Shopping

I finally gave in and went shopping today. I was going to go yesterday but the weather looked crappy and then I couldn't pry myself off the couch to go. Last night I decided I was going today no matter what the weather. It was predicted to be wet and snowing all day, thankfully it was not. It had snowed a few inches overnight so everything was snowy and slushy. I made the stupid mistake of wearing my tennis shoes because I wanted something with traction, and my socks were soaked halfway to Dollar Tree. I was originally going to go to Hobby Lobby, but there's nothing I need there (ok, not that I really need things from other places), but I talked myself out of it.
I really did need to go to Dollar Tree, I had a list, though I only picked up two at Dollar Tree and one at Walmart and still need a fourth.
First stop was Dollar Tree, boring stuff first:

 conditioner, sponges, box, envelopes, socks, shipping labels, glue dots.
The things that were on my list were conditioner, sponges and then the envelopes that I forgot about until I was in that aisle. I know I have another box of the these legal size envelope somewhere, but I can't find them (of course, now that I bought these, I'll find the box, but you can never have enough envelopes). I picked up the box because I keep having swaps come up to fill one of these boxes with embellishments, but I never have the box, and now that I do, there won't be another swap. I picked up the sock because they were cute, they say they're men's socks, but I bet they'll be fine. I like glue dots.
I found new stickers:

 All but the summery ones are new. I was really looking for the cactus ones I've seen in people's hauls, but oh well, I probably wouldn't use them anyway. I feel I should make a pocket letter with the bird/butterfly ones.

 eggs, stickers, notecards, treat bags, pig
I saw someone pick up these bunny eggs and I wanted them. I'm not exactly sure why I picked up the treat bags. I don't have a lot of people I give stuff to for Easter (and I keep doing less because I'm tired of giving and not getting). I was looking for bicycled note cards I've seen, but I thought the donut and cat ones were cute, too. I'm thinking of using the pig for a gift box, as he is a box.
My next stop was Target:

 I had a cartwheel for the Reece's crunchers and the Butterfinger eggs.  Now that I have the eggs and the treat bags, I have to put something in them, so I picked up the Twix eggs. I totally picked up the two trail mixes because they sounded good.

 

 sticky notes, pens, spring chipboard stickers, card.
I thought the sticky notes would be fun to to put in a pocket letter (like I need more). I just thought the palm tree pen was wicked cute, and I guess I'm back to picking up gel pens. I saw this cute hedgehog card, and I probably could have made one, but it made me think of a friend, so I picked it up for her.
Here's what in the chipboard sticker set:

 There's lots of variations with different parts being glittery or holographic on them. I feel I'll use these more than the Valentine's Day ones.
I admit, I may have picked up some things I normally wouldn't buy because I had a gift card. I wouldn't pick up some of the chocolate I got in February, I wouldn't have picked up the two trail mixes, and I wouldn't have picked up the chipboard stickers. I think they're all a bit more than I really want to spend, and I shouldn't buy them when I have the gift card so I can make it last longer, but whatever.
Last stop was Walmart:

 shoes, shirt, tape bubble mailers.
Sadly, the wine colored ones, which were on sale, don't fit. They say 7 1/2, but either my feet have grown a lot, or the curling of these make them fit smaller. I figure I'll take them to work or Goodwill. I picked up the shirt because it was wicked cute, it does say it's a St. Patrick's Day shirt, but with the butterflies I can wear it whenever. I'm trying to always pick up a package of double stick tape every time I'm at Walmart, that way I can't run out. I needed bubble mailers, this is a pack of 12 for about $5.

chocolate, stickers, marshmallow pops.
 I wasn't going to buy any stickers, but these are not Easter looking, and the sloth sold it for me. I picked up the chocolate covered cashews at Target last month, and I looked at them today, and they were $4 something, these were $3.98, I'm eating them now, and I think the dark chocolate ones are much better. I picked up the marshmallow pops for my Easter basket.
I ordered from Hollar last week (I know I said I was done, but they sent me a 40% off coupon), and it came today

 There's two hand towels, a set of lined sticky notes, a minion with a lollipop, a mystery carebear egg, a bunch of candy coated peanuts and a couple Easter basket things. One is a chick that comes with lollipops, stickers and eggs. The other is a minion one that has a minion mystery thing, some gummies and something else.
I also ordered two mystery Easter baskets:

I can feel that they both have a box or basket but I don't know what's in them. I don't know if I want to open them now or not.
I kinda think I should because if there's stuff I don't want I can take it to work.

shopping

Today, mom and I went to an antique mall in a neighboring town, they were having a spring break sale. I took a lot of pictures of things that I saw,  how cool is this booth?

