I woke up tired.

By the time I got home from work yesterday I was exhausted. It was so hard staying awake during the late lab. I got through all of chapter six reading and tried to complete the exercises, but my brain just didn’t have anything left to give.

I ended up looking at art on Pintrest for the last 40 minutes or so of lab because that was the most mental energy I had.

I took the quiz for my Art class and got an 84 on it. I made the flashcards for my new terms. I created individual print outs for the Gem Stone dragons, so I have two copies of December and January, since I need to do one for Mandi and Jace, but I want ones for my own collection.

I printed out my meal plan sheet and got that filled out so I know what to pack in my lunchbox for work on what days. Yay organization. I also printed out the pattern for Joey’s wedding gift, which I still haven’t figured out if I’m going or not. Arg.

Since I stitched the boarder around the Count Your Blessings cross stitch I went ahead and rescanned that while I was at the printer. I created an Image post on my blog for it, too, which is something I’m trying to keep up with.

Since I was blasting through so much yesterday I went ahead and started work on the 3D Blitz video. I got all of the slides created, and even got everything layered inside of After Effects correctly. Just need to get the opacity property set for the title slides and it’s good to render and post online.

Lab was good, quiet, so I was able to get through everything I wanted to. I remembered to put in for vacation time for December. I went to the store and used the credit card for the things I wanted. Spent roughly $30, which I think is good. That covers me for the whole week.

I listened to two chapters in Quiet, which is a book I’ve been trying to get through for the past year or so. I stitched while listening to it, which I think is my new thing. I like it. I figured since I’ve listened to a pleasure book with Curse of the Titans that it would be good to listen to a ‘personal development’ book. I like the idea of compromising like that.

There’s a book about Buddhism I want to get that’s roughly $10. Maybe that will be the next one I work through.

I cooked yesterday, too. Balsamic slow cooker chicken with rice and a side salad. I am going to do the San Francisco chops again with mashed potatoes and green beans, so I need to cook the meat either today or tomorrow.

Today, like I said I woke up tired, around 9am. I got up instead of going back to sleep though so I could get laundry done. Jarrett still hasn’t gotten paid yet, so I had to go to the bank to withdrawal money for laundry. I’m pretty tired of people owing me money. Rather, I’m tired of loaning about money and not getting paid back. One day I’ll learn not to lend it out.

Anyway, after accepting that I’m still broke, I went to the laundry mat got that going, and sat down to listen to my video lectures for this week. It was mostly about photography, which was fascinating. I never realized how extensive it’s evolution was and how many different avenues were explored.

I wasn’t able to finish all of the videos while at the laundry mat but I got through most of them. When I went to put my cloths in the drier a lady was finishing up taking her cloths out and offered for me to use the rest of the time that was still on her machines; roughly 10 minutes on two which was perfect since I wash and try my cloths and bedding separately.

So I only had to spend about $4 to get my laundry done. I know that saving a buck really isn’t a big deal, but it totally made my day. I thanked her twice.

When I came back home I got to talk to Joshua. We’ve both been busy with work / school but honestly we don’t have much to talk about. Not that we’re boring people, we’re just caught up doing our own thing. We work, we come home, we go to sleep. Nothing to really talk about.

We did talk about the Christmas break, which is coming up. He’s going to be flying home as a graduation present. I told him about not being home for a month, and that Cleo would most likely be coming back home with me when I returned. He was cool with that. I also told him that Scarlet was going to be going home with me to be boarded with Cleo when I go out to Vegas. So everything there is squared away. John already bought my ticket.

Oh, he also bought my krienik thread so that should be coming in any day. Literally. Totally can’t wait to get some of my dragons done. Friday I get to buy the 310 thread I need to finish off the other Gem Stone Dragons, too. Lots of completion in the future.

While I was finishing off my video lectures I got a notification that my Visual Art Tour assignment was graded as an F. Of course I freaked out since I know that I submitted that assignment on time and I thought I did a pretty decent job on it.

I messaged the instructor and we found out that the system glitched on me, and she let me resubmit the file for grading, which I got a 100 on. Huzzah! She said if there was anything I wanted more information on to let her know, so I asked if she had any references she would recommend for the Arts and Crafts movement and the Art Nouveau movement since I haven’t really started researching into those things on my own.

Not a whole lot has happened since then. I am having to fight off a headache right now, which is going to limit me on what I get done today. I don’t have much drive to do anything other than go back to sleep, which sounds like an amazing idea.

