What the Junk?!

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. 

Hello!

Sorry about last night.  I was late getting everything done.  I went to do my character sketches for NaNo and my MBP was acting up so I had to restart.  I got all that done and realized that it was almost midnight and I would not be able to post in time, so I did a quick post with the puzzle I was working on.

I finished that puzzle today.  It's pretty and I'll post it below.  I got an item in the mail yesterday that i hadn't mentioned ordering.  I stopped looking for styluses for awhile because anything that looked really good was way too expensive.  After upgrading to Evernote premium, I found a program for the iPad that you can draw and do 'pen and paper' notes with just with a stylus.  It mentioned a Adonit Evernote edition stylus.  I went looking.  I found some for a LOT of money and I found a few used un ebay for a lot less.  I found one that with shipping was $16.  i decided to give it a go and try it. (This is the first version of the stylus so that is probably why I was able to get it so cheap. It retailed at about $80)

It came yesterday and it's nice! It's a bluetooth one so it connects to the app on my iPad mini.  The great thing is, it also works with GoodNotes and Zoomnotes! Yay!  It's nice and heavy with a big barrel, but it has a small tip so it's great for writing.  I like it alot.  I have played with it a little. I want to spend some time to sit down and get in depth with it.If you are wondering what app that I'm talking about, it's called Penultimate.  Anything I do in there syncs right to Evernote.  Nifty!

 

By the way, as I was settling in last night, I saw a news story about a KFC in a nearby town that exploded!  From reports, people were feeling it from quite a ways away.  I was up late last night trying to find out more information. No one was hurt as it happened after hours.  it was a gas leak.  Today one of the news stations had footage of a security camera from another business nearby the caught the whole thing on camera.  It was crazy.  Look up KFC and Eden NC and you should see the stories.  The pizza place across the street had damage to their glass windows and there was debris all over the highway.

Yikes!

I'm late tonight so I'll show you a work in progress. More tomorrow, I promise. ^_^

It's done, yay!

Yes, I finished that crazy puzzle today and it took a lot longer than I was expecting. lol That last part of all the purple flowers was killer.  I got it done though.  I am going to try an easier puzzle for my next choice. :p

I've already done my NaNo and my French for today.  I am going to do some organizing in Evernote once I post this.  I am creating more notebooks in there and collecting everything in Evernote. Yes, I'm still going to do a big Evernote post.  I love it.  One of my favorite things is the Evernote web clipper that you can add to your browser.  (I have mine on Chrome) If I see something I want to save for later, I just use the web clipper and it saves it to Evernote. It's so handy!

I went to the grocery store tonight to get a few things that I needed.  I had coupons from prior purchases and 'shop and earn' coupons.  I got a lot of stuff for not a lot of money.  That is always good.  The only bad thing was when I came out and tried to start my car. Guess what wouldn't start?  I had purchased cold stuff, so I did not want anything to go bad.  I got out and tried the jump box my friend lent me.  It worked well and I was able to get it started. Yay!  I came right home and put my stuff away.  I was happy that it worked so well. It was easy to do, too!  

A little more done!

I didn't finish the puzzle today, but I had a feeling I wouldn't. :p . I did get another good portion done though.  i hope to finish it up tomorrow.  It is hard with all hose colors that are the same.  It's going to be a pretty one for sure.

I went to the recycle center today and did my monthly recycling.  I got lucky on that.  I went and there was no one there and no one came while I was unloading.  Oh top of that, I was able to get back out on the road quickly!  The stop light when you come out of there usually catches me and I have to sit there forever.  Today I caught the light. Whee!

I have a huge load of clothes in the dryer.  I need to go get those out and put away.  All my sleep shorts except the ones I wore last night are in there. I usually do my laundry on Saturday and for some reason completed skipped it this week.  I knew if I wanted something comfy to sleep in tonight, I had to get them washed. :p

Here is the puzzle in progress.  I got all the red flowers on the bottom done and part of the big leaves above them.  

 

What the heck was I thinking?!

So, I started a new puzzle today.  Since the last puzzle I did had a lot of flowers in it and it wasn't too bad, I figured this one would be either. WRONG! lol . This one has a lot of the same flowers throughout the puzzle.  It's going to be a challenge.  I got the sky and mountains part done pretty easily, though.  I will work on it again tomorrow.  I had a lot of things I needed to do so I got that top part done and then set it aside.  

I still need to do some for NaNo, and I need to get my bed linen back on the bed.  I already washed my hair and did all my other things for today.  I'm getting close to finishing the book I'm reading. It's really good.  I've been checking all the emails I get daily for free/cheap ebooks and found five or so ... well, some from those and two from being an Amazon Prime member.  I found one zombie book that was offereing the third book.  I clicked on it to look and saw that book two was free too.  I looked for book one and found that I had downloaded it to my Kindle sometime ago.  I don't remember reading it, so I'll check it out.  I went ahead and 'bought' books two and three.  I love free ebooks. I find new authors this way and it's fun!

I am still loving Evernote. I've been organizing it and adding stuff to it.  I found a YouTube channel last night where a guy does Evernote tutorials.  I found out tonight that he has a whole bunch of videos on Evernote.  I just added one to my Watch list and I subscribed to his channel last night. 

I plan to use Evernote for my French learning too!  It's just so darn useful. I will be doing an entire Evernote post soon.  Look for it! For now, enjoy the little bit of puzzle that I got done. ^_^