What the Junk?!

I'm so accomplised!

LOL!  Yes, I'm still sick but I don't feel as bad as I did yesterday.  I went to bed really early last night and slept pretty well. I even took a long nap this afternoon. I'm trying to sleep away the sickness.  Even with all that, I got a lot done!

I have my clothes all washed and ready to pack.  I had to wash some of them and the rest that are going are ready.  I got all my other stuff ready to pack.  I like to try to put everything in at the same time so I don't forget something.  This time I will try not to pack the shorts I am wearing down there. lol

I also got a stack of letters done and mailed. WHEE!  I was so happy to get that done.  i wanted to get them done before the trip and I did.  It was too late to run to the post office, so I just dropped them off at a box.  I'll check my box when I get back and go from there.  It was nice to get them all done and this way, when I get back, I'll have something interesting to share!

After I finish this post, I'm going to pack my clothes and the majority of my electronics.  My friend has pretty much decided to not go around 3am and just wait until the morning. Boo on that, I say, but if that is what he wants, that is what we'll do.  I think it would be more fun to go at night and to miss all the traffic!  Plus we'd get there quicker. :P

I will, of course, be posting daily from the beach.  Hopefully a couple times a day.  I will share pictures too!  We are staying a bit further down than we did in June so it will be a bit longer walk to the pavilion area, but I still plan to go.  I want to go to the oceanfront Starbucks! :)

 

Low-fat loft?

What am I talking about? Well, I'll tell you.  I couldn't sleep last night and I was working over the story for my NaNo book in November.  I got up and got out the iPad as my phone was off and charging.  I got one of my little wireless keyboards and was typing the things I had thought of into Evernote.  The only thing is, the screen is small and I could't see the words.  I go back to edit after I type everything in and noticed that my character was going to spend the night in the 'low-fat' instead of the loft! LOL!  It cracked me up so I put low-fat in parenthesis because I figured I would forget by today. I have a good idea of how the story is going to go and the notes I wrote last night will help.  

I didn't start a puzzle today.  Why? Well, for one thing, I'm coming down with a damn cold! I'm so pissed.  Why do I have to deal with this right before a beach trip?  So frustrating!  I went out and bought some store brand Dayquil, so hopefully I'll feel better by Sunday!  I am going to try to sleep tonight and I plan to take a nap tomorrow if  we are going to leave for the beach in the early, early am! 

How I'm using Evernote today:  See above! :P

Cooler weather ....

Well, for a bit anyway. I know it will be back up to 90 in a day or two. lol . I took advantage of the cooler weather today and finally put up my Halloween stuff.  It usually goes up on September 1st, but that was the day I went to the beach and came home from the beach. lol

It's been way too hot here.  It felt like July last week!  It was a bit cooler today, so I figured I'd get my Halloween stuff out.  I realized when I was done that I was missing one thing.  That lead me to remember another two things and then one more.  That means there is a box o' Halloween still missing. I have no clue where to look for it as I always keep all the boxes together and it's not with the others. :(

Aha! I just found two of the four items.  That means only two things are unaccounted for and I'm sure I'll find those. I sort of remember that I didn't pack them up with the rest of the stuff last year and did something else with them. I just have to remember what it was I did with them. LOL 

The main thing I missed first was broken last year and I put in a box to keep it safe. I don't know why I didn't fix it then, but I've glued it together now and I have it sitting until the glue sets. Hopefully that will fix it. :) It has a matching friend and I didn't want to separate them.

I didn't start a puzzle today.  I planned to.  I got out the board, the puzzle, and had it ready to go, but I never got around to it.  Maybe tomorrow.  I might just wait until I get back.  Then I'll have more than enough puzzles. :p

 

Well then....

Welcome to Wednesday!  I can't believe that a week from now, I'll be half way through my week at Myrtle Beach!  We leave Sunday and will come back Sunday the 29th.  We have discussed driving down at night on Saturday/Sunday morning so it will be cooler.  His air isn't always the best and it would be a lot cooler that way.  We came back from the aborted trip at night and we got home quicker.  I would love to get down there early on Sunday and have the whole day there!  We wouldn't be able to check in the room, but I'm sure we could find a lot of things to do.  I suggested Starbucks, but got shot down. LOL . I told him he could play on his phone.  Silly boy! :P

Anyway, he came over tonight to do some work on my car.  It didn't fix the problems, but at least he tried.  Afterwards, I rode with him to drop off a bill and then we drove to get him a milkshake.  He went to get gas and we were at Sheetz and I asked if he minded if I went in and got myself some food.  He didn't and he decided to get food too, so he got mine.  Yay!  I just finished eating and decided I needed to make my daily blog post.

I finished the puzzle today.  It was pretty fun.  The picture is pretty.  I worked it in sections.  I did the checkered table cloths and worked from there.  I planned to leave some for tomorrow, but I kept going and before I knew it, it was done!  I might start another one since there are at least three days I'll be at home before the trip.  I haven't decided yet. Here is the completed puzzle.

Back to the fun!

