Yeah… So lots of stuff has happened that I’ll get into but I have to get this out of my system first.

I still find bedbugs every once in a while. One or two, not like a giant infestation. But I keep wondering where they come from. Am I bring more in from my car… or am I just totally blind to them? They’ve been pretty small for the most part, but some of them are huge, and I just can’t understand how I miss them for that long.

I’ve taken the stuff off the walls so they can’t hide behind the posters… I just don’t get it.

So when I was reaching for my book bag today at work, I happened to be curious and checked along the zipper of one of the pockets. I remember that I had seen a bug there when I was staying at the old apartment.

Oh my god.

My book bag is infested with bugs. Like, I feel like there is an army of them living in my book bag, and I had to carry it… on my back… omg >.<

I’ve wanted to replace my book bag for almost two years now, but now I want to set it on fire. I wish so much I could get rid of it right now. But I can’t. I’ve already gone through all of my money for bills, and miscellaneous things like graduation cards and rubber ducks.

I got a new workout armband for my phone, but I got that before I realized the book bag issue, and now I’m sort of stuck.

I think I’m going to toss the book bag regardless of not having a replacement. There’s no way that spraying it down will get rid of all of them, and it needs to be replaced anyway.

I just can’t believe that I’ve been wearing it, and that it’s been in my room. No wonder I keep seeing more of them. I bet that is where the giant ones come from. Right now I feel sort of hopeless. If I get a new book bag, then what’s to stop a few stragglers in my room from transferring to it, and than there’s my car to think about.

I mean, it’s not nearly like it was at the other place, so I don’t feel like I’m being over run by bugs, but I really can’t believe how many adult bugs there are on my book bag, and then there are babies, too.

Maybe this is their only strong hold. Maybe it’s not as bad as I’m blowing it up inside of my head. I don’t have bite marks anymore. Maybe the babies just hatched and this is the universe looking out for me. All of these maybes…

Either way. I’m going to empty out my book bag, put everything in the grocery bags I have in my car, and throw away the book bag before I go home. I won’t even put it back in my car.

Arg. I feel like scrubbing my skin off with bleach and acid now . >.<

Moving on to nicer topics, my day has actually being going fantastic. I won’t let the bugs ruin that for me. They may think they are winning, but their defeat is on the horizon. Resistance is futile.

So I went to sleep pretty much right when I got home yesterday. Another headache was threatening to turn migraine, so I drank a bunch of water and went to bed. No pills or Nyquil this time. Just straight up sleep.

Of course since I went to sleep so early I was awake at 1am, which is how I killed more of the bugs last night. I found 4 of them. Bastards.

Anyway, since I was up and awake I paid my bills, and donated $100 to Bre’s Extra Life event that she has going on. She asked me a while ago to donate, and I’m sure she was only thinking that I would do $5 maybe $20. I know that blowing a hundred bucks isn’t all that ‘smart’ of me. But I feel like it is going to a good cause, so I don’t mind, even if I desperately want a new book bag now.

Knowing me, the book bag I would end up getting is like $60 to $80. I can make it two weeks. I’m most likely not going to go to Joey’s wedding to save the $300.

Maybe the money from John will come in soon, and it will be way more than what I am expecting and I’ll be able to do everything I want to do.

I have to get Scarlet up to date on her shots and stuff since I am going to be boarding her with Cleo when Mom and I go to Vegas in December. That’s going to be roughly $200. So between the cat and the book bag, that’s the trip to Joey’s wedding. Blah.

Well, back to the recap of my crazy productive day.

I paid everything, figured out how much I had for food, planned out my meals and made my shopping list. I went back to sleep until about 8:30 when I got up, made breakfast, organized my OmniFocus for the day, then showered. By then all of the places I wanted to go were open. Why they aren’t open at 1am is beyond me… But by 9:30 I was ready to tackle the day.

I stopped at the bank first to get laundry money, rent money, and the $20 of play money that I allot myself every paycheck.

After the bank I went to Jo Anne’s. I need DMC 310 (black) to finish off the Gem Stone Dragons that I have going on. I also needed to pick up three frames, which I did. It took forever to check out, like always. I really wish there was a better craft store near me. I don’t like going to the one on Colonial. : /

After I was finally able to escape from there I went next door to the Sports Authority. I’ve wanted a new armband for my phone for almost a year now. My old one was a cheap one from Walmart and it’s been dead for at least four months now. The Velcro is held one with staples, and the material is peeling because the stitching is coming out. It’s pretty ghetto.

I also think that it is made with something I am mildly allergic to. Whenever I wear it my arm starts burning, like chemical burning, after a little while. So I’ve never really been all that fond of it, especially when it started falling apart a month after I bought it.

This just goes to prove why I would rather spend more money on something of quality. It’s an investment. And with things that I use all the time, I would rather have something that will last.

So I spent a good fifteen minutes trying different armbands on. Moving around, flexing it out. I ended up going with a compression sleeve that has a pocket for iPhones. There is a flap that folds over the opening that has Velcro so the phone can be nice and snug against your arm, but you still have easy access to it if you want to change your song.

It’s mostly black, with red as an accent color, so it will match pretty much all of my stuff. Because matching is important when you work out… Not really, but I like having synergy.

So two major things that I’ve wanted to do, done. I got back in the car and drove to Publix where I did my shopping. And they have eggnog!!!! OMG! Totally bought a bottle. It’s the only thing that wasn’t on my list, so I’m proud of myself. By then I was getting pretty hungry.

I ran across the parking lot to Family Dollar to get more rubber ducks for graduation gifts, and then headed to CVS to get a packet of blank cards for graduation as well.

