What the Junk?!

Happy Star Wars day!

So, I couldn't sleep again last night.  I also had to get up at 7:55 am. D'oh! That did not help matters.  I got up, ha my coffee, and got ready.  As I was finishing up, my friend called to make sure I was up and alive. lol  I walked to their house.  I had long enough to go see my little Cocoa and then we were off!  We got to the place the graduation was at and got some pretty good seats.  We were there a little over an hour before it started.  The graduation went fine and then it was craziness trying to get out of there! I HATE to walk slow and I was basically shuffling along until I could get outside.  I was ready to run home. lol

My friends wanted to go eat and offered to get mine so I went.  We went to Outback.  I haven't been in such a long time.  I got two loaves of their delicious bread to bring home. :p  We ate and then went back to their house.  I got to play with all of the dogs.  My friend's three and her mom's two, plus my friend's two cats and two of her mom's cats. I stayed long enough to eat some cake and headed home.  I was totally beat from being around people all day.  I have to have my solitude.  Sadly, I didn't get the Starbucks I wanted. :(  When I got home, I took off my 'nice' clothes and put on my comfy ones.  I laid on the bed but didn't sleep.  I want to sleep tonight and make up for last night.

I'm currently yawning my fool head off.  I'm going to fix dinner before too much longer. It's a lot earlier than my usual dinner time, but my eating schedule has been totally off all day.  After I eat, I am not sure what I'm planning on doing. I have some laundry that needs to move to the dryer.  It's being bitchy and not spinning the water out.  The load was way too big, I know, but I was too tired to care when I put it in there. :P . I'll go check on that and see if it needs to spin again.

I am not going to start a puzzle tonight as I'm too tired to concentrate on it.  I had planned to walk, but time got away from me and now it's too late.  I could go for a quick walk, but I'll just take today off.  It won't be too bad considering with all the running around looking for clothes last night, I got in a lot of extra steps yesterday.

I guess that is all.  There is a nice extra long post for you. :) I am going to figure out dinner and then do something to keep me from falling asleep until time for bed. :p

WHOO HOO!!!!

Guess who finished the puzzle from hell today?  This girl! :P I got done and realized I was missing two pieces. D'OH!  I looked around my room and no luck.  Then, I thought, why not go look in the room I had tried to put it together in before.  It's a mainly junk/storage room so I was hoping I'd have some luck.  I found one of the pieces!  There was more stuff in there that I wanted to move and look around tonight, so I'll do a more thorough search tomorrow.  You'll never guess what else I found.  One of the missing pieces from the other puzzle!  I was shocked.  It was in there too.  SO, I'm hoping the last piece for the Lighthouse puzzle and the last piece for the tree puzzle will be found tomorrow!  I wasn't expecting the tree piece.   Here is the puzzle with all but two pieces.  (I took this before I got in the piece I found)

I'm so glad to finish that one!  I went with a friend today to Goodwill and scored big time! I got an awesome Starbucks tumbler to add to my collection.  It's from Valentine's 2013 but it looks practically brand new.  I paid a whopping .99 for it! Score!  I also took a chance and bought two used puzzles.  They were only $1 a piece and I liked the picture so I'm hoping that all the pieces are there. Here is the tumbler and the two puzzles:

I got a few more little things and this nifty box.  It was marked 3.99 and it was too cute to pass up.  I didn't look until I got home, but the retail on the bottom of the box was 25. Another good score.  Oh! I also got four Archie comic books.  I always loved the Archie comics and this were the digest type and they were brand new.  I should have gotten more, but four is good for now.  I'm really happy with the tumbler. It's in great shape! A fun addition to my Starbucks collection! Here is the box:

I love thrift shopping! ^_^

19,169

Yes, I'm less than 100o words from finishing Camp NaNoWriMo! Yay!  I just wrote 1508 words tonight.  I am not sure what that last bit is going to be.  I've hit on all the characters that I wanted to do. I might add to one of the ones I've already done to make it to 20,000.

I worked on the puzzle today. I didn't get a lot done, but I did get some!  I will post that picture at the end of this post.  I walked and it was in the 80's and it was pretty darn hot! Considering it was April and in the 80's. Yikes! lol  I got home and had to sit down and cool off a while.  I worked on the puzzle while I did.  I was working on that for a while and then my friend texted me that if I could wait a little bit to eat, he'd bring half a pizza to me!  I can wait for pizza. :P

He brought it by and I had delicious pizza for lunch.  I wasn't as good as our usual places, but it was not bad at all!  He was even nice enough to bring me a 2 liter of Coke since I'm out of soda at the house.  Watch out world! LOL Good thing I still have plenty of coffee.  I don't run without caffeine. :P

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.

