What the Junk?!

Low-fat loft?

What am I talking about? Well, I'll tell you.  I couldn't sleep last night and I was working over the story for my NaNo book in November.  I got up and got out the iPad as my phone was off and charging.  I got one of my little wireless keyboards and was typing the things I had thought of into Evernote.  The only thing is, the screen is small and I could't see the words.  I go back to edit after I type everything in and noticed that my character was going to spend the night in the 'low-fat' instead of the loft! LOL!  It cracked me up so I put low-fat in parenthesis because I figured I would forget by today. I have a good idea of how the story is going to go and the notes I wrote last night will help.  

I didn't start a puzzle today.  Why? Well, for one thing, I'm coming down with a damn cold! I'm so pissed.  Why do I have to deal with this right before a beach trip?  So frustrating!  I went out and bought some store brand Dayquil, so hopefully I'll feel better by Sunday!  I am going to try to sleep tonight and I plan to take a nap tomorrow if  we are going to leave for the beach in the early, early am! 

How I'm using Evernote today:  See above! :P

Auggggggh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finished the puzzle today.  Well, almost.  I'm missing a piece.  I'm hoping it's just misplaced as this was a brand new puzzle sealed in the box and sealed in a bag.So far I haven't found the missing piece.  The puzzle was so crazy at times.  As I mentioned yesterday, there were pieces that were shaped pretty much exactly the same and the colors were similar. It made for some interesting working!  I had to take pieces out a few times and put them in different places. lol  I finally got it all done except that one piece. I hope to find that one piece eventually.

I'm working on ideas for my next book for NaNo in November.  I am going on with my series as I'm not quite done with the characters yet.  I have an idea of a storyline, but I need to work out the details.  I also want to do a character sketch ahead of time for the new character that is going to cause a lot of problems.  I want to get that done and I also want to get exactly how I am going to have it play out.  I'm going to go into Evernote and grab that template I use for characters and then open Scrivener and put that in there to flesh out my new character. I'll also put any notes in there / and in Evernote as I go along.  Evernote is great for that because I always have my phone with me.  Scrivener would be portable if I had the iOS version, but I have the desktop version.  If there was an Android version, I'd probably get that to have.  Yes, I have an iPad mini, but I don't carry it with me unless I'm going on a trip.  It mainly stays at home. Anyway! Enjoy the mostly finished puzzle!

Whee!

I got everything on my list done today!  I was able to get two of my books and my DVD back to the library.  I recycled my plastic and paper, too.  I then came back home and did some things around here.  I finished the puzzle.  I also sat down and wrote fourteen letters!  That took several hours, but I did it.  After I finished those, I got them all stamped and ready to mail and headed to the gas station.  My gas light came on as I was coming back from the library today.

I got some gas and then headed to the post office.  I mailed that huge stack of letters and then checked my box.  I had some ads, some junk mail, and six letters! Yay!  I am going to set aside a day of the week to answer any letters I get that way I won't get behind again.  I'm go glad to get that huge stack answered.  Whew!  I felt so bad for letting them get so behind.

Now I just need to get my but up and walking again! Hopefully soon.  I need to get back to it before the beach trip in September or I am going to be so out of shape.  I walk a lot of places in Myrtle, so I really need to get back to that.  We are either staying at Myrtle at a new place or a North Myrtle at a place we've stayed before. My friend hasn't decided on which yet.  Both are in decent walking distance of a Starbucks. :p

Isn't this puzzle pretty?  It had all the pieces, too! Yay! Thank you to whomever donated this puzzle.  They put the pieces in a Ziploc bag inside the box.  I was so glad to have all the pieces. Whee!

How I am using Evernote today:  I am making templates to use!  I made a template for my word count for NaNoWriMo the other day and today, I made a penpal letter tracker.  Cool, yes? :) I love my Evernote!

Camp Nano Is a Go!

