July 18, 2013

Holy crap, I actually exercised this morning. And it felt great. I really need to do it every day. What was not great, was remembering that I needed to be at work an hour earlier than I previously thought because I forgot we had a kids show today. I got used to the past few weeks where it was at the same time as our first regular show, so I was going to work at the same time every day, not an hour early on Thursdays. Whoops. I remembered right as I was getting out of the shower and thankfully I give myself enough time in the morning so I was able to get to work in time to start the kids shows. Even if I only had five minutes to spare.

We had a lot more kids than usual thanks to several bus loads of Boys & Girls Club kids. While I was talking to one of the managers one of the little girls came up to us and started giving me a funny stare, which I returned in kind. She was a third grader last year that moved to a different school about halfway through the year. She recognized me and I remembered her because she looks a lot like what my friend's sister looked like when she was younger. It was a pretty funny moment.

My day was the same as yesterday. I listened to the radio while switching off between reading and cross stitching. I have probably passed the halfway point on the fourth letter of my cross stitch. Slowly but surely. I also hit 50% on Under The Dome. Only eighteen hours to go. I have only read one other Stephen King book, Dreamcatcher, and I liked it, and I am really getting into Under The Dome, so I should probably read more Stephen King books. They are quite the commitment though. I remember Dreamcatcher being a long book, Under The Dome is one thousand pages, and I have always wanted to read Tommyknockers but I remember seeing that in a stack of books at my dad's house when I was little and it was also pretty thick. I have a collection of scary short stories by Stephen King that I got at a library sale awhile ago so maybe that would be a good start. Low commitment. But first, I've still got eighteen hours left in Under The Dome. The best two things I read today was a Laurel And Hardy reference and one of the characters saying “He's acting like Chief Big Dick of Horny Mountain.” That is pretty great.

After work I ate the second half of my Chipotle burrito and eventually called the new volunteer kid to see if we were going to hang out. Which we were not because he had chores to do and a house to paint. I asked him about the progress on getting his birth certificate and his case worker has submitted a request to get one. The kid tried calling his dad to see if he had the birth certificate but he didn't answer. Maybe he just doesn't answer numbers he doesn't recognize.

With my night free, I was unproductive. Sort of. I watched YouTube videos and played my new favorite tablet game, Hill Climb Racing. I maxed out the jeep a day or two ago and today I managed to unlock and fully upgrade the tank, which is the best vehicle. In my opinion, only having tried the jeep and a double-decker tourist bus before the tank. I found out using the tank on the moon level is the easiest way to rack up points because I can get between 80,000 and 100,000 points per run. Until tonight when I was having very successful runs on the highway level, get over 1,000,000 points per run. I haven't actually timed it so it might be faster doing shorter moon runs, but it is way more satisfying getting 1,000,000 points.