 

Puzzles and Starbucks. :p

I finished my puzzle tonight.  I knew I was going to finish it so I went to Dollar Tree to see if I could find any puzzles.  I had stopped at Family Dollar on my walk and they didn't have any!  I decided to go over to Dollar Tree this evening.  I found three that I liked.  I bought all three! :)  I also went by Starbucks while I was out. I couldn't resist!  I had two free drinks, so I used on of them.  I took a picture of the new puzzles and the completed one.  The puzzles are all 500 piecies.  One is bowls, one is plates, and the last is a chair with flowers.  They had some 1000 piece puzzles, too, but I didn't see any I liked.  Plus, I have one coming in the mail soon. :p  I found one I like a lot on eBay and I had a coupon for $3 off an item so I bought it.  Here is the completed puzzle and the three new ones.  I will start the Puzzlebug one tomorrow.  (It's in the red box) I've seen Puzzlebug puzzles on websites before but I've never done one.  I wanted to see how they were.  You can't beat $1!

Starbucks, perhaps!

I went out this evening and decided that I needed some Starbucks. :p I went through the drive thru so I wouldn't have to turn my car off.  It was nice to get a cascara latte.  They are so good.  I noticed some advertising recently for the cascara cold brew foam.  When that is there, they usually have cascara syrup.  I asked the barista and he said they should have it all the time. YAY!!!!!!!!  Now, if they would just add it to the app. I've wanted to try a mobile order, but I can't because cascara isn't listed as a syrup. :( . Oh well, as long as they keep selling my beloved cascara, I'm happy!

I have not found the pieces for my puzzle, but I did some work on it and now it looks better.  I printed out the picture on the box the puzzle came in.  I cut out a few pieces and taped them on the back.  Up close, it's obvious, but from a distance, you can hardly tell.  In fact, you have to look for the spot where the two pieces are missing. Yay!  I still hope to find the pieces, but this will work in the meantime.

 

Starbucks and more!

So, I walked today and it was sunny and warm enough for short sleeves. Tomorrow it's only supposed to be in the 40's.  Nutty weather. :p  I got in a good walk since it was nice out there.  I am still pup sitting.  Cocoa is asleep under a blanket beside me at the moment.  She is such a little sweetie.  She likes to sleep under the covers.  Last night, I 'lost' her!  I had turned down the bed and was doing some thing to get ready for bed.  I had gotten her to come with me so I could take her outside.  I got distracted and then couldn't find her.  I looked all over including my room.  I came back to my room and looked at the covers.  It didn't look like anything was under them, but I flipped them up and there she was. lol Silly pup!  I got her and took outside so she could go once more before bed.  

I went up to my friend's house tonight to check on everything and make sure everything looked okay.  I took the van out to the post office and checked my box.  I had a stack of mail again!  Five penpal letters and three other pieces of mail.  I left there and decided that since I was out, I'd run to Starbucks and go through the drive thru.  That is exactly what I did, too!  I didn't carry Cocoa with me because I didn't bring the van here to load her up.  Oh well. Perhaps another time. :) . She is a bit on the portly side as it is, so she really didn't need the treat. :p  I always give her goodies from my plate when I eat up there and my friend's mom does too.  She loves to eat!  

I sat down tonight and paid my bills.  I will try to go to the grocery store tomorrow after I take Cocoa home after my walk.  I am hoping my car will do okay.  I did take it out for a little bit tonight again to charge the battery.  I'd like to get some groceries as I'm out of almost everything that is remotely good!  I need some variety in this house.  I will get that done tomorrow and do my other errands on another day.  I don't want to do a lot of starting and stopping my car in one day as it likes to mess up.  Better safe than sorry!  I think I'll get my groceries tomorrow and then go to the dollar store on Monday.  Unless one my friends will run me to the dollar store tomorrow which I doubt!  If I didn't have to get toilet paper, I would just walk to the dollar store.  Everything that I need but the tp would probably fit in my backpack easily.  I usually get a huge pack of tp so that it lasts a few months.  I'll decide what to do with that tomorrow.  Walking isn't a bad idea if it's dry, but the forecast is calling for rain AGAIN tomorrow evening.  I'm am so totally tired of rain. I do not live in Seattle.  I should not have to have so much rain. Booo!

