Editing The Pen Addict 646/transcript (section)

== Discussion of "fruit cocktail" ink and its reception. ==

* We're not going to finish off the ink list, but I had a question on one of them that came up, and now I'm blanking on the name. Oh, fruit cocktail, Myke. Christmassy or not, fruit cocktail. I thought this was... Honestly, at this point... I'm asking this one because this is a difficult one, I believe. You see, I don't... Because then I'm going to say it, and they're like, well, actually, in 76% of the world, they have fruit cocktail. You know what I mean? I don't want it now. Right. Like, it's been... Especially because... Look, I'm not going to call this person out by name, but someone wrote in to be like, how could you say Tundra was Christmassy? It's not Christmas. It's not cold everywhere in the world where Christmas is happening. And it's like, yeah, I mean, right? Like, but come on. I think most of the world that is celebrating Christmas as a holiday, I would probably expect it's cold during December. But, you know. Well, I think... I just think Tundra as a concept is literally just like frozen land and frozen ground. So, like, that's the way I thought of it. But then it's like, is that considered... Is cold frozen considered Christmas? That was what they were. I see. I see. Yeah. I mean, in Australia, like, probably not. But... No. I bet... I bet, you know, they have some snow scenes alongside their surfboards and beaches. So, yeah. I get it. I get it. I don't want to comment.
* Too late. Too late. So, fruit cocktail, Christmassy or not? I mean, for me, not. Like, there's nothing... I'm going to go with not. Fruit cocktail, which is Christmassy. Also, that this seemed to be one of the most hated inks. It's funny. The hated inks are the ones that are the least Christmassy. Lemon, lime, fruit cocktail. Fruit cocktail was scented. Was a scented ink. And in looking at the reviews of it, it was just like bleeding. Like, the scented inks just have like some type of composition that makes them feather all over the page. Great stuff. Yeah. Yucco. All right. We're not done with follow-up today, but we're done with follow-up for now. We have more follow-up in the STPA section. Now we go to... Well, now we'll transition to Ghost of Christmas Future. Yes. Yes. So, we're going to talk about themes for a minute. As we always do, I like to tack on to your cortex conversation with Gray every year. Because I think there's a lot of crossover in this time of year when you and Gray are thinking about yearly themes or people are thinking about, you know, different goals and plans they have for the new year. So, I never like to usurp that show, but I like to add on to that show here and get you to elaborate on your theme. And then I kind of lay out a little bit of a theme on there. So, why don't you lead off and if there's any additional info you want to add, maybe for like Cortex and why you do this. Yeah. I mean, like, I think one of the reasons that it ties in here is like the reason that we created the Theme System Journal. Because there is something about having a yearly theme and journaling that go really well together. So, a yearly theme, in essence, is instead of setting a resolution, you set a theme for the year. And this can be a word or a concept that throughout the year you use to guide you. A great example that we always use every year because it's like easy for people to understand. Instead of saying, I want to read 10 novels this year, you would say you're having a year of reading. So, if you only read five novels and you would kind of fail your resolution based on the way that you set it for yourself. But if you just had a year of reading, like, as long as you've done more reading and like reading has been a focus for you, then that's fantastic. And also, you know, halfway through the year, you may say, I don't want to read novels anymore. I want to read more long form articles on the web than I have before. And like, that can be part of your year of reading. And, you know, there might be other things in your life that you do which become important for making that a thing. Like, for example, you know, you might say, oh, you know what? I want to set up like a little part of my house where I have like a reading nook and like that's part of your year of reading. And like, you know, and so I've had many themes in the past, you know, like I've had a year of refinement, year of the weekend, like all these kinds of things. And we have some examples of this on our website, themesystem.com. I'm actually thinking and we're working on like for next year, having like actually making like a yearly themes.com and having just more examples of themes and how to set them up and stuff like that. But I'm actually also, I think people from the show will like this when I'm done recording today. So probably after most people have heard this, I'm going to be doing a stream on the Cortex YouTube channel where I show how I set up my journal for the year. So I'll put a link to that in the show notes to the YouTube video so people can watch that if they want to. So this year, my yearly theme is the year of fatherhood.