriting.  It doesn't generally last very long, but I can write neatly in short spurts. 

So what happens when I go to write out her envelope?

I misspell.

And, of course, I don't have any SPARE envelopes, so I had to scratch out the misspell and try again.  And the whole thing just looks awful.  So, hallowd, please forgive the state of your envelope.  ;)

I'm also one card short.  *swears*  I may have to run next door and see if Mom has any extras.  She should.  *sigh*

And I realize that the international cards will probably not make it till after the 25th, but at least they're going out, which is more than I can say for myself last year.

Comments

[hyanan.livejournal.com]

I've had that happen to me as well. You get so focused on the writing of the letters that you don't pay attention to what you're writing. Usually I get angry and think "Those poor monks..." ;)

I thought about doing some cards with my crappy calligraphy, but well, that never happened. *flop*

At least I thought about it... :P

[hallowd.livejournal.com]

You're forgiven. Please do forgive the fact that I won't be there to read the card until after New Year. I'm leaving for my parents' house tomorrow, and won't be back for three weeks.

[w0rdinista.livejournal.com]

No worries. I'm just glad I finally got the lot of them into the mail. I'd been putting that off for far too long.