What the Junk?!

Sunday, again.

So, here it is Sunday and I'm posting to my blog.  I haven't been out of the house all day.  I'm tempted to go out and just drive around the block after posting this. lol I have washed my hair and my bed linen is in the dryer.  I've done my French, finished my puzzle, and straightened up a few things.  It's been a productive day for me not to have really done anything.  I read the book The Hidden Cave last night in one sitting.  It was as good as I remembered it.  The only thing about it is, I wish it were longer and more detailed.  Yes, it's  a kids book and they would probably be bored if it were too long, but there you go!  It was nice to re-read it.  Like visiting an old friend. ^_^ 

The only thing left on today's to do list is to create next week's layout in my bullet journal. i already know which washi and which color Mildliner I'm going to use, so I just need to do it.  I also had NaNo on my list of things to do today, but I'm really far ahead.  I might just do a few of the pups in the story.  I have character pages of the three main Corgis.  My main characters male Corigi, his pup, and his mate.I might go and do little bios for each pooch. :) . I only have six more of my human characters to do profiles for.  It's amazing how hard it is to think of 61 last names for characters!  It will be nice to have them all named and described.  This will go into my books edits at some point, too. 

I have all my book stuff in Scrivener.  The templates I'm using for my characters are actually Evernote templates!   I have been saving my characters in Evernote too.  That way if I'm on the go and think of something to add about a character, I can add it to Evernote and then add it into Scrivener later.  Very convenient! Plus, my friend's son, the one that lives up the street, is inspiration for one of my characters.  I read him the description of his character that I copied into Evernote and we laughed a lot.  He knows he is in the book so it's all good.  I made him as true to live as possible. He is an introvert like myself.  He loves cats, and his character takes care of all three of the compounds kitties! He is a gamer in real life, so he is very pale.  I described him as "Pale as milk" and we both cackled.  It was fun! lol . 

Anyway! I guess I'll close.  I will share a picture of the completed puzzle below. It's pretty. It's a bunch of colorful paper lanterns.  The lanterns themselves weren't hard to do, it was the other parts of the puzzle that took the longest. It's done now and I'll pick another one out to start tomorrow!

Puzzles, hot weather, and Evernote Moleskines!

So, we were under a heat advisory yesterday, today and they are including tomorrow.  I haven't gone out of my air conditioned room except for very few times.  I started a new puzzle today and got a good start on it.  I'm getting ever lower on puzzles.  I need to go get some!  

My Evernote Moleskine notebook came today and it's so nice! I haven't decided what I'm going to use it for yet.  I'm thinking maybe for my French, but I haven't decided just yet.  It's graph papered so I could use it as a bullet journal!  We'll see what I end up using it as.  I love Moleskine notebooks.  I've been using them for years.  My trip journal is actually a Moleskine notebook. ^_^.

Hmmm

I was about to forget to post today! Oops. I got to stay home today and it was nice. Lol I did go out for a few minutes this evening with a friend to run an errand. He got me a Frappe. Yay!

I finished the puzzle today. It is a nice one. I have already picked out the one for tomorrow. Lol! My books came today! Yay. I can't wait to sit down and read them. It will be fun to visit an old friend. :)

Hoo Boy

So, it's been a day.  I didn't get to sleep until after 4am last night but at least my Fitbit woke me up today.  I got up and had my coffee and did my morning routine. Then, I had breakfast and lay back down for a bit.  I still don't feel great.  I wasn't sleeping, but I think I was close to it when my phone beeped.  I had a text.  It was from my friend's son (the one who is 21 and also a friend) He wanted to know if I would come up and hang out with him for a while.  I figured something was up, so I agreed even though I didn't want to get out of bed. lol

He was having relationship issues and I'm HOPING it's truly over this time.  I stayed up there for a looooong time.  I got there about 2 and didn't leave until after 9:30!  He drove us to Arby's to pick up lunch for us and his grandmother.  We ate and played Skip Bo.  We used to go to Starbucks all the time when he was younger and play card games (and board games!) . His mom was taking night classes and we'd go hand at Starbucks to wait for her. It was so funny because at one time, one of the baristas thought he was my son. LOL

So, anyway! We played Skip Bo and it was so funny,  We both had forgotten how to play.  We had to re-read the rules and we were good.  That was fun.  When his mom got home, she had go to a doctor's appointment so I stuck around with him until she got back. Then, we went to Starbucks. Whee! lol It was 50% off so we did that.