I still have to put my cloths away and stuff, but yeah. I think sleep is going to happen first.

I’ve been drinking a lot of water over the past two days, but maybe I need to increase my intake still. I’ve gotten up to roughly two bottles a day. I need to be closer to six. So there’s still a ways to go. x.x Something is better than nothing though.

I didn’t workout yesterday, but with all of the running around that I did, I don’t know if I would have been able to make it through lab if I had. And today I’m so tired that I think I would face plant on the floor if I tried to do a downwards dog…

My goal is to make it through these four hours of SAL before going home to sleep.

2 more hours to go. I can do this.

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 6^th or 7^th and fly out together on the 8^th. 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.

Yesterday was a busy day. I started cleaning up the computer for John so I can mail that over to him. Not sure if I wrote about that because I can’t remember half the things I do, hence the journals. But basically John is buying my old laptop and because of that I wanted to make sure it was cleaned up for him.

It is –still- deleting files. I secure empty the trash, which goes through and legit puts zeros on the hard disk, so it’s been going literally most of yesterday, and all night. Only 1000 more files to go.

I would like to get that mailed off today, but we’ll see what happens.

I played with Seth a bit which is the first time in a while that I’ve done that. He was surprisingly chill and I feel that we got some good bonding time in. I’ve never been close with Seth because I felt he was more Warren’s snake than mine. At least I associate him very strongly with Warren. I’m trying to alter that, and I think yesterday was a good first step.

I cleaned his tank up so I’m sure he’s happy about that.

I had lunch with Grace since she is in town again. She doesn’t know when she will be back. Things are going well in her corner and it was great to spend time with her.

I got through most of the exercises in chapter five. Only one more to do, which that one is only altering the previous exercise slightly. I ran out of time to do it before work, and then work was all sorts of crazy so I wasn’t able to do it there.

I had to go in a little bit early because yesterday was the PROPS ceremony. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I got my certificate and a bunch of pictures taken so I should have those before too long. Apparently I was in the top 10% of my department since those were the only people who got awards.

It’s crazy to think of it that way. I mean, I know that I do stuff, and I know that part of me does want my time and effort to be acknowledged, but at the same time, that’s not why I do the things I do, and part of me feels bad and awkward for receiving the award.

Knowing that people care about the things I do sort of gives me a charge though. It’s nice to know that people see me, my actions, and think that I’m doing a good enough job to say something about it. It makes it feel worth it. It’s not unnoticed.

And I guess really it’s more the students that I should thank because if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t do the things that got me recognized. I do everything I do because I know when I was a student, I wanted these things and no one was doing them. I thought it would be worth it and would have loved it if someone took the time to invest in me. I do it because they’re awesome and deserve the time and effort I give them.

Sadly after PROPS I had to go to lab. I was so fried. Between the social dinner with Sammi and Josh, lunch with Grace, and then the ceremony the only thing I wanted to do was curl up under a rock and have the world fall over and die. Or at least not bother me.

Instead I had to go to lab and deal with Mr. Hand Holdy, though he wasn’t all that bad last night.

Bre was super awesome and brought me a plate of strawberries and was talking about how she was so bad that I had to come to lab, and how it wasn’t right. I love Bre so much. She’s always in my corner.

I still had my discussion post for my Art History class to rush through, which actually came out pretty well. I’m happy with it at least. Just would have liked to have not been so stressed over it while I was writing.

John is going to be taking leave from December 8^th – 19^th. I think I wrote about that since that was super early yesterday morning. I talked to mom and we’re going to try to figure out a way for us to travel together.

I’m short 3 days worth of vacation time to take off right at the 8^th. I emailed Clavan to see if there was a way I could get those 3 days or if it would be taken from my pay. I really want to take both weeks off. And I’m pretty sure the 19^th is when winter break starts, so basically I would have a whole month off. I don’t know what I would do with myself if I had that much time away from work and school. x.x

I think I got the boarder figured out for the Gem Stone dragons. I’m going to be stitching a boarder around Sam’s cross stitch first though, since I want to give that to her before too long.

I had the flake steak with garlic toast for dinner, which was fantastic. I also watched the first two episodes of the new season of Korra. It’s soooooo mind-blowingly amazingly good. So angsty over there only being two episodes out.

I also started trying to figure out how to get to North Carolina for Joey’s wedding. It looks like I can do the trip for roughly $300. I would be taking the train, that way I don’t have to worry about driving. There’s a hotel about two miles from the bus station that I would be taken to from the train station, which to me is walking distance, especially since I only plan on having my book bag with me. And the hotel is only about a 5 minute car ride from the church.

