It feels like I haven’t written in forever. Seriously, I had to go back and reread my last post just to figure out what I had and had not written about.
Reading the post helped put my time back into perspective, though. And honestly, I really haven’t done all that much over the past two days. Lots of stitching really.
I finished off chapter five, but I haven’t really done much with chapter six yet. It’s talking about functions and return values and global variables. All stuff I know.
I watched season four of Game Of Thrones. I started that when I got home form SAL on Thursday and continued it into Friday.
I also tried sleeping most of Thursday evening but the dude above me was literally blaring his music. Normally you can only pick up the ‘thump thump thump’ of the base. But he was in rare form the other night because you could have sung along with the songs. Too bad they sucked and I was tired.
Friday was supposed to be a day off for me aside from the PCC Critiques, which I totally remembered about.
I forgot about the department meeting I was supposed to be at, and would have been late if Clavan hadn’t text me and reminded me about the time.
So I went to that. Afterwards Clavan and I had lunch at Hotdog Heaven because he mentioned it the other week. When we got back from lunch we talked about some of the changes I wanted to make to the Project 3 documentation.
He liked my ideas, but the files I created didn’t flow with the way he taught the material in class, so we’re going to rearrange it a bit, but use my overall ideas. That makes me happy. I think the changes will make the material much more manageable for the students.
Once the meeting was done with Clavan I rushed home to be here for Josh since he was dropping off Sammi’s computer desk. I got the corner cleared out and ready, and helped Josh move it in.
It was good to see him one last time.
I got the computer set up, but when I turned the computer on it started giving an error about not having a disk to boot from. I haven’t looked into it because I haven’t cared enough. I’m hoping it is a loose connection and not having to reinstall the OS… again…
I had to go back to school for the critiques only to find out that everyone was in Forum… F my life…
I stuck around on the off chance that other people would show up. Tre was there, so it wasn’t a waste and it was good to see the stuff he’s been working on.
I also got a message from Jarrett that morning saying that he forgot to pay his phone bill and that his account was overdrawn. He asked if I could spot him $50 so he could avoid the overdraft fee.
I was able to get him $45, which I gave to him during the critiques. That leaves me super tight right now. He said he would have the money back to me by Monday. I’m super hoping so.
I tried mailing the laptop to John, but it’s at least $100 to ship it, so I’m going to be taking it with me to Vegas and he can fly it out with him when he goes back. That way we all save some money.
I also tried going to Target for a frame for Sam’s cross stitch, but they only have normal frame sizes, and a sucky selection at that. I need one that is more square. So I have another reason to go to Jo-Anne Fabrics. The first being that I ran out of black thread and can’t finish the Gem Stone dragons that I have going.
Since I’m so tight on money though, I don’t want to drive all the way out there for only the thread, and I can’t afford the frame right now. Sigh. I really am bad at waiting on other people.
I also found out that I could take vacation, all two weeks. Clavan said that if need be, he would cover for me during the labs I would be gone, but that I could take all of the vacation. I have the best boss ever.
After critiques I came home and finished off Game of Thrones and cross-stitched.
Mom called me when she got home from work. We’re planning on having me drive up the 6th or 7th and fly out together on the 8th. I would be bringing Scarlet with me so she could be boarded with Cleo. That way they are both taken care of.
I need to get Scarlet up to date on her shots, and I would like to get her checked out since it has been so long. That’s been on the to do list for over a year now. And when I think of all of the things I have blown money on, I feel disappointment in myself. If I had been more responsible I could have had it taken care of already. I could get my eye appointment, or my dentist appointment.
I don’t want to think of it that way though. It’s in the past and I can’t go back and change it. I feel like I’m on the right track now to getting to where I want to be. So I’m going to focus on that instead.
I’m wondering if I shouldn’t go to the wedding, because it would be an expense that I could put towards something else. But I really want to be there for Joey.
We’ll see how it goes I suppose.
After Game of Thrones was done I went to sleep, and woke up around 7am.
I made toast and coffee and started listening to chapter 18 in my Art History book while stitching more. I finished off the Little Red Dragonlet and started working on the October Gemstone dragon. I can do all of the kreinik stitching, but I can’t finish the backstitching because of the missing black threads. : /
The September dragon is in the same boat.
I want to stitch something for Joey’s wedding gift, and I have Mandi’s and Jace’s dragons to do still. Lots of stitching to be done. Then there’s the Dragon of Earth to finish once I get his threads from John. After that I can go back to the Dragons of the Elements. Or maybe take a break from them and do something slightly different for a while. I don’t know yet. I think I have enough to keep me busy until December at least.
Today was pretty chill. Had breakfast. Got through all of chapter 18 and most of 19 before having to go to SAL. I got my meal planning done, scanned and posted the Little Red Dragonlet picture, and started reading chapter 6.
I’m back home now, about to do more nothing and stitching. Most likely I’ll watch the two movies that I have in my downloads folder. Escape from Planet Earth, and Jack the Giant Slayer. Eventually I will finish chapter 19 and take the quiz tonight.
That’s most everything I’m pretty sure. Fun times.