What the Junk?!

Storms are fun!

We had a few storms go through here today.  Nothing crazy, but we did get a lot of rain in a short amount of time. I was sitting on my back steps when a drop of rain hit me.  I got up and went inside and it was a good thing I did because right after that, the bottom fell out!  It stopped and then cleared off and then a little later another storm came through and did the same thing.  The sky was so pretty right before.  I'll share a picture.

The first picture was one side of the sky where it was dark, the other was where it was still sunny!  Pretty cool.  

I got my words in for Camp NaNoWriMo just before posting here.  It was just over 1700 words and now I'm less than 1000 away from 15,000! Whoo hoo!  By the way, my Kindle should be here tomorrow! I can't wait to try it out. I think I'm really going to like this little upgrade.  I use Calibre on my MacBook Pro to load free books I get from sites that offer free books that might not be on the Amazon Kindle store.  You can find a lot of books that are in the public domain and download them legally and for free.  With Calibre I can add them to my Kindle.  Also!  I was able to put my own books on there by converting them into the right format to work with the Kindle. Very cool!

 

Accomplished!

I went to get a few things I needed today at the grocery store.  I was able to get everything I needed except for toilet paper. I wore a homemade mask and got in and out as quickly as possible.  After I loaded my groceries and carried the cart back.  I drove to another part of the shopping center and parked and ran into a Dollar General.  I went to the back wall where there is usually tp.  Well, the shelves were completely empty.  I was about to give up and leave, but I saw they had boxes out all over where they'd been stocking.  I found an empty box that used to have tp in it, then I see another box and SCORE!  I was able to get a pack.  I didn't even look at the price.  I just grabbed that bitch! LOL!

It was Charmin and it was a big package.  I usually buy the good store brand at Food Lion. It's not the cheapo kind, but it's a lot less expensive than any of the other brands.  This damn package rang up at right at $14 with tax.  I was shocked, but I didn't care.  It was so hard to find any, and this big pack will last me a long time and by the time I need more, I should be able to find some.  By then, the tp panic will hopefully be over! :p

Remember how I said they didn't deliver my Kindle case yesterday?  Well, when I was driving up the street to head to the store today I saw an Amazon envelope on my porch!  I got it when I came home and sure enough, it was my case.  The tracking STILL shows delivery attempted!!!!  That is so weird.  Now I'm wondering if it was out there all night!  I like the little cover and I can't wait for the Kindle to come so I can try it out. I finally shipped today so yay!  According to the tracking, it should be here Thursday so that makes me happy.  That is two days earlier than the scheduled time.

I don't think I mentioned it, but I ordered myself another NaNoWriMo shirt.  This one looked like the material from the one I got in 2018. I love that shirt and wear it A LOT.  They had everything on the site on sale, too.  They said it might take two weeks before it shipped. (Because of COVID) but it shipped already! Yay!  It's going to be a good week for mail. 

Speaking of NaNoWriMo, I just got in 1821 more words on Camp! It's going well!  I'm now over the 12,000 mark.  I am quite please with my progress so far.  It looks like it's going to be more than 20,000 words.

Welcome to April

I did get out today for just a brief bit. I ran to the post office and picked up my mail.  I got five pen pal letters so it was a good trip.  I didn't stay out or ride around any.  I just came right on home.   I had a few things I needed to do when I got back so I did those, and then I sat down to write for today's Camp NaNoWriMo.  I wrote 1667 words!  I could have gone on, too, but I made chapter one an entire day in the life of my main character. I'll go into more detail about the characters tomorrow.  I already have them sketched out in my head.  I think it's going to be good.  I planned to only do 20,000 words, but I may end up doing an entire book! We'll see how it goes.

I did not start a puzzle today. I was going to, but after going to the post office and then getting things done around here, I felt it was too late to start.  Plus, I wanted to get some words down for Camp NaNo.  I am going to do a bit more research tonight and have some notes for tomorrow's writing.  It should be fun.  

