...now that he's from Paree?



So, this is an electronic Santa Stitch from France. So, see where it says "Pressez-vous?" (Well, no, actually, you don't, because it just says "PRESS ME" in English, but just play along, ok?) Anyways, you press le button, and his nose lights up and he plays Jingle Bells. Because, of course, that's what Pere Noel does. Or something.

Here's the other special Stitchmas 2008 item from the J Dizzney store.

( In the bag )

Yeah, yeah, we're just now unpacking our Stitchmas stuffs. SO SUE US!!!!

( It's beginning to look a lot like procrastination )

New Munktiki squid!
Originally uploaded by tikistitch

Time to mess about with Technology. We've added some Squddie mugs to our Flickr.

Adding: we actually walked two miles in a snowstorm to pick these up. No, we didn't manage to go uphill both ways, just on the way back, and unfortunately, we currently are in possession of no grandchildren with whom we may annoy using this story, which is why we're annoying y'all.

Our friend Buster went to see Santy....

We're supposed to be cross-checking the odds ratios and confidence intervals in Table 3.

So, of course, we unwrapped our new Japanese Xmas ornament store display!!!



( Ornamental )

So, these are the ornaments we were talking about last night.

( More crappy photos )

So, we got home with the packages, and of coursethisinside....



But, it was worth it!

( Creaky )

It's sticking.



A couple more hours of this, and we're so gonna build a snow Stitch!!

It's snowing dude!

( flakey! )

OK, not really, but it's after Halloween, so everybody has dragged out the Xmas stuff, yes, even in Japan!



For the last few years, the Dizzney store in Japan has had a special ginormous Stitch plushie that's available only at Xmastime, and, if you're lucky enough to live in Japan, is actually delivered to you on Xmas day. This year, it's Stitch with his friend, Giant Teddy Bear.



But wait--there's more! Giant Stitch actually fits inside the ginormous teddy, where he can burst out, Alien Chestbuster-style, to impress Lilo. (Who, we're sure, will be suitably impressed.)



Extra bonus weird: Stitch has little angel wings on his patookie.

If the Brady Kids had grown up in Seattle, at least one of them would have turned out emo. Maybe Jan.

It's raining. Not like it's usually raining when it's raining, which is often enough anyway, but as if the heavens have opened up because someone somewhere offended one of the tiki gods and now it's 40 days and 40 nights of pouring cats and dogs and llamas and hippopotami. We went running with Mr. Tiki and ended up slicked knee-high with mud and permeated through our waterproofs straight down to our skivvies.

And so, since the topic of sopping wet conversation had turned to 80s musicals with bad dance doubles, Mr. Tikistitch brought up an issue for which we had no answer: what kind of place, exactly, was the Jennifer Beals character in Flashdance supposed to be dancing in? It was obviously not the Bada Bing, as, well, no titties. But, then there was that number where the chick dumped water all over herself at the end. Ya know, not as kinky as the Idaho Senatorial delegation, but, ya know. And tiki is actually one of the few people in the target demographic who failed to see Flashdance in a movie theater at the appropriate time, and has only caught random bitlets of the flick in later years on cable--we still haven't quite figure out what Jennifer Beals was supposed to be welding. So, don't think we actually ever caught the scene, if any, where they explain WTF about the dance hall.



BTW, here's a plushie for you.

Yeah, we know, it's June.

This was evidently an item from the J Dizzney store last Xmas, only available online. It's some kind of Christmas cake.

( Fa la la la la, la la la la... )