Author: Shawshank

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

Eight maids a milking

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Welp, it snowed in the night, just as forecasted. It’s still snowing out there. After a couple of hours of rain last night, it did what it was supposed to – turn to snow. We still have a couple of hours of snow to fall. It does look peaceful out there though.

Ugh, snow. Amirite?

Work last night was killer. After a couple of small rushes, it died out. From 8 to 9, I think we had one person come in. So, we finished doing what we’re supposed to have done, and it’s about 5 minutes after the lights went out, and the door was locked. A customer pulls up and just parks. Not making an effort to come in or anything. So we just ignore and finish what we were doing.

All three of us leave at the same time. That’s when she finally gets out of her vehicle. “Are you guys still open?” We kind of look back at the store – all the lights out, and the open sign not on.

“Sorry, we’re closed.” We say as we walk to our vehicles.

And that was the day. Pretty exciting, huh? Since I have to close tonight, we’re moving our date night to tomorrow night, after groceries.

But I’ll be having to shovel later, but for right now it’s coffee time. And Chaucer is already snuggled between us. Happy Friday everyone!

Seven swans a swimming

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Oh, it’s morning again. That sleep went very quickly. I was up I think, around 5. Just to go to the bathroom, then I was back snuggled in the warm bed. It felt like only a couple of minutes before the alarm went off.

It’s not too bad, but a week of closing shifts is hard. Getting home between 9:15-9:30. Tonight will probably be closer to the 9:30 mark. But we’re getting closer to the weekend. This’ll be the last full weekend off, probably for a while. I almost have my big boy pants. I can mostly work unsupervised on the register.

We’re supposed to have some weather tonight, going into tomorrow. Rain tonight, then it turns into snow whilst everyone sleeps. I’ll believe it when I see it. So just a little rain before it quickly changes to snow tonight – then lots of snow tomorrow morning. Yay snow, said no one ever.

The people I work with are pretty cool. They’re very nice, and have infinite patience with me. I ask stupid questions, but they just smile and answer the questions.

But, I have two more days of closing. Then the weekend off, and I close again on Monday. Then it’s a couple of opening shifts, and a closing shift. Then my first Saturday shift. It shouldn’t be too bad. I have 90% of the basics down. It’s just remembering how to do all the functions.

It’s not rocket surgery!

Six geese a laying

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Well, here we are again. Good morning, I hope y’all slept well. I’m waking up very very groggy this morning. It took me a while to fall asleep last night. I think it was a good sleep, but I’m not sure. I’ll know more in an hour or so. I mean I slept, but it doesn’t feel refreshing yet. I woke up around 6 this morning, and I don’t think I was tossy turny though. Just awake. Sometime Pippin came over and meowed, and I moved back a little and raised the blankets. She came and later down, but then got up and left. I think that’s when I started to doze off. Just a light sleep until the alarm went off.

I could feel Pippin when I was rolling over, but I didn’t feel Chaucer. I don’t know how Crystal was sleeping, I knew I couldn’t snuggle her. If I’m warm that totally means that she’s a lot more warmer than me. The king size bed is weird, I rolled over to face my side of the room, and I knew that Crystal was right behind me, but I couldn’t feel her. I knew she was there, but it felt like I had the whole bed to myself.

But we’re both up now, and Chaucer just climbed up onto my lap and has snuggled me. We have the news on, and it’s freakin dark out. However, it feels a lot warmer out there than normal. We’re above freezing here this morning! Woohoo! Also we’re expecting snow tomorrow night into Friday morning. So that should be interesting at work, but most of the snow will have fallen before I even get to work.

Ok time to start the day. Happy hump day everyone.

Five golden toques

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Good morning my friends! It’s another dark morning out there. However, it doesn’t seem that cold out there. the coffee is brewing, and all that happy horseshit. The cats are doing cat things. We think Chaucer just ate a leaf, Pippin of course, is doing Pippin things.

My first closing shot was last night. I definitely prefer the morning shift – there’s way more things to do. More stuff to put away, just more things in general. I think there was a lot more downtime at night as well – less people coming through the doors. But for the most part, we got everything done long before the evening was over.

I left, and decompressed for about a half hour at home. I chose not to shower last night before bed, I’ll do it in a couple of hours, as it’s a week of closing, so I don’t have to be in until 1.

We are getting closer to the weekend. That’s a good thing. But we’re not quite there yet, but we’re making headway. Viva la weekend!