What the Junk?!

Birthday wishes....

My friend's birthday was today, so I went up to give her a present and eat dinner.  We also went to Starbucks.  She had to get her free birthday drink.  I got myself a cascara latte. ^_^   It was delicious, as usual.  I saw one of my two favorite baristas.  I also saw Dookie the Corgi! I only got to say hello to him, but I saw his cute little Corgi booty!

I finished the puzzle I was working on.  I had to do it in several sessions.  It was pretty hard.  All those similar colors.  I did the blueberries first and then the raspberries.  It's a really pretty puzzle all put together.  It also flipped over with nary a problem! Yay!  

Starbucks on a Saturday!

I had not planned to have Starbucks today.  I had every intention of staying home and getting things done.  I did need to run to the store to pick up a few items and I was about to dress for that.  My friend that never wants to go anywhere called and wanted to go to Starbucks.  I told her that I was about to run to pick up a few things at the store.  She took me to the store and we got Starbucks. lol   I finished the puzzle before I went out.  It's so pretty!  I'll post it below.  

I washed a load of clothes today.  My brand new shirt I got at the beach was stained from my friend's dogs the other day.  I checked it before I put it in the dryer and it's a good thing I did.  The stain was still there.  I swear my washing machine sucks!  I worked on it and then tossed it in with another batch of laundry to wash.  Hopefully it will come clean this time.  I will never get another washing machine like this one.  It's not very good. I didn't pick it out, so I had to choice in the matter. It's so frustrating!  It's one of those with no center thingee and it's also 'low water' wash.  It just doesn't work as well as a traditional washer!  Oh well, it's all I have, so I'll have to use it!

Here is the puzzle I finished.  I really enjoyed doing this one.  I am not sure which one I'll pick next.  We'll see tomorrow! :)

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. :)

Mmmm Starbucks....

I needed some light bulbs today and I needed to recycle, too.  The recycle bins are in the same shopping center lot as Roses and Dollar General.  I figured if Roses didn't have the bulbs I needed, I could go to DG.  Roses had some and they were a good price too! I got a box of the ones I needed and two boxes of the ones I use most.  I needed 40 watt because I have a small lamp and that is the biggest you can use.  Every other lamp or light fixture in my house is 60 watt.  I got two boxes of those.  I also got a package of pens. (as if I need more!) and a box of tissues.  I avoided temptation and passed on a huge container of caramel corn.  I wish I had bought that. lol

So, I was out, I had done my recycling, and picked up my bulbs. My car was doing okay, so I decided to go to Starbucks.  I got a nice Caramel Ribbon crunch Frappuccino. YUMMY!  I needed some Starbucks as it was back in the 80's today!  YIKES! Crazy ass weather.  

I pulled out a puzzle today.  It was the last of the 300 pieces ones I bought.  I did it all today.  It had a lot of different colors and stuff in it, but it wasn't too hard.  It was different cakes.  I enjoyed working on it.  I had planned to do part today and the rest tomorrow, but I took a break and went back and started working on it again and finished it! 

Tuesday at home

BLEAH! lol Sorry I didn't post yesterday.  I was just getting myself back in my normal boring routine.  I meant to post, but then I didn't.  I still have to do a 'stuff I bought at the beach' post.  I took a ton of pictures.  I also didn't mention that I got another purse on Ebay while on the trip.  No, it's not a Fossil, but it's a Lily Bloom and it's coffee themed! Yay!  It's design is called, "Coffee Break".  The purse style is the same as my other Lily Bloom with just a small difference.  I love this purse.  It has the tablet sleeve on the back like the other.  It's colorful and cute!  I'll post a picture of it and the puzzle I did today!

Yes, i did an entire puzzle today.I got three 300 piece puzzles along with the other ones I bought.  I think it was three.  It might be only two.  I did one of them today.  It was fun getting to pick out a puzzle from a big stack and do one.  My puzzle box is so full that I have puzzles outside of it. lol  I am not sure if I'll go for another 300 one tomorrow or start a 500 one. We'll see.

