Wednesday, December 30, 2015

December 29, 2015

Last night I put the new sheets on my bed and pillowcases on pillows. I got them for Christmas and they are kind of a fleece-like material. And they are really nice. The night before last my feet got really cold and it woke me up. Last night I was perfectly warm and comfy the whole time. I'm a fan.

When I woke up I read from a couple different books and then had lunch. This afternoon I practiced on my sewing machine again. Everything is still working, so I can only conclude that it was in fact loose bobbin thread that was giving me so much grief yesterday. Today I continued working on straight lines but I also worked on starting and stopping exactly where I wanted to on the fabric. My technique for stopping is to run it until it is close to the end and then manually turning the wheel to stitch the last few stitches. It's working out pretty well. Along with getting better overall, my main concern is getting better with the foot pedal. It is still zero to a hundred most of the time. It feels like I am pressing it down as slowly as possible and then it hits the magic spot and just takes off on me. I'm getting a little better at predicting this and then backing off enough that it slows down but doesn't completely stop. Practice makes better.

Along with doing laundry and helping my mom set up her new gadget, I played Tera tonight. I ended up getting in a party pretty quickly with a random person from Brazil and we ended up running together most of the night. Their English was way better than my Portuguese (not counting the fact that I don't speak Portuguese). They said they had been an exchange student in Wisconsin and that have given them the chance to practice. That's pretty cool. We went through several quests and ran through a dungeon twice and managed to get our bonds of friendship up to 26. They plan on being on tomorrow so hopefully we can party up again and hit a few more dungeons. None of my other friends have been online and this new one seems to be my best chance at the moment to get to 50 bonds of friendship and getting the Moon mount. It is my final achievement and I only have a couple weeks to get it. Which sounds like a long time to run through five dungeons with the same person but I'm trying to do it with completely random strangers who I have no communication with outside of the game. I'm definitely earning this mount. And hopefully it ends with me getting the mount.


Soon I will be going to bed so I can wake up and read and sew and do whatever else. It kind of sucks that tomorrow is already Wednesday. This week is disappearing and soon I will have to go back to work. And school. I still need to check on that and look into ordering my textbooks. Hooray.

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