May 12, 2017

 It is eleven o'clock and I am tired. I will definitely be sleeping in tomorrow.

This morning I woke up earlier than normal so I could go to Staples before work. I got there at almost the exact time I predicted. I found the time stamp fairly quickly and had some time to kill so I looked at all their different pens and pencils. They had the auto-rotating mechanical pencil I've been looking at but not the color I wanted. It was nice getting to see the size of it in real life. They didn't have the fountain pens I was interested in, which was unfortunate, but I wasn't going to buy any so it wasn't much of a loss. When I got back out to my car I wrapped the stamp and ink pad in one of the many grocery store ads I have gotten in the mail, and then headed to the library.

This morning it was just me and the librarian who's leaving until eleven o'clock. And it was relatively busy, not so much in person but the phone seemed like it was ringing on a regular basis. I was eventually able to give her the stamp, which she was really excited about, which made me glad I decided to go buy one this morning. I also had her sign my autograph book.

Throughout the day I worked on my homebound stuff, and made some decent progress, but I'll be honest, I spent most of my day talking to the librarian who's leaving. One of my favorite things about working at the library is talking with this librarian. We cover so many varying topics and even when we dip into serious things there are always a lot of laughs. She also has a lot more library experience than I do and gave me a lot of good advice, insight, and perspective. So it's going to suck not having that to look forward to every day. But we at least got to end on a high note because we talked for so long and went on so many tangents today. It was pretty great.

This afternoon we had her going away party in the boardroom. I was there for the first twenty minutes and the last twenty minutes because I had to cover the desk during the middle twenty minutes. People from various departments popped in throughout to say their goodbyes and just hangout and talk. It was pretty fun. I also liked that it wasn't depressing. The mood stayed light which made it easier to deal with.

For the last hour of the day I was on desk and worked on homebound stuff and talked with my boss, because we were the only two people there. I also actually had my one year evaluation when I got back from lunch, which I just remembered. It was uneventful.

After work I went home and the Blue Apron box was on my porch. I wanted to finish the last of my leftovers so I didn't cook any of the meals tonight but I did pull everything out and put it in my fridge. I'm pretty excited to try them To go along with my leftover rice/quinoa and roasted vegetables I also scrambled the last of my eggs and mixed them in, which I think was a wise choice. (I just tried to spell wise with a 'z'. I'm tired).

With the rest of my night I watched YouTube videos, clicked around the internet, and continued to work on my JetPens order. I want to get some more Platinum Preppy fountain pens, try out some bigger than fine nibs, and I want to spend twenty-five dollars so I can get free shipping. With my original order I can close and found out that shipping would be around five dollars. So I could spent twenty dollars and five dollars on shipping, or I could spend five more dollars and not may anything for shipping. I was going to be spending that five dollars either way but I thought it made more sense to get something out of it. I just haven't been able to find something else to add. I've also taken a couple things out of my order, and I don't know that I want the mechanical pencil, so now I'm up to needing to spend ten dollars. By the end of the night I was thinking about a new color of ink but haven't been able to settle on one. The search continues.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to sleep. I'm looking forward to the second part of that sentence.