What the Junk?!

Hello!

Sorry about last night.  I was late getting everything done.  I went to do my character sketches for NaNo and my MBP was acting up so I had to restart.  I got all that done and realized that it was almost midnight and I would not be able to post in time, so I did a quick post with the puzzle I was working on.

I finished that puzzle today.  It's pretty and I'll post it below.  I got an item in the mail yesterday that i hadn't mentioned ordering.  I stopped looking for styluses for awhile because anything that looked really good was way too expensive.  After upgrading to Evernote premium, I found a program for the iPad that you can draw and do 'pen and paper' notes with just with a stylus.  It mentioned a Adonit Evernote edition stylus.  I went looking.  I found some for a LOT of money and I found a few used un ebay for a lot less.  I found one that with shipping was $16.  i decided to give it a go and try it. (This is the first version of the stylus so that is probably why I was able to get it so cheap. It retailed at about $80)

It came yesterday and it's nice! It's a bluetooth one so it connects to the app on my iPad mini.  The great thing is, it also works with GoodNotes and Zoomnotes! Yay!  It's nice and heavy with a big barrel, but it has a small tip so it's great for writing.  I like it alot.  I have played with it a little. I want to spend some time to sit down and get in depth with it.If you are wondering what app that I'm talking about, it's called Penultimate.  Anything I do in there syncs right to Evernote.  Nifty!

 

By the way, as I was settling in last night, I saw a news story about a KFC in a nearby town that exploded!  From reports, people were feeling it from quite a ways away.  I was up late last night trying to find out more information. No one was hurt as it happened after hours.  it was a gas leak.  Today one of the news stations had footage of a security camera from another business nearby the caught the whole thing on camera.  It was crazy.  Look up KFC and Eden NC and you should see the stories.  The pizza place across the street had damage to their glass windows and there was debris all over the highway.

Weird day...

When my Fitbit went off to wake me up this morning, I was so out of it.  I felt horrible and I just didn't want to move.  I finally did get up and fix my coffee.  I didn't walk! I should have, but I've felt so gross lately.  I decided to skip today's walk and perhaps go later.  I ended up not going later.  It's sort of a good thing I didn't.

My sister called (which is a rare thing indeed) and said she'd left some bags of groceries on my front porch.  I couldn't hear a lot of what she was saying, so I don't know why she was dropping this stuff off.  It was some good stuff, too!  There were three bags of almonds, two jars of honey, some quinoa, flax sees, basmati rice, and more!  I can use most of the things she brought except for some spicy sauces and several boxes of tea.  I don't drink tea and I never have! lol I can give the tea and sauces to a friend that will use them. I do not like to waste food.  Some of the stuff she gave me was organic, too.  It was some good stuff.  I don't know if someone gave her a bunch of stuff and she had too much or what.  Oh well, I can put it all (well most of it) to use.  What I can't will go to someone who can.

I finished my puzzle today.  I really liked this one.  It was a bit hard, though.  It took longer to do than usual, but that is okay.  I'll post a picture at the end of this post.  Oh, remember how my MBP was acting up last night and i had to do updates?  Well, it was acting up today too.  I went through and deleted a bunch of stuff that I don't use to help it run better.  That seems to have helped. I hope so, anyway!  Here is the completed puzzle.

MBP woes

I got my MBP out to do my French and post here. I got the French done, finally. I was having issues. I restarted it and it restarted itself right after that. I checked and it has some updates, so I started them. Of course, they are not going to be done in time for me to use it to post to the blog. Lol I will just post with my phone. 

I walked at the regular time today. It was nasty hot. I was so glad to get home! I have barely left my room since! I started another puzzle. It is going well, but I am not going to finish it tonight. I will save the rest for tomorrow. Here is what I have done.

Hello again!

Sorry about not posting for the last two days.  On Wednesday, I walked, but I got blisters.  This was unusual.  I was not happy about that.  That evening, I fully intended to post to my blog and I got to doing other things I forgot.  I did a puzzle that day and wanted to share it.  I'll share it today.

First though, let's talk about yesterday.  I didn't walk.  I woke up feeling pretty bleah and out of sorts.  I decided I'd walk later in the day.  I took a nap, and relaxed.  I didn't feel like doing much.  My friend texted me and asked if I wanted to try one of the restaurants here in town we've wanted to try but have't yet.  I said, yes!  It's a local Italian restaurant. It was delicious.  I got Fettuccini Alfredo. OMG it was so good.  They serve it with a bread roll and Foccia bread.   Yummy!  I enjoyed it a lot.  Definitely a place to go back to!

When we got back to my house, my friend put some stuff in my car to see if it would help it run a little better. We drove around a bit to see if it helped.  It didn't. lol Oh well! After he left, I got in my mail and saw that I had a sample of dog treats.  I got them to give to my friend's dog.  I went up to their house and treats were passed out all around. lol . I stayed awhile and then headed home.  I didn't start my next puzzle because it was late.  I decided to wait until today.  I worked the whole thing. lol  Here is the one from two days ago and today's:

These were both from the box of 6.  The first was 300 pieces and the second was 500.  I'll probably do the last puzzle in the box tomorrow (or at least start it).  I also decided to put some of my Adventure Time stickers to good use.  I put them on the MacBook Pro.  I laid them out and figured out the design before sticking them on.  I wanted to put on Marcy and PB too, but I didn't have room.  I like the way the ones I put on look.  Here is that:

LSP, Peppermint Butler, Finn & Jake, BMO, Gunter, and Ice King. ^_^  I love it!  Also, as an added bonus, you can see my bujo in this picture. :p Oh! I walked today and everything was okay with my poor feet. :p

ARGH!!!!!!!!!

