Friday, June 22, 2018

Jigsaw puzzle

Sunday: after work, my friend and her mother took me out to supper. We had some good burgers and then stopped at an Asian Market to pick up some snacks:
 Kit kats, corn snacks, jelly drinks, Ramune.
I realized after I got home these are the same flavors of Kit Kats I bought last Labor Day at this place and I'm not sure they are worth $5 each. The corn snacks, I've picked up another flavor of before and these are not as flavorful as the others and I have more to eat now. I saw on a YouTube channel I watch that jelly drinks are pretty good, so I picked them up to try. I've been trying different flavors of the Ramune (kind of like Sprite), this one was melon and it is the best I've had, but I'm not sure it's worth $2.
Monday: I'm still getting used to my new schedule and it's been pretty hard after working all weekend to go back and be at work at 8:15 the next morning. I found some fun happy mail when I got home.
There was a box that sounded like legos, pretty sure that wasn't right, especially since it said FRAGILE on it. This was inside:
 Along with these items.
 it was a wish granted of anything cactus and cute pens. I appreciate it all, but if you don't wrap something breakable in bubble wrap or tissue paper, how can you think it won't show up broken to it's destination. The pen on the far right says Hop on Pop, from Dr. Seuss. I love the thought they put into this package, it's just sad it wasn't protected very well.
I also found this from wish.com:
 It's a keychain with a "W", a mermaid and a scale charm. I love it.
I also had a candy bag tag:
 I put some of these in my mother's birthday cupcake. I bought a cupcake box at a garage sale and plan to fill it up with stuff for her birthday, but I can't figure out what to put in it. I know she likes cherry life savers.
This is a time for me swap, I love the presentation:
 And here's all the stuff in it:
 I love everything she put in it, I've already tried the chocolate and will finish it soon.
Also, a July calendar tag:
 Love this. Very cute! Again, I need to get used to this new schedule, I'm used to Wednesdays when I also open, I do my errands on the way home from work and then relax for the rest of the day, so that's basically what I did on Monday.
Tuesday I did get up and work on my tags/swaps.
Here's letter K:
 I try to be creative with the letters, but when I was cleaning out and found some key items, and every time I found more I just added to the stash.
Here's a flipbook tag:
 The person I was sending too said she liked unicorns and mermaids so I tried to make it a little magical.
Pocket letter tag:
 I already had this one made for something else and it didn't work. I really like it, so I sent it along.
I was so excited to be done until I realized I had to make a tag for another group, this took me like 5 minutes. Sometimes you can be pretty creative if you have the right materials even if you aren't feeling crafty.
It was supposed to have a flower and a butterfly or dragonfly. I didn't realize how crappy the picture was until I looked at the pictures after packaging everything up.
Watched a few movies on Wednesday. Thursday I slept in until 8:15, cause I guess that's late-er. Read some books, couldn't believe I hadn't done any reading since the 17th, but I've been pretty busy with other things. Found some happy mail.
ATC:
I like that's it's vintage sewing themed.
 Cactus:
 I love how she personalized the pencil bag.
Friday, I had plans to go to the Central Iowa Junk Jaunt with my mother, aunt and uncle. Turns out another aunt came along. We ended up going to only 5 places, four and then we had to go back home to pick up my dad and go to lunch and then one place after lunch, then we went back home to drop my dad off and it was already 3pm, my aunts and uncle had a two hour drive ahead of them, so they decided it was time to go home anyway. If we didn't have the two hours that we had to get my dad and go to a special place for lunch we could have hit more places. Lunch was good, but I don't think it was worth wasting 2 hours of my time.
When I got home, I found a postage due slip from USPS, I wandered down there and had them send it back. My mailman hadn't finished his routes for the day, so I don't know what it was, but I bet it was from one of my groups. One of them says we can pay the postage and not get reimbursed or send it back and wait for it to return with correct postage. My other groups give us the option of paying postage and getting reimbursed or sending back and waiting for it to return with correct postage. The postage due on this one was $1 twenty-something. I decided awhile back, it's more work to try and get reimbursed for postage that I'm just sending it back. It's their own fault for not putting correct postage on it, and I'm not paying to send mail to them and to get my own mail.
I had a few happy mail packages.
Letter J:
 Pretty creative. I had a hard time with J and everyone keeps posting pictures of what they've sent and I keep thinking why didn't I think of that.
Dollar Store:
 And my June Lollipop box:
I'm a bit disappointed in my day, I had fun with my relatives, but there were places I wanted to go that we didn't get to, I also wanted to find something really cool to buy, even though I decided I could only spend about $10. Now I want to go buy stuff because of the disappointment of my day. I'll refrain today, but I'm going to Hobby Lobby tomorrow.

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