Thursday, May 30, 2019

stickers

Monday: I didn't go outside, I didn't even get dressed. I did put together a few things to mail out.
Unicorn:
 This one was really expensive to mail, almost $5.
Destash:
 Colorful happy mail:
 more happy mail:
I read a few books and watched some movies. I was a bit bummed that my parents didn't ask if I wanted to go to lunch. Our normal Memorial Day plans are: they try to convince me to go to the parade and program (the parade was cancelled due to rain this year) and then ask if I want to go to lunch afterwards.
Tuesday: I put together a few things.
 Wish for Tsum Tsum figurines:
 Birthday ATCs:
 I had a hard time getting creative, not sure why.
Work was a little different due to people being gone, but otherwise a normal Tuesday, except that someone basically told me I was a racist. As I was discussing the interaction with my supervisor, she didn't understand why they would think what I said was racist (neither did any of my other co workers). This situation comes up infrequently and we basically all say the same thing. It's still bugging me.
I got a few things in the mail.
Sticker flakes:
 Not sure who or what this is for, probably a wish granted. It was from wish, which I realize you can't add notes, but I've noticed some people add their names next to mine on the mailing label. I already got this same pack from someone else in one of my groups. Weird thing is, the colors are much brighter in the package, but I didn't get all the images it says I'm supposed to.
More sticker flakes:
 This one came with a note, so I knew that's what it was.
And a RAK of address labels. I have a lot of address labels now.
Wednesday: was pretty normal, had a person get upset because they had quite a few overdue items and didn't think they should pay the fines on them. Also had someone upset that I wouldn't do something we don't normally do.
Got home and went to rearrange my library books, but noticed my floor was damp.
And the new bookcase I bought last night to replace the last bookcase that was messed up due to rain is now messed up due to rain:
 I'm tired of leaks. This one was brand new last year, so I know it's got a few years in it. The other one was old to begin with.
I received a Why make a tag:
 Basically you look at the person's favorites and send them something they like.
I was telling the guy at the post office that I'm trying to send more flat items as it seems I'll send a parcel for something (like this tag, I sent a book) and I get something at envelope rate back. I only sent two parcels this week, but I had 3 international envelopes which was about $4, because the stamps are $1.15 each. I still spent about $13.
My living room is a bit rearranged due to dealing with the damp carpet.
Thursday: I went shopping. I haven't been shopping since 4/26, not so much on purpose. At first it was just I was busy doing other things or it was hot or it was raining and then it ended up that I was getting close to a month without shopping, so I purposefully didn't shop. It helps that I didn't go anywhere other than work.
First stop was Target:
 I picked up two of the Oreo candy bar packs as they were on sale for $2.24, half of normal price. I picked up the cereal because I will need some soon, but I've never seen this flavor at my grocery store and it was $1.95. Normally I stock up on chocolate when I go to Target because they have great chocolate, I ended up buying the Ghirahelli chocolate covered cashews. They were 2 for $8, normally $5.19 each.
 I know I said I wasn't buying crafting supplies (that didn't really work at the Dollar Tree), but I've been wanting tiny puffy stickers. Dollar Tree had some years ago that I never found. This pack of 240 stickers was $4.99, it was the most expensive thing I got. Figured I could spend some of my money on blind bags, I like the My Little Pony ones and I saw these Ugly Dolls ones. They were all $2.99 each, I found them at Walmart for 10 cents less.
I was going to wait and open them on my birthday, but people and things, so I opened them today:
Next stop was Walmart:
 Nothing too exciting there, a shirt for $4.97, bralettes for $4.96 each, some double stick tape for $5.84 and some ibuprofen for $3.82. Somehow this still added up to about $30.
When I went to check out, they had 2 cashier lines open, I realize they want us to do the self-checks, I just don't like them. There was this longish line at one and the next one had his light on, so I ask if he was open and he gives me this snarky remark, it didn't sit well with me.
I can see why I decided to go down the sticker aisle at Dollar Tree.
Last stop was Dollar Tree:
 a couple stationery sets, some stickers, and butterfly die cuts.
I totally bought these stationery sets to send out (though I should stop doing that, too), the stickers look like stained glass, I couldn't pass them by, I hadn't seen anyone else buy them. I also was very surprised to see these butterfly die cuts at the Dollar Tree, I wouldn't have been surprised if they were from Hobby Lobby, of course there, they'd be like $4.
 more stickers, cards. Again with the stained glass stickers, the others are owls and woodland creatures. And I always need cards.
 stickers, cards.
 white mini kit kats, body wash, loofah.
I needed the body wash, as at my grocery store, it was $1.99, and this is a 34 oz container. I also needed the loofah for next month.
I got three of the five things I needed. I was looking for baseball card sleeves at Walmart and Target but I couldn't find them. I'll either have to find them online, or go shopping again soon. I also needed some air freshener things, but I remembered when I was at the checkout. I got the double sided tape and the loofah and body wash.
After Dollar Tree, I called my mom and we went to a local bakery for lunch. It was ok, at least she didn't really upset me. She had mentioned last month some time that she and dad were going to go to Chicago (where my brother lives) and asked if I wanted to go along. I do want to go, just not with them. It's so much more stressful, between my mother complaining about like everything, and my dad snoring, and having to sleep on an airbed in a room that faces east. Also, my parents have a tendency to treat me like a child on vacation. They never let me go anywhere by myself. Anyways, so mom said they were going over the 4th of July weekend, so now I'm bummed that I don't have anything to really do on the 4th or that weekend. You couldn't go on a normal week, when family doesn't hang out?
I bought some pastries to take home:
When I got home I realized (ok I saw a sign while we were there, I just didn't think of it) that I was charged a service charge for lunch and the pastries. I had an egg salad croissant with a drink (a can of Mountain Dew) that came with a bag of chips, a cookie and a pickle sphere, that was $9. I'm not sure it was really worth that much. I remember in the past when I've gone there, the sandwiches were better. The pastries were $14, not sure they were worth it either. The round thing at the bottom is supposed to be pudding filled, but she gave me the creme filled one, which is right next to it. The cherry thing next to it is dry. I remember their food being much better. Guess I'm not missing out on anything by not visiting them.
Got home and found some mail, a sticker swap:
This was supposed to be mailed by April 19th, it was also supposed to have a min of $5 spent and 5 items sent. I doubt it will be replaced.
I'm now tired and sitting for the rest of the day.

