Yesterday I was all bleh and muh and “How come there’s never anything GOOD to do?” and so I went and made a Swistle Holiday Card featuring the Holiday Card Scoring System. It looks like this:

(as you can see from the watermark, this screenshot is from Zazzle.com)
(the watermark is not on the card itself)

On the inside it says:

(and again, as you can see from the watermark, this screenshot is from Zazzle.com)
(and again, the giant Z watermark is not on the card itself)

I consulted with my buddy The Gori Wife to find out how to say the Muslim holiday, too (and in fact, how to say “the Muslim holiday,” because I wasn’t sure if that was right or if it should be “the Islamic holiday,” and I can’t believe I’m confessing this instead of pretending I knew the right way all along), but she reminded me that the Muslim calendar is lunar (which of course I totally knew) (no I did not) and so although I could say “Happy Eid!” if I wanted to, it would soon be weird to be saying it in winter, and in fact even this year it would be a little weird since in mid-December it would be, like, a month too late for Eid cards. So! That is the explanation for why we have Festivus but not Eid, and why does the spell-checker reject BOTH holidays? COEXIST, spell-checker.

ANYWAY, then I wanted to buy some of my cards, not only to send them but also to see how they look in person, but I thought I’d wait until there was a sale—and this morning I got an email about a today-only today-and-tomorrow-only sale. It’s 50% off all cards (which means the Hey Pinehole! postcards are included so I got some of those too), plus free shipping with no minimum, and the code is ZAZZLECARD50. And I’m telling you because hey, maybe you want to pay what is still a very high per-card price to send Swistle cards. OR, more likely, maybe you want to design your OWN cards and save 50% and get free shipping (as long as you get them done by the end of today).

If you buy anything Swistley, I get a 10% commission, which they won’t let me refuse: I dialed the adjustable commission percentage as low as it would go. I’m putting that money into the care package and/or “buying one of each thing I design to make sure it looks okay in person” fund.

And if you are asking, “So, was it fun to design a self-promoting holiday card and then pay too much for them?”: yes. Yes, it was. So I also made some Christmas ornaments, though I have not yet ordered any because they’re not on sale. (FUN.) (TRY IT.) (And if you do, link from the comments section so I can go see what you made!)