What the Junk?!

Yes, I am aware!

Yes, I know I didn't post yesterday. Sorry about that.  I didn't do much of anything yesterday!  I skipped my walk because I thought my friend and I might walk.  He was off from yesterday until Monday.  He didn't want to walk, so I missed out on my walk.  Oops!  It was made worse by the fact that I couldn't walk today because of rain and the threat of bad weather.  Oh well! I'll walk tomorrow and it will be okay.

To show you how lazy I was yesterday, I didn't even do anything for Camp NaNo!  I made up for it tonight.  I wrote over 1000 words.  I'm almost to 15,000 now and I only set the goal for myself of 20,000 so I'm doing quite well.

I went out this evening to hit a Pokestop as I was on a streak and I didn't want to break it.  I went out yesterday long enough to do that too.  While I was out today, it had started clearing off, so I headed to Starbucks. :P . I went through the drive-thru and got my favorite, a cascara latte.  It was delicious as usual and I had a nice convo with the barista at the drive-thru about he new award program. (No one was behind me and we were waiting on my drink!)

My puzzle is not going very well.  I got ONE piece in yesterday and today? Two. ^^; Seriously.  It's so frustrating!  When I get one, it takes so long to get it that I get tired of looking and give up. lolI told my friend tonight that I was tempted to toss it back in the box again! :P

I've been looking up old puzzles on eBay. I've found a bunch I really like but with shipping, the price is too high!  Just about every puzzle I see that like has a price tag of at least $8 and the shipping is usually $10 or more.  Plus, I am always looking for sealed boxes.  I don't want to do one and find a piece missing!  That is so frustrating.   I love that people have some really cool older puzzles on there that are still sealed.  I see many I want, but with shipping, I just can't afford it.  It's funny, I saw one puzzle that I bought at Dollar General for $5.  They only wanted $3 for theirs but the shipping was at least $10.  Oh well, I'll keep looking.  I prefer puzzles with actual pictures instead of illustrations.  There are some gorgeous ones in the Big Ben brand on eBay.  Big Ben is the brand of the puzzle I did earlier this month with the white bark trees.  I know they make good quality puzzles.

I'm sort of down in the dumps this weekend.  Why?  Well, for the past two years, my friend and I have gone to North Myrtle Beach on Easter weekend.  We didn't go this year.  I would so love to be there!  Well, the trip at the end of May, beginning of June isn't too far off.  It just seems like forever!  I am working on a packing list for the trip in my bujo and I already have the majority of my beach fun bingo set up. I just need to pick three more things to add to the board for it to be complete.

 

Whee to early packages!

So, I had two packages that were estimated to be delivered tomorrow.  I noticed that in Informed delivery it said today!  I checked my package tracker app. (Package Buddy) and sure enough, both were scheduled to be here today! Yay!  So, what did I get?  Well, I got another Fossil purse. lol It's the exact bag I bought in February but it's Green.  I love the size and shape of the black one and I've been watching eBay for another in another color. I found an off-white one, a blue one (I missed that one!), a yellow one, and this green one.  The green one was a great price so I bid on it and won with my opening bid. Yay!

The other item is a cute 'kit' from the NaNoWriMo store.  It's a pencil case that has a pencil, a big eraser, a pencil sharpener and s several NaNo stickers! ^___^ . The pencil cases zipper is orange like the trim on my bujo backpack!  I put my daily use/often used pens in it.  It will reside in my bujo bag.  I love the pencil case and the bag.  The Fossil bag even came with a Fossil dust bag.  This is the first Fossil bag I've gotten that the seller included the dust bag.  I'm happy with my purchases.  I'll share them below and I want to show the puzzle.  I got out the chess board and took all the pieces out of and off the puzzle.  I separated them by type so when I'm looking for a particular piece, it will be a little easier.  I have some of the pieces on the white board down the side and the rest are on the chess board.  Hopefully this will help speed up the progress a little!  Here is the handbag, the NaNo kit, and the puzzle:

I've done my French lesson and my NaNo writing for today, so after I post this, I'll work on the puzzle a bit.  I am extremely tired as I was up way too late reading on my Kindle on that zombie book. :P

 

Spring time and puzzles

I got in my walk today.  It was overcast for the whole walk, and the wind really got up towards the end.  I was a bit afraid I was going to get rained on, but I didn't.  It never rained at all today as far as I know.  It might tonight for a bit as they are predicting possible thunderstorms, but it's supposed to be sunny tomorrow, so I won't have to worry about rain while walking then!

