What the Junk?!

So I still have the pup.  This little rotten girl got hand-fed today by me, twice. Rotten! lol, I ran out while she was sleeping this afternoon and got some Starbucks! Starting the month off right. :) I didn't do much else today.  I am participating in Camp NaNoWriMo with the story I'm currently working on. I WILL be doing NaNoWriMo this year. It's either going to be the skater store (book 3) or the zombie epic (book 5) OR something totally new. I have no idea which! I'm glad I have a while.  I am seriously considering getting Scrivener on my iPad. I haven't decided yet because just how often would I write there?  I do have a Bluetooth keyboard so it wouldn't be hard to do. I'll think on it. For now, I'm going to relax a bit and then take the pup out one more time tonight.  I didn't sleep well last night, so I'm hoping to make up for that tonight!

My friend went to the beach for a few days (not my beach and not the friend I go to Myrtle with) She asked me to keep little Cocoa for a few days.  I agreed.  I love little Cocoa.  What my friend didn't tell me is that poor little Cocoa can't hear well or see well anymore.  She is very slow. It's so sad to see.  It's right here at July. I lost my Jo Jo in July 2011 and I have hated the month of July every since. It doesn't help to know how feeble little Cocoa is getting. :( I feel so bad for her. I have been picking her up to carry her outside as I have a few steps out there. When my friend dropped her off and they were on the front porch, Cocoa didn't see the steps and fell down them! I am not going to let that happen on my watch.  She is currently napping. I'm going to take her out once more before bed and then crash. I hope she will sleep well and sleep through. 

I've been having fun with it that is for sure. I've found some great freebies to try and I've made a few things of my own.  I created a 'daily' page that I've been using for a few days. It's pretty simple, but I really like it.  I have also drawn a few stickers for myself! I can't draw very well at all, but I was able to make myself a jack o lantern sticker, a snowman sticker, a coffee cup sticker, and my tracing, an LSP sticker! :D  I want to try a Jake one too.   Maybe I can learn to draw better. I am also working on my handwriting. It's not great with a pen and paper, but it's worse with a tablet! :p I'm enjoying it though. 

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Sorry for not posting for a few days again.  I keep meaning to and then I don't.  The D'oh is for something else too!  I was going through my Gmail and was looking through various folders. I found something where I won a gift card for Uber some time back.  It says it can be used for UberEats too.  I hadn't used UberEats then so I just put it in a folder in my Gmail.  I found it tonight and thought, oh man, it will have expired. It is NOT expired and I now have a $15 gift card for UberEats in my UberEats account. YAY!  I love finding things like that. :) Very pleased as you can imagine!  I wonder if I have any more things like that? I should go on a search of my email. :p 

I've been loving the new iPad mini and the Apple pencil.  I've been going through the apps I have on it that you can digital bullet journal on and I am pretty sure I've settled on GoodNotes.  I have imported a ton of stuff in there and found that you can import stickers and pictures in. It's so cool! I may switch over to bullet journaling digitally. I'm enjoying playing with all the freebies I've found in the past few days.  It's fun!

I also have ZoomNotes, but it's complicated. I'd like to learn more about it and learn to use it as it has things that GoodNotes doesn't. GoodNotes is pretty nifty, though. I also have it on my Mac and I can sync everything from the iPad to the Mac and vice versa via iCloud. I am thinking of setting up my own digital journal for 2022.  I am working on one now with freebies I've found. I may stick with that for now. If I like it a lot, I may just buy a pre-made one later on down the line. AND I just bought one. Someone had a planner for $1 on Etsy so I thought I'd get it. It's from May of 2021 - April of 2022. I should know by January if this is something I'd stick to. I can't wait to play with my download. ^_^

It's pretty and I like it.  I was playing with it and realized that I didn't finish this post. Oops! :p  I got distracted with that and then I was watching a YouTube video with tips for Apple Pencil. I found some things I didn't know so that is cool. :) I'm pretty much obsessed with my Apple pencil. :p

I remembered today to take a picture of the Fossil bag I got at the Reidsville Goodwill the day we drove back from the beach.  That is the only picture I took, though.  Here it is, It's very comfy to carry and so roomy.

