Boo Berry

Saturday: not too exciting, I still wanted to walk up to the mall, but I had to work that afternoon, and didn't want to squish it all in. Work was kinda slow until about the last 15 minutes. I found a couple things in my mailbox when I got home.

SMS edible:

 I liked the Smarties (which are basically M&M's, but better chocolate). I'm not excited about the coffee or the dipping sauce. I will most likely pass both of these on. I was rather annoyed about this one, the person sending to me sent it out a week after she was supposed to (or she said she did, when I got it, it was postmarked a week after she sent it and since she had to fill out a customs form, I believe the post mark. So, she mailed it 2 weeks after she was supposed to.) I was getting a bit worried about it ever arriving until I received it and saw the postmark. I'm more peeved that she didn't mail it when she said she did, just tell me life got in your way and you had to mail it kinda late, I feel that's better than not mailing it when you said you did. I find people do that a lot. Also, I was hoping it'd be really great because it took so long to get here.
Fall pocket letter:

 I liked this one, but certain parts that make it a pocket letter, she didn't do. There was no letter, also there were 2 things that she included as goodies. I understand that people don't have a lot of things, but you could always put in stickers, or memo sheets, which everyone seems to have in these groups. Also, after I posted a thank you on the group, someone commented that this person was no longer in the group, I knew that, but one of the things we're supposed to do is thank people when we receive things, whether or not they are in the group.
Sunday: was our local art festival. The weather didn't really cooperate, it was raining a lot of the day. I went out at 10:30, because I didn't want to go out later in the day, that might have been a bad idea. It was raining, not hard, but constant. There were a few empty spaces, I'm guessing of people that didn't have tents to set up to protect their stuff, which I get, but it's been predicted to rain all week. I saw this cool Star Wars quilt on one tent.

 And this huge cool elephant piece on another:

I kinda knew I wouldn't be buying anything, but I went out anyway. I followed the festival on Facebook and just about every person they posted about had large things to hang on walls, pottery or jewelry. I'm not really that interested in those things. I wish there were more paper crafting people. There was one booth that had some really neat bound books, I didn't buy anything because I couldn't justify spending a bunch of money on an item I wouldn't use. There was one that had quilled stuff, that was neat. There was one booth that I almost bought some magnets from. I had a Totoro one and an Iowa one, but they weren't marked, so I couldn't really tell how much they were. She wraps them up and says it's $19.95, I said no and mentioned that they weren't really marked for a second time. She said most of them are marked, I saw maybe 5 price tags.
I also wanted to get something fun for lunch, but there weren't any places to sit down and I didn't want to carry food home in the rain and eat it at home. So, I didn't buy anything (which is good), but I really wanted to.
My partner received my book box the other day and posted on facebook. I was a bit disappointed because she didn't post a picture of the front of the box which I was so proud of. I was a bit afraid the teal colored bits wouldn't stay. The mod podge was hard when I mailed the box out, so was dry and should have been find. I wrapped it in bubble wrap, I'm afraid that it still got stuck to the bubble wrap and pulled the color off. I hope not, but I guess we'll never know.
Monday: Started off interesting. I feel I earned my pay and used my brain a ton. I decided to go to the mall after work due to life. First stop was Walmart, I really wanted to buy both the Reese's and Kit Kats:

 I couldn't justify spending $16 for all of them, though.
I didn't find anything to buy in the clearance or the toy aisles, Christmas has started to show up and Halloween is totally there. I usually like to wait until November, maybe October before getting Christmas stuff (unless it's Hobby Lobby), but I found the cutest ornaments and picked them up.

 Reese's thins ($2), tape ($7), Reese's Ghosts($3), Glade ($1 each), ornaments ($2).
I was hungry, that's basically the whole reason I picked up the Reese's, I just had one of the white chocolate ones, those are very sweet. My tape has gone up a buck in price, very annoying. I needed more of these air things, I usually get them at the Dollar Tree, but these were only 97 cents each. So, the ornaments are tiny balloon dogs. How do you pass those up? I saw a bigger one in blue and was thinking I'd love to have one in a different color, and then I saw these, I'd still pick one of the big ones up in a different color. Total spent ($17).
I avoided the Asian food store even though I really wanted to go there. Next stop was the Halloween store that's moved into the mall.

