August 31, 2013

Not a lot to write about today. I went to Target to get a birthday card for my dad and gum. Then I went across town to Staples to see if they had keyboard wrist rests, because Target only had them on mouse pads, but Staples also failed me. They did have a 32GB thumb drive that was was more like a thumbnail drive. It was unbelievably small and was only as big as it was because it needed to have the usb connector. That will be a tempting upgrade for the one that I put music on for my car. I think that one is “only” 8GB, maybe 16GB. But I don't see the need to upgrade until the one I have craps out.

I exercised for real today and I am going to feel it in the morning. I am so out of shape. But I want today to be the beginning of my daily exercising again. Despite my laziness and lack of motivation, I do miss exercising so hopefully I can get back into it. And start eating better.

When I was sitting at work today I kept smelling a very girly smell and I couldn't figure it out. Until I remembered that the soap I used to wash my hands before heading to work was from Bath & Body Works and smelled very girly. When I wasn't solving mysteries, I read more in my book and worked on my cross stitch. And I worked on my cross stitch enough to actually finish it. It feels so good to finally be done with it. At least the stitching part. I still need to figuring out the mounting and framing aspect of it but I've got time for that. In order to finish it tonight I stayed a little bit later than I needed to because the manager said I could go home whenever I wanted but I was so close to the end that I stayed to finish it. I still got out about fifteen minutes early which was nice.

And with that, I am going to call August good. I have written more pages this month than I have in quite awhile. I usually only barely break even, if at all, in terms of number of pages and number of days in a month. This month I am just over thirty-eight single-spaced pages and somewhere over 28,200 words. That might even be a record. August has been a big month. But I have constantly had the urge to type 'July' when writing the date for each entry so we'll see if I can fully embrace the writing of 'September' in the coming weeks.