Finally, after almost three month of waiting, my new dog left Russia today and she will arrive in the upcoming days in Germany 
I am so excited and I canāt wait to finally see her! I just went to the pet store today to buy her a collar and a leash, some treats and food 
Hopefully she will arrive on Saturday or Sunday 
nothing, but have you heard anyone trying to learn it? itās awful! 
there are no frets or keys, so learners have trouble fingering (phwoar) the right notes, so the intonation is always off; they end up playing gnarly micro-tones or always slightly out of tune. until they train their ears and hands itās like a penderecki concert (though, you know, less enjoyable).
add that to the fact that a bow that hasnāt been properly waxed screeches rather than plays the note, and you have a recipe for tinnitus and a nervous breakdown.
yeah, theyāre ace, especially when you jam shit in the strings:
Yes; me.
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you can put up with the sound because youāre learning; listening to someone else learning to find the correct intonation on a violin is a genuinely painful experience.
this is coming from someone who likes some truly hideous music.
During our last Futsal match two weeks ago, one of us suddenly screamed out of pain and went off the pitch for the rest of the game, barely being able to move painlessly. Today, after a few tests, heās diagnosed with internal bleeding in his back. Heās ok in general, though a small surgery might be needed if it doesnāt cure by itself (that could happen it seems) and he wonāt be able to walk as usual for a while.
When I move house, I want to take up learning to play the piano again. I used to get lessons when I was a teen, then took up lessons again a few years ago but stopped after my piano teacher took his own life. I havenāt touched the piano since. I have an old wooden piano, I know it is a bit damaged but need to get it looked at to see how bad the damage is and whether I want to keep it and move it to the new house or if I should just invest in a new piano. Itās definetly something I really want to get back into, and I think this time, I should hopefully have a better work ethic for doing the practicing required.
Wow he was small.
Anyway yeah, almost 10 months now, 75lbs. My best friend.
Hard at work:
Nothing new though. His collar is new. 
We put up Christmas decorations which means a lot to me.
This is my first year ever with any Christmas lights (we have a couple on a single railing) and we also hung up stockings for my first time.
Growing up my family was very into Christmas but never the decorating part, never had a tree and I was impressed with some tinsel when I was 17.
This is still very light decorating in our tiny apartment but it feels nice.
Isnāt it still a bit too early since weāre still in the middle of November? 
I put mine up on the 5th of November 
I decorated last weekend 
My wife and I donāt agree on when to decorate. Iām in the camp that thinks the tree and the menorah both go up the day after Thanksgiving* and they come down on or before January 2nd. My wife thinks the decorations should go up in late September and come down in late February 
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*in the US Thanksgiving is always the 4th Thursday in November.
Iām tasked with having to decorate the tree where I work. All because one year they finally had me do it. The owner was so impressed with the job I did heās had me do it every year since. 
ā¦yeah, so, I started that last night. I first put on the lights, started at the top, and wrapped them around going down. Then I plugged them in to find out the top-most set of lights are half-burned out or not coming on. I then take them off, take them downstairs along with another setā¦ Iām thinking it mightāve been a loose connection somewhere. Anyway, I put them or another set of lights back on, and most of them are working.
So I (too) got to thinkingā¦ Why now? Why not on/after December 1st? 
If nobody finishes putting on tinsel, bulbs/globes, and whatever else today, Iāll get to do that tonight.
Edit: As for at home? No, I donāt put anything up. No treeā¦ Maybe Iāll hang some lights, or light some scented candles once in a while. Even though I consider it a sacred holiday, I guess Iām not too much into the ātraditionalā practices. 
just start decorating when the Coca Cola Santa is on TV for the first time
We usually start decorating at the first Advent but the decoration is quite limited in our household with just a large star in the window and the tree which is not even a real one. 
I guess becuase the income was not always allowing for more and it is also quite convenient being able to store and reuse the tree each year instead of buying and dumping an actual tree. Only thing that is really missing there is the smell.
I never decorate as I donāt celebrate Christmas. ezpz.
For me the magic of St. Nicholas, Christmas / birth of Jesus, Christmas trees, Santa, presents, carols and so on faded away because I was sick of seeing Christmas related commercials and such in September through November.
I guess itās because when I was young, consumerism still wasnāt a thing post-Ceausescu so there was no point of Christmas commercials in September if people didnāt have enough money to start spending. 
Fake tree is 100% the way to go. Why cut down a tree? We need those things alive.
We have a decent fake tree and we reuse it. As a side bonus it becomes easier to decorate every year bc we remember how we like it and itās kinda the same setup as years prior.
I dont decorate my apartment at all, but i like when the city is decorated with trees and lights.
Only Christmas Tree i would like to have:
Well, my awesome life of slacking will finally come to an end on Nov 30th, because the semiconductor manufacturing plant decided to hire me as a CIM automation engineer. Training will begin on Dec 1st, so there goes my days of playing video games non-stop and taking nap at daytime, I think.
For a first job, the offer is actually pretty good though. First I will have sufficient income to both cover my spending and meanwhile save some. Then the plant which I will work at is only 10 minutes of scooter ride away. 
And there isnāt too many downsides, either. One of them being I canāt bring my smartphone into the building, so I can only access the Internet when my shift is over. The other is I occasionally have to wear a cleanroom suit, just like how the server workers wear in the Chongqing level.
For your reference:
Donāt worry though, I will still be here and browse the forum every day I am off my work. It will just be less frequently, I think. This is my first career job though, so my parents are finally relieved and very happy about it. I just hope there will still be enough time for me to play games. 
Had one of these jobs too. The sweat that you collect in these gloves is horrible, mind some good lotion for those.
