December 22, 2015

I didn't get up early enough to go shopping before lunch but I did take a shower before lunch, so that's something. I also had time to fiddle with a cross stitch pattern. There is one I found and wanted to make that had inappropriate words in the shape of an ornament. It turned out to be the perfect size for a small hoop but I wanted to get rid of the top ornament part and make the words fill the whole circle. That required stretching the top up a bit and that was a little trickier than I originally thought. I had to make a circle on another layer in Gimp and just kept tweaking things so the words filled the whole circle. It took awhile but I'm pretty happy with the results. I even started playing with my own pattern based on the same idea, using another inappropriate word. After lunch I fixed the Christmas lights outside, which had started to sag in three or four places. Hopefully it'll hold out for another week or so.

When I was done with that I went to Jo-Ann's. I was able to get a few bundles of fabric, batting, and a couple more small hoops. I wanted to get four hoops but they only had two, so yeah.

The rest of my day was filled with watching things and playing Tera. I watched Elf, so I can check that off my list. I still need to watch more stuff before Christmas, though. I need to get on that. In Tera I leveled up a few times. I'm level 43 now, I think. Getting to level 41 from level 40 was a gimme because I got a thing for reaching level 40 that had enough XP to get me to 41. That was strange but I'll take it. I also discovered after I got two guild members to join me for a dungeon run that the bonds of friendship achievement has to be done with a single friend. So I have to reach 50 bonds of friendship with one friend, not total across all friends. That's kind of annoying because I blew past fifty today. I message one of the people I did the dungeon with today and let them know what was up and we agreed to try and go on dungeon runs whenever we're on at the same time. We're at 17 bonds now so that means four more dungeons. Dungeons are worth 10, so that'll put us over but I think it takes thirty minutes in a party to get a single bond, and I don't know if time in a dungeon counts. Guess we'll find out.

Tomorrow I am supposed to hang out with my friend in the afternoon and watch Dexter. We'll probably end up talking the whole time, which is what usually happens, but maybe we can make it through an episode or two. It is also Chipotle night. Sometime tomorrow, and definitely on Thursday, I need to wrap gifts. I have so much crap to wrap.

Now I'm going to bed. I'm freaking tired.