Good morning. Podrick has been annoying since about 5 or so this morning. I just have to remember he’s just a kitten, and mostly feral. it doesn’t help, but I have to remember that.

But we’re all up and mostly awake this morning. The coffee has been brewed, and poured into mugs. The kittens have been fed, and currently Podrick is sitting on the shelf, looking out the window. Pippin just crawled onto my lap, and is snuggling in.

We drove to SlightlyBiggerTown for supplies. We hit all the stores, except the pharmacy. But we made it work. We stopped at the weed store, and I ran in grabbing our two carts. Then I popped into the other vape store to get my two vapes that’ll last the next two weeks. The one I opened is vanilla banana. It tastes just like the bananas that you get from the vending machine inside Walmart.

Back to work this afternoon. I’m totes working for the weekend! 5 shifts, and I have the weekend off. That’s what’s powering me. I can’t remember if I posted about this, but Saturday afternoon, my mom texted me a picture of my grandmother dressed up for Halloween with a big smile on her face. She’s gotten better, and had a blast according to my mom. That’s awesome!! I was so happy to hear the news.

I need more coffee.

Welp, back to work again this afternoon. Last shift, and I get a whole day off! That’s incredible! I’m still getting used to working 5 shifts a week. I told the guy that made the schedules that it’ll take me a week or two to get used to a 40 hour week again.

No biggie at all.

It was Halloween last night, and only a handful of people came in dressed up. It’s crazy how many high school students still go trick or treating here. I can’t remember when I stopped trick or treating. Probably somewhat young. I was a tall kid.

Driving through town, as I had to pick up the mail. I see some truck or treaters still running around. Probably up to no good. I drive past a hay bale in the middle of the road. I don’t think anything of it, it’s Halloween after all. I pull up to the post office, and since I don’t trust the youth in town on Halloween, I get out of the truck and lock it. In the post office, I separate my mail from my parents and walk back to the truck.

That hay bale I mentioned?

On fire.

It doesn’t even faze me. I look at it, and think to myself – there’s the trick. Of course they’d have a hay bale, the school is probably 75% farmers. And I head out on my way home. Once home, I snuggle with The Beautiful One, and we sit and watch Smackdown, then head to bed, where I crash out and don’t move until I hear Podrick doing Podrick things in the bathroom. I pick up what he’s knocked down, and go back to sleep closing the bedroom door behind me.

Happy Saturday!

So, last night, huh? Podrick was in rare form. He jumped up onto the counter and knocked over one of Crystal’s water cups. He broke the lid, so I dumped it out and put it in the sink. The little guy got up into the sink, and stole the straw. I got to be able to listen to him for the next 20 minutes (probably only like 5 minutes) playing, loudly with it. High anxiety while high, was a great way to fall asleep! Was it really just the straw, or does he have broken, super sharp shards of plastic from the lid?

Well, I can’t find the straw, or any shards. I’m sure my mind will file that away for another night to think about.

He’s currently in full on hurricane Podrick mode right now.

Work wasn’t bad last night. Again, without a manager, the employees have taken it upon themselves to assign one guy to do the schedules. So we had three people, because we were expecting a truck. Well, the truck arrived hours before we did. Combine that with a relatively slow night, and you get 3 bored employees. I cleaned as much as I could. Eventually, it was time to close. Me and the part timer tried to get the dude in charge to close at a normal speed. That didn’t work, so I closed down the computers while the guy actually closing, just chatted about nothing at all.

I made it home, finally.

Woohoo!

Back at it again this afternoon. Let’s goooo!