What the Junk?!

Poor little guy!

I needed to get a few things at Dollar General today and as I was shopping, I saw this snowman.  The poor thing was missing an eye.  I thought he was cute even with only one eye, so I bought him.  I figured no one else would give him a home.  I came home and was trying to find something to give him another eye.  I went through my bead box and found several potential ones.  I picked one and used it.  It isn't the exact same size as the other, but it works.  I think it gives him personality.  Here is his before and after:

 

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So, what do you think?  I think he is cute!  I didn't do a lot today as it was cold and I was feeling sort of meh.  It is supposed to be freezing rain and yucky weather here tomorrow, so I'll probably be in all day. I'll try to do a few more things in my 2020 bullet journal.  Today, I created my NaNoWriMo word tracker and I did a spread for pen swabs.  I did my roll of Stabilo pens and then at the bottom, I did my Mildliner brush pens.  The page beside it, I did the five packs of Mildliners.  I like it!  I have referred to my pen pages in other bujos so I wanted to add this in. I may or may not do a Crayola super tips page. I'm not sure yet.  I really like the pages I just did!

 

Bleh weather is bleh!

It's been drizzly and overcast all day.  It hasn't been too cold, but with the rain, it made it just nasty.  I am glad I didn't have to go out for anything!  Well, I did go out, but that was because I had Bentto on my mind. It's a Japanese restaurant that I love.  I went by and got an order of teriyaki chicken over their delicious fried rice.  They were closing soon, so they gave me a little extra.  :) That is always nice!  

I added one more tracker in my 2020 bullet journal today. I'm trying to work on it a little at a time so I don't get so worn out of drawing straight lines! lol I put a pen pal tracker in there today.  I want to put my NaNoWriMo tracker in there and I will probably add another Beach bingo for my trips to the beaqch in 2020 too.  Those are fun and easy to create and fill in. :)

Yes, I'm alive!

Sorry about not posting yesterday.  I had a pretty bad headache all day yesterday and I just wasn't up to posting.  I did have some good things happen in the midst of the headache, though!  My two new Fitbit bands came.  The pale yellow one is so pretty!  I'm saving it for spring. I'm already wearing the aqua one. :P

My Starbucks cards came yesterday.  The set of 20.  Now I am just waiting on the last one I ordered at that same time.  Oh, I also ordered another really old one.  I had seen this one from different sellers on eBay for 11 and up.  I found a seller with one a lot cheaper and I snatched it up!  The collection I got yesterday was nice.  I've already added them to my binder where I keep my cards.  The ones that I already had, I changed out in the binder to the new ones that have the pin covered.  They also have the stickers on the front.  

Yesterday and today, I have been working on my 2020 bullet journal.  I have several trackers ready now.  I have my books, orders, coffee, puzzles, Starbucks store tracker, and a new Starbucks tracker.  I thought it would be fun to track each visit to Starbucks during the year.  I need to add my NaNoWriMo tracker for next year, a penpal tracker, and a few more.  Oh, I also have my gratitude tracker and my Munzee tracker done.  I am trying to decide on some other trackers to add.  Time to hit up Pinterest and look for ideas. :p

Finally!

Well, first of all, the card that Informed delivery told me about two days ago finally arrived today!  Also, I finally got an update on tracking on the package of the 20 Starbucks cards and they are in Roanoke so they should be here tomorrow.  Now I just need that last single card.

I ordered two bands for my Fitbit on Amazon.  They are both from the same 'listing' but they are two different colors.  One band is coming tomorrow via USPS and the other is coming UPS!  WTF?!  So weird!  My teal band has started coming apart and it was my favorite, so I ordered another.  I also saw they had some bands in a pale yellow color.  They looked so pretty in the picture, so I ordered one of those too!  

