Author: Shawshank

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

But no one needs to know right now

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Hey hey. It’s ya boy, Shawshank here. Just got home from work and Shady Acres. I had to clean the pellet stove for the fam. With that taken care of, a bookcase appeared and I had to haul that upstairs as well.

Crystal texted this morning to say that she wasn’t feeling too well, so before I left I picked up some ginger ale and some Gatorade. I didn’t text to ask what she wanted, and just got something. I poured her a nice glass of ginger ale, and she’s happy now. It doesn’t seem like she’s sick sick. Just ugh. Yanno?

Work was wicked quiet this morning. Do we did some cleaning, and sitting around. It’s nice every once in a while. Then groceries came, so we worked on that until it was time to leave.

I don’t know if Crystal is going to have dinner here. If not, I’ll figure something out for myself. If she is, I’ll figure out something for the both of us.

Yep yep yep.

Life is demanding without understanding

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Hey guys, I’m home. Well I’ve been home for a while. I turned on the game right away. I got some bad news whilst at work from my mom. They got the results of the testing back from all my dad’s problems. He’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer. It’s started to go into the bone.

Sigh.

I’m not going to get into it now, besides that’s all I know. But it sure put a dampener on the rest of the shift. She’s already asked for help, and I’ve told her that she’ll get it. All she has to do is ask, and we’ll be there.

So yeah, it’s a typical Monday Tuesday morning here in TinyTown.

But yeah, I pretty much came home and turned on No Man’s Sky. I’m playing around with Lil Peeper.

Time for Lil Peeper to spread her wings!

<insert song lyrics here>

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It’s Monday, I think. I climbed into bed last night, and didn’t move until about 6:30. I really don’t think I moved, as I’m a little stiff and sore. It was a great totally do nothing day yesterday. We didn’t get dressed at all, and just lazed about all day.

We played some video games, I read a little, and we ate. That’s about all that we did. Sure, chores were completed, but really that was it. I made us a really good brunch as load #1 was in the dryer. After all the laundry was done, Crystal fired up Disco Elysium and advanced the plot a few pegs on the ladder. After, I played some No Man’s Sky, and totally didn’t advance the plot. I don’t even know how to anymore.

After the shower, I turned on Netflix, and we watched Don’t Worry Darling. Neither of us knew anything about the movie. We went in completely blind. It’s been a long time since we’ve done that. Crystal, about 20 minutes in, asked if this was an A24 movie.

It really felt like an A24 film. It had us guessing all the way to the end of the film I really enjoyed it. After that it was time to wind down from the day. We watched some Antiques Roadshow, and then some TikToks until it was bed time.

And now, here we are. It’s a holiday here today, Family Day. I get to spend family day working. Hopefully, it’ll be like Saturday. That was a pretty good day, and it went quickly, and without issue. Let’s have another day like that, shall we?

You got to take the elevator to the mezzanine

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“GET OFF ME, GAS BOY!”

That was the war cry this morning, when I attempted, by stealth to snuggle as close as possible to Crystal. I was doing everything right. Moving slow, as to not be noticed by her. I had my mission, I accepted it, and was in the movement phase. I knew what I had to do, and was executing that, when the words rang out.

In order to maintain some sort of I don’t hear you. I held position for a couple of seconds. Then I withdrew. Defeated. Internally, devastated. retreated to a safe position. I think at that point, cold, and with no kitty