There's nothing better than a good pen

I hadn't written in a while due to a very busy two weeks. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Yesterday however, I like to think I made up for that finishing my last character profile and the next day's assignment while drinking a latte in a pastry shop. I think it took me all of an hour and a half. I was about to start the next one, which was focused more on setting instead of characters, but I realized my brain was moving elsewhere. Plus the place was closing. And my favorite pen, which I had bought in China, had just run out of ink.
I moved to Starbucks to sit in their window with a Doubly Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino, thinking the change of scenery would bring more focus. When I reached the cashier, I saw the advertisement for the new caramel drink and decided to order that instead. I also changed my original plan when I sat down and made a face when I saw my back-up pens. I had weighed the idea of buying new ink for my Chinese pen whenever it ran out so I could keep using it. I don't know if you, the reader, write much but if you do and you use pens you know there's nothing more gratifying than finding, and using, a good pen.
Thus, I left Starbucks and worked back to Office Depot to see if I could find some filler ink for my pen. By the way, the new caramel drink is ridiculously caramel and sweet. This is coming from someone who changes the ratio of syrup and espresso in her Caramel Frappuccino so that it's practically a caramel milkshake. I couldn't even finish it.
Anyway, a man at Office Depot helped me find a filler ink that fit the pen and even opened the package and inserted it so I could try it out to see what I thought. It was apparently the generic brand but my test tries were promising so I bought it. Afterwards, I decided to just return home and relieve the dogs and work on the next assignment tomorrow (or since I'm writing this the next day, today). However, I was reminded that on Thursday my aunt has class which means she won't return home until nine. So I left after she arrived and walked to the Starbucks near the L since the one closer was going to close in an hour. It was a good thing I did because it assignment took me about two hours and I wasn't able to finish because the last part required me to research, which I couldn't do without a computer. This time I wised up and got the drink I originally intended to drink.