Thursday 13

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. The blog host doesn't have any official graphics to display on the Thursday 13 posts, so I decided to whip one up myself. 🙂    

 

Some things from my world recently (in no particular order):

1. In addition to my writing class at work, I began another class in May on Trivia. My first topic was Fast Food. And at the end of June, I did some July 4th trivia, a week early since we're closed for the holiday. My next one is on the 18th and I'm still deciding on a topic.
2. Speaking of my writing class, I got a new writing kit. I'd been deciding for some time whether to get this one. I first saw it on Amazon several years ago, but I also saw it at a local cafe which also carries books. The cafe is only open on certain days of the week. I'd debated whether or not to get this one, having read some of the reviews on Amazon. But the kit remained at the cafe each time I went to look, and when I took some cans and bottles to be recycled last month, I decided to go and buy the kit with the money received. I have used it once for my class so far (No writing class this month because of the holiday last week). This is the kit.
3. And on the subject of Amazon, I have not bought a single thing on there this year so far. I was told to boycott the site as well as Target, but these are the only places I've been able to buy my printer ink without going out of town. I needed the ink so I got some at Target. The shelf where they keep printer ink was virtually empty, with only one of the kind for my printer. (I don't have Amazon Prime, BTW).
4. Our group at work is going on a beach trip next Wednesday. This should be fun. I'll let you know how it goes.
5. I stayed away from the Motorcycle Rally last weekend in my hometown. It returned after nearly a decade. I'd walked down to some of these in the past, but they always seem the same to me. 
6. No fireworks for me, but plenty of people on my street set them off. And in my town, people are often setting off fireworks before and after the holiday. That gets annoying!
7. The weather in my area hasn't been particularly hot, compared to a year ago around this time.  Though that's expected to change in a day or so.
8. It's been a year since I attempted writing something. I have not finished it or even gotten back. I really need to try or even begin something new.
9. As I posted out last Monday, we had a decades prom party at work on the last day of June. Out first such party in a while.
10. As I pointed out, I attend the "No Kings" protest held last month in front of our Safeway. I uploaded the video I took to Youtube and have received one comment so far.
11. Still trying to complete some of the reading challenges I'm doing this year. Some only have one or two books left, and I have already decided what to read for some of those categories. I just don't know when I'll get to them. And there is one I have not decided on.
12. The Rite Aid in my town closed last month. A day after the protest, I went in to see what was available and found a jar of Noxzema for half-off. On one of the days that followed, everything was 90% off, but the remaining merchandise was slim pickings, as things tend to be when a store like this closes. This was so the case when Kmart closed five years ago, just before the pandemic shutdown.
13. And on the subject of Kmart, the building is still empty, save for the Halloween store that was housed there last fall. I'm now hoping the store will return this year, now that there are two possible locations, two blocks apart.