I went to the post office today. YAY! I had seven letters from pen pals and a bunch of other random mail.  It was great to be able to check my box.  My car did fine going down and back, so that was nice.  I hope to get my letters written this week. I'm out of stamps, but I plan to buy some on Thursday or Friday.

Monday evening

We went out to eat at Victoria's and it was delicious as always.  I took a picture of my food to share. lol . I got the special.  Two pork chops, and three sides. I got mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese.  It was so good!  We left there and went to North Myrtle Beach to the Goodwill.  I got a cool Starbucks stainless tumbler, two coffee mugs, a puzzle, a nice purse (not a Fossil lol), a mini Jack o lantern bag, and a ceramic Jack o' lantern.  I also got to get to go to the new Starbucks that is at North Myrtle beach!  It was nice.  I took two pictures in there, but only one took, so I'm sharing it.  I am going to rest a bit and then I think I'm going for a beach walk.  Well, I know I'm going for one tonight, I'm just not sure exactly when. :P

OH! We also went to Tuesday Morning! I got a cool sticker book, three packages of washi and a package of notebooks. :P

What a relief!

It has been a very long day and I'm glad to be able to just sit down and type up this post! I have needed a haircut for a very long time now.  I had a coupon last month for Great Clips, but it ran out the day before I decided to use it. D'oh!  I did NOT want to go to the beach for a week with my hair the way it was.  It was totally out of control.  I had so many 'messy hair, don't care' days! I just put it in a scruncie and went with it.  It was getting where it wouldn't stay in the scruncie so I got a nice cut today.  The process just started my long day!

I decided to go over there this afternoon and get my hair cut.  I looked up their hours and got in my car.  It was doing that thing where it would NOT go over 25 miles an hour. ~_~; I drove all over trying to get it to start running right . A lot of times it will kick in and go, this time, not so much!  So, I drove home and i was so frustrated.  I knew it would probably be futile to ask my one friend . She had to get back to me.  I finally called HER back and guess what? She would take me! Whee!

So, I walk up to her house ready to go, go, go!  She wasn't ready just yet.  So, I walk the mini Doxie whom I love to pieces and then we are ready to go.  Her mom(she lives next door) asked where we were going and she tells her.  She decides that she wants to go too. ^^; So, we have to wait for her to go change and get ready.  We finally got there and checked in.  I got to go back as soon as they were checked in.  They BOTH decided to get hair cuts. ~_~: 

I get mine done and it's so cute!  She cut about 25 pounds of hair off.  It feels and looks SO much better now.  We left there and went to Target.  I had heard that they had the new Mildliner brush pens on clearance at some Targets.  I decided to check just in case.  I went to the school clearance section as that is where I heard they would be. I didn't see any, but I got three cute one subject notebooks, two single packs of Post it notes, and some magnetic pencil thingees (for lockers or such) . I went to the regular stationery secton and looked on the pen aisle.  They had actual Mildliners which was new.  I'd looked several times before. I walked around a bit and then spotted some on the endcap.  They had the 10 pack of Mildliner brush pens for $5.96! SCORE!!!!!  I grabbed a pack and added them to my stuff.  I was so happy to find them!

So, I go and checkout and then I'm looking in the Starbucks at their drinkware.  I call my friend and they are at the back of the store looking for something they don't even have in Target.  I told her so, but she didn't listen! LOL I decided to sit in the Starbucks and wait for them.  I got a frappuccino and drank it and they still hadn't come up front!  I called my friend again and she was on the soap aisle.  I went to where she was and teased her that she needed soap for her ass. lol . We finally corralled her mom and headed for the checkouts.

By then, it was past my usual lunch time and i was hungry! They were too. They decided to order pizza and pick it up on the way home.  This would have caused my lunch to be even later, so I asked them to run me through a drive-thru on the way to pick up the pizza.  They did and I ate while we rode.  I was done by the time we got back to their house, but I stayed a bit.  

