{"id":4365,"date":"2021-03-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:39:21","slug":"keeping-to-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/keeping-to-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping to My Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As I’ve stated previously<\/a>, my current pen rule is to be more thoughtful with my pen purchases. I’m doing my best to purchase pens that will make me happy to own, not just happy to buy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It can be difficult sometimes. Pens may have misleading marketing photos \u2014 I’m looking at you, Sailor Pro Gear Slim Red Supernova \u2014 or zero size reference, for example. So, pens you think will be be fabulous may turn out to be not so great, or even totally wrong for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question then, is what do you do? My plan was always to immediately return any pen that didn’t make me 100% happy upon unboxing. I put that plan in place after the Red Supernova debacle. In theory, it was a great plan. In practice, it hit a major snag the next time a pen didn’t meet that standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Pen That Didn’t Make the Cut<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Christmas Day, I bought the Norseman Sleipnir<\/a> from Genesis Pens. The Instagram posts<\/a> of that pen were gorgeous. And, since it was on sale in December, I went ahead and got it. The catch? Genesis pens is in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pen took a bit to arrive, not surprising considering COVID delays. But, it did finally arrive, and I was really excited. Unfortunately, when I opened the package and box, I had a moment of sinking disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sleipnir was very pretty, but it was seriously girthy. I didn’t think to measure it, but the Sleipnir puts the Homo Sapiens, and even an OMAS 360 to shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n