The little colorful dangle on the side is a keychain I got at the beach. It's plastic shells.  I thought it looked cute on there.  I have enjoyed carrying the 'new' bag. ^_^

I got on a writing roll today and wrote 3550 words!  I was type, type, typing! :p I did my usual Sunday stuff, washed my hair, my bed linen, took out the trash, and put away the laundry I washed yesterday.  So, a bit of aftermath from the beach. On the way home on Wednesday, we stopped in Reidsville on our way back to go to the Goodwill.  I had not found a single Fossil handbag on the entire beach trip. Guess what I found at the Goodwill in Reidsville? Yes, a Fossil bag! lol, I love it. It's fabric and I am using it at the moment.  It's more of a summer bag. the yellow Sak bag will be back again later this year, for now, I'm using this.  I will take some pictures soon. I want to do a post-beach picture post.

Friday of this week, we went on our little thrift trip. I didn't get a lot, but I did find Fossil-branded canvas jewelry/pen roll-up.  You know I love Fossil stuff. I am not sure what I'll use it for yet. We also went on a thrift trip last week after the beach trip and I found a very cool item. It's a Brother P-touch label maker that works!  I bought some batteries to test it out and it works. I can get replacement tapes pretty cheaply so I'm very happy. I paid a whole $4.00! YAY! I love bargains like that. OH! At the same Goodwill this weekend that I found the Fossil roll up thing, I found a brand new Anker USB C to USB C cable for $1.00! It works well and it's the braided fabric kind. It's 6ft long and I love it.  I love finding bargains.

Now, for the other thing.  Yesterday I heard from my sister, nothing bad, just every time she calls I get so nervous it's bad news about the house i live in. My stomach is in knots when I hear from her. I certainly miss the days of being glad to hear from her! Anyway, I have been dying to get a newer iPad Mini as my iPad Mini 3 only has iOS 12.  It's getting slower too.  I have tried everything I could think of to get credit to get one.  Well, after talking with her, i thought of something and tried it thinking it wouldn't work. It did! I  was able to get one on the spot. BUT I knew I would have to wait for it to come. It had, 'set up your account online now' thing. So I did and got the card number and info.  I go look at the local Target and of course they have none in stock.  The Best Buy in Lynchburg VA has the one I want.  I go on there and put it in my cart thinking the car won't go through, I'll need to wait until I get the physical card. Nope, it worked and I had purchased it! @_@  I was ecstatic but also a bit concerned as I'll have to pay it each month.  

I had to drive to Lynchburg to get it. I got dressed and jumped in Goontz and left.  I got up there and it was ready so I went to the curbside pickup, got it and then pulled to the side to look to make sure it was the right one. It was and I was very happy but a bit angry at myself for buying it when I couldn't afford it.  I had seen a McDonald's and a Bojangles right outside of the city on the way up so I headed back there and got Bojangles and ate it before heading home.  I got home and backed up the old one and put all the things from it on the new one. I love it and i know I'm going to enjoy using it for years. I'm still sick on my stomach for spending so much, but I made a promise to myself to pay more than the minimum each month and not put anything else on it.

I did put one more thing on there though. After I got back to town, I went to Target's site to see if they had any First-gen Apple Pencils. I have wanted one forever.  They had one so I took the plunge and got it. I LOVE it. It's better than any of the ones I've bought in the past. Works fast and very responsive. I'm in total love.  Now, I plan to try and pay all this back as quickly as possible. I also plan to look into shipping costs and try to sell some of the Fossil bags that I've bought that I won't carry. I bought several because they were Fossil, not because I particularly liked them. I hope to sell some and make some money to put towards this bill!

Speaking of Fossil bags, I found a small yellow leather one in the Salvation Army store Friday. It's so soft and one I actually would use!  I have so many that I am hoping I can sell some and make enough each month to just pay the bill on this and have it paid off soon.  I know I can do it if I put my mind to it! 

Best Buy offered six months of Apple News for free and six months of Apple Music for free for buying it. Apple has a promotion for a year of Apple TV+! Cool beans. That made me feel a bit better about spending so much.  I already signed up for Apple TV+ and watched an episode of the Peanuts show on there! :) I hope to enjoy my free Apple TV for the year.  I will probably use the other two trials too.  I love freebies with purchases. Too bad I couldn't get two years of Apple TV. One for the iPad and one for the pencil! :p Oh well, I'm not greedy. I'm happy with what they gave me.

