December 19, 2015

I forgot to mention that the new sixth grade teacher gave me a pear yesterday. She said people give apples to teacher and she thought a pear would be just as good. I thought that was pretty funny. I tried eating it with my dinner but it turns out I apparently don't like pears unless they are from a can. The mixed texture of the skin and the inside fruit was very off-putting.

I woke up this morning and read a book for a couple hours. A book for fun, not a textbook. That is not a bad way to start the day. This afternoon I put the Batman owl in a hoop, finally. I also researched sewing machines. In the past when I was looking I had the idea of getting a more expensive one, at least around $150, because I figured I might as well. But I also don't want to spend that kind of money and then end up never really using it. Now I'm looking at less expensive models, ones aimed at beginners. Beginners who always seem to be little girls, at least according to the reviews. I narrowed it down to a Brother and a Singer and I think I'm going to go with the Brother because I have seen more positive and less negative things said about it, relative to the Singer. Even though I like the look of the Singer better. The gift cards I got will cover the price of the sewing machine. So in theory I could get the more expensive one for the price of the cheaper one if I wanted to spend more of my own money. I could also wait a little bit because I think my dad is also going to give me a gift card. But again, I don't really want to go all out if I don't end up sticking with it.

I'm going to do some more research but I might buy it tomorrow. I think it would be cool if I got it early enough that I could make drink coasters as thank you gifts to the people who gave me gifts, like the kindergarten teachers and librarian who are basically paying for the sewing machine, one of the ladies in the kitchen for the really good zucchini bread she made me, and the parents of one of the third graders who have given me a small gift every year. The dad works for the district and he is very nice and well respected. It would be nice to give something back. And to learn how to sew in the process.

Tonight I played Tera. I'm still enjoying it. Tonight I leveled up at least a couple times thanks to a major focus on the main story quests. I also did a couple dungeon runs. The first with one of my guild members and we almost died because it was a five-person dungeon and it was just us without a healer. But we both survived and I got ten bonds of friendship for it. I only need about twenty more, which could be a single dungeon if I could get two guild members to join. I also discovered that to get the achievement for clearing ten dungeons, it does in fact need to be through random matching. None of the dungeons I have done with my guild members have counted. But the one I did through instance matching tonight did count. So now I need to do nine more. I am also high enough level now to try the arena battleground thing, which I need to win three times. I vaguely remember trying it once with my other character and I don't think it went well. I had no idea what was going on or what I was supposed to be doing and I think I just died a lot, when I wasn't lost. Hopefully it goes better this time. Or I at least get put on the winning team a few times.

Now I'm going to go to bed because it is late and sleep would be nice. Tomorrow I would like to cross stitch some Minions for my mom. I made the pattern today based on a pattern I found online. I don't think I'm going to record it but I may get the Batman owl video put together and get that rendering while I work on the Minions.