I forgot to post yesterday. Sorry about that. It was a pretty boring day, so there wasn't much to post about. Today isn't much different. lol I am currently waiting on an Amazon package. The truck is five stops away. As soon as I get that, I'm going to move from my desk to my bed and relax a bit. I've already written, and I have leftovers for dinner, so I'm good! Come on Amazon guy!
As I wrote that, guess who just pulled up? :D
I have accomplished all my chores for today. Bed linen and hair washed, yesterday's laundry put away, and I wrote. I had a few other things that needed doing and I did those too. Now, I'm going to relax a bit like I did yesterday. I have an Amazon package that was supposed to arrive tomorrow, but now it's coming today. I was hoping it would be here by now. Oh well! I listened to the Shortwave a bit earlier yesterday and that was nice. It was fun to listen at a time when I usually don't. I might do that again today. I just wish the Prime truck would come! :)
So, it's my birthday. Another year down in this so-called life. I didn't do much. I had a delivery from Amazon Prime. I bought myself some rechargeable batteries to use in my Shortwave radio and they came today. Exciting, huh? :p
I was able to get 8 AA batteries. My little Eton takes four so I can use four and have another set charging or charged ready as a backup. They were less than $10 so that was a great deal. I tried several different 6-volt adapters and all caused static so batteries were the way to go. I didn't want to have to keep buying batteries all the time, so I went for some rechargeable ones. I can't wait to try them and see how long they go. That last set of regular batteries that I put in my radio have lasted a lot longer than the first set. I was able to turn off the lighted display when it's not in use and that helped immensely! I've been on this set for at least a week now. The others had only lasted a few days. I'm hoping to get at least a couple of weeks' charge out of the rechargeable ones when I start using those.
I had to run out to get my birthday drink from Starbucks! I also got gas while out because I got 20 cents extra off of gas today because of the reward card I use and it is my birthday. I already get 5¢ a gallon off with them, so today it was .25¢. I washed Goontz while out and went by the grocery store. I wanted a small cake for my birthday, but like last year, all they had left was chocolate. ~_~; I got cupcakes instead. Of course, I FORGOT that I bought cupcakes when I got to Starbucks and got a lime-frosted oat bar to go with my latte. :p Oops.
I went by the post office while out. I haven't checked my box in a while. I also needed to mail off something. Hopefully, I'll get a QSL from that soon! I had a yellow card in my box so now I have to go back during regular hours and stop by the desk. Not sure what that is. Nothing has shown up in informed delivery. Hmm.
So, busy day, I totally forgot that I do laundry today and just put that in to start washing a bit ago. I probably will not be putting that away today! lol. Right now, I'm just trying to cool down from all the running around. I want to pull out the Shortwave and see what's going on the bands. I meant to get to that earlier but it's been a day!
So, I used to listen to Shortwave radio and I really loved doing it. I thought about it recently and thought I'd like to get back into it. Well, I ordered a radio on Amazon and it came. It wasn't exactly what I was expecting and it didn't pick up anything on SW. So, I sent it back and got another brand that I had been looking at. It came today. It was an Amazon warehouse item. Now, I've gotten things from there before with no issues, always brand new, maybe damaged packaging or re-packaged. What came today just really upset me.
The little radio comes in its little leather case. It's in a box inside the display box. It has a manual and the radio in the box. Well, my package comes and I can actually FEEL the radio through the paper envelope. I open it and there is the radio, in just that inner box, the inner box is damaged and so is the back of the leather case. So, it's damaged, just floating around free in the package, no manual or anything else. I automatically set up a return. If only the box had been damaged and not the case you use on the radio, I might have kept it, I might even have then, but I was upset with no manual and the way it was sent. I already have the refund to my account as I ran out and dropped it at UPS. I ordered the exact same radio for less than $8 more brand new. Hopefully, it will come intact! Sheesh! The radio is a lot smaller than I'm used to, my old Shortwave radios were a bit larger, but I can adapt as it's a very nice one and cute, too. Plus, it will be good for travel as it's smaller. By the way, the one I got from the Amazon warehouse? It said, "LIKE NEW" Like new my butt! :P
Today was going okay, I got my writing done. I edited yesterday's work as it really needed it and wrote for today. CampNaNoWriMo is done! I will continue on with this story, and I hope to revisit my two other WIP soon. I was sitting relaxing when I started hearing low bass music. After several weeks of quiet from my idiot neighbors, they decided to go ALL OUT today. It was so loud and so bad that I had to leave my house. I only have air conditioning in my bedroom, and it's HOT so there was no escaping the damn noise in my house. While I was out, I called my friend that lives up the street. She lives just on the other side of these people and she has had her own issues with them.
