What the Junk?!

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I have been getting by each week with washing my hair without heating up water. It's been cold, but it hasn't been too bad.  Tonight? OMG  I thought I was going to die.  The water was so fricken cold!  I immediately ran to my room after towel drying it and got under the hair bonnet dryer. I had it already on and going so it would be warm when I got here.  I'm sitting under it now and it's bliss.

I had no plans to go out or do anything today, but I saw in my Starbucks app that if I was in a star streak and I needed to get a Frappuccino and I'd get bonus stars. I didn't really want a Frappuccino, I wanted a hot drink, but to fulfill the star streak, I got a Frappuccino.  I didn't want to shock my favorite baristas, so I went to the one at Target. LOL!  I was able to pick up five new cards for my collection, so that was wonderful!  I haven't seen the stars hit yet. I know I've done it before and gotten them at Target locations.  I just hope this time works too. 

I finished my puzzle today and it's really pretty!  It wasn't too bad to finish up.  I am not sure which one I'll do next.  I still have quite a few, but I am starting to run low.  I have three of the Dollar Tree puzzle bug brand ones, the round one, three different 1000 pieces ones, and a variety box.  I'm not sure exactly which ones they are as it shows more on the box than is packaged inside. (thrift store find) . I will be going on instinct when putting those together until I get enough of them done to figure out which puzzle is which!

Here is the puzzle and the newest Starbucks cards for my collection:

Thrifting!

My friend texted me last night and asked if I wanted to do a day trip today.  I knew that this meant thrifting!  I said yes!  He picked me up and ran by McDonald's so I could get some breakfast.  We filled up on gas and then headed out.  We went first to Reidsville, NC.  We went to a Salvation Army thrift store and a Goodwill.  At the SA, I found two mugs (a green one and a white one with a cute crocheted cozy), a cute glass bottle, and a pair of shoes.  Canvas flats (very cute for summer)

At Goodwill, I got two brand new with tags! stuffed Snoopys. a couple of stuffed jack o lanterns, and a cute dry erase board.  This was complete with the pens, push pins, and everything still in the shrink wrap.

We went on to Eden to the Goodwill there.  Neither of us found anything so we moved on.  We then went to Martinsville, VA.  We found a SA store there and went to it.  I got a Fossil purse for $1.50! Yay!  I also found some adorable snowman salt and pepper shakers still shrink-wrapped and this beauty:

 

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Isn't it cute?  I looked it up and found the same mug on Amazon for $25 and I got this for $3.  Awesome!  While I was checking out, my friend says, 'Did you see this?"  and shows me a puzzle.  I hadn't seen it so I got it too! :P   

We went to a few more Goodwills, but I didn't find anything else.  I'm happy with my haul for sure.  My friend, the stinker, saw some micro USB cards in a case at the first SA store we went to.  There were four of them and they were $4 each.  He got them and they ended up being 256gb each! Lucky dog! 

Welcome 2020!

Welcome to 2020.  I watched the ball drop in New York last night via streaming.  I also watched the new year count down five hours earlier than that from a webcam in an Irish pub in Ireland.  That was pretty neat!  I thought I was going to be able to watch Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve just to see the ball drop.  I found out that my local channel wouldn't stream it here.  Luckily, Stirr, that I have on my Fire Stick had a stream from Times Square so I was able to watch the ball drop.  Yay! 

I ran out today and picked up one item I needed and while I was out, I started the year right by going to Starbucks! :P  I got a delicious cascara latte and a birthday cake pop. Oh yeah!  Yum!  They were both delicious and it was a nice way to start off the year.

I started a new puzzle today. It's going to be an interesting one. It's a picture of a bunch of lobster buoys from Maine.  All different colors.  I haven't gotten a lot done, but it feels like I have! LOL! I'm probably done with it for today.  I need to fix dinner soon and I have no idea what I want.  Hopefully something delicious.  Sadly, I am out of almost everything good.  On Friday I will be re-stocking. I'm ready now. :p