I didn't get a lot more done on the puzzle.  All that sky is pretty daunting.  I did get a little done. I also took a couple of pictures of my walk today that I wanted to share.  One of some cool looking mushrooms in the park.  When I first was walking up on them, I thought they were stones.  Then, latter, I noticed one of the blooming spring trees had shed most of it's blossoms and they were a blanket below it.

Pretty, yes?  I thought so.  I haven't done much since coming home from my walk.  I worked on the puzzle off and on.  I think I need to get out the chess board to put the rest of the pieces in the box on.  I think it would make working it easier.  I did find some pieces today by just shuffling through the box!  I found the pieces I was looking for last night and now the lighthouse is complete.

I did forget one thing last night, though.  I didn't do any words for NaNo!  It hit me and I was like, D'oh!  I hit 10,000 words tonight, so I'm half way there so I'm happy with that.  I still can't believe I totally forgot last night. Oops!

I did my next week's layout in my bullet journal.  I had that on today's 'to do' list in my bujo.  I washed my bed linen and I just need to put it back on the bed.  I'll do that in a bit. I did my French lesson too.  I might work on the puzzle a  bit more tonight. I'm not sure yet.  We'll see how it goes.  I have a feeling this is not going to be easy to finish! :p

 

Layout change

I decided to go back to one of the premade layouts that Typepad offers.  I think this will be a nice layout for Spring and summer.  It's bright and pretty and the Macarons or are they macaroons? are cool! I could have changed my regular layout, but I didn't feel like going through all the steps of creating a new banner and all that good stuff.  I'll use this one for a while.  The old one is still saved, so I can use it if I want to go back.  I probably will at some point and change the banner and background. For now, I'm really loving this one.

I finished the puzzle last night. LOL Seriously.  It was fun.  I wasn't going to start the new one today, but I ended up doing the outline.  That is all I'm going to do for today.  I walked and it was nice out there.  I made a few stops on the way back to pick up things I needed.  I still have a few things I need to get, but I'll go get those sometime soon.  

It is supposed to rain tomorrow, but I don't think it is forecast during my walking time.  Hopefully it won't and I'll be able to walk without any issues.  I'm yawning my self to death at the moment and I still have NaNo to do.  So far I have written everyday and I'm ahead on count so far. It's been so much fun to get back to my characters and their world.  I am going to do my NaNo writing after I post this and then I'm going to do some work in my bullet journal.  Below, I'll post the completed puzzle from yesterday and the outline of the new one.  This new one is going to be a doozy!  I can tell that just from putting the outline together.

I really enjoyed the plate one.  I think I'll love this current one when it's done. The picture is so pretty!  It's just got a lot of dark spots and different parts that look a like. I'll get it done though!

Puzzle tracker, puzzles, and more!

I made a puzzle tracker for my bullet journal.  I made a list last night of all the puzzles I've done this year and when I started and finished them.  I put them in my puzzle tracker that I created in my bujo!  I wanted to draw puzzle pieces at the top, but I can't draw worth a damn.  I found a cool puzzle font online and downloaded it.  I printed out 'puzzle tracker' in that font.  I colored the pieces in with my Mildliners and I glued it into my bujo on the puzzle tracker page.  I like how it turned out.  I have a space for the puzzle, the number of pieces, begun, done, and notes.  I think it will be fun to track my puzzles as I go.  With my blog and my daily journal, I was able to see when I started and finished all the ones I've done this year.  I just finished my latest one earlier.  Here it is:

I was thinking of doing the Plates one next, but I think I'll take a break and do the flowerbox on the chair.  I just got through with bowls, the plates can wait until I do this one. :p Here is the tracker as of now...

 

Well hell!

I 'finished' the puzzle today.  I say it that way, because two pieces are missing. ~_~;;;;;;  The funny thing is, when I was looking for those pieces, I found the long lost piece to the last puzzle I did in a place I had already looked!  LOL  I have hope that the last two pieces of this one will turn up.  It's so pretty that I wanted to hang it up on the wall.  I just need to find those two pieces.  This is the puzzle at the present moment:

If you see something shiny on the left side, that is just mailing tape.  When I complete a puzzle that I want to keep, I turn it over and tape the back with mailing tape.  It holds the puzzle together nicely!  I haven't trimmed the edge of the tape yet. :p . Hopefully the last two pieces will turn up.  If they do, I'll be sure to do a picture of the completed puzzle!

Oh! After doing my video for the backpack and my bullet journal tools, I went on Amazon and looked for the last pack of Mildliners.  I should get them tomorrow. :p . Now I'll have all the packs unless they realease more!

 

 

Bullet journal in a mini backpack!

