What the Junk?!

A day of puzzling and relaxing

I started a new puzzle today and did a lot more on it than I had planned.  I was only going to do the outline and the sky.  I started on one of the buildings and ended up doing them all. I only have the tulips to do tomorrow.  I only have two more puzzles after this. Oh no! I have one left from my Dollar Tree trip and the new one I got yesterday at Dollar General.  I am hoping to find a bunch of puzzles on the beach trip next month!  I got 21 puzzles on the last trip, I'm hoping to get at least than many in September. lol

I ran out to do a quick errand this evening and my car was actually doing well.  I'm not saying it always will, but at least it was working well this afternoon. Of course my silly butt didn't go to Starbucks while I was out.  I figured that what money I have on my card, I can save for the beach trip.  My friend finally picked which place we are staying.  We are staying in Myrtle, so I'll be taking my daily walk to the ocean front Starbucks. ^_^ It's a nice little location.  The best view and the best coffee.

I also hope to go to a new Starbucks that I spotted last year near the end of our trip in North Myrtle.  When my friend and I go up to North Myrtle, I am going to ask him to take me to it so I can cross off another new Starbucks. ^_^

Hello from Friday evening

Sorry about last night.  I was doing things and had totally planned to make a blog post and then I realized how late it was.  I just decided to show the completed puzzle and call it good. :p   I didn't sleep well again last night.  I've been so tired all day, but I would not let myself take a nap.  I'm hoping it will help me sleep tonight.  We'll see!

I had to run to Dollar General to pick up a few things I needed, so I went to the one where I knew they had the puzzle I wanted.  I bought it.  I also bought some cute Halloween goodies.  Two pair of socks and a little jack o' lantern container.  They don't have a lot of their Halloween stuff out yet, but they do have some.  I'm hoping to get some jack o' lantern mugs! 

I saw something in Dollar General that I'd heard of but hadn't seen yet.  They have really cute planner supplies now!  It's a little display that has undated weekly pages and undated monthly pages. They also had dividers, clips, sticker strips, magnetic bookmarks and more. Everything was $1 each! So cool! It's for a small ring binder planner.  I have one of those that I bought many years ago. It's still in excellent condition. Now I can fill it cheaply.  The inserts are cheap, but they aren't cheap.  Does that even make sense? LOL . In other words, they are nice inserts, they are just inexpensive.  You can't beat $1 for supplies.  I purchased three packs of the weeklies, two packs of the monthlies, a pack of the clips, and a pack of the magnetic bookmarks.  I meant to get a divider and forgot.  

Oh, I have a story to share.  I have been playing a game on my iPod touch for many, many years. It's called Virtual Families and I love it.  When I got my iPad mini, I backed up the game on my iPod touch and transferred it over. I never deleted the game on my iPod, but I haven't played it on there.

So, last night, I go to open Virtual Families on my iPad and it has reset to the beginning. OH NO! This happened once many years ago and I just had to start over and I was not happy.  I contacted their support last night hoping they can get the game back.  I figured they probably could not.  Then, I remembered that the game was on my iPod touch. I went through a ton of programs before I could find one that would back up the game on the iPod and then transfer it to the iPad. It worked!  Of course it's not the same family I was on in the iPad version, but I had gotten most of the extras in the game already so I won't have to start over and start collecting all that again.  Thank goodness. I am never going to delete the copy of the file I put on my computer in case this happens again.

The game has trophies you earn throughout play. I have almost every one.  I also need to collect two more things and get their trophies and that will give me the rest and I'll have them all.  When my game reset the last time, I had everything but ONE thing to finish.  Ahhh!

Okay, before I go, here are the cute Halloween goodies I got!

D'oh!

It has been a long day. Lack of sleep is making me nutty. I shall post tomorrow. Until then, enjoy the puzzle I finished. 

Starbucks again!

 It was double star day at Starbucks, so I went over there and got a frappuccino!  I love double star day.  I also got another order in today. The green cards that I ordered on eBay came.  They were only give to shareholders.  I  just added two to my collection. One to display and one for backup.  It's so pretty!  I took a picture of the two of them to share.  

I started a new puzzle today and I took a picture of that too.  My friend brought me my birthday gift a little early.  What is it? A Fire stick! Yay!  It will replace my Roku.  Well, I have to make sure all the stuff I used on Roku is available for there.  I'm sure it is.  I have only loaded a couple of things so far.  I have Prime since it was an Amazon thing, that was already there, and I put Stirr on it.  That is the channel I watch game shows on.  I need to add my Hulu and see what other things I need to add.  I will do that tomorrow as after I post this, I'm going to relax for a bit.  I haven't slept well in ages and I really need some sleep tonight!

Good mail day!

I used to have a page at Tumbler that was just to show what you received in the day's mail.  I got the idea from an old group at Livejournal.  I could do that here.  I have an extra blog I can use.  I may do it, I may not, who knows. lol

I did have a good mail day!  I got two of the cards I ordered.  One I got two of the same card to have an extra in my collection.  What I didn't realize when I bought this particular card, that the seller said they would send an extra card from their collection!  I got two extra cards and one of them I didn't have. Yay!  Also, the one I did have was from where I used to have to buy them to load them not knowing you didn't have to do that!  I now have a 'clean' card with the pin intact. Yay!  The other card that I didn't have for a Florida one. ^___^ . I have very few of the state/city cards so you can be sure I was happy with that one!