I did a little work in my Leuchtturm that I got for my 2020 bullet journal. I decided to go with that after all.  I'll use my traveler's notebook to carry with me.  I only have a few pages done in my 2020 bujo, but at least I've started it!  I finished my puzzle today.  It's really pretty.  The last part of it was the hardest. It always seems to go that way!  I am going to share a picture of my newest Starbucks card in my collection, my completed puzzle and the beautiful Kalanchoe I purchased at the grocery store a few days ago.  I haven't had a kalanchoe in a long time and this one wa so pretty, I just had to have it. :)

NaNoWriMo and my Midori Traveler's Notebook

I didn't get as many words for NaNoWriMo today as I've been getting, but I still got over 1600.  I am getting there!  I am now on the down stretch.  I think. LOL. I noticed my writing seems to be slowing down.  I've been using my Midori TN that I got recently and I love it.  I'm seriously thinking of making it my TN for 2020!  We'll see how it goes closer to January. I try to get whatever I'm going to use set up in advance.  I'll decide soon.  For now, I wanted to share a picture of some of the goodies I put in there for decoration.  In the little clear pocket on the front, I have an Evernote sticker and a Starbucks hangtag from where I bought a gift card.  I thought they looked pretty good in there! Two obsessions together.  Evernote and Starbucks. :p   I have been using an undated daily planner insert in there and it's making me want to use it for my bujo for 2020.  I ordered the Midori weekly planner for it.  I might use it and then have two other notebooks in there for trackers and such.  I also might just use it for a on the go planner.  I haven't decided.  I have done a sample layout on a page from one of the blank TN inserts and it looks pretty cool.  I have a lot ot decide on!  For now, enjoy this my decorations.  The little thing in the middle is from the cool travel washi I got recently.

Beautiful day!

So, I was doing my regular stuff today.  My friend texted me and said it was really nice outside and I should go out and enjoy it.  I had checked the weather on my phone when I woke up and it said it was 41˚.  I looked again and this time the better weather app and it was in the mid-sixties.  I needed to go vote, so I got dressed and headed out.  I did that and then went to pick up a few things I forgot to get yesterday and headed home.  It was so nice out there, that I carried my laptop and a blanket to the yard and did today's NaNoWriMo writing out there! It was a nice change and it was just lovely out there.

I got 1873 words done.  I'm a little under 800 words from 10,000!  I will hit and pass 10,000 tomorrow.  Whoo hoo! I usually buy myself a pizza for hitting 10,000 words, but I'm a bit more broke than usual this month.  I might have to treat myself to something cheaper.  I might go to the grocery store and get a cupcake. :P  My local store has these individual cupcakes that are about twice the size of a regular cupcake and they sell them like that.  That is something I love and it would be a good substitute.  I have frozen pizza, so I can still have pizza if I want it.  I might do that.  I'll update tomorrow and say what my 10,000 word treat was!

Oh, by the way, I found this cute little flag clips at Dollar General for $1.  They are cute, functional, and cheap!

 

Happy Halloween!

Hello and Happy Halloween and a Blessed Samhain to you!  It did NOT feel like Halloween here today.  We were under weather warnings and it was in the low 80's!  It was a pretty weird day.  My friend called last night about me keeping the dogs this weekend and I had that on my mind as they would have come tonight.  I totally forgot my tradition of going to a cemetery on Halloween! :(  I realized it when it was too late to go.  I did go in my yard and collect some pretty fall leaves and pick up a few pecans.

My friend's mom is not going on the trip, so I am off the hook on pup sitting. Yay!  I love the pups, but NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow and I don't want any distractions!  I want to get into my story.  I also have to take down all my Halloween decorations. :(  I am going to miss them.  I have plenty I keep out year around, but these will be stored until next year.  I really should count all the items as I put them away and report in on how many I have.  I have a LOT of jack o lanterns.  I mean a LOT. lol

I got my first order today from Paper Issues.  They have some cute stuff and good prices, too!  I got a three pack of washi, a single roll of washi, and some colorful cardstock (for making TN insert covers).  The three pack of washi is pretty,  I bought it just for the striped washi, but I really like them all.  The single roll is so adorable! It's travel washi and it's just so damn cute!  I put all four in my bujo to take a picture to share.  I will be ordering from Paper Issues again.  Go check them out! Paper Issues

Candy cane madness!

