Author: Shawshank

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

Sail away, sail away, sail away

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Good morning party people. It’s not too much of a party here, as it’s freakin dark, and TinyTown is mostly asleep. It’s the day before New Year’s Eve. I have the day off, and I get to spend the whole day with the love of my life. And we get to do fun things today!

And by fun, I mean after we wake up, and get dressed and all that fun stuff, we get to drive into SlightlyBiggerTown to get some groceries – just the essentials, and the weed store – just the essentials, and maybe even Subway for a quick lunch, and come home. We’re not going over to Shady Acres for dinner tomorrow, but since the Christmas gifts came in, we’re going to pop over this afternoon for a few minutes so they can open their gifts.

Fun stuff.

I’ll be working all day tomorrow, just like Christmas Eve. It’s all good, if it goes as quickly as Christmas Eve did, it’ll be an action packed day.

But today is like a bonus day. We’ll get dressed later, and head on down the road. I told Crystal that I’d be skipping chores today and tomorrow, and I’ll take care of them on Monday. Do them all in one fell swoop. Then, boom! Clean clothes and a clean flat.

Chaucer is already in between us on his new favourite blanket. As soon as Crystal gets under it, he ignores my legs and would rather stretch out on top of her or snuggle in between us. With the right blanket, he’s a snuggle monster.

It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dark

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Ok, I gotta make this one quick, I have to pack a lunch today. Yesterday was somewhat easy- all I had to do was pack some leftovers the night before. Well, I ate those, so I have to build from scratch today.

Also today, it’s Friyay! It’s hard to tell by my bleary eyed look right now, but I’m hella excited about this development. I just don’t have the energy to show it yet!

Last night, when my head hit the pillow, I was all the way out. I fell asleep with Pippin snuggled up to my neck/shoulder area. I was out. I didn’t feel Crystal come to bed, but that’s pretty normal. I didn’t roll over to get more comfortable, I was out until my alarm went off.

I’m impressed with myself.

Work was pretty slow yesterday. It’s the week in between holidays. It’s expected. But we made it through, and we’re slowly pushing to the weekend. Just the early shift today, and then New Year’s Eve, and boom! It’s the new year already.

2024.

Scary.

Oh god, I need more coffee. Happy Friyay all. Let’s get the day started.

*yawn*

Heart breaker, soul shaker I’ve been told about you

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Welp, here we are again. Up at the ass crack of dawn. I’ve actually been up for about 15 minutes before the alarm. That’s the story. When it’s my day off, I’ll sleep right up to the alarm. Work days, up before the alarm. I can’t explain it, and I’m not too fond of it.

Anyways, it’s dark. It’s always dark. But I have some coffee, and the weather seems agreeable this morning.

I think we had a pretty good day yesterday. I got the notice that the Christmas package had arrived. I picked it up, and ran/walked back to the Flat. I hurriedly wrapped up the package and brought them out to Crystal.

I did really well! She loved everything that I had picked out. I’m sure in a couple of hours when she gets up (she’s already awake, but I wouldn’t get out of bed if I were here), she’ll post all the individual items.

After the presents, and a couple of hours later, we went out and Crystal got her hair did. It looks amazing. I was told I’ve done a great job of keeping the lines straight. I’ve done a good job. Woot!

Ok time for me to continue with the morning stuff. I’m a little ahead of the game, I packed the last of the chicken bowls, so lunch is taken care of.

Have a great Thursday. Holy shit, it’s already Thursday!

He waited his whole damn life to take that flight

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It’s about that time again. Time to make the post. Welcome back my friends to the show the show that never ends. We’re all awake here, apparently, the cats and Crystal have been up for a while. Crystal tells me that Pippin was right on top of us. I didn’t feel her, but I can totes believe it.

Yesterday wasn’t too bad of a day. Worked the Boxing Day shift. It wasn’t too bad at all. Totally manageable. It was a good shift for sure. Nothing totally overwhelming. The shift moved pretty quickly. We were out of there on time. After work, I flew home, and made some amazing sandwiches – leftover turkey sandwiches. I made some homemade noodles as well, I was a hungry hippo.

We don’t have anything to do today, save shipping out the in-laws package. We’ve never been good at shipping stuff out on time, so to uphold that tradition, it’ll be packed up and shipped out today. Hopefully, at the same time there should be some packages at the PO as well. If so, I’ll be wrapping when I get home. We’ll play it by ear.

But before all that happens, coffee. And kitten snuggles. Chaucer was just patiently waiting to come up, but noticed Pippin eating out of his dish. He pushed her out of it, and is eating. Again.

Welcome to Wednesday!