Jennifer's 365 Project

One of the great things about having a working MP3 player again is the ability to listen to audiobooks.  I have a pretty long list of books that I'd like to listen to, starting with Terry Goodkin's Stone of Tears series.  I've had several people recommend the series to me over the years so I've finally decided to give it a try.

Friday I got to listen to quite a bit and so far I'm really enjoying the book.  This iPod Touch is really working out well (and I'm finally using it for more than just Angry Birds play).

Lunch on Thursday was a baby shower celebration with co-workers (complete with cake) at The B.O.B. It's been awhile since I've been in there.  I'm not a huge fan of the over price multi-tiered bar, so video recessed behind the mirror in the bathroom was new to me.  I've been to other restaurants that have the same sort of set up, but this one was much larger.

It's an interesting concept, one I'm sure that will crop up in more and more public locations over the years.

On my way back from lunch I noticed that there were some protesters outside the Van Andel arena again. I think they were protesting Ritsema again, like they earlier in October, but I'm not sure. Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything online that talks about it. But the last time I saw them out there it was a bit before an article popped up on MLive, so who knows.

When Chris and I got home from dinner and running errands we noticed that the Rovio had moved on all by itself.  It's a remote control car with a small camera and headlight on the top of it that Chris and I can log into remotely to see what's going on in the apartment.  Anyway, it was interesting to find it only a foot or so away from it's base and dead.

It was a quiet, nice day today. Nearly 60 degrees on lunch is a welcome change over snow flurries last week.

I busted out the new thermos which comes complete with a foldable spoon. Pretty nifty.

I'm still really enjoying this iPod touch. I'm even trying out a free blogger app to post this.



It's been a good Monday, especially the evening which involves relaxing and Leki cuddling.

Sunday was pretty good day.  chris made me a tasty breakfast (who doesn't love tasty fruit and waffles?!), I got to do a lot of reading on the kindle and a fair amount of Lord of the Ring Online gameplay as well.

The weather was pretty decent out, which is nice considering the snow flurries on Friday.  So in the afternoon we took a nice stroll along Kent Trails.

All in all it was a good relaxing Sunday.

Awhile back there was a gift certificate option where if you spent $25 you'd get $50 coupon at GAP.  At the time I needed work clothes so it seemed like a good idea. I should have looked in their store prior to doing that. Everything is expensive there.

So I've had the coupon for several months and finally I was able to spend it. I snagged a shirt on sale and a belt. And I still ended up spending $20 bucks.  I hate shopping for clothes. That belt better last a decade at least.

I also picked up some cheap boots to use walking in the winter downtown.  The only winter boots I currently have are not exactly work appropriate.

In the evening I played around in Lord of the Rings Online.  It had been well over a week since I'd had a chance to play and the time to get all the fall festival quests is slowly slipping away.

I finally upgraded to a deluxe house, which has a lot more storage and places to put house decorations.

All in all between buying some clothes in real life and buying a new house in Lord of the Rings Online, I'd say it was a pretty expensive day.

Apparently there is a Skywalk throughout part of downtown Grand Rapids. And, apparently, I'm the only one that didn't know that.  I never really noticed that the skywalk connected more than the Marriott to an office building.  Partly because I never walk by it...and partly because I apparently don't look up.

Lori and I met up for lunch at the Skywalk Deli.  It's a small little sandwich shop on the 2nd floor of the Comerica building.  I had a pretty easy time finding it; easier than I had anticipated.

Leaving via skywalk (I originally just walked over to the Comerica building) proved a littly trickier because of the construction just outside of the Van Andel.  Still, I managed to avoid the first snow flurries for the year and I did make it back to the office.

I'll definitely have to walk the length of it sometime just to do it.  Skywalks like that always make me think of airports and Summerset Mall.

It was a pretty beautiful day out on lunch.  It was warm enough to have lunch outside, but I'd already committed myself to walking to the Grand Rapids Public Library and check it out. It's been several years since I've been in there and since I work only a few blocks away it's no big deal to swing by on lunch.

Everything pretty much looked the same, though I did notice there are hand sanitizer stations in the middle of the hallway when you first walk in. Odd.

They have free wi-fi in the library, and it's quiet.  It's a great place to get away on lunch and have a little peace and quiet.  I left my Kindle at my desk but I did have my trusty iPod touch, complete with a Crunchyroll app to stream anime on.

I'll definitely have to swing by in the winter months and have some quiet away time from the office during my lunch break.  Provided the sidewalks are cleared well enough to walk in work shoes a few blocks over...

Today is election day! Chris and I took a stroll after work to our polling station to cast our ballots.  I hope you voted too!

After voting and getting some shopping done for tomorrows game night, Chris and I settled in for the evening.

I've been spending a chunk of the evening checking out a free MMO on the iPod Touch, Pocket Legends.  There are a bunch of different games but this one looked to have a decent amount of feedback so I thought I'd check it out. It's a pretty simple game, but fun to poke around a bit in. It's something to do while listening to all the political coverage in the background on the TV.

So today was kind of like a freebie day.  Neither Chris or I had to go in to work, so we turned the day into a pretty lazy day.  We slept in, we unpacked, we hung out and watched a bunch of TV shows and movies.  It was great.

Peppy and I even got some quality time in together.  I may not have taken a photo, but I did get some video of here. Here's just one of them.