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Bread

Saturday: I didn't do much. I convinced myself to get out and go to the farmer's market, I really wanted a good sugary pastry for breakfast, but I didn't see any stalls of just pastries and the few vendors that had pastries just didn't look that good.
I did pick up some mini loaves of bread:
 They were $10 altogether, which is a good deal. They are (from left): lemon poppyseed, blueberry, butter pecan and garlic butter. I wanted the strawberry blueberry, but the lady in front of me bought the last one. I ate the butter pecan for breakfast, it was ok, very subtle taste. The vendor suggested heating up the garlic cheese one for a few seconds in the microwave, I did that but it just wasn't that great. I stuck the lemon poppyseed in the freezer, I was going to walk it over to my parents, but I just didn't feel like it.
I got some die cuts in the mail:
 There were tons:
I decided to have a Hunger Games marathon after that and was up pretty late finishing the last one. I should have just waited to watch it on Sunday.
Sunday: I had to work the high school's graduation. It wasn't too bad, other than people getting annoyed that we only gave out one program per family. Apparently the high school only gave us 3 boxes, and about half of those went on the chairs for the graduates.
I was discussing on one of my Facebook groups that I'm not sure my fit bit is very accurate. The tiny walk that I did on Saturday (walking to the farmer's marked and back) was less than a mile (.88) and my fitbit said it was about the same amount of steps as walking 1.24 miles home from my job. Someone said it was because it's measuring how much you move your arms. I'm not a huge swing my arms when I walk person. I was going to look at the steps again when I got home today, but I had to take a detour. I found a library card on my way home and decided to walk it over to the library instead of having to remember to take it in when I worked on Tuesday. Due to that fact, I chose to pick up lunch at Dairy Queen. After dropping off the library card I mentioned I was going to eat my lunch and the person at the desk said something about pie in the fridge, so I decided to check that out:
 It was kind of a key lime pie. It was very limey.
After getting home, I put together some stuff to send out.
An ATC:
 And a bunch of birthday mail:
 Second birthday surprise:
 And another one:
 And another one:
 And a happy mail tag:
And some bicycled ATCs
I finished those up and realized it was almost 8pm.
It's 10PM, I've decided to try and go to bed at a decent time (10ish), because I'm really good at going to bed at midnight and then (weirdly) I'm rather tired the next day.

