May 21, 2017

 This morning I woke up and read in bed. I like that with my queen-size bed I am able to sleep with books in my bed. The last two days I also had my Bluetooth speaker next to my pillow. It's pretty convenient. Anyway, this morning I finished reading Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire. I liked it. It got pretty dark, which I wasn't necessarily a fan of, but it was an interesting story. It is apparently going to be a trilogy and the next book comes out in June, which I have already put on hold. One of my favorite things about the book is that it is so short. I was able to read it fairly quickly and it is nice to finally finish a book that I have checked out.

After I finished the book I ironed my pants for the coming week, ran on the elliptical for a little bit, and then took a shower. While I ate lunch I watched Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children. Every Heart A Doorway kind of reminded me of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, probably because of the group home for kids thing. I hadn't seen the movie yet and it was pretty good. It has been awhile since I've read the book and I feel like the ending went farther than they did in the first book. I've only read the first book and the last thing I remember is Miss Peregrine being taken and the kids setting out in the boat. But again, it's been years since I read the book so I could be wrong. I do want to read the other books, so maybe that will happen soon.

When the movie was over I ran over to my Mom's house because my ceiling mount for my projector came in the mail today. When I got home got that all set up. It took awhile but I got it done and it hasn't fallen down yet, so I'll take that as a success. Now I just need to sort out the cable management thing. For the HDMI cable I thought about putting an HDMI outlet for the wall and running the cables from the projector down behind the wall. I'm not sure how I will get them over to the wall yet. And the power cable is too short at the moment, so I need to look into a longer one. Or coming up with a way to plug it in up in the ceiling. Things to think about.

Once I got the projector set up I played Little Nightmares for a little bit before going upstairs to make dinner. Tonight I made baked spinach and egg flatbread with roasted asparagus and lemon aioli. Fancy stuff. I was glad I had a food processor for the spinach because that would have taken forever to chop up. I decided to roast the roast the asparagus instead of saute it like the recipe said because roasted asparagus tastes better and I didn't want to deal with the oily mess that sauteing makes. And in the end I would say it all turned out pretty well. I cooked the egg a little longer so it came out more like a hard boiled egg than an over easy egg. Taste-wise, I think the asparagus with lemon aioli was the best part. The spinach and egg flatbread was alright but not as tasty as I thought it would be. I noticed the heat from the red chili flakes but other than that it seemed fairly bland, which was surprising considering all the stuff I put in it.

While I ate dinner I watched YouTube videos and eventually went back downstairs. I had planned on playing Tales From The Borderlands but it kept crashing on the title screen. It allowed me to hit a button to continue from the title screen but right after it said checking for DLC it would crash. Who knows. Maybe it's a Windows 10 thing. I'll have to try it on my desktop and hope it works. Instead I played Little Nightmares. I played longer than I had planned on playing but it felt like I was near the end so I kept going. And I was able to finish it. It got super creepy near the end. I also have no idea what was really going on during the game. Like who my character was or why the creepy things were after me.

And now it is after midnight and I still need to record my audio journal. I checked after finishing Little Nightmares and I open tomorrow, so it is going to be a long day, filled with yawning. Can't wait.