So sorry

Yes, I'm sorry about yesterday's post.  I almost didn't post today either because I've had a bad headache/migraine all day. I spent most of the day in my room in the semi-dark.  I didn't get much done today either. I did get a few pages in my 2020 bujo done, though.  I hope to get more done tomorrow. I have my habit tracker for January mostly done and I have the first weekly for January done.  I need to put in my habits. I need to decide if I am going to add or remove any for the new year.  I am not sure yet.  I'm also going to try to limit my use of washi in this year's bujo.  I love my washi, but it makes the poor journal so bulky by the end of the year.  I will use some washi, but not as much as I usually do.  We'll see how long I keep to that! :p

My NaNoWriMo winners shirt finally shipped! YAY!  I am so happy.  I can't wait to get it.  I am thinking of adding it to my sad little pile of gifts under my tree.  So far I have four $1 items under there.  If my shirt comes in time, I just might wrap it and have that under there. ^_^

 

Disappointment!

None of the Starbucks cards I ordered came today!  The one set that I had tracking on said it was delayed. BOO!  I got an image from informed delivery that was one of the single cards.  I didn't get anything in today's mail. PHOOEY!  So frustrating. Hopefully, they will both come tomorrow with the other one that was sent at the same time.  

I went to the grocery store today and bought my months worth of groceries. I spent WAY too much.  I still need to get some soda.  I also have a few little things I need to pick up.  I haven't gotten gas yet either.  I'm very low on cash because I sat and paid all my bills.  It's going to be a long month!  Before I totally ran out and before I even added up how much I would have left, I ordered my NaNoWriMo winner shirt! :D . This is my fourth NaNoWriMo win and my first winner shirt.

By the way, I finished the puzzle today.  It's really pretty!  I'll have to pick out another to start tomorrow. :)

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:

Two more words!

Yes, I added two words to my NaNoWriMo book today. :P . I had to correct something I had written and I added two more words in that paragraph. :) My two main characters speak fluent French and I had the genders mixed up on what my main male character said.  I fixed that and added two other words.  I hope to do a quick run-through tomorrow and check for any typos.  I won't do proper editing until later on during the regular editing phase.  I do want to get the typos or wrong words fixed.  That way I can put notes on each day's writing for what needs to be added.  I love that Scrivener has that notes feature.  I used it quite a lot this year.  If I were about to write for that day and I had an idea for that day's writing or something I needed to add, I put it in the notes on the side.  Such a handy feature!  

I need to do the character profiles for two new characters I introduced in this book, too.  I brought in three new characters. One was planned from the beginning.  Actually, I just realized I had one other one!  I did his character profile and the character I had planned profile. I just need to do the profile of these two and I'll have all my character up to this point. Thank you Evernote character template!   Again, I'm not sure if there is another book of these characters or if there will be something entirely different for next year's NaNo.

 

NaNoWriMo

I'll just leave this here:

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

 

Last Virtual Write in!

Tonight was the last virtual write in for NaNoWriMo.  I'm going to miss doing those.  It's fun and it inspires me to write.  I'm already looking forward to next years! I got 1748 words in this session so that was great.  I am pretty sure I'll be able to wrap up my story now.  I don't think I'll have to add to the beginning to get my word count in, but I plan to add at least a few words in here and there so I actually update my word count every day in November.  There isn't a badge for that anymore, but I want to do it.  Even if I just write four or five words a day after I get my 50,000 in, I want to update my word count.  After I finished NaNo, I plan to work on some other ideas of old stories I had.  I might write some stories for fun.  

I need to decide if I want to do another book with these characters or do something totally new next year.  I haven't made up my mind. I have a few more ideas that I worked on to do NaNo way back in the day.  I think I can take one and use it.  I would start over and add more things to it so it would work.  I have almost a whole year to decide! Let me finish this year's NaNo first. :)

I DO plan to order a winner shirt this year!  This will be my fourth year of winning NaNo.  I have never got a winners shirt, but I am hoping to get one this year.  I'll be ordering it in December since I won't have the money until then.  Unless anyone wants to send me a gift card that is. :p