I went back and spent a little time with them.  My friend's husband and I got talking about books again.  I finally left and came home to fix some dinner.  I really needed some dinner since it had been a long time since lunch! lol . I didn't do anything for NaNo today, but that is okay. I'm actually ahead.  I also didn't get to work on my puzzle at all today.  I thought about getting it out when I got home, but I decided to just put it off until tomorrow.  I had to do my French and post here, so I knew I would be rushing to do everything.  

Hopefully tomorrow I won't have to leave the house.  That would be ideal! :) . Of course, I won't say no if anyone wants to take me to Starbucks. LOL!  I'm on a star streak and got 50 bonus stars today.  I was able to do it because my friend's put the money on my card for their drinks so I got the stars. ;D

Oops a daisy!

So I couldn't sleep again last night.  I'm getting used to it.  What I am not used to is oversleeping!  I must have been pretty deep when my Fitbit alarm went off because it didn't wake me up at all!  I happened to look at the clock at one point and it was 12:47!  I usually get up at 10:30.  I got up as soon as I realized what was going on. lol . It threw me so off.  Hopefully tonight I'll get to sleep at a decent time and wake up at the right time tomorrow.  We'll see.

I did a little more on the puzzle today.  I didn't get as much done as I would have liked, but I'm pretty sure I'll finish it tomorrow. It's going to be pretty.  I'm running low on backup puzzles.  I really need to get to the Dollar Tree!  

I did something really nutty last night. It was a few minutes after 2am and I was hungry.  My happy ass got up, got dressed, and drove to Cookout. LOL My car did horribly.  I'm glad I went since I know not to drive the car during hours when there will be a lot of people on the road.  I was able to get there and back without impeding any traffic, but my car was not happy!  I was in line for a long time down there too.  You would think after 2am it wouldn't be busy, but you would be wrong! lol  I only got a small cheeseburger and an order of hush puppies.  They have some awesome hush puppies.  I felt silly going for food at that time of the morning, but you do what you have to do. LOL

I finished my French lesson and did today's NaNo before posting this.  I only have a few of my characters profiles to do.  I need to go back and add some things to some of the ones I've done.  I want to have a list of who has what animal.  I remembered to do it for a few characters, but forgot on the rest.  

Good gravy Marie!

I forget how much I hate Windows computers until I actually use one. lol . I got out my Lenovo today to re-install Windows 10 on it. I had to go back to 7 some time ago on it and my friend who works on computers for a living said that Windows 10 had improved greatly in the meantime. I went to install it and it took FOREVER.  When it got done, it was still Windows 7!  The update failed. ~_~: I did some troubleshooting and tried to re-install.  I finally got it on there.  It took way too long.  I don't even know why I wanted to do it in the first place. lol . OH! I remember, because my friend said that they were dropping support for Windows 7 before too much longer.  It's on there.  I may never use it, but it's there. :P

I put Evernote on it first thing, too! :p . I haven't done a lot of anything today. I've felt pretty bad all day.  I mainly stayed in my room and relaxed. it's REALLY hot here, so even if I felt like walking, it would not be the best time to be doing it. I did run to the grocery store to get some Mtn. Dew.  They had it five six packs for $10.  That is an excellent deal.  There new sales paper starts tomorrow and it might not be on sale or not be as good of a sale.  That is the only thing I did today outside of the house.

I started a puzzle, but I didn't get much of it done. I started late and with me not feeling well, I just did a bit of it.  I'll post it below.  I did want to mention one good thing about today.  When I was young, my favorite book EVER was The Hidden Cave by Ruth Chew.  She wrote all kind of cool magical type books.  I found a copy of it and another one of her books The Witches Broom on ebay.  I bought them today.  I am pretty sure I read the Witches Broom one too went i was young, but The Hidden Cave was my absolute favorite book growing up.  I can't wait to read it again1 I was so happy to find it and another one of her books for such a great price. I paid less than $6 for both of them shipped. Yay1

Hello, hello!