I didn't get started on one of my regular puzzles today.  I then remembered that I had this one little crazy puzzle with only 100 pieces.  It's not a big puzzle, but it's an insane one.  You'll see when I post it below!  The pieces were big, but the pattern. Yikes!

It's been a long day.  What have I done? Nothing! lol . It's been a long day of just vegging out at home.  I found The Facts of Life streaming and I've been watching it, a few episodes a day all this week.  Today, I binge watched a bunch of episodes. I loved this show back in the day, and it is just as good as I remember.  The story lines are still relevant today.  I am enjoying watching it from the beginning. 

I did get all of November and most of December set up in my bullet journal.  I only need to make the December habit tracker page and add the Christmas light washi that I'm getting next week.  For November, I did a NaNo/Thanksgiving theme for my habit tracker page.  I got all the weeklies done.  I need to add the washi to the weeklies for December and it will be done.  Well, I need to do the habit tracker.  I want to wait until my washi comes to see how I'm going to use it on the habit tracker page.  

Midweek time!

Okay, so last night, Chrome was acting up early on.  I did all kinds of things and nothing worked.  I thought it was my Mac because Chrome on my phone was working fine.  I opened Safari on the Mac and everything loaded on there with no issues.  I contacted Google support and the first rep told me to clear my data.  That didn't fix the issue and it made another problem.  The second rep told me to disable each of my extensions at a time to see if one of them were the issue.  It WAS one of my extensions.  So I cleared the data for nothing and now all my history, logins, passwords, etc are gone! :(  I re-contacted Google (this time via email) to see if there was any way to get that back, but I am pretty sure it's gone for good.  This makes me sad.  I know all the passwords I use, so it will be a test of which one is it when I go to a site I have an account.  It's also going to be fun trying to remember which user name or email I use with that site. AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!  At least Chrome is working. lol

So, yesterday, I was looking at some things in my room and wanted to organize more stuff.  If you have read my blog in the past, you know I love to organize stuff.  I went on the Target site to look for items.  This is when I found out that Chrome was wonky.  I was able to look at the Target site on my phone and saw that they had what I wanted.  I went over there and looked at the item and the other items that were similar and ended up getting one I liked a lot more that was five dollars cheaper. Yay!

What is the item, you ask?  It's a little shelving unit that I wanted to organize some stuff.  I meant to take a picture of it before I put it in it's spot, but forgot.  I took a couple of pictures of it in use, it's hard to get a picture at the angle I had to work with, so I grabbed a picture of the stock photo too.  The stock photo is silver tone and the one I got is black, but you'll see in these pictures:

 

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I am using it for some of my boxes.  The ones on the bottom have extra bujo supplies and the ones on top are full of washi tapes!  I also put my binders with my Starbucks card collection and some of my journals.  Past bullet journals, some empty Moleskines, and a few others.  So far I haven't put anything on top. I haven't decided on what I want to put on top yet.  I really like it.  It makes everything so organized and easy to find.

Today, I went to eat with my friend and afterwards, we went to Goodwill.  I got quite a lot of goodies.  One of the things was a puzzle.  It's an old puzzle and it's round!  I thought that was unique, so I bought it.  I hope it's complete.  I also started a new puzzle today.  I didn't get as much done as I would like, because I was working on it when my friend texted about eating.

After I got home from that, my other friend needed to run to Target and wanted me to ride with so I could get Starbucks in Target. I had called her to go to Starbucks, but she didn't want to.  She called back and said she needed to go to Target and I could get Starbucks there.  I prefer to get Starbucks from the main Starbucks, but I took would I could get! Now I'm going to post the current puzzles progress and a picture of the cool round puzzle I bought. :)

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.