Friday, May 24, 2019

Puffy llamas

I did not read any books on the 23rd. I just wasn't interested in anything. I just sat on the couch and watched movies, which wasn't particularly bad because I got my movies watched. I received a couple pieces of mail.
Surprise tag:
 I'm not sure how I feel about this one. If I didn't know it was a surprise tag, I'd assumed it was happy mail.
Bee card:
 It's wicked cute.
Friday morning, I got up and found this guy on my closet.
 When I first saw him, he was curled up like a tiny piece of poop. Then he uncurled himself and started to walk up the wall.
 I collected him and stuck him outside. Not quite sure how he got in, but I'm hoping he lives a long life outside.
It was starting to rain when I went to bed on Thursday night and every time I rolled over and woke up it was raining. It seemed like it rained all night long. I think it might have. There's this bucket outside (not sure why) that I had emptied out on Thursday because I didn't feel like breeding mosquitoes next to my door.
When I went outside to free my friend, I found it partially full:
 I decided to head over to the store and pick up some Mountain Dew because a 6 pack of 16.9 oz bottles was on sale for $1.88 + deposit, which is better than a 20 oz bottle. On the way home, I saw this beauty.
 There was a giant bud right next to it.
I stuck my yard stick in the bucket when I got home, to measure:
 I didn't realize the camera did not focus like I asked it to, there's about 6 inches in there. I emptied it out and set it back up. Forecast for the next few days is rain. We had a bunch of roads flooding overnight and the sump pump has been running constantly all day.
Had some mail in my mailbox as I headed out to work.
Happy mail:
 I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this.
Bicycle ATCs:
 Interesting selection of extras, feel like I went on a safari.
Sticker swap:
 This morning I was just thinking I should stop doing sticker swaps because I usually didn't get a lot of stickers I liked. There's one sticker sheet I'm not too excited about (the rainbow ones on the left). I love the holographic stars and the clouds with rainbow drops and the animal characters and the pineapple ones and the puffy llamas and the handmade springy ones and the cacti and the gems and the snails.
ATC:
 Who wants ice cream?
This is that giant bud that I saw earlier:
I love irises. We had these giant purple ones in our yard when I was a kid, that's how I knew it was spring. I miss irises.

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Unicorn magic pudding

Monday: was kinda weird. Our Automated Handling System at the library went down sometime on the afternoon of the 18th and was still down when I went in to work. Spent much of the morning checking in things from the weekend. Found some happy mail when I got hom.
Wish for something minion:
 Those are minion bandages in the packages.
Happy mail:
 Love those stationary pages.
Flat tag:
 I really like the travel stickers.
pocket letter:
 This is very beautiful.
And some stickers:
 What were in the packages:
 And the second one:
 Tuesday: I used my stove for the first time in a couple years and made some pesto gnocchi. It was pretty good. But, it made my stomach queasy. I drank the Mountain Dew that was in my fridge and I felt better, I also had supper before going to work, which is not something I do on Tuesdays.
 I put together a few tags to send out.
Initials:
 Her initials are RH, so I went with rabbits and hot air balloon. When I mailed this, it ended up being $4.50, for some reason it was heavier than the thrift store tag (which was also a notebook about this size) and I've noticed things going to Ohio have been more expensive lately. I was told you're paying for mileage in some states. I knew that about Texas and California, Ohio doesn't make that much sense, it's not that far away. I guess it just means I won't be mailing to Ohio any time soon.
Wish:
 She wanted self-laminating sheets.
I had package waiting for me when I got home from work.
 It's part two of my favorite swaps.
 How pretty are they?
 I miss buying buttons. I haven't been to many sales this season and I'm not going to Hobby Lobby anytime soon.
I was a little perturbed when I saw a post today asking if I had gotten the package today. People are so rude. They don't understand other people's lives and feel you should do things instantly. I found the package in my mailbox when I got home after 9pm on Tuesday, I basically took a shower and went to bed, just to get up early the next morning and go to work. The person who sent it to me posted the next day at 11:18 asking if I had gotten it, I was still at work. It was rude. Instead of posting a snarky reply, I just posted that I had received it. I won't be so nice in the future. People are so rude some times.
We were sent this item for an interlibrary loan:
 It was published in 1907, so I realize it's old, but it's in really bad shape. We were all amazed that it was actually sent to us. I was afraid to touch it.
Made two trips to the grocery store as I didn't have enough hands to carry my library bag and my grocery bag and milk and toilet paper. Found this on the shelf:
I could not figure out what the flavors were supposed to be, but I did find out that it was made with fairy dust and rainbow sprinkles, that it was supposed to taste like joy. The ingredients list didn't even have a flavoring, they just listed them as pink pudding and blue pudding. Whatever, I wasn't going to pay $2.50 for them when the rest were $1.
I picked up a few sugary things as I've been craving them lately. No mail for Wednesday. Totally just watched a bunch of movies the rest of the day. I couldn't find my can opener and added that to my shopping list. I'm sure if I had walked back to the grocery store for one I would have made 10,000 steps.
Thursday: I planned to get up and go shopping, but I have no desire to do anything today. I realized I hadn't been shopping since April 26th and I kinda want to see if I can do a whole month without shopping. Since Hobby Lobby never called me back I figured I'd just not go there (which will definitely help with my so crafting shopping), it's not like there's anything I need there. I'll see if there are any garage sales in the area for the weekend, but I don't know if I'll go to any. Probably read some books, too.