I had been talking with John (Jarrett’s roommate John. Not my brother. I’ll call him Mr. D to keep everyone straight) since yesterday about meeting up to get the money for this month’s expenses. He was cool with me coming over, so I ran home to put the groceries away, changed into work out cloths, then headed over to the apartment.

Jarrett answered the door. I’m pretty sure he had been asleep, but he was nice and let me in. I saw Mr. D, got the money, put the money in my car, then went running along the bike trail near the apartment.

I did 1-minute intervals today. I’ve been doing 30 second intervals for months now. I used to be at 2-minute intervals, but I keep slipping back. No longer. I don’t care if I can’t make it through all of the intervals yet. I need to work on my endurance more than my speed.

Today was gorgeous. Lots of sun, a nice breeze, and not too much humidity. I don’t think I did all that awesome. But my time was pretty good, and I felt worn out when I got back to my car, so maybe I’m just being hard on myself. I tried taking a picture of the trail once I had finished the run to post to RunKeeper, but it didn’t work.

Boooo…. How can I be tech / social savvy if my technology is plotting against me? ;-;

After driving back home, while drinking a ton of water (I’ve been doing really, really well with drinking more), I broke out the cross-stitchings that I wanted to frame.

One of them is completely done and ready to be shipped off. The one for Sam is fighting me though. Her cross-stitch fits a 5×5 frame, which was hard as heck to find. I really didn’t like the frame that I ended up getting because it was shinny silver. And of course when I got home and got the cross stitch mounted on the board and tried to get it in the frame the back wouldn’t go on because the board was too thick. Fuuuuuuuu….

So I have to take that frame back and figure something out. Maybe Walmart? Target didn’t have anything because they are lame.

The frame I got for my dad’s birthday present should work. I measured it out, and the back is pretty deep so I’m fairly confident with it.

The frames were all 50% off too, which was super awesome. I spent half as much money as I budgeted for, which was good because my armband was $10 over. I regret nothing.

So while all of that was going on Joshua came home. He cleaned the kitchen by sweeping and mopping since I got swifter wet wipes while I was at Publix. I’ve been yearning for those for a month now. <3 clean.

I asked him if there was anything I could do, and he said yeah, I could keep doing what I was doing. XD My roommate is awesome. We chatted for a bit, which was nice since we really don’t see each other ever.

He eventually went to his room and I kept on doing my cross stitching thing. I have a Photoshop file going where I have each of the individual Gem Stone Dragons surrounded by a boarder that I want to stitch around them. The boarder was just a rectangle of color, not an actual design, so I could get a feel for the dimensions. But now I sort of need to know what I want to stitch, so I spent an hour mapping that out on different layers, so I know what the Celtic design should look like. I played around with the spacing and everything so I’m pretty happy with the results.

Oh, when I got home yesterday I did cook. I had gotten the $45 from Jarrett finally. I sort of feel bad that I totally forget about all of this. I saw him very briefly because Frank and I were alternating taking a break, so he couldn’t eat until I came back. So I ran, got the money, ate super fast, then went back to lab.

Lab was a bit more than what I have been used to as far as questions go, and they were mostly questions that I didn’t know how to answer, which I think added to the headache I was fighting off.

Anywho, after lab I deposited the money at the ATM, went to Publix for milk and other stuff. After that I got gas! Oh my god I’ve been freaking out over running out of gas before today, and since I didn’t have money because I gave it to Jarrett I was totally worried about getting screwed and stranded.

But I have a full tank! Huzzah! And I figured that I normally don’t drive more than 10 miles in a day since I live so close to school now. That means that $25 fills my tank, roughly 320 miles. I can, in theory, go a whole month on one tank of gas…

I’m totally going to see if this works. It would be amazing if it does.

So when I got home yesterday I had stuff to cook. I wanted to do the San Francisco chops again, and I got pork loin from the meat section. It was already seasoned and had mozzarella cheese and stuff. It looked yummy, and I didn’t want to have chicken again.

I chopped up mushrooms and onion for both the chops and the pork loin, and cooked both of them. Joshua also has a block of Velveeta cheese that isn’t being used, so I got diced tomatoes and peppers, cooked some rice, used a can of pinto beans, and made a pretty hearty cheese dip to go with some chips that I bought.

So yeah, I guess I really didn’t go to sleep, right when I got home…. But 7pm is still pretty crazy early.

Oh. I also started reading about runes. I’ve had a book that I’ve wanted to go through for literally years. Like, while I was in high school, years. I haven’t finished Quiet yet, but I didn’t really want to listen to anything at 1am, so I picked up the book and started going through it.

I want to make my own set. It feels right and will be my next undertaking once I get my cross stitching back under control.

So, yeah. Fast forward back to today, I finished up the back stitching on my dad’s birthday present, and by then it was about time to get ready for work. I packed my lunch box, showered, got dressed and headed to work, which is when the bug disaster occurred.

So, doing really, really well. Just need to not freak out about my book bag.

It’s a good day. It’s a good day. It’s a good day.

In all honesty it is.

I saw Bre while I was walking into work; she was leaving. She was so happy and grateful about my donation. I’m so glad that I made her day. Apparently I helped her over achieve her goal. There was also a thank you video that played after I made the donation, which totally brought me to tears. It was extremely heartfelt.

I have a few things I want to get done while at work. Mostly printing things out. It would be good to finish off the 3D Blitz video, but I have more drive to work on the boarders of my projects than to finish that off.

I think I’m going to force myself to do it though. Get it done so it’s off the list for good.

So yeah… mostly just chillaxin’ now. All of the important stuff is done for the day, except the book bag destruction.

Maybe that’s something I can do real fast. Figure out some super awesome, bright colorful bag to buy online, so next paycheck I can order it. I wonder if there are purple computer bags…