Cascara latte? Oh yeah! :D

My friend texted me today and asked if I would like to eat around 7. I said I'm ready now.  This was about 5:20 or so. lol . He picked me up a few minutes after 7 and we went to eat.  We ate at one of my favorite local places that we don't get to often so that was a treat.  It was delicious! He wanted a milkshake at Cookout but the line was around the building, so he went to get gas and carried me around to look at some lights. Yay!  We went back by Cookout but they were still busy so he went to look at more lights.  He also asked if I'd like to go to Starbucks. YES, Yes, I would!  I asked if he minded if I were in there for a bit as I wanted to try to get the cards I didn't have.  He said no problem, so I went and found several that I needed. I ordered a drink, not what a wanted because they are out of cascara.  Well, I am talking to one of my favorite baristas about the cards.  She didn't ring me up but she was making my drink.  As she was about done with my drink, I mentioned cascara and asked if she thought they would get some back in the summer.  She said they HAD cascara. Me: O_o She looked and sure enough, there was a brand new bottle opened and on the counter.  

"Would you rather have that?"  She asked.  I told her if she'd already made the other, nevermind.  She then pours the almost completed drink out and makes me a cascara latte. AND she gave me a grande.  I had ordered a tall. I love my baristas! I got my favorite drink and it was so delicious.  Since I'm the only one that orders cascara, I should be able to get them for a long time. YES!  So happy!

OH! I also asked her about the multipacks.  Those you can't get without loading them.  I asked if they had any left over after the holiday could they save out one for me if they were just sending them back. (I guess this is what they do) . She said she'd ask and if it was okay, they'd save them for me. Yippee!  So happy! I now have almost all this year's holiday cards. I am still missing a few, but I hope to get those on eBay.  These are single ones that they either didn't get or are out of.  I got a cascara latte, got delicious food, and got to see lights. I was a happy camper!

Meh

It has been a long and boring day.  I did get out this evening, though. I went to Starbucks and even though I knew they said their last bottle of cascara ran out on the 7th, I still asked to make sure they didn't have any.  They didn't. :(  I got a caramel macchiato instead.  It was okay, but I prefer my cascara. I'm going to try different things until I find something I like as well as the cascara latte. 

Speaking of Starbucks, I got the last card from the ones I purchased on November 30.  It finally arrived today. It's the corporate one that you couldn't get in stores.  It's pretty cool.  Here it is:

Starting the month off right!

How you ask?  Well, I went to mail off my letters.  My mailbox was full but not one of the things in there was a pen pal letter. D'oh!  I left the post office and went to Starbucks. I thought starting the month off with a cascara latte would be a good thing since the syrup is going to be gone soon. I'm going to miss my cascara syrup. I'm glad I was able to get one more. I hope to get over there before they are totally out.  The Barista told me that the last bottle they have runs out on the 7th, so I hope to get one more.  I know they won't run out of the syrup because I'm the only one that orders it. lol

NaNoWriMo is at an end!

It's hard to believe that today is the last day of November and it's also the end of NaNoWriMo!  I am happy to have another NaNo win!  It was a good month of writing.

Today, I sat down and finished my letters.  I started them at Starbucks but I hadn't taken the actual letters with me so I finally got those done today.  The past few days I've had bad migraines and I was not in the mood to finish any of them.  I got those done today and plan to mail them out tomorrow.  I would have mailed them out today, but my friend wanted to go eat so I went with him and it was too late when I got home to run to the post office so I will go tomorrow.

I got my Yule tree up tonight.  I almost didn't put it up this year.  I will share pictures of it below along with my stack of pen pal letters.  I am planning to make myself go to Starbucks once a week again and get my letters done there.  If I have a dedicated day each week, I'll get them written in a timely manner AND I'll get to get Starbucks every week. It works for me! :P

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Here is the pretty stack of letters ready to go tomorrow:

Starbucks Whoo Hoo!

Guess where I am?  Did the subject line give it away? :p  Yes, I'm at Starbucks.  Believe it or not I was able to get a table!  At first, I was thinking I was out of luck.  I looked in and it didn't look like any seats were available at all.  The comfy seats at the front were the only ones empty and those are not the best for writing on a laptop. At the old location, yes, but not here.  I was happy to find a seat though and sat!  I hadn't been here 10 minutes when someone left one of the little tables.  I jumped up and claimed it before they got out the door. lol   I am in it now.  I've done today's NaNo writing and I've written pen pal letters!!!!! Yay! I've actually written my pen pal letters.  Whoo Hoo!  My hands are tired now, so you should be glad I'm even writing a blog post. LOL

 

It's been busy and slow in here tonight. After I moved to this table, most of the other ones cleared out except for my favorite one in the corner of course! LOL  It stayed pretty empty for a while and now they are rolling along pretty well again.  I am not sure how much longer I plan to stay. If I were at my favorite table, I'd probably stay longer, but I'm not, so there is that.  The guy that was sitting here left a while ago, but I didn't even turn around to see if I could grab the table.  I am pretty comfy here and this is my second favorite table. LOL    The little tables are all along one wall, there is a long table to the right of them when you are sitting at one.  If you sit at my favorite table, you have no one behind you or beside you.  If you sit at this one, you have people behind you but no one beside you.  The other two little tables have the long table next to them.