So I think I’m going to do it.

I also talked to Rob since he lives in Raleigh. He said to keep him posted so we can try to do lunch or something. When I mentioned that I wouldn’t have a car he said that since I did all of the driving last time that it was only fair that he drove this time. It’s so awesome to still be able to consider him such a friend even though we haven’t really kept in touch on the day-to-day level of our lives. I really hope I am able to see him. That would make the trip totally worth it.

So a lot of happenings the past few days, which means I’m pretty spent.

Today is SAL, and I’m hoping that it is quiet. I need some space. I plan on doing a bunch of nothing aside from some cross-stitching right now. Go to work. Come back and continue doing a bunch of nothing. Most likely sleep super early because I’m drained.

I know I should work out. My legs are getting sore because of the acid build up, but I really, really don’t want to. Normally I’m good about motivating myself, but I think I need a legit down day.

There’s still a bunch of emotions to get through this week. Sammi and Josh leave soon so that’s going to suck, and honestly I don’t want to think about it right now. I know that’s going to be rough.

I’m going to finish off chapter 5 and get through chapter six in my programming book while I’m at work hopefully. While I’m stitching right now I might listen to chapter 18 in my art book so I can say I did something for school, and as far as personal tasks I’m just going to take it as I feel like it.

I woke up and had breakfast. I think I’m doing pretty awesome today already. Anything I do on top of that is just solidifying the notion that I’m a bawce. Away I go to do nothing. : D

I feel like I really should get back into the habit of writing these things at night, that way all of the events are still fresh inside my head. Sometimes, like right now, yesterday morning feels so far away that I literally have to stop and take a few minutes to remember what I had for breakfast.

Which I’m glad to say was the oatmeal bake. I’m patting myself on the back for remembering that.

After eating I got all of the laundry together and took care of that. While at the laundry mat I started watching all of the video lectures that I have this week for my art class. I got through all of them between the wash / dry cycles.

There was one resource that was an interview of Salvadro Dali. That was so mind-blowingly interesting. It reminded me of myself. Most people can see an action or hear a phrase and only take it at its face value, but if you ask the artist there is much deeper meaning, and once you know that meaning it changes your entire way of thinking.

Like one of the things Dali said was he likes weakness; how he is fascinated by it. When asked why he said because everything is made up of weakness. The very act of our bodies forming, of breathing, everything in the world is weakness. It is the exchange of electrons between different atoms, and this exchange is what creates the universe, and it happens because the electrons are too weak to resist the attraction of the other atom.

How amazing is that? I’ve never thought of it that way, but he’s so true. Maybe I get it because I’m a nerd, and into sciencey stuff like that, but am whole brained enough to see the art and beauty to it as well. He seemed like an amazing person. Maybe not someone I would be super amazing friends with, but someone I would respect and admire. I have a new appreciation for his art, that’s for sure.

I wasn’t able to finish that video at the laundry mat, though. I got about halfway through before the laundry was done. I took all the cloths back home and put everything away; go me. Once that was done I had enough time to throw lunch into my lunchbox and head to school.

It was SAL so it was good work time. I met with a guy who is doing the rigging art test. He had some questions about the code he was trying to do, so we got to talk a bit about variables and how to rename objects in Maya.

It was awesome. He took pictures of the white board as I was writing stuff, which made me feel good. It’s like taking notes, but smarter. I think he is going to do well. If he is already reaching out that means we’ll be able to push him further and strengthen the areas he is struggling with.

I finished off the Dali video during that lab, and also read through chapter 5 in my programming book, but didn’t have time to start any of the chapter exercises.

Anthony called me and had a rigging question as well. We ended up talking through the scene he was trying to make for the Riot Challenge. He’s doing VFX, and I’m pretty sure he’s going to do alright. He usually pulls it off.

By that time lab was over, so I packed up, clocked out, and headed back home.

I took out the rest of the stitching I did on the November Dragon. Not sure if I wrote about that, so a brief recap. I’m trying to stitch a boarder around it. The first one I didn’t really like, so I took it out. I tried a new one that I like better, but I don’t feel like it is centered. Sigh.

I didn’t have Internet because of the storm. Oh, by the way, it stormed pretty extensively today. I didn’t want to go into Joshua’s room to reset the router, so I sort of gave up on the dragon for the night.

I had plans to take Jarrett to Walmart and to pick up the rest of the bill money, so I didn’t really have time to start much of anything, or the motivation, so I ended up chilling in bed and resting.