Wow, I think I made up for not posting in a while!  I hope to do some picture posts soon.  I'd like to share the Fossil bag and some more beach photos. OH! Some time back I picked up a case for my old iPad Mini and it didn't fit, it is for the one I just got. So, I even have a case for it without having to order one. Yay!

Yes, I know it's been over a week since the beach trip. I keep meaning to do a post beach post but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I have a lot to share, but it won't be tonight. I will try to do all that tomorrow!  For now, i just wanted to let my readers (if there are any) that I am alive.

I thought I would share one picture this morning.  I'll see you on the flip side!

Sorry for no afternoon post.  We ate and then went out for a bit.  I took a few pictures of the sky and beach before it got dark to share. This is probably my last post until tomorrow evening.  If I don't post then, I'll try to post on Thursday with a Google photo gallery of all the pictures I took. We'll see how that goes. For now, enjoy the ones I'm sharing. I still need to get my nightly beach walk. I am mostly packed so I won't have so much to do in the morning.  I'm ready to stay here forever and I'm ready to be home. I miss my Goontz!

It's another lovely day here. A bit overcast, but not raining.  I went on the balcony for a bit this morning.  I took a few pictures to share. Not sure what we are doing today for our last day here. I am so no looking forward to packing later, I know that much! :(

I'm going to miss this view!

Well, I did it, I got P.F. Changs! It cost way too much but it was delicious!  I ordered it via UberEats and it was here way before the estimate.  That is awesome.  Here is a bad picture:

I ate that and I have spent a LOT of balcony time today.  I've been out there for hours.  My friend ordered us food from DoorDash a bit ago. It was from a place called Hwy 55 and it was pretty damn tasty! He got a huge burger and I got a Philly steak sammich. Yummy!  I ate on the balcony because it's just so nice out there.  We haven't gone out at all today. I went up one floor to get a Coke.  I have Dew but I wanted Coke with my lo mein.  We may or may not go out later, if so, I have two things to mail. I googled to see if there was a dropbox near here, but there aren't. BOO! When we stayed at the Northern end of Myrtle, there was a box at the shopping center on 17 not far from the hotel.

If we don't get out tonight, we definitely will tomorrow, so either way, it will get mailed.  I'm going to take my nightly beach walk at some point. I am not sure when. It's not really dark here yet but it's getting there fast. Here are a few pictures to share for this evening.

Until the next post, enjoy!

Well, I did it, I got P.F. Changs! It cost way too much but it was delicious!  I ordered it via UberEats and it was here way before the estimate.  That is awesome.  Here is a bad picture:

I ate that and I have spent a LOT of balcony time today.  I've been out there for hours.  My friend ordered us food from DoorDash a bit ago. It was from a place called Hwy 55 and it was pretty damn tasty! He got a huge burger and I got a Philly steak sammich. Yummy!  I ate on the balcony because it's just so nice out there.  We haven't gone out at all today. I went up one floor to get a Coke.  I have Dew but I wanted Coke with my lo mein.  We may or may not go out later, if so, I have two things to mail. I googled to see if there was a dropbox near here, but there aren't. BOO! When we stayed at the Northern end of Myrtle, there was a box at the shopping center on 17 not far from the hotel.

If we don't get out tonight, we definitely will tomorrow, so either way, it will get mailed.  I'm going to take my nightly beach walk at some point. I am not sure when. It's not really dark here yet but it's getting there fast. Here are a few pictures to share for this evening.

Until the next post, enjoy!

Ahhhhhh just took a shower and washed my hair and do I feel good. Whoo-hoo! lol  I am seriously considering getting P.F. Changs via UberEats.  We don't have them at home and I love them so much. It's so tempting!  I might do it. I'll let you know if I do. :P  I spent some nice balcony time before coming in to wash my hair. That way it will have all day to dry.  It takes forever with it as long as it is.  As soon as I'm vaccinated, I'm getting a much-needed haircut! It's so long and gross. :(

Here are some pictures I took on the balcony this afternoon. As you can see, it's pretty out today:

I was awoken about 5:40 to an alarm going off. It was the fire alarm on this floor.  I got up and looked out and all was clear.  I then opened the door to make sure and the alarms finally went off.  UGH. I did go out and get some pictures of the beach and ocean though to share.  It was so pretty.  

I was able to get back to sleep after a while but I'm so tired. Not sure what we are doing today. I'm happy to just hang out here and relax.