So, I figured out iMovie a bit.  I got the video done with a title card and a closing card.  Great right?  Wrong! I can't get it to upload to YouTube for some reason.  I'm saving a copy of it to my desktop so I hopefully will be able to try that one.  I tried to upload straight from the app, but it's not working for me for some reason.  I found some pdfs of help guides to iMovie last night and downloaded them to read and learn more about the program.  I am not sure at this point when I'll get my video up. lol . I did the 'share to Youtube' thing and I also set it to save a copy of my desktop.  So far, I haven't seen either!  I sent one to YouTube last night as a test. It said it was there, but it never showed up for me.  Weird.  I obviously don't know what the hell I'm doing. :P Hopefully I'll get it sorted out.  If by some weird chance, my video DOES upload to YouTube tonight, I'll come back and post a quick post to link to it.  Wish my luck. I'm going to need it.  Geekgirl indeed! lol

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.

Still here!

I'm still at my table in Starbucks and I'm done with my penpal letters. Yay! I'll print them all out and get them ready to mail out on tomorrow's walk.  I will either walk further tomorrow and go check my post office box, or I'll drive down there after my walk tomorrow.  Either way, I will check my box tomorrow.  It's not really busy in here tonight.  It's come and gone in spells.  Right now, there are two other of the little tables taken and that is it.  It's weird.  I might try to make my weekly trips again if I can get it like this!  It's nice to get out of my house for a bit and when I don't walk, I really want to get out of the house for a while!

The weather app on my phone just popped up and said it was supposed to start raining after 8.  I hadn't planned to leave until after 8.  I'm not parked too far away, so I should be okay.  I meant to bring in my umbrella and totally forgot. D'oh!  Hopefully if it does rain it will be just a little drizzle.  I am still debating on whether to get food on the way home or not. I'm leaning toward yes, but I don't know what I want! lol It needs to be nearby and not too expensive.  Also, I don't want to turn my car off again until I get home, so once I leave here and start it up, it will have to be drive thru.  That doesn't give me many options. 

Letters and Lattes, finally!

Guess where I am? Starbucks!  Since I didn't walk today because of the weather, I wanted to get out of the house for a bit. I also wanted to get all the letters I have done before I go to the post office and pick up new ones.  I packed up my MacBook Pro, a Starbucks tumbler, and some other things and headed out.  I was a bit scared when I saw the parking lot, but I thought, it doesn't look too bad.  I went in and guess what?  My favorite table was FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! lol   I'm sitting at it now.  I got my beloved cascara latte and I also got a multi grain bagel. Yum!  The bagel is gone, but I still have coffee. :p . I am so happy to not only get a seat, buy my favorite one!   I am pretty sure this is the first time I've been in here with the MBP and I've had it since July!  It didn't do much in the way of bad weather.  We did get a little snow and a little ice, but it was all gone this morning.  It did rain and drizzle all day and it was pretty cold, so I just skipped my walk.  I hated missing another day, but I don't do well in rain.  Since the roads were okay, I decided to come over here.  I told myself if they were too busy for me to find a seat, I'd hit the drive thru.  I was happy to come in and see quite a few places available. I got here later than I usually do when I come but I think that might have been a good thing.  Right now, there are only six people in here.  I took a picture of my stuff when I sat down:

That bagel was delicious.  You can't see my latte in this picture, but it's there.  I'm going to write letters and then relax a while and head home.  I might pick up a cheap dinner on the way so I don't have to worry with it when I get there.  I haven't decided yet.  It's quite a while before all that.

Oopsie

I didn't forget to post yesterday, I just didn't get around to it.  It rained yesterday and today, so no walks for me.  It's not supposed rain tomorrow, so I should be a go for walking!  I don't want to miss another day.  I didn't feel all that great yesterday or today, so the two days off were kind of nice.  My foot has been giving me some issues again so two days rest was probably a good thing.

I didn't make it to Starbucks this weekend like I planned.  I might go one night this week and carry my laptop and letters.  We'll see how that goes.  I haven't been inside to stay in so long. I'm going to be so disappointed if I go over there and can't find anywhere to sit!  I am hoping it will be like when I went over Wednesday night.  

D'oh!

I was considering skipping my blog post today because I didn't feel like getting up and getting the laptop or the keyboard.  Then, I realized I had already gotten both and they were right at the end of the bed. lol  I'm a silly!  So, here I am posting.  I walked today and it was nicer than yesterday weather wise. Hopefully it will be as nice or nicer tomorrow.  At least I hope so!

I didn't do much today after my walk.  I did wash a load of clothes that I need to put away, but other than that, I mainly just sat around and watched The Simpsons all day.  I had leftover pizza for lunch and dinner and I still have some left for tomorrow.  Tomorrow I plan to go grocery shopping after my walk.  I also might go to Starbucks.  They might be slow because of the Superbowl but then again, people like me that go to Starbucks don't watch football, so they might be as busy as usual. lol . It depends on when I get my groceries.  I might just wait and go in the evening.  I worked grocery years ago and the stores are DEAD on the evening of the game.  That is a great time to shop!

I have gotten some gift cards for Amazon from some of my survey sites.  I'm now closed to having enough for the smart stylus I want.  I might just get it!  Who knows?  The disk one I bought came and I like it okay.  It works well, but I really wanted a smart stylus with palm rejection so I can rest my hand on the iPad mini when I'm writing.  It's awkward for me to hold my hand up in the air to write!  I downloaded Keynote to my iPad and my Mac. I'm going to work on creating myself a planner.  If I get proficient in it, I might do some sales on Etsy.  I think I could do a basic planner from tutorials I've watched online.  It doesn't look too hard, but it looks like a lot of time and effort. I want to try in any case.