Here I am. Tired and groggy. Podrick was awake a little early this morning, and wanted to get into trouble. For the first time in at least a couple of days, I had to lock him out of the bedroom. I tried to not do that, but after the second time fucking rounding the nightstand. I close the door.

From 5-7:20 when I got out of bed, slept came but at a cost. It was a light sleep where any noise work me up. I couldn’t breathe at all through my nose. So I had to sleep a certain way. Then I couldn’t get comfortable. Then it was too hot. The first part of my sleep – 11 to maybe 4:30ish was dead, then my face plugged up and yep, that’s when slowly moved into either being mostly awake or a light ass sleep.

I am not leaving the house today.

It’s cold out, first cold snap of the winter.

15°. Feels like 6°.

Double champs! Oh, Canada!

Podrick was really trying this morning. He was really trying so hard to be good. Then he was trying to get up on the nightstand. That’s when he had to go. By then, I was already awake. Mornings are a loud time around here. So I checked the clock and figured it was time to greet the day.

I did the morning routine, and turned the coffee on, and fed Podrick in the kitchen and hand delivered Pippin’s breakfast for her in the bedroom. Both kittens were fed and Pippin is currently on my lap, silently watching Podrick do Podrick things.

I slept ok last night. Some nights it doesn’t feel too restful. Yesterday I felt very rested. Today, not so much. I mean, I slept. I feel ok, just tired. Until Podrick grows up a little more, I don’t think we’ll have quiet, lazy mornings in bed. That’s ok. He’s still a baby – a 15 year old baby. He looks like a meatball.

Back to work this afternoon. Today’s shift, and tomorrows, and well both be on some days off over the weekend. It’ll be filled with laziness, chores, and trying to do as little as possible. And of course Shady Acres. I’ll be finishing the stove chores that we started a couple of weeks ago.

Morning.

It’s gray, and surprisingly not too windy out there. Nice. I slept like shit last night. It took what felt like 45 minutes to get to sleep. Then I was up early, because, Podrick.

He’s definitely a morning person. I am totally not a morning person. I don’t even know how to explain it, so I won’t. He knows how to poke me to get a response from me. For right now, he’s motionless. he has so much energy first thing in the morning, it’s insane. He gets into everything, because, while he doesn’t look like a kitten anymore, he’s still most definitely is still a kitten.

Work wasn’t too bad last night. It’s that time of the year, as soon as you get back inside, and take off your coat, you have to go back out – coat back on, gloves back on – once more into the breach. It was, I would say, steady last night. Not balls to the wall busy, but just enough people coming in that it was difficult to get our check list completed. We managed to get out pretty much on time, with prodding from me (ie: don’t you think it’s time to count the cash?). My coworker was just all over the place, he was just a little scatter-brained.

Back at it again this afternoon. But we’re doing something different this morning: breakfast for lunch. And if there’s bacon left over, we’ll have burgers for lunch tomorrow.

But before we get to tomorrow, we’ll get through today first. I think work will be pretty good. Busy again I’m sure, which will be nice. Busy always helps the day go quicker. Let’s goooo.