 

I just peeked, someone has claimed the other table.  Oh well! :P  I was able to get my hands on a bunch of Starbucks cards while I was here. I'm hoping I got the entire collection.  Well, except for the multipacks. You can't get those without loading them.  I got a bunch, so I'm hoping I have them all. If not, I can go and check on the site I use and see which ones I need so I'll be able to look for those.  Hopefully, I have them all!  That would be cool, cool, cool! :P

 

I'll take a picture of what I have when I get home and share it.  For now, I'm going to sit here and enjoy being here for a bit longer before I pack up and head out.  If it clears out some, I might stay a while longer and I might just head home.  I have almost finished my drink and I am not planning on getting another one tonight. :P

 

I just know it was great being able to do NaNoWriMo from Starbucks again!  I totally missed out last year and I didn't want that to happen again. :) . Now, I just have to decide what to fix for dinner when I get home and put away the clothes I washed yesterday. D'oh!  Actually, not a D'oh, I knew when I washed them yesterday that it was so late that I'd put them away today.  I was able to get some detergent yesterday after using the last drips and drops on my bed linen. I needed more detergent and I only had a dollar. I was tempted to go to the laundry and get one of those individual ones they sell.  Then, I thought about the dollar stores.  Dollar Tree would have a bottle for $1 but I was hoping I didn't have to drive over there. (at that point, I had planned to come here to write) . I went to Dollar General and found a regular size bottle of one of the few brands I use for $1.  Score!  I thought it had to be a mistake, but I checked before buying it and it was $1.  I am totally broke so I was happy to find it so cheap!  I love my dollar stores! 

 

Ahh!  I am home now.  The internet and my MBP were not playing nicely together at Starbucks for some reason.  Luckily I copied and pasted this huge post into Evernote just in case.  Good thing I did because I had to restart everything and would have lost my post.  Ahh!  I am going to post this before anything else goes wrong. ;p

 

Starbucks and a rainy day.

It has been absolutely gross outside today.  Rainy, cold, and just nasty.  I haven't wanted to do anything but lie around.  I hadn't gotten anything done for NaNo today and thought that getting some Starbucks would help.  It was so nasty out, I really didn't want to drive over there.  I tried to talk my friend into it, but that was a no go!  I went over there and went through the drive-thru.  It wasn't too busy and they still have cascara syrup.  I got my beloved cascara latte.  It was delicious!  I came home and got some good writing done.  

I am now very close to 45,000 words!  I might have made it to 45,000 today, but I have more days to go in the month and I would really like to write every day.  I also want to attend the last write-in on Monday!  Maybe even from Starbucks if I can get a seat this time.  I'll see how it goes! I certainly enjoyed my drink today. 

Starbucks, yes!

I got my Starbucks today!  My friend called and wanted me to go with her to Target.  I did not want to do this because when she shops, it is almost impossible to get her out of a store.  Today was no different! lol, I did get a few of the holiday Starbucks cards at the Starbucks in Target though!  After we left Target, we went to Starbucks. :D  I finally got my cascara latte.  It was delicious as always.  I am going to enjoy them until I can't get them anymore.

I went back to their house and stayed awhile.  I ran book ideas over with my friend's husband and son.  I headed home and got the MacBook Pro out and ready to write.  I wrote a lot more than 67 words today!  I wrote 2500 words. Whoo-hoo!  I am now over 30,000 words written.  I am on the down stretch now so that I great.  I have to decide where to go from here.  I think I'm going to add more to the beginning and then go back to the point I'm at.  With Scrivener, it will be extremely easy to do!  Have I mentioned that love, Scrivener? :p

By the way, here are the Starbucks cards I picked up.  I took this picture of them so I'd know which ones I have.