The fun of what, you ask?  Puzzles! I started one the ones I got from Dollar Tree and it's so much better. The colors pop and I was able to get a good start on it.  I have the outline and two small sections.  I really enjoyed doing it so far.  I think when I pull that other puzzle back out, I'll try to work it in a bright light environment.  I think that was he biggest issue.  The pieces were so dark that bad lighting led to a harder puzzle to work.  Of course the pieces fitting in the wrong places wasn't helping either!

I made the weekly in my bullet journal for the first week of October.  I decided to go ahead and do the habit tracker for October, too.  Then, I ended up doing the entire months weeklies!  It's orange themed for October and there are a LOT of jack o' lanterns all over the place. :P   My poor bujo is getting so bulky!  The spine is a lot bigger than it was when I started it!  Poor thing.  It's all that washi and now the little Canon Ivy pictures.  Next years will probably be even worse. :P . I plan to one day to move my bujo to a traveler's notebook.  I think that will be cool.  Although, I adore my Leuchtturm journals.

 

FAIL!

I finally gave up on the puzzle today.  I had to re-do part of it and I still don't think that part was right.  I was trying to do another part and it wasn't working out.  I hate to give up on one, but this one is going back in the box for now.  I might get it out again someday.  I have those ten new ones, so it's not like I'll be out of puzzles to work!  I put the pieces in plastic bags inside the box so there will be no lost pieces.

So, I gave up on that.  I went to Food Lion to pick up one item that I needed and spotted a section with local stuff.  I saw a jar of Caramel Peanut Delight and had to try it! :P  It looks good, I hope it tastes as good as it looks.  I took a picture of it to share and a picture of a little bit of fall I found in my yard today. ^_^

Ugh

I officially hate this puzzle. lol It is taking entirely too long to work.  I am going to try to continue on though.  We'll see how that goes! I swear the pieces all fit funny and it's just weird.  I think if I can get the tree section of it done tomorrow, that might help a lot.  Here's hoping!

I didn't sleep well at all last night.  I was up far too late because I wasn't sleepy and then when I laid down, I couldn't get to sleep.  Then, I slept a bit and kept waking up.  UGH!  So frustrating.  I hope to sleep well tonight.  I have clean bed linen on the bed, so that should help. I just have to let my hair finish drying.  I have a load of laundry in the dryer, but I think I'll wait and get it out tomorrow.  Until tomorrow, here is the small progress I've done on the puzzle.  

Sigh..

So, I needed a necessity today.  I look up prices and see a great one at Target.  I need underwear. :P . So, Target has Hanes in my size in a 10 pack for $15.  I was all over that! I decided to head over there and get some.  I took my book that is due back at library on Monday with me to stop by there and use the book drop.  My car acted up all the way to the library.  That meant that the car wouldn't go over 25 mph. ~_~; That meant, there was no way I could go to Target.  There is a Roses Express and a Dollar Tree in the same shopping center as my grocery store.  I went there. The Dollar General had a space for my size and cut but it was empty.I went to Roses and they had two packs of my size and style.  They were a three pack at $6.99 a pack. ~_~; I went ahead and bought both packs because I needed some and who knows when I'll be able to get to Target.  It's SO frustrating when my car does that.  If I had only planned to go to the library, it would have done fine.  

The only good thing about the pack I found at Roses is there are two blue pair and one grey pair in each pack.  The ten pack would probably have been ugly colors and two pair of white. lol  If I see the 10 pack in Target when I go next month, I'll probably pick up a pack. I am trying to save money since we leave for the beach a week from tomorrow!!! Yay!  I always pack twice as much underwear as I'll need, so I wanted some new ones. I wear mine until they are falling apart and I needed some new ones. I wish I hadn't had to pay so much, but at least I have some.  

Okay, now that we have discussed underwear, let's talk about the puzzle.  I did get a little more done today but not as much as I would have liked.  The pieces fit in there so weird! You think the piece does't fit in a certain spot, but it does.  This is going to be a challenge to finish!

Ouch

I've had a killer headache all day today.  I started a puzzle, but because of my headache, I didn't get very far.  I've only got the outline done.  I'll get more done tomorrow. Hopefully my head won't hurt tomorrow or at least not as bad. 

I was up until after 4am the last two nights. Why? I was reading the new Stephen King book! lol  I finished it last night and it was excellent!  I'll go back to the other book I put on hold to read it. I don't know if I will do it tonight or not. It depends on how my head feels.  Right now it's hard to just type this post!  I'll share a picture of the small bit of puzzle I've done and I'll see you tomorrow! 

Puzzles!

My friend and I made it out to the Dollar Tree today and I found ten new puzzles.  Yay!  I had been putting off starting the one I got at the beach because I was out.  I noticed they had a new case of Puzzlebug puzzles with a lot of good ones. I found 10 that I love.  I also got a composition book that matches the cute coffee zipper case I got last time, two of the car cell phone holders (YAY), some stickers, and Halloween stencils.  Oh and a bottle of dishwashing liquid.  I will be starting a new puzzle tomorrow. :)