Author: Shawshank

I’m just a 40-something bearded guy trying to get a fresh start.

Just a good old boys never meanin’ no harm

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This will just be a short post today, as I’m up a little earlier than normal. I think I slept ok last night. Crystal slept out on the couch so this little guy had someone to snuggle against in the night.

I present to you:

Podrick Chad Brick Danger Shank, DDS, Esq

Pippin is pissed off. She spent time yesterday on top the fridge, then on top the cabinets. I ended up hauling her down and putting her on the bed, where she stayed for the night. I don’t think she moved too far from her nest. Hopefully, she comes out and interacts. She didn’t eat last night.

I’m a worrier.

She’s my baby.

Podrick is currently fighting a little mouse and throwing it all over the place.

She’s one of a kind, she’s just mine, all mine

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With all the snow that came a couple of days ago, it’s slowly retreating. It look pretty warm out there this morning. Pippin demanded that the back door be opened as soon as possible. That’s where she is right now, watching TinyTown slowly wake up.

It was a bit of a shits show at work yesterday. I get in at my normal time, and they’re still putting away the groceries. No problem, I jump into help. After the groceries are put away I find out the whole story. My coworker for the evening, called out. So BossLady called every other employee. Only one kid replied, and said he couldn’t.

BossLady stayed until 5, and then since no one came in to help out (everyone is complaining that they don’t have a lot of hours), we simply closed. I told her that I’d take the deposit and she could go straight home. Which after I took care of the deposit, I went home as well, after I burnt 4 hours of vacation time to make up the 4 hours I lost because the store was closed.

Today will be something fun. I’ll post pictures later. But for now, for the three people that actually read this, it’s a surprise. But for right now, bright and sunny!

I had my hair piled high and my baby just looked so right

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Well, it’s finally stopped snowing sometime in the night. Hopefully, now the town will actually start to dig out. I asked the part time retiree that works with us, who’s also on the town council why they haven’t started plowing the town. He didn’t know why they hadn’t started. (Yesterday afternoon). But according to my weather app, we had over a foot of snow in 24 hours.

It’s a heavy wet, Rhode Island snow. It was a bitch to shovel at work, and I’m not really looking forward to shovelling my walkway. But we’ll deal with that later. I’m hoping that it’ll warm up quick enough, that I don’t really have to do too much.

Maybe that’s wishful thinking. But I’ll take it.

So I get a text from my mom yesterday morning, asking if I could help her with her big cat. Phoebe. Phoebe is a large girl, and over the last week, has had some blood in her urine, and isn’t eating too much. I helped my mom take her to the vet. She got weighed, and officially is 25lbs. I was playing with the vets cats, and my mom asked if I would like her to post on the towns bulletin board asking for a kitten for us. I said sure. Within an hour or two, I had a couple of texts from people with orange kittens. One was 7 months old, and the second one was 6 weeks old. I replied to the text with the 6 week old kitten. Tomorrow, we’ll be heading to a local farm, to take a look at the little guy.

Pippin could have a tiny brother by noon tomorrow. Crystal has been telling her all about the new little guy. Pictures soon.

Coffee first.

Late breaking story on the CBC

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As Crystal put it in a text message to her mother: IT WAS ALL MELTED. SPRING WAS HERE.

Ahh yes, but welcome to second winter. Although if you were counting, this is technically, like fourth winter. But yep, it’s snowing. And should pretty much be snowing for the foreseeable future, and into the evening as well.

Yesterday was a mix of laziness, and cleaning. Li did the chores, and in late morning, I cooked brunch. Other than that, I played Balatro for pretty much the whole afternoon, frustrating myself in the process. But I actually managed to beat another deck. It kind of snuck up on me, and then BOOM! I get the you won message.

Yeah, I was surprised. I showed the screen to Crystal, and said oh shit, I won! After the win, I had a couple of hours of pure shit being dealt to me. It was wicked frustrating, but I powered through it, and played more. I didn’t win on another deck, but I did manage to get my first ever Royal Flush!

That surprised me!

Back to work this afternoon. And, I think probably by the end of the week, this white shit will be gone again soon.

Merry Christmas!