Other than that, the day was okay. I got my laundry washed AND put away. That is rare for me. I also used one of my many bottles of sauce! lol, I DID let Amazon know. They were great, I can keep or donate the extra. Very nice. I will definitely use it all, it just might take a bit of time. I have eleven more jars to go! Now, I am just going to try to relax a bit before bedtime. I haven't been sleeping well, so I'm hoping to crash hard tonight!
I ordered my sauce and a few other things on Amazon as I told you. Well, they arrived today. It was one order, but they shipped separately, I guess they didn't have all the items at the same warehouse. In any case, they both were delivered together today. So, both are heavy. The only thing I ordered that should be even slightly heavy is the three bottles of sauce. They even divided those up! I open the first box and see a square box inside with my barbeque sauce. It's a box of four! What? I go and open the other package and it has the rest of my items and two more square boxes. Yes, they sent me three cases of my sauce for the price of one bottle! I am not sure what to do about that. I will use it all, so it's no problem. Also, the dates are great, 2024 for two boxes and 2025 for the third. I am going to contact Amazon and let them know about the issue. What a crazy thing to happen. All the other items I ordered are there and in the correct quantities, so that is good. We'll see what they say, I am going to do a support chat, but I am not going to start that tonight as it's late. I'll contact them tomorrow!
So, my air conditioner has been making a lot of noise lately. It's also spitting out some water at times, too. I was afraid it might die during the night one night while I was trying to sleep. I have enough sleeping issues as it is, I don't need more! So, I decided, reluctantly to pull it out and put in the other one I have. The one I put in is newer and fancier but it just does not cool as well as the older one. Plus, it doesn't smell as good either! LOL! It's in there. I had to move my desk and several things out of the way to get to the window. I got everything nearby so I could take one out and put one in. I had some issues, but I finally got it going. It's sad how much colder the other one was. Oh well, it's better to have one that isn't going to stop in the middle of the night, right?
The amount of water that dripped on my floor when I pulled this out was crazy! I have let it sit ever since and finally got it up and carried it to where I stored the other one. There is a damp patch on the floor. It will dry up soon, I hope! I'm glad I have the swap done. It was a crazy time. :p
In other news, I did my Camp writing. I've already gone over 50,000 words on this work, well the entire work is a LOT more than that, but I've added just over 55,000 words during Camp and will update my word count on the site for the remainder. I will either continue on with this one in August or go back to one of my two other words in progress. I have ideas for both of those!
By the way, I WAS able to buy some of my favorite BBQ sauce on Amazon last night. :p I also found a few more food-related things and added them to my order. :) I still need to go to the grocery store for a few things I couldn't get there, but I can do that later. I'm good for now.
Here are a few morning beach pictures to start your day. :p. It's gorgeous again here and it's HOT. I'm not sure what we are doing today beyond one errand. I ordered a case for this similar to the one I found in Goodwill and it's being delivered to an Amazon locker down here. We will be picking that up at some point. I think we might be eating at Victoria's, too. We'll see. I'll check in later. Here are the pictures.
So, guess who watched the entire third season of Sailor Moon Crystal last night and today? Yup, me. :p SO good. Now I have to see the movies. Ahhh. Of course,
they are on Netflix and I don't have it. I'm hoping my friend will let me watch on his. I want to see them. Crystal was so well done. I hope the movies are as good.
In other news, we did our usual small thrift today. Just Reidsville. I found a few things but my favorite is a lamp I found. It's actually a kids lamp as I found out after looking it up on Amazon, but I don't care. It's so cute! Here is the picture from Amazon:
It's just that cute! It's no longer being sold on Amazon, so I have no idea what it cost new, but I got it for $5.00! Very cute and I love the colors. If you can't tell, the lampshade is faux fur! :p My other finds were some blank labels (for making return address labels), a Starbucks mug, a sleep mask, and a pretty glass with daisies painted on it. Not a huge haul, but I fun one. I need to write a bit more as I haven't written as much as I planned today. With thrifting and watching Sailor Moon, I didn't get enough time. Oh! I did run to Starbucks for my traditional first-of-the-month visit. Now, I'm going to relax and possibly write some more. If not, it's not a huge deal as I DID write some today. One of my resolutions for 2022 was to write every day even it was just a few lines. :)
I have no idea how I forgot about yesterday, but here we are. I DID make two trips to recycle so that might have finished me off. :p We went to Reidsville and only thrifted there. Salvation Army and Goodwill. We ate while there too at a local place. It was yummy! At Salvation Army, I found two candles, a cool handmade soap, It's from a place called Joy Bunny Soap and the bar I got is Karma. It smells nice! I found a German Coca Cola glass, too! I also found two pouches. One is a pencil/pen planner type pouch and the other is a make up fold up type deal. Cute finds. I have another pencil/planner pouch exactly like this one that I bought on Amazon. This one is just another color. I couldn't pass it up for .99¢.