It's finally on Youtube. Check it out. I hope you enjoy. ^_^

OMG WTF! LOL

Sorry about not posting yesterday.  I had some issues.  I made several videos on my bujo backpack.  I wanted to put the one I liked best in iMovie and edit it.  I didn't get anything into iMovie until tonight. lol  I was going out it all wrong.  It also didn't help that a lot of places said that sometimes the format I was using wouldn't work in iMovie.  I finally figured everything out and got it in there.  I put a little header and footer on the video to make it look more professional.  I watched it to make sure everything looked okay.  The title 0r header if you will was great. It went right into the video.  The video played fine, but at one point, I had a problem.  Seems when I was trying to set up titles and end caps, I actually put in a title title title in several seconds of video somewhere in the middle. LOL  I will re-do the video tomorrow and get it right and then upload it.  I want to learn more about iMovie so I can make nice videos for YouTube.  I might get my channel going!

It was after 4 am when I finally got to lay down and try to sleep last night.  I wasn't sleepy at all even then, but I made myself try.  I woke up so tired and out of sorts.  I'm surprised I was able to make my coffee!  My friend called and she was talking about the date and I told her I didn't know what day it was, I didn't get any sleep last night. It's the 17th btw! :P

I walked today and believe me, that took some doing.  I wanted to just go back to bed. It was sunny, but not really warm, so I decided to go.  It was in the mid 50's so it wasn't really cold.  I was nice enough out there in my hoodie.  I was glad to get the walk accomplished.  I did some more work on the puzzle.  I'm still not close to finishing, but it's starting to look like I will finish. I took a picture to share.  I moved some of the pieces to the chess board so I would have more room to work with.

Bullet Journal in a backpack!

I took some pictures of the backpack today.  I did a video for YouTube, but the lighting and sound wasn't great so I'm going to redo it tomorrow and upload it.  I'll link it on the blog when I get it done.  For now, I'm going to share with you some picture of the backpack.  Instead of putting my pens in the backpack in the pen cases, I changed it up.  I took some quart sized milk cartons and cut then down and put them in the bottom.  They are holding my pens! I have my Crayola Supertips in one, my Mildliners in the middles one, and my Stabilo roll of pens in the last one.  I also have a few other pens in there.  It works out great.  I can open the backpack and everything is right where I need it.  I put my daily/often use pens in one of my roll ups.  It's orange so it matches the straps on the backpack.  There is a pocket in the back that I put my bujo in and a ruler.  There are two side pockets . and a zipper pocket in front.  I put miscellaneous bujo supplies in there.  There is also a small pocket on the back.

Here are some pictures.  A video will come (hopefully!) tomorrow! 

 

Finally!!!!

Remember yesterday when I said I was looking for a piece of my puzzle.  Guess what I finally found tonight.  I was beginning to think it wasn't in the box. :P . I got my old chess board out and put the rest of the pieces on it.  I also moved some of the ones on the whiteboard over to have more room.  I found that piece and I found the others at the bottom so that section is done.  The top little part is next and then I'll go from there.  I was close to giving up tonight.  After getting that little section filled in and that one piece I needed, I was ready to continue to try and finish it!

My walk today was quite nice. I actually got hot while walking!  It was nice and warm out there. It's supposed to be as warm tomorrow, but we might get rain.  So far, it isn't a huge chance when it's walk time, but we'll see how it goes tomorrow.  They are calling for thunderstorms too.  I do not want to walk in one of those. I have before and it is not fun!

I had to run to the dollar store on my walk back. I was hoping to find a staple gun.  I had one, but I broke it last night. :P . Dollar General didn't have any, so I went to Roses which is right next to DG.  I looked over it three times and finally saw it.  It's a nice one, it's metal, so I shouldn't be able to break this one. :P I also found some feather dusters like I'd been looking for forever! These are the ones that I used to get all the time at Kmart.  They were $1.00 each, so I grabbed two.  They aren't as big as the ones I used to get at Kmart, but I was just glad to get them!

Speaking of Kmart, I ordered myself three pair of shorts.  They all came today via UPS and they all came in three seperate boxes.  WTF!?  Seriously.  They put a pair of shorts in each box, pillow pack for packing and sent them like that.  Why three boxes?  That is a bit silly!  I am glad to get them though.  I also got the cutest little backpack for my bullet journal stuff.  I downsized some of my supplies.  Not a lot, but I downsized a bit.  I also made a box for extra bujo supplies.  I'll do a post about the bag and the bujo box tomorrow.  Until then, here it the puzzle at the current time and a picture of a gorgeous pansy in a hanging basket at Roses.