I looked around a bit, I'm not really big into dressing up, I don't like spending $30 on something you wear once a year, I keep just wearing the same one I've had for years.
I found these:

 They were $6. I gave the cashier a twenty and a one dollar bill and she looks at me like I'm nuts. She says I only need the twenty, it's $6. I told her this way she'd give me $15 back, and she ended up giving me two fives and five ones. It kinda felt like she gave those to me instead of a ten and a five just for spite, but I bet it was what was in the drawer.
As I was paying, I saw some mini buttons.

I picked up the supernatural one (the white one) and she said I could get two for $3 instead of one for $2, so I picked up the Ghostbusters one as well.
Last stop was TJ Maxx, I love this display:

 I love seafoam. I wanted to buy this pumpkin:

 But I don't have a place for it that I will enjoy it.
I wanted to find toys because I couldn't find any at Walmart, but I didn't find any.

 Lindt chocolate ($4), Macaroons ($3 each).
I originally just had the drizzled macaroons because they brought back a memory of high school when a group of friends and I went to the Minnesota Renaissance Fair and ate these. As I was waiting in line, I say the double chocolate sea salt Macaroons, and had to buy those, I also found the Lindt chocolate and had to pick them up. Did I mention I was hungry and hadn't had lunch yet?
I had plans to have dinner with a few friends from work, got a text from one of them that her dog was sick and she wouldn't be joining us, so I picked up a Mountain Dew on my way home, but they must've been just stocked, because even though they were in the coolers, they were warm. I stuck it in the freezer when I got home and then just decided to have some pop at dinner.
My other friend and I went to a local restaurant that was having a deal of a three course meal for $28. I had water because they didn't have Mountain Dew, when I asked what they had for soda, I was told: Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite and lemonade. Lemonade is not soda.
First course was a cream soup, potato and leek maybe? I don't remember, but it was really good. Second course was chicken parmesan, and third course was gelato with raspberries. I could have just had a bigger bowl of the soup and the gelato. I wasn't that impressed with the chicken.

 But, it was fun to have dinner with a friend since our schedules don't mesh that much. I mean we see each other at work, but we don't have a lot of time to talk.
I found my mail when I got home, I hate that it's late, it arrived somewhere between 4:45 and 6:15.
Send Me Something crafty:

 Normally I don't like kid's stuff, but I had way too much fun doing this.
Wish for Please Deliver To labels:

 Wish for fall happy mail:

 And another wish for fall happy mail:

I love these.
Normally on Monday, after getting home I change into my comfy clothes and spend the rest of the day on the computer. I got home shortly after 3 and we changed our dinner time to 5, so I still ended up on the computer, but I didn't change clothes.
After coming back from dinner I was still energized, so I got a few things ready to mail out.
Send Me Something Sesame Street:

I was thinking I had a Cookie Monster as well, but I couldn't find it.
Fandoms: Disney

I couldn't find anywhere what kind of Disney, so I sent her a couple packages of Tsum Tsums. That's Mufasa and Simba from the Lion King and Pinocchio and his cat friend from Pinocchio.
Send Me Something Edible.

I could have been rude and sent out the seasoning packet I had just received, but I went with candy instead.
I got to bed at a reasonable time.
Tuesday: I had lunch plans with my family, my brother was in town and had an hour for lunch. We got take out from a local Chinese place. My mom had texted me on Monday asking if I wanted to go to a pizza place or a Chinese place, I'm not a fan of either place she asked about. I went with the Chinese place and chose something new off their menu. They didn't have descriptions on what the items were, so I was just googling names. Nothing sounded that great and it turned out the shrimp dish I got was almost the same as another shrimp dish we ordered. I always dread getting together with my family because they always bring up stuff I don't want to talk about. It wasn't too bad this time. My parents are always asking what's going on in my life, I usually don't tell them and they get annoyed, this time I told them and they didn't seem interested at all.
I did get a few things ready to mail out.
Washi swap:

 Pink crafting items swap:

 Sticky notes.

 I got one of the postage due pink slips for my mail on Tuesday. Work was a bit busier as we were short a person, so I had to do more than I planned that night.
Wednesday: Nothing exciting there. I did find some interesting cereal when I was grocery shopping.
Mermaid cereal

And a few from my childhood: 

 I ended up buying the Boo Berry and the Franken Berry, I figured Count Chocula was about like every other chocolate cereal.
I didn't get any mail today.
I'm definitely going south and shopping tomorrow. I shouldn't, but I'm annoyed about not getting mail and I thought I'd put together a couple Halloween goodie bags for my friends. I thought it'd be fun if it wasn't all candy.