At Goodwill I found a nice Starbucks mug, a cute jack o lantern 'bottle', a Life's a Beach hangee, and a cool Super Mario backpack! :D All in all a good haul for the two stores. Yes, I took pictures of everything to share. Here we go!
Well, first of all, I had no clue we were going to thrift. My friend texted me at noon and said he was getting off then and we'd go thriving. I agreed and we headed to Reidsville. We went to Salvation Army. I only got some vintage buttons there. We ate and then went to the Goodwill there. They had two Amazon basics office chairs for $15.00 each! These are $61 at Amazon. These chairs were brand new and assembled. My friend didn't have room in his car to carry the chair so we bought it and let them know we'd be back to pick it up. We headed back here and got Goontz and went back. We picked it up and then headed on to a few more places. I also got a Fossil handbag in Goodwill with owls on it while there. Very cute! We got the chair and then went to Walkertown. I found a few little things and one Fossil thing. I got a tiny clear zippered backpack with colorful icons on it and a Fossil travel/toiletry bag. Here is that:
It's really cute! We went to Mayodan and I found a few assorted goodies. A 3 ring binder, two wallets, a cover for my old video iPod, and I think that is all. I probably forgot something from one of the places. By the way, here is the exact chair I got:
Amazing deal, yes? I loved that I didn't have to put it together too! :p It still had the protective plastic on it and the little instruction booklet was included. I love great thrift finds! As for my package, still nothing. I submitted a request via USPS as I said before and asked to be notified via email only. They called. So annoying. They left a voicemail and it was pretty much useless. "It's stuck in transit... bla bla bla." No, really? Sheesh!
Guess who got a new case for her phone today? Did you guess me? Well you guessed right! :p I love the case I had, but it got ink stains on it and I cannot get them out. I was going to order another one just like the one I had, but I thought I'd look and see what else I found. I haven't looked up cases since I first got the phone. I found some with the movable sparkly stuff and it was my color! It's a teal blue and clear and it's so pretty! It was pretty inexpensive, so I ordered it and it came today. I love getting Sunday deliveries from Amazon! :D
So, it came today and I opened it and I fell in love. It's so pretty! I tried to take a good picture of it, but I had to use things other than my Pixel and it has the best camera. I took about 49028493284902 pictures and came up with two that I'll share. lol Here we are:
Neither picture does it justice. You get the idea, though, right? :p I am glad I did get the white Pixel since the top part of the case is clear. It looks so nice with the blue at the bottom of the case. I am extra, so I went in and changed the keyboard in Swiftkey from a pink one to a blue one. :p I'm silly, I know, but it looks nice. The first picture was taken with my iPod touch and the second one was with my camera. Neither would be as good as if I could take it with my Pixel's camera. It's hard to take a picture of your phone in a case with the case on! :P Maybe I'll do a bathroom selfie with it tomorrow! lol
My friend and I went on a midweek thrift trip. We went to Reidsville. We ate at Camela's. It was delicious. We were going to Salvation Army as we had enough time, but they are closed on Wednesday. D'oh! We went to Goodwill and I found a few things. An old Tupperware divided plate (I have the plate but it's broken, so I was happy to find another one), a Halloween mug, a Seattle mug, a green plastic box (vintage check box), and a little souvenir 'horse' made of wood. The head is a clothespin! lol, It says "Straight from the horse's mouth" on it. It's cute! Since we didn't find a lot in there, we went to Mayodan to that Goodwill we just discovered last week. I found a lot of stuff in here. Two ceramic jack o lanterns (one small, one large), a pink zipper pouch (for small electronics, two grab bags of pencil and pens, (one had two Tombow brush pens in it! I didn't even see them when I picked it up), a SakRoots wallet, three desk bins (one long, one shorter, and a pencil cup), a pack of refills for a Zebra pen and a broken pen (I ordered a replacement pen on Amazon.), some Halloween string lights, and a secret message writing set. It had two invisible ink pens in it. Very cute. I think that is all. It was a good haul! We enjoyed this Goodwill much more this time. On the last trip, they were very busy, and it was hard to even look at stuff. This time, they weren't that busy and we were able to take our time.
