Morning. It’s Sunday, so that means it’s chore day. I’ll start in a couple of hours. It’s not a lot. So it shouldn’t take too long.
This afternoon, we’ll be heading to Shady Acres, where I’ll be hauling in about 20 bags of wood pellets. Then, I’ll be cleaning the stove again.
Pippin just crawled onto my lap for a snuggle. She’s staring at Podrick.
I need more coffee.
I was up early this morning. It was dark out in the living room. I brewed coffee, and got dressed. I slept ok. But, I’m still tired. I had the opening shift this morning. I opened with Bing Bing, and we got through the first small rush. After a couple of hours, I brewed two more pots of coffee. It’s hunting season, and the hunters are needy in the mornings.
All in all it wasn’t a bad shift. Just busy enough to keep the time passing. I did some cleaning, and worked on December’s best befores. We do it every month. It’s time consuming, but we’re better than the grocery store in town. Not one person for as long as I can remember has bought something that was expired. That’s a good thing.
Now I’m home. I should probably have something to eat. But I’m tired. We’re having burgers tonight. I took them out last night, along with some bacon for tomorrow. So maybe I’ll just chug a pint of egg nog and call it an afternoon?
Maybe I’ll start laundry? I don’t really feel like moving though, so maybe not. It’s Saturday bitches, and I have the next, technically 2 days off.
Let’s get crunk!
I’m slowly getting used to sleeping with sound. I just have to get the volume correct. It sounds right when I’m standing, but as soon as I lay down, ITS DO FREAKING LOUD. Last night I just dealt with it. After restarting it 4 times and adjusting the volume each time, I didn’t really care anymore. Suddenly, I was asleep. Some time in the night I woke up, and was just listening to the sounds. My guy had given up, and probably gone to sleep. At that point it was still pretty loud, so I just turned off the headphones, and went to sleep.
I rawdogged the last few hours of sleep.
I have to be up early tomorrow, so I won’t be using the headphones tonight. I need to be asleep, pretty quickly.
Podrick, as far as I can tell, was a pretty good boy last night. I didn’t see anything really out of place when I got up. He has his own alarm clock, and he’s been pretty consistent when he comes in to wake me up.
But, we’re all up here. The kittens have had breakfast. Podrick is on the shelf, over looking what he thinks is his kingdom. Pippin is lounging on my lap, not even looking at Pod.
Coffee, and contemplation. The sun is slowly rising. Let’s get ready for the new day.
Back to work this afternoon.
Also in breaking news, Podrick is a menace.
But y’all already knew both those two points.
After a nice sleep, and gentle wake up, with nothing knocked over, or pulled down, shit was all over the floor. I don’t think Pippin was this bad, when she was his age.
I don’t know. He’s louder than my headphones at night. So I get to be calmed down, and anxious at the same time. I can’t tell you if the talk downs are working. I try and really pay attention to what the guy is saying, but my mind really starts to wander, and then it snaps back to what he’s saying. I had to restart the YouTube video a couple times, because I don’t think my headset has volume control. I’ll have to look at the instructions. I think I have it worked out for tonight, after consulting the instructions.
It was a pretty good day off. I went to Shady Acres at noontime to clean the stove. My dad came downstairs to help, and his knee gave out, so I helped him back upstairs, and finished cleaning the stove. I relit it, and ran to work to grab some tater tots for dinner, and came home.
I did a load of laundry, because the hearth around the stove was dirty, and I was covered. So we just had a quiet, lazy afternoon. For dinner, I made tater tots, and some cheeseburgers.
The coffee has been brewed, and the kittens have calmed. I think there’s birds out there. The sun is slowly rising. Happy Thursday!
So I don’t know if the headphones playing nice quiet stuff helped me fall asleep, or if I fell asleep on my own. I think I might try wearing my old mask, and the new mask over top of it. We’ll see. I’ll have to figure it out, but it’ll be trying stuff before I find something that works.
Coincidently, I was talking to Crystal about finding the guy that she listens to at night, and like 30 minutes later, my mobile phone provider sent me an email with a subscription to Calm. I have calm, but didn’t want to pay for anything on it. Now, I don’t have to.
So, we’ll try again tonight.
I don’t feel groggy, which is a bonus for sure.
Now, I just have to find something that I like, and then I’ll try and find the same narrator for a few, then I’ll try and figure out if I can create a playlist, and then let’s go! I’ll definitely try anything.
I hope all y’all have a good Wednesday. I’ll be back to work tomorrow afternoon. Then I work until Saturday afternoon. Weekend off baby!