December 11, 2016

 Today was a good day. I woke up early, which was kind of annoying, but it allowed me to do more things. I spent my morning reading in bed. I finished a book about the history behind A Charlie Brown Christmas. It was an interesting book and I learned (or was reminded) that the term 'security blanket' was coined by Charles Schulz in referring to Linus' blanket. I also read from a few other books. When I had read enough I watched A Charlie Brown Christmas. Still great. Afterward while crocheting I listened to the soundtrack a few times.

Speaking of, throughout the day I continued work on the amigurumi robot. It took me all day to finish the body. It was a lot of crocheting and my hands aren't a fan of extended crocheting sessions. But I got the body done so now I just need to make the ears, arms, and legs. It's a larger project than I originally intended, both in the size of the robot and in the length of time it is taking me. I found a video for a smaller bear and I think I might take the pattern for that body and add on the robot appendages and see if I cut the time down a little bit.

I continued looking through the digital magazine subscription for work. There are so many magazines. We're only going to start with a handful of them but hopefully there will be one or two I'm interested in. I also want to start checking out some of the physical magazines we already have at the library. We're already paying for them and I'll be able to knock out a magazine much faster than a book, which I currently have a stack of.

Tonight I took a little break from crocheting and while I ate dinner I watched the movie Spectral projected up on my living room wall. I haven't used my projector in awhile but tonight I was in the mood for an action movie. So I threw it up on my wall and put my headphones on so I could turn it up loud. Spectral is an original Netflix movie and it was pretty good. I was kind of annoyed by the suits they were wearing at the end. Not only because I think they were supposed to just be thrown together, even though they looked like a lot of time went into designing them, but also because there were high-tech mask things that they started off wearing, and some continued to wear, while others opened them up. There was a lack of continuity. I still enjoyed the movie, for the most part.

After the movie I washed a few dishes, refilled my daily fountain pen, read a little more, finished crocheting the robot body, and watched some YouTube videos. So, all-in-all, it was a good day. It was productive, I got to do all the things I wanted to, and I just got to relax at home. I could use more days like this.