That is basically what this is! I wanted to protect my desk to keep it from any issues so I looked up desk mats. I found one that would fit my desk. The writing surface isn't huge, so I had to measure it to get the right size. The only thing is, the smallest one height-wise is also the smallest one lengthwise! I wish I could get one that covered the majority of my desk. For now this will do.
It's nice, it's pink on one side and blue on the other. When I was looking these up and had ordered this one, I remembered I had an old Yoga mat that I didn't use anymore. It wasn't a real thick one and it was blue on one side and green on the other. I was thinking, I could cut this and make my own custom mat for my desk. There is only one problem. I can't find the Yoga mat! I moved it from the container I keep my other mats in. It only holds four and I took this one out to fit those in. Now, I can't remember what I did with the other mat. D'oh! I was thinking it would look pretty good on my desk and it would get used, but I can't find it. It's around here somewhere! :p
So, that came yesterday. Today I got another two packages from Amazon. I ordered a set of washi that has been on my wish list forever and I also ordered some coffee stickers! They had a set of 40 some (45 I think?) for $4 and some change. I looked and they had the same display box but it had twice as many stickers for $5 and change. I ordered that and I'm glad I did. It was two of the first one. So, an extra set of stickers for just a few dollars more. Good deal! Here are the stickers and the washi:
The stickers are neat. There are two of each design in the box so I have four of each with the two boxes. The washi is pretty and it's one of my favorite brands I've found on Amazon, it's Moleshine brand. Always nice quality and very pretty! As you can see on the bottom left of the washi box, they added a skinny roll, too!
Yesterday, my friend and I went to Reidsville and ate at Pete's and then went thrifting. At the Goodwill, he found a TomTom GPS and bought it and said it was for me! Yay! It's an older one, but it works well and it's got a nice size screen. He had bought me a tiny TomTom at the Goodwill in Longs SC on the way home from the last beach trip and I liked it, but it was hard to push the screen as it was so small. He saw this one and bought it. We set it up and it works fine. The maps may be a bit out of date, but they should be okay. It will still get us where we need to go, just maybe not to a specific restaurant or whatnot if we don't have the address. It will be nice to have a GPS in my car so I don't have to use my phone and Google Maps. I love my Google, but I don't want to run down my phone battery!
The day before that, when I forgot to post again, I went and got my car washed, filled up with gas, and got my oil changed They charged $10 more than last time and I wasn't very happy about that but I needed the oil change so I went ahead and got it. I like keeping on top of any maintenance on my Goontz!
My laptop bag came today and although it's lovely and sturdy, it's not wide enough. If I have my laptop in it alone, it's fine, but if I add my charger and Anything else, it's bulky and looks bad. I decided that I would look around town for something else. I found a few options on clearance on the Office Max website. I was debating on two. I decided to go over and see what I could find. The one I had looked at that I thought I was going to get was way too small. It was marked as a lot bigger on the website. It took forever for me to find it, too since I was looking for a bigger bag. I saw another bag that I REALLY liked while looking for that one. It was a bit more than the one I had been there to look at, and a few dollars more than the other one I had looked at, but it was perfect. It's grey and aqua and aqua is my color! It has several zipper pockets. The other bag had one on the outside and the inside had the laptop pocket on one side and two little pockets on the other. Not great for organization.
The new bag has a big section with the padded laptop 'sleeve' area. There is a zipper pocket in front of that with some organizer parts and the front has a slip pocket and a small zipper pocket. It also has two pockets on either side for a water bottle or coffee tumbler. :p It's very sturdy and I love it. It has a top handle which is a feature I love on backpacks and it's a sturdy handle, too. I really like this bag. I can load up everything I need to go to Starbucks! :p Or the beach, or wherever. I did think to take a picture of it in my car when I came out of Office Max. I knew I would probably be later getting home and wanted a picture in natural light. Here is that picture:
I love it! Now, after I got that, I went to grab some lunch since it was way past my lunchtime. I got a burger and ate in my car. I headed home and as SOON as I pulled down my street to pull into my driveway, I got a text message from Munzee. Their system has been down ALL day. There was a special Munzee that I had wanted to try and cap but Munzee was completely 'broken' all day. Of course, the minute I get home, it is up! I figured that the special Munzee would be gone, but I checked the app. It was going to be there for another hour. I backed up and went right back out and got it! lol. I got one more that I hadn't gotten on that side of town and headed home. That completed my Zeeops mission for today, too! I was quite happy that the special was still there. I just knew it was going to be gone by the time it came back up. I just checked and I got a badge for catching it. The "Over The Rainbow" badge. I LOVE the Wizard of Oz, so that made me doubly happy. :)