You know, if you ever wonder why some piece of physical merch you special-ordered got delayed, just ask me. There are so many steps involved with just putting together a couple CDs for some friends, let alone getting a whole factory to make them, assemble them, and ship them out to the right places. I've had the cases assembled since August, but it's taken me until now to get all the drawings and stuff done, and now I'm also shipping my end-of-year mixtapes with them too, so that's actually two CD packages to assemble, graphics and all, and then burn and package up.

I've been burning discs since yesterday. It's been ages since I've burned a music CD, and it's caused me to think of such wonderful things as CD-Text and DAO vs. TAO burn modes that I haven't thought about in forever. I will play each burn to make sure they work throughout before you guys get them because I obviously prefer working CDs, but I think only me and dcb have CD players or disc drives anymore anyway.

I bought the bubble mailers on the 30th. My mom was mildly annoyed at me buying them from my old Staples (which, shoutout to Staples, is down so fucking bad, they literally can't keep the lights on anymore), but as if paying $5 for packing materials versus $9 for packing materials really matters to me. I'll work an extra hour and remake what I spent double over, it's fine. Speaking of work, I took some cardboard from work for packing filler to keep the CDs safer in transit. These are nice, sturdy boxes, I think rated to withstand 35lbs in edge crush tests? Bring it the fuck on, USPS. If it's good enough to ship glass and alcohol in, my stupid little CDs will be fine.

Even after all is assembled and marked, I still gotta do the customs forms, as three of these are leaving the country. I think it'll cost me like $65 total to ship it all, though that doesn't factor in that dcb is getting a big goodie box with a bunch of other CDs from Shaimus and Silversun Pickups and the like. Sharing is caring! And probably has to be sent flat rate. Such is life.

This really is my last celebration of the cool-but-excessive projects that I've put myself through over the time that I've been mariteaux. Building whole websites, CDs to mail out, gigantic group drawings, trying to keep Caby's crazy pace during Art Fight, fucking flying international first time by myself—I just kinda did all these things without thinking about it, and I'm proud of the results! But I'm also ready to relax for a long while. My 3DS is gathering so much dust right now, gamers—all my gaming stuff outside of my PS2 is, and that's entirely because of my streams.

I'll leave more detail for closer to the end of the year so I don't change my mind, but yeah, Cammy's gonna be a slightly different person from here on out. I think you'll like me more. Packages soon.

Working forty hours a week still kicks my ass some days u_u