December 11, 2013

Despite today being an early-release day, I was able to make decent progress on the storybooks. I only have half a book left. And then I have to go back into serious editing mode, making everything look nice before turning them into PDFs. I'm getting there.

Other than the storybooks, I didn't really have much going on today. I gave a spelling test to a group of second graders, helped out with kindergarten literacy centers, and had second grade reading groups. All went relatively well.

After work I thought I would try and figure out the DVR situation but instead I watched the Yogscast livestream and worked on the crocheted potholders I am making for the white elephant thing at the work party on Friday. On the livestream they were reading a choose-your-own-adventure book from the 80s, one of the grownup ones, not like the ones I used to read as a kid. It kind of reminded me of the text-based RPG games like Zork. Lewis played the role of the dungeon master, reading the story, while Simon was the adventurer. It also involved rolling dice kind of like D&D. And they had another guy on the stream, Teutron, who was drawing the adventure on the screen as they went. So the people and things they encountered, and a map as they went along. It was very cool.

Chipotle tonight was good. When I was ordering the quesadilla for my mom they thought I asked for a quesarito, which is apparently a thing. My guess was a burrito inside a quesadilla, and according to the internet that is pretty much it. As for my burrito, delicious. Taking the week off last week made my heart grow fonder. We also used the Chromecast for the first time and it worked wonderfully. I only had a couple YouTube videos to show but we also watched a little bit of the Yogscast livestream.

And the rest of my night was spent watching YouTube videos, crocheting a potholder off and on (making it about halfway through), and playing a bit of Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I paid a bunch of my home loan off but I still have 18,000 bells to go. It would be nice to have more than one room. I think a fully upgraded house has four but that is still a long way off. I also made my first snowman. Or snowmama to be more precise. You pay her in snowflakes to get ice furniture. That's a thing.