So, I just finished my work on today's NaNo.  I have most of my characters profiles finished.  I went on a Google search for Corgi pictures and got three so far.  I'm going to find pictures of different dogs that are in the book.  So far I only have the main Corgi, his pup, and his mate.  I need to look for more pictures . There are so many dogs in the book. lol . I'm enjoying describing the human characters.  I'm finding things about them I didn't know or forgot. I have some based on real life people and others are made up. I'll probably go and get some stock images of what i think the characters look like to add to the Everrnote template i'm using.  I love that i can use my Evernote template in Scrivener AND in Evernote. :)  

I worked another puzzle today.  It was the other 350 piece puzzle I got at the beach.  This one is of Boston.  Both of these were pretty fun and easy to do.  They are a cool shape too.  I like them.  It's so weird how I found them in two different Goodwills while at the beach.  One I found in Myrtle and the one I just did, I found in the Goodwill in Longs SC on the way back.  

Yikes on several bikes!

So, today I needed to go pick up a prescription and I desperately needed to check my post office box. I called my friend but she had an excuse as usual, so I went myself.  My car acted up something fierce all the way to the post office!  I got my prescription at the drive thru at CVS and then headed to the post office.  I forgot to carry my spare key, so I had to turn the car off.  I went in and got a stack of mail. lol

My car started right up, so that was good.It began to run a little better too, so I decided if I kept running okay, I would try to hit Starbucks on my way home.  i figured after the stress of getting to the post office, a Frappuccio would be lovely. It was. :p . 

I worked on that crazy puzzle for a LONG time today an finally just gave up on it for now.  I put all the outside pieces in a ziploc and the rest in another ziploc.  I will do it in the future, but I don't have the patience at the moment.  I got out one of the other puzzles I bought at the beach. It's a picture of New York and I did that whole puzzle. It was only 350 pieces and it was panoramic. That one was fun to do.  

I've gotten addicted to Arby's beef and cheddar sandwiches.  I really wanted one tonight, but I didn't want to try to drive across town in my car.  First of all, my car acts up, and secondly, they are sometimes out of roast beef! Sheesh!  I went to Hardee's to give their roast beef sandwich a try.  It was a descent tasting sandwich but not at all what I'm used to.  It was better when I put some bbq sauce on it. lol . I didn't hate the sandwich, but it's not really for me.  I'll stick with Arby's for roast beef and Hardee's for burgers or chicken sandwiches.  They have a sandwich called the Big chicken fillet that is delicious!

Not today I didn't!

I didn't even get the puzzle out to work on today.  Why? Well, I was lying in bed just relaxing since I didn't sleep well again last night.  My phone rang and it was my friend that lives up the street.  She 'needed to get out of her house' for a bit so she wanted me to go with her.  I want to get out ALL the time and she will never take me, but I digress!

While I was on the phone with her, her son said, "come on up!" lol . I told her to ask if he wanted to go with us. He did, so I went on up. He is 21 and I love him to pieces.  Anyway! He rode with and we went to Arby's for lunch.  She needed to eat.  After that, we went to Starbucks. I needed coffee. lol . We went to Petsmart after that to get some stuff for her son's cats.  We got the stuff and went back to their house.  I had the amusing fun of watching the two of them give baths to two of the cats. LOL!!!!!!  It was HILARIOUS.  I stayed awhile after that. My friend's hubby came home (also a friend) and he and I got in to discussion of our books. He writes too.  We were telling each other about plots and characters and all that good stuff!

I finally got home after 8pm and I didn't feel like getting the puzzle out.  I will work on it tomorrow, OR I will put it back in the box tomorrow. LOL  Seriously,  I haven't decided yet.  Oh! I did get something cool in today's mail. I got two pocket size cahier Moleskine notebooks that are Evernote branded.  It comes with stickers and you can use it to take pictures of the pages and add them to Evernote.  Pretty nifty!  I also love to have a notebook of some type in my purse and these are compact.  ALSO! They came with one month of Evernote Premium! Yay! They give it to you as points.  10 points is a month of Premium and 120 points would be a year.  I entered that and I got one of my friends to sign up for Evernote today and I got 10 points for that.  I'm saving them for when my year runs out. I'm hoping to have enough to get another year of premium. ^_^ 

Thanks, I hate it!

I opened one of the puzzles to start it today. I don't even have the outline done! It is an 1000 piece puzzle and the pieces are tiny and don't interlock well. I think I will leave it be for now and start fresh tomorrow. I will just get more frustrated if I continue tonight. I have some of the pieces on the white board but not all.