The other card that I ordered was on from 2013.  It's a keychain card celebrating the 10 years of PSL.  I thought that one was pretty cool.  Now I'm just waiting on a green set (again I got two of the same card) that were partner exclusives, and the one from Korea.  I love building my collection.  A little bit at a time and someday I will have a full set.  Well, I full set of US cards in any case!  

I finished the puzzle today.  It was fun.  I am not sure which of the others I'm going to start next.  I also need to re-stock soon.  I am pretty sure I got all the ones that Dollar Tree has at the moment.  Well, all the Puzzle Bug brand puzzles.  They do have some more of those crazy 1000 piece ones. I don't mind a puzzle with that many pieces, it's just hard to work when they are so darn tiny!

Here are the cards and the puzzle. Enjoy!

Monday again....

Yes, here it is Monday again.  I am going to have a normal post tonight.  Last night, time got away from me so I was only able to make a quick picture post of the puzzle.  I didn't get a lot on it done to start last night, but I started it.  I didn't finish it today either.  I could have as I was pretty close to finishing, but I stopped to get some other things done.

I saw an article online to convert an old laptop into a Chromebook.  I have an old IBM laptop that I thought would be perfect for this. It's really old so I'm currently running Linux on it.  I tried the Chrome conversion, but I guess it is really too old.  Oh well. I did play with Mint on it though.  I know that Evernote is making a Linux version of their software.  Until then, there were a third party app called Whatever.  I downloaded it and was able to log into Evernote on there with no problems.  Pretty cool!  I even created a note in there just to make sure it synced and it did!  Very nifty.  

As you can see, I got a lot of the puzzle done today.  I'll finish it up tomorrow.  It's pretty fun.

How I am using Evernote today:  I am using it on a laptop running Linux Mint via an app called Whatever.  Very cool all around. :)

 

Starting slow

Starbucks twice in one day?

Well, I DID go to Starbucks twice today, but I only got something to drink once. :p  I had to go and run an errand this afternoon, so while I was out, I got myself Starbucks. I didn't know that I would be going to my friend's house later and we'd end up going to Starbucks! lol . I didn't get anything the second time, but I enjoyed the ride. ^_^

I finished my puzzle today.  It's a pretty one.  I am not sure which of the other ones I bought that I'll do next.  I planned to get one today at the store I went to, but they didn't have the particular one I was looking for.  I saw it at another location of that store, so I'll look there another day.  I did get the essentials I needed, so that was good.

Oops!

After marking off all the cards I have in my Evernote files last night, I ordered several on eBay. lol I ordered three different cards today to add to my collection. :P I marked all the ones I have last night and then today I had to mark more. I was so tired last night I missed some.  Eventually I'd like to have a full set of the US cards.  I have a pretty good collection.  I want to put them in order of release in my binder.  That should be loads of fun. :P

I started a new puzzle today and finished a lot of it. I stopped to do other things. I'm sure I'll finish it tomorrow.  I think I am going to sort my US cards by release date and then put all my international cards on a page together.  I don't have a lot of international cards, but I do have a good selection of them. :)

Starbucks and puzzles....

So, I finished my puzzle today.  It was pretty intense but I enjoyed doing it.  I was on eBay last night and I ordered a new Starbucks card from Korea.  I had ordered another Starbucks card back in July and it came today.  The seller told me there would be a delay in sending it out due to a family emergency, so that was okay.  It's pretty! I'll post a picture of it and the puzzle below. I totally forgot to take a picture of the new bujo in natural light. Oops!

Speaking of Starbucks, I wanted to go tonight, but I didn't get to.  My friend's asked me up so I went for a bit.  I mentioned Starbucks and we were going, but it never happened. Boo!  Don't tease me with Starbucks and then don't deliver!  In other news, my friend's son has ended his relationship again.  I hope it's permanent this time, but I've gotten my hopes up way too many times already!

I was going to eat up there or bring home a plate, but I didn't do that either. I did get a small stack of blue post-it notes. My friend got a four pack and I got the blue ones. Yay! I keep meaning to buy a big pack of them and forget.  I've learned my lesson on buying the cheap ones!

Another great thing about Post-it notes?  You can take a picture of one with Evernote and it will put it in a special notebook or tag it.  I just have mine to go into a Post-it note notebook at the moment.  So cool!  So, I guess that is how I'm using Evernote today. But wait, there is more!

How I'm using Evernote today:  I have listed (with the pictures) of all US Starbucks cards in a notebook in my Evernote. I'm going through my collection tonight and check the ones I have.  This way when looking for new ones, I'll know which ones I have and which ones I don't.  I usually know wen it's one I have, but sometimes I can forget. This way I'll have the 'list' always with me1

Go Evernote! And now the puzzle and Starbucks card for your viewing pleasure!