I am doing Camp Nano starting today. It's all through July.  I am going in depth profiles of my characters.  I had thought about doing a prequel to my books and give more detail on how it all started.  I may even switch to that if I feel I have enough time to do it.  Right now, I'm doing the character profiles.  I need flesh them out some more and figured this would be the best way.  I have my two main characters done.  I need to go through my books tomorrow and take notes so I can remember things about each character that aren't already in my extensive notes!

I started a puzzle today and it was driving me NUTS.  The pieces have a bad habit of fitting in the wrong spot It took me waaaaaay longer than it should to get that sky part in!  It was insane.  I had to keep taking it apart and reworking it. I finally got that section done.  Here is my progress:

Camp NaNoWriMo is complete!

I just need to validate my word count on the site.  I'll do that tomorrow as it's getting late and I have other things to do before bedtime.  I didn't walk at my usual time today because I thought my friend would want to walk.  He didn't because he said it looked like rain. ~_~; It didn't rain!  I decided to take a late walk.  I went to the trail because I didn't want to go my usual route.  It was nice down there. I walked quite a bit further than I do when my friend goes.  It was nice.  I enjoyed the walk and was glad to get back to my car and inhaled the bottle of water I carried with me. LOL

Before I got in the car, I walked to one of the Free Little Libraries that are in that parking lot. I found a wonderful brand new looking copy of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft. SCORE!   I love Lovecraft and I am happy to add this to my collection.

I did more work on the puzzle today. I had actually hoped to finish it today, but I started on it late and didn't get as much done as I would have liked. I did get quite a bit done though.  It's starting to feel like I will get it finished!  Here is my progress:

I seem to be currently missing that one piece on the left. I'm hoping it's there and  I'm just missing it. We'll see when the whole puzzle is done.  As an added bonus, here are two pictures I took along the trail!

It's a bit hard to tell in that first picture but it's a Goose and her Goslings! ^_^  I didn't want to get too close and upset her so I took the picture from across the way.  The second picture is the Dan River as it goes under the MLK bridge. ^_^

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

Hello again

Sorry about yesterday.  It was late and I knew I didn't have time to write out a post, so I just shared a picture from one of my walks.  I got a LOT accomplished on the puzzle the last few days.  I am so happy. There is still a lot to go, but as the pieces get fewer, it's going to go faster.  Here is what I have so far:

I finally filled in the right side.  Now to finish the left!  I'll probably work on it a little more after I post this.  Instead of walking at my regular time today, I waited and walked this evening with my friend along the Riverwalk trail.  It was lovely out there as it always is.  I took a few pictures to share:

I hope they get the other section open soon.  The foot bridge is still gone as far as far as I know!  If they get that back, we can go down and go on the parts of the trail that we used to go to.  It was a nice change.  I love the trail.  I won't get in 15,000 steps today as I like to, but at least I'll get 10,000 and that is not bad.  Now I need to do a little for NaNo and then work on the puzzle.  I may skip NaNo tonight as I'm so far ahead.  I'm 17,172 words as of now and I only plan on 20,000!

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

 

1551!

That is the number of words I just put down for today's Camp NaNoWriMo.  I totally made up for that day I didn't write!  I could have written a little more, but I wanted to get my blog post done too.  I didn't get a lot of puzzle done today, but I got a few more pieces in.  I swear it's going to take me forever to finish this thing!

I got in a good walk. I was sunny and nice out there.  I came home and relaxed for a bit and worked on the puzzle.  My friend texted and asked if I'd like to go back to the new restaurant we ate at last week.  I said, hell yeah! lol . We stopped by a local thrift store first.  It was one neither of us had been too. It's pretty new.  It's also pretty damn expensive!  Everything I saw that Liked was too expensive.  There was a lamp that I wish I had gotten, it was only $3, but with their prices on other things, I was afraid this was price low because it didn't work! LOL!

After the thrift store we went to the restaurant.  The food was good as it was last time.  I enjoyed it.  I was totally stuffed when we left, too!  I came home and did more work on my puzzle.  It's so slow going! Every time I get a piece in I want to cheer! lol . Seriously! :P