I then came home and washed my hair.  I put the bed linen in the dryer and started another load of laundry.  I washed an enormous amount of dishes and then relaxed a bit.  I just put the linens back on the bed and I plan to relax for the rest of the evening.  I'll probably put away my other laundry tomorrow. 

I want to read a bit.  I'm currently reading a really interesting book about The Black Dahlia murder.  I had to make myself put it down last night and go to bed as it was after 3am! Oops! By the way, here is the pack of Mildliner brush pens.  I love them!

 

There you go!  Now, another installment of How I'm Using Evernote today:  My bluetooth on my MBP is wonky.  It doesn't always connect and it's so frustrating.  After trying it a few times and it still being bitchy, I just save the picture in Evernote on my phone and I retrieve it from Evernote on my laptop!

I forgot to mention that I was able to pick up one of the new Fall Starbucks cards for my collection. Yay!

When your errands lead to Starbucks

So, I had to go to two places. One was Office Max to get some pens.  They have their brand ball point pens on a door buster price of .99 according to the website.  I love these pens. It's a 12 pack and it's usually over $2 a pack.  I had to pick up a few packs at this price.  I went and they were marked $1.49 but there was also a sign that said .99!  I took it to the register and showed the clerk and he rang them up for the price online.  The best thing?  They actually rang up with a discount off of that so I got them for .79 a box!  Yay! I bought four boxes.  That should keep me for a while.  They are the best writing pens.  The ink flows so smoothly.  I love them!  Here is the LINK if you want to check them out. They are the best pens ever.  Seriously! 

So, that is all I got at Office Max.  I then went to Dollar Tree to see if they had any puzzles.  The last time I was in this particular Dollar Tree, they had a bunch . This time they had a lot less.  I was able to find three though!  I got those and a cute jack o' lantern hanging decoration and a big zipper pouch that is adorable.  It has coffee and donuts on it. So cute!  Here they are:

Cute, yes?  You'll see the puzzles as I do them.  I didn't start one today since I went out so late.  The Dollar Tree I went to and the Office Max are right at the Starbucks.  I figured a frappuccino would be a nice end to an errand trip!  It was!  I got that and headed home.  My car acted up a little, but not too badly. It also started up both times that I turned it off, so that was great! 

Starbucks again...

My friend that bailed yesterday, came through today! I went up there and they had tortellini.  I love that stuff and I got to bring home the leftovers for later! Also, there were cupcakes. Not the kind I like, but the one I had wasn't bad.  Then, we went to Starbucks! lol Did I mention that I got gift cards, too?  One from Starbucks and one from Food Lion (my grocery store).  I'm quite satisfied with those goodies! I'll enjoy that gift card for Starbucks while I'm at the beach!

I finished my puzzle today.  It wasn't easy to finish either. LOL!  The puzzle is just so busy. I got it done though.  I guess tomorrow I'll start on the one I got at Dollar General. Then I'll just have that crazy one that has the tiny pieces.  Oh, and I have another one like that too.  Boo! lol

Happy Birthday? Yeah, right!

The only good thing about today was that I did get to go to Starbucks.  My friend carried me over there when the other one bailed.  I went in because he doesn't like to go through the drive-thru and order my 'weird drinks' lol   I'm glad I did go in because I got one of the cards I was missing from a set AND several cards I didn't have. Yay! I'm always happy to get new cards to add to my collection.

My friend took me for a ride for an errand he had to run and since we were out, he got me a beef and cheddar from Arby's. Yay!  That was delicious! After that, we ran his errand and then we rode around a bit as it was storming off in the distance.  We drove that way to see it. After we circled back around, I found out that the friend I was depending on to go to Starbucks wasn't going to take me, so he offered.  I got my cascara latte and brought it home to enjoy.

I worked on my puzzle today, too, but I didn't finish it yet.  I will finish it tomorrow.  It's busy.  I have a headache that is not helping matters any. I didn't sleep well at all last night and I've felt like hell all day.  I hope to sleep well tonight.  I really need a good night's sleep!  

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