Author: Shawshank

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

Everybody knows that smokin’ ain’t allowed in school

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Here we are again. It’s dark, and the coffee has been brewed. Welcome to another day in the life living in TinyTown. We’re both awake, and it’s dark out. I got up sometime in the night to go to the bathroom. I refused to look at the clock, telling myself that if I don’t open my eyes, I’m still technically asleep. I got up and made my way to do my business, and made it back into bed.

The next thing I know, the alarm is going off. I had Steelers Wheel stuck in my head. You see, Crystal was telling me little known trivia about well known movies before I went to work yesterday. I guess it stuck, because I had Reservoir Dogs stuck in my head. Yep, Michael Madsen dancing in the warehouse. Good times.

Work wasn’t too bad yesterday. We were pretty steady until about 7:30-8. That’s perfect because around 8 is when the closing stuff starts to get done. We managed to get everything done and 100%, then we left. It was a good shift, time passed pretty quickly.

I brought home a hot chocolate, and surfed Reddit while Crystal kicked some ass playing Hades. She’s really good at that game. I think I’ve seen her beat it once or twice, so at this point she makes it look pretty easy. After she stopped playing, we looked at some TikTok’s for a few, then climbed into bed.

Here we are now.

It’s gonna be a lazy weekend. The scheduling gods saw fit that I should have the weekend off, I don’t go back into work until Tuesday. That’s nice. So we’ll be heading out for date night this evening. And I’ll pop over to the little grocery store to grab some hash browns and bacon for brunch on Monday. Other than that, it’ll be a quiet weekend.

So let’s get the weekend started! Happy weekend internet friends!

You love me and I don’t know why, I only call you once a week

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Well, here we are – another day that ends in y. We were both woken up early this morning. The big guy, Chaucer, decided that 3am was a great time to get sick, waking up Crystal, and making me open my eyes.

After that fun happened, I think we both fell back into a restless sleep. I’m very very stuffed up, and it hurts my head. Crystal was having nightmares, and I was just having strange dreams. I have been dreaming, but now I never remember them in the morning. I just know that these dreams were just strange.

So yeah it hasn’t been the greatest of mornings here. I at least get to stay with her for a few hours, as I don’t have to leave the Flat until 1pm. Yep, I’m working a closing shift tonight. That’s ok, we can have date night tomorrow night. Hopefully the evening will go quickly at work.

So now we’re just awake, watching the morning news. After some coffee, and waking up, I’ll be hoping in the shower, and officially starting the day.

Hey, at least it’s Friyay!

Everything’s alright when she calls me back, she calls me back

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Good morning. Sleep was a little bit of a battle last night/this morning. I think I woke up briefly when Crystal got into bed. Then again at 3. I think my body was trying to be awake in case my alarm didn’t go off.

Well guess what? It worked as intended. And now here we are.

Yesterday was very nice. We got up as per usual, and lazed around until I had an idea – let’s go to SlightlyBiggerTown and go to the second hand store! So that’s what we did. Nothing seemed to jump out at us. In fact the store looked very empty. Nothing interested us so we left.

We were a little early so we grabbed lunch before we went to the second hand store. That was waiting for us, so we drove home and ate unfettered by having to put away groceries. From there we didn’t do too much of anything. I played No Man’s Sky, while Crystal and Chaucer napped.

It was a good day. And today should be pretty nice too. Aside from the cold and the wind out there today. We’ll survive.

Welcome to Thursday y’all.

As you promised me that I was more than all the miles combined

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*yawn* I’m awake, really I am. See, I’m typing this. Not live mind you, I’m typing this from the past. I slept like the dead last night. I think I was mostly asleep as I was climbing up into bed. I also think that I didn’t move too much either. The kink in my neck is evidence of that. it’s Wednesday? And it’s a day off for me. It’s also wicked cold. With the wind, I think my weather app says that it’s -2° out there.

Nasty cold weather. But we ain’t seen nothing yet. It’s gonna get mostly colder in the coming days, a week at most.

Yesterday at work was wicked slow for the shift. I mean it wasn’t too bad. Just slow. We got people coming in, but I think a lot of people simply took the day off, to keep the party going. We did a lot of cleaning. The day went quickly, but it didn’t feel like it, in the moment.

I came home after the shift, and watched Crystal play some Cult of the Lamb. I lazed around and surfed some Reddit on her laptop for most of the afternoon. For dinner I made some sausages, scalloped potatoes, and chicken stuffing. It was very yummy.

We watched some TV, and all that stuff, and then shuffled off to bed, where – see paragraph 1. This blog post was a full circle moment. I’m a wordsmith. I words smithily. I am master of the prose.