Well hello again!

Yes, I realize that I didn't post for the past two days. Sorry about that.  I just didn't get around to it or feel like it.  I'm going to try to make up for it today.  I walked all three days, so that is good.  The first day, it was around 60 and it was nice.  Yesterday, it was in the 40's and cold.  Today, it was in the 60's while I walked today.  That was nice.  Tomorrow is supposed to be around 40 again.  I swear the weather cannot make up it's mind! Oh well!

My friend came today and we went to eat at one of our local places.  Afterwards, he put some new spark plug wires on my car.  I started it up and drove it for a bit.  I didn't stop anywhere or turn it off.  It did fine.  It wanted to overheat, but it didn't, so that was good.  I am not going to totally trust it, but at least it was okay for a short time today.  My friend lent me his jump box.  I've been looking at them on Amazon.  It would be something that would be nice to have in my car.  I think it would also be a good idea to get a set of jumper cables to keep in my car.  That way I won't have to find someone that has some, I'll already have them.  I'll just have to find someone to help me by using their vehicle.

While I was out tonight driving to charge my battery, I thought about going to Starbucks to the drive thru, but I was good and didn't.  I will probably do that at some point this weekend.  That is if my car continues to do okay.  Wish me luck!

 

Well then!

I totally forgot to post yesterday.  It was one of those days! Let me tell you about it.  First of all, it rained, it rained a lot.  I did not get to walk because of the rain.  I decided in the evening to go to Starbucks and get that tumbler that I wanted before it was gone.  I got over there and got my tumbler and a drink and headed to my car.  By then, luckily, the rain had stopped.  Good thing too.  My car wouldn't start!  I went back in Starbucks and asked one of my favorite Baristas if she or anyone had jumper cables.  No one did, but she went with me to ask at the little restaurant next door.  One of the guys there had them. Yay!  It took quite a while, but my car finally started up so I could drive it home.  Many thanks were given!  I got home and parked my car and I haven't tried to start it since then.  

I got to walk today to make up for yesterday.  It was overcast and the street was still wet when I left today, but it didn't rain and the sun came out.  Unfortunately, I didn't know there was a wind advisory!  As I was on my way back, the wind was nuts.  I had to put my hoodie up and tie it under my chin to keep it on. Seriously!  I pushed my way through the wind and got home.  I was so glad to get here, let me tell you!  The wind and the soaked ground led to power outages in the city and surrounding areas.  Luckily, so far, I still have power.  I made sure to get everything I needed done early in case the power went out.

When I went over to Starbucks last night, I noticed how high the river was.  It was really, really high.  We can't seem to dry out from one rain event before another hits. It's crazy!  Hopefully we'll dry out soon.  I am sick to death of the rain.  Especially since I woke up to a pond in my kitchen!  I found a new leak in there.  It is about a foot away from the sink, too. ~_~;  It couldn't have happened over the sink, could it?  I cleaned up the water and put down something to catch the drip.  It's weird because the parts that usually leak haven't in a while.  It's like the drips move around. So weird!

Anyway!  If you are interested, here is the tumbler.  I really like this one and I think it's probably going to be my favorite.  I love the design on the outside, it makes gripping it so easy and I love the silver color.  It will be my beach bound tumbler this year. lol

Friday

When I got up today, it was raining.  I was thinking that my walk was out.  I checked my weather app and it said there was only a small chance of it raining during the time I actually walk.  I decided to try to walk and take the chance. I'm glad I did. It didn't rain on me at all.  The forecast for tomorrow is rain all day and we are under a flood watch.  I don't know if it will be like today or not.  I'll see how it goes.  I was determined to try and walk today since tomorrow and possibly Sunday were looking like no gos.  

After I got home from my walk, I didn't go back out.  It was raining and colder by then.  I thought about going out to Starbucks to the drive thru, but I just didn't want to go back out.  I've pretty much been laying around doing nothing since my walk.  I haven't slept well lately and I'm tired.  I would have taken a nap, but when I take naps, I don't sleep well in the evening.  I'm hoping to get to bed a little early tonight and make up for some lost sleep!