 I almost bought one of those small Iowa pieces, but in the end I decided I didn't want to pay $8 for it, plus I don't have a place to put it.

 I loved the bird in this piece, but I would have had to buy the whole thing, thought maybe I could just make the bird if I took a picture:

 I thought this was gross, it's a jar of really old jelly beans:

 I took this picture because I remembered we used to have the sesquicentennial Iowa set that Coke put out for Iowa's 150th birthday in 1996 (I think). I asked my mom if they still had those, she said that was a good question.

 Thought this wreath was cute. If I could hang things on my door, I probably would have bought it.

 Look at how big this Easter chick is:

 I'm still watching out for interesting looking teapots:

 I'm no longer buying them, but I'm still noticing them.
Thought this was a weird piece:

 Saw this Jelly Belly cupcake container, it was $10, so I didn't buy it.

 It's the biggest sock monkey ever:

 Apparently this is an Ewok:

 And this is a large stuffed Gremlin:

 Almost bought this book, but I thought I'd see if the library had it instead:

 How cute is this bird bath?

 Told my mom, she should make one of these for our city.

I found a couple jars of jewelry bits for $5 each, I thought they were on sale, but apparently they weren't.
Here's the first one:

 And the pieces I chose to keep from it:

 Mostly charms for a swap, some cute pins and earrings. I mostly bought it for those pieces on the left, the star in the middle and the multi colored piece at the top right corner.
Here's the second jar:

 And what I kept:

 That green thing is actually a broken marble. I bought it for that, the multi colored thing in the middle and the glass stripey beads.
I also picked up a bag of miscellaneous stuff for $4:

 Here's what I kept:

 A bunch of mini stained glass pieces, some sequins for a swap, and that cool round piece at the top.
The last thing I picked up was a half gallon sized ziploc bag of vintage cards for $2, which turned out to be the only item on sale.
Here's what was in it:

 A bunch of baby cards

 Birthday/Christmas cards

 Christmas/Valentine's Day cards

 Valentine's Day cards

 Get Well cards

And baby cards.

I'm not sure if I'm going to cut them up and use them in pocket letters or whatever. I could always cut them apart, put them on cardstock and reuse most of them.

I'm planning on going to Dollar Tree and other places on Friday.

Rambling

So, it's been a week since I posted. I didn't go out last weekend, I should have because it was in the 50's both days. I don't recall doing much last weekend. I did take pictures of my February Lollipop Box club box, I don't recall exactly when I got it, but I opened it at work and totally forgot about taking pictures of everything at home. Here's what was in it:

 I really love the happy mail theme, I hope to use that stamp on my outgoing packages.
I also read a book Sunday night, When they call you a terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, I couldn't put it down and decided I finished it at 11:59, just so I could say I read it on Sunday night.
I've been sleeping in all week until 9 and 10 o'clock, I'm not sure why, it's probably because I've also been up pretty late.
It also decided to hail during the day on Monday:

 I couldn't figure out what was really happening, it sounded like rocks raining down. It was raining out, so I thought maybe it was golf-ball sized hail.
I got a loaded St. Patricks Day bag in the mail on Monday as well:

 I worked on swaps on Tuesday, ok really, I watched YouTube mostly all day and then got stuff pulled together and ready to mail off on Wednesday.
April Calendar Tag:

 An Easter pocket letter:

 My alphabet tags, S, T, U:

On Wednesday, I found a Secret Bunny package in my mail:

 In one of my facebook books, we have been posting secret whatever holiday is coming up, so last it was cupid, this month, it's bunny.
Thursday and today I slacked off all day reading stuff on wikipedia. I also finished a few things today. A card kit:

 I got this beautiful flowers and feathers tag yesterday:

 Today I received an Easter pocket letter:

 My S, T, U tags:

And I worked a gymnastics meet tonight. I was going to go shopping today cause I do need to go to Dollar Tree soon, I keep adding things to my list. The forecast at the beginning of the week said today was going to be in the 50's, but by the time we got to today the high was only 40. I had a bunch of challenging stuff at work Wednesday and Thursday, so I really needed to do some shopping today, so I put in a purchase at Hollar. I really want to get some Easter stuff, so basically that's what it is, I also found two Easter mystery boxes in the Easter section, so I totally bought those. My mom and I are planning to go to an antique mall in a neighboring city next week, so I thought I save my money until then, but I'm really itching to go to Hobby Lobby since I got home from work for some reason. I have to work tomorrow, Sunday and Monday at the library, maybe that will keep me too busy to shop.

First garage sale

Now that it's March, I can shop, right? Maybe not, my whole paycheck went to rent and the small refund I got from the state covered my dental insurance. But, I still might have to go shopping. I did go to a garage sale this morning:

 I mostly picked up Hello Kitty stuff. I spent a little under $5.
I don't really collect Hello Kitty, but there was a huge collection for sale, I thought the three figurines, the mini plush and the tiny squinchies were too cute to pass up. I'll probably hold on to them for awhile and then pass them on to someone who actually collects them. There was also a big collection of Raggedy Ann and Frozen items. I picked up the Raggedy Ann/Andy patches cause I thought they'd be fun to play with. Also picked up the Elsa plushie and the mini doilies.
My local art center also had a garage sale today, but I didn't find anything interesting. Last year they had a really big one and I picked up a few fun things, I was hoping to find something again this year.
Around lunchtime, one of my co-workers gave me a ride to Goodwill to get rid of some stuff, I really wanted to shop there, but I refrained (I kinda wanna go back, now). We did stop at an Asian food store though:

Green tea mochi and cakes, choco mushrooms, taro mochi, round cookies that seem to be similar to Hello Panda, Ramune and some kind of milk drink.
After getting home I realized I've gotten the green tea cakes before and was not impressed with them, after spending another $4 on this box, I'm a little bummed. I get really excited when I see green tea things. Last time I went to an Asian food store I was looking for mochi and they didn't have any, so paying $2 for each of these was totally worth it to me. I love these choco mushrooms and couldn't pass them up either. The milk drink was pretty good it tasted like Sprite with a flavoring of milk, kinda wished I got more than one of those. My grand total here was about $19.
I do have to get some tacky glue and after visiting Target.com, Walmart.com and HobbyLobby.com, I found it's cheaper at Hobby Lobby, I didn't think that would happen. I really want to go to Dollar Tree because I passed it up on my after Valentine's day shopping because I was just too tired. I am thinking about going shopping tomorrow.

odds and ends

I achieved it, I didn't spend more money during the rest of February, at least not beyond postage and food. I feel I've been rather grouchy though. Last week I was complaining about how grouchy I was and that I should probably take a vacation but that I'd probably just stay at home and not do anything, and that I didn't have money for a vacation. One of my co-workers suggested I get on a greyhound and see how far it takes me, thing is I probably wouldn't come back.
I'm tired of certain things, and I just feel myself getting more angry with the world. I wish I had someone to vent to, I hate being single. I realized today, as I looked at my calendar, I work one Friday (at least at the library) in March. I need more friends to go and do things with. I know I'll end up staying at home not doing things.
How about some pictures since I last posted?
Found this on a returned book one day:

 I mailed out this cool box last week:

 And I'm still awaiting a thank you for it.
Thought the ice looked cool on my way in to work one day:

 I signed up for a pink washi swap:

 Actually, I had two partners:

 Again, with cool looking ice:

 I did a mini pocket letter swap and got some cool goodies:

We had an interesting Sunday and I wish I had someone to talk to about it, I also wish I could talk to someone about something I found out tonight. I miss knowing people in law enforcement. Maybe I just wish I had someone to hang out and/or talk with. I feel I don't have anyone I can call up and chat with whenever I need to, and sometimes I really need to. Sometimes I feel I have enough stress for a full-time job because I have a hard time letting things go because I don't have anyone to vent to.