If my neck’s a little red, it’s ’cause I am one

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I’m awake. A little groggy. I did the total dad thing? And yelled at Podrick from the bed. Did it help? I have no idea, but I felt better, and managed each time to fall back asleep.

A bit of a headache this morning. Hopefully it’ll go away on its own. But if it doesn’t, I’ll take something, after my eyes have actually focused. I think it was a good sleep. I don’t remember moving too much, which is probably why I have a headache.

And it’s bright out there. It doesn’t look too windy out there. But really, really sunny out. Hopefully, it’ll be like this all afternoon. I mean, it was really nice, even with the rain, and the wind yesterday. It finally felt like spring when I was outside yesterday.

I forgot to buy creamer last night. I remembered as I was pulling what was left out of the fridge. So, I’ll pick some up tonight at work.

The back door is open, so the cats are over there with their little faces pressed up against the screen.

If it don’t kill me, then I ain’t living

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Morning all. It’s been a. Very nice morning here so far. Podrick was a very good boy this morning. Only trying to wake us (me) up. It kinda worked, but I did my best to ignore him as he rummaged around, doing what he does.

I believe we had a pretty good sloth weekend. Since we didn’t go to Shady Acres on Sunday, I don’t believe that we even got dressed. Crystal did her needlepoint, and I played saints row 3. We came to the determination that while I love playing the game, after I wasn’t as killable – that only took maybe 1/2 – 45 minutes, the upcoming missions that need to be done to advance the game, they’re the missions that I hate to do, in fact I watched Crystal perform these missions with a lot of swearing.

So I turned on the cheat codes for the afternoon.

We watched a couple of episodes of Yellowstone. We’re on the last season, and only have two episodes of the series left. After the OG, that’ll open up Yellowstone: Marshalls – Kayce’s spinoff, and in a bout a week or so, Yellowstone: Beth and Rip.

Let’s go!

Working the closing shift today – Wednesday. I’ll have Thursday off, then I’m working the rest of the week until my next day off – Monday. It’s going to be a busy weekend, because it’s basically the start of summer with the Victoria Day long weekend.

My birthday is coming soon.

It should be a lot warmer by now.

It’s not.

But there’s no snow, and it’s lighter longer. And, I think most importantly – I’m not wearing layers any more 😀👈

All peace and love up until I ain’t

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It was nothing that Podrick did this morning. I promise. My eyes just opened, and then I was awake. I didn’t even really hear Pod moving around this morning. So I called the kitties. Pippin was on the bed quickly after that, but of course, just out of reach for morning skritchies. so we’re up, and the morning kibble has been put out for Podrick, who totally ignores it. Pippin is dining in the bedroom. She prefers her breakfast be taken privately, away from him, and the rest of the staff.

Work wasn’t too bad in the morning. I did all the opening steps, and I even opened a couple minutes early. It was a weird Saturday. It was slow and busy at the same time. So time really kinda shuffled forward, but then sometimes, it jumped a head. At 1:05, I get the text message:

“Are you morning shift?”

Great this is going to go two ways:

  • I’m calling out, because I’m sick
  • I’m going to be late

It was the second one. However, this gentleman walks slow, and at a good pace, it takes about a half hour to walk to the store from town. Thankfully, his co-worker for the evening walked in, so I texted the walker:

“Your co-worker just got here. I’m on my way to get you.”

A couple minutes later, I’m heading back to the house to pick up Crystal, to head to the greenhouse to find something for Mother’s Day, for my, um, mother. We found a red plant. It’s also green. Perhaps a calla Lilly, or it could be a jalapeño plant. I texted my mom to see if she was awake, and at the same time, my mom texted to see if I could pick up, wait for it … lard.

Grabbed the lard and headed over to Shady Acres. Mom let us in, and she was surprised that Crystal was there, and then we handed her the pepper plant (or calla Lilly), and wished her a happy Mother’s Day.

And now the rest of the day is ours. Same as today. Laundry day. Chores. Brunch.

Coffee.

Can I get a hallelujah, can I get an amen

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Yeah yeah, I know I’m like 12 hours late to be posting this. But in my defence, I had to be at work this morning. And, I actually slept all the way up to my alarm.

Tonight is Backlash!

So we’ll be cooking shortly. Which is good because we’re both hungry.

Happy saturyay! Everyone.

Short and to the point!

Hands and hearts that ain’t got scars, they ain’t worth holding

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I had a pretty good sleep. Then I dozed for the rest of my stay in bed this morning. I wish that either the fan would be a lot louder, or my mind could handle the sleep headphones being louder. If either of those two things were louder, I could drown out what Podrick was doing.

He was a busy little beaver this morning.

It’s another bright and sunny day out there. Hopefully, the sun and lack of massive wind will stay for the rest of the day. I’m the adult in the store tonight. Tomorrow’s alarm has already been set.

It was a nice day off yesterday. Of course, it was too short. But that’s a day off for you. We didn’t do too much. Crystal got a notification that her laptop was available to be picked up. So I got dressed, and decided that I’d pick it up, and then i would go and wash the winter off the truck.

We had lunch, and then Crystal set up her laptop, while I played Saints Row 3. We had a really yummy taco bowls for dinner. I saved some of the left overs to mix into my Kraft Dinner for lunch.

Smackdown! tonight, and then Backlash tomorrow afternoon. We won’t be heading over to Shady Acres on Sunday, as my dad has chemo the next day. There’s no need for them to expend energy entertaining us. I’ve already said to Crystal, tomorrow after work, I’ll come down to pick her up, and we’ll head to the greenhouse to pick something up for Mother’s Day, and we’ll deliver it Saturday afternoon.