I was feeling pretty introverted, and I think the down time really helped me get through the night. I was tired, both mentally and physically.

I ended up picking Jarrett up around 8:30. I was worried it would be awkward, or sexually charged, or confrontation, or any number of not-cool things. Surprising it was fantastic though. We got to talk about random stuff, and joked around. He had a list of everything he needed to get so we didn’t waste any time, and he gave me the money that was owed.

Earlier in the day I received an email from Duke about this months bill total and due date, which I sent to both John and Jarrett, and they both have already gotten back to me about that amount as well, which isn’t due until 11/04. So I’m feeling a lot better about the bills.

After dropping Jarrett off at the apartment I headed back out to have dinner with Sammi and Josh. It was their going away, last supper gathering, and I wanted to be there for them.

I thought it would be awkward and hard seeing Sir again. But it wasn’t. I really felt nothing. I don’t think it was because I was throwing up walls or anything. I really think it is just that I seriously have moved on. We came to a cross roads, and I didn’t want to go down the path he wanted, so now we’re on different paths. I don’t have hard feelings. I don’t have anger or resentment. I don’t really have anything except polite friendliness. Distance yeah, but not in a negative way. More in a “I understand why you wanted what you wanted. Sorry I couldn’t give that to you,” sort of way. Acceptance I guess?

I left everything related to Sir at our crossroads. Any baggage that I might have taken from him, any negativity from my past is where it should be; in the past.

He looked older. He looked tired. Even if I knew nothing about him I would have gotten the sense of defeat. I don’t know what he plans on doing, but I hope whatever it is that it works out for him. I hope he finds himself soon, because I think that’s what he has truly lost, or maybe that’s what he never had.

Anyway, I was super hungry so I shared nachos with Sammi and Josh, and still got a sandwich. I met a bunch of Sammi’s friends and had a pretty awesome night despite being surrounded by strangers.

The conversation was good and engaging and everyone was friendly.

Things started winding down around 2. After I got home I totally passed out. Like, I didn’t even turn the lights off I was so tired. I woke up around 6 am to do that, but went right back to sleep for another couple of hours.

I woke up to my phone going off. John was messaging me saying that he was putting in for leave, and has December 8^th to the 19^th off. 10 days. I only have 7 days worth of vacation time, so I emailed Clavan to see if there was anything I could do to get the other three days to be with my family.

I’m waiting to hear back from him. If I can’t get the extra time then I’ll figure out something. So that’s in the works and I’m totally stoked.

I have to keep in mind that Joey is getting married in November, but that’s on a weekend so I should be able to swing it to not have to take time off.

Nothing else has really happened yet since it is still so early.

No word from Mr. Freelance. Boooo.

I’m cooking the flank steak right now. The timer actually just went off, so check that off the to do list finally. I’ve had breakfast and taken my vitamin. Not sure if I am going to do much working out today. Maybe yoga. Still super tired, and today is 5pm to 1am. Maybe nap time, though every time I type that it never happens.

I want to do the exercises for my programming book, and the discussion post is due today.

Not sure what my personal tasks are going to be yet, but I have school and work covered, so I feel good about that.

Going to go for now so I can take the food out of the oven and go back to being a slacker.

I made it through pretty much all of my to-do list yesterday. Which was so hardcore sweet I can’t even put it into words.

I got everything cooked except for the flank steaks, which I’m doing when I get home tonight. There were a few minor things like cleaning up my water filter, and putting some thread away that I didn’t get to, but they were so small compared to the giant list that I did magange to get through that I don’t feel bad about three little things.

I finished up chapter 4 in my programming book, and I mapped out what I need to do for my school assignments.

I prepped 4 new cross stitch projects, but these are super tiny projects compaired to the ones I have been doing. These are ones I can finish in less than a day. In less than 3 hours for one of them since I already completed it. I plan for it to be a gift to one of my students since she is going through a rough time.

I made my flash cards for my new design terms, as well. On top of that I looked at making an AIGA account (American Institute of Graphic Design), but that’s more of a membership thing, and I currently don’t have the $150 to get the level of account I need. The bare bones level is $50, which is still a bit much at the moment. So that task is on the waiting list for right now, but I did look into it, so I’m happy.

I sent Jin the beetle rig file from Tre, so he can play around with that. And I responded to all of my messages that I’ve been slacking on due to introversion. So all of my school and work tasks got done.

I took out all of the trash that I had been piling up from unpacking. I went through my ‘in’ box and put pretty much everything away. There’s still things I want to hang, like the cards my mom sends me, and I want to go through my art and toss some of that stuff. I still had the box that the bookcase came in too that needed to go.

I had to go to the store for milk and coffee creamer so while I was out I picked up my shirt for the Props ceremony.

Oh, which reminds me, my day started off by going to the gym even though I thought hardcore about not going. But I totally did it and I think that’s one of the reasons my day went so well.

Lab went well. Nothing exciting or new there. Mr. Hand-Holdy made a comment to David as he was leaving about how I only cross stitch in lab. It took a lot to not say anything. I do a lot more than cross stitch. I do homework, and update files, and respond to emails, and set up appointments, and answer questions that students already have the answers to, and tons of other things.

And even if I didn’t do anything, what does it matter what I am doing as long as I answer the questions you have when you need my help? Would it be different if I were creating a watercolor image, or sculpting something with clay? Is it because I am stitching that it is ‘an inappropriate use of my time’?

Since the things I stitch are going to be displayed in an art show, I think it is a perfectly good use of my time. Arg.

Stuff like that bothers me. But then his personality in general bothers me. I’m trying to not let it eat at me, but obviously it is still floating around disturbing my inner peace. I really am not going to miss this guy once he’s out of the class.

After work I came home, ate, did dishes, and listened to another 3 chapters in the Percy Jackson book. I finished stitching the November dragon and poked around to see if there was a boarder I could stitch around it. I found one I thought would work and tried it out, but the more I did the less I liked it. Just didn’t jive with the dragon, so I took most of it out before going to sleep.

Still have a little bit left to undo, but I found another boarder that I think will work better. Going to try that out at some point.

Today is a little broken up. I have to do laundry which is my main thing for today. I have lab at 1pm until 5pm. Jarrett is supposed to give me the rest of the money, and also wants a ride to Walmart. I think I can manage that as long as he’s not a jerk.

I have dinner with Sammi and Josh at 10:15, so there are little random bits of time throughout my day, but nothing super solid where I could really get a project done.

I’m going to do my video training for school while at the laundry like I’ve been doing. I’m going to try to get through chapter 5 in my programing book while at school.

Since I’m going to have to wait for Jarrett to get home I was going to try to cook the flank steaks after work, and maybe stitch a bit more.

Sort of a slow day, really. Maybe yoga will find it’s way in there, but since I’ve worked out really well the past few days I was thinking about today being a rest day. Hang out days are my ‘days off’ anyway, so it seemed fitting.

I aught to get the computer ready to send to John too.

Well nothing is going to get done if I keep sitting here, including eating breakfast, which is growing cold as I type this. Off and away.

So this is going to be super short and sweet since I’m tired. I’ll do my weekly recap tomorrow.

Today was 12 hours worth of homework. Got everything done though, including the optional reading.

Went running because I was couped up inside in front of the computer all day. It was an alright run, legs were still sore from running at Lake Underhill, but I did it, so go me.

I bought steak at the grocery store the other day so that’s what I had for dinner last night, breakfast this morning, and dinner tonight. It was a big steak. And tasty, and rare. Nom.

I was supposed to talk to the guy today about freelance, but he never replied to me. Which is cool, I get it. It’s a Sunday / day off for him. I’m going to message him tomorrow to see if that goes anywhere.

John is going to buy my MacBook from me which is awesome. I hope he goes for $200 instead of the $100. It comes with a bunch of software, so I feel it’s worth it in that regard.

Almost done with the November Gemstone Dragon. Just have the bottom left claw to stich and outline. That should be done tomorrow. The Dragon of Earth is as done as I can get it with not having the final thread that I need.

Got through all of my chores except for the cooking stuff and vacuuming, which I’m going to do tomorrow since I don’t go into work until 5. I actually need to go in a bit earlier so I can pick up my shirt. Hmmm… I’ll have to remember that.

Brushed Scarlet, who is currently sleeping next to me.

Grace is going to be back in down from Monday to Thrusday, so we’re going to try to hang out again.

And that’s about it.

Oh. I downloaded The Hunger Games trilogy, along with the Percy Jackson books. Their the audio books because I’ve really taken to listening to books while I stitch. I got through the first 3 chapters of the 3^rd book in the Percy Jackson series.

Sir and I read the first two together and I really enjoyed the story, so I wanted to finish off the series. I thought it would be painful to do since it was something we shared, but it’s not. And I’m ok with that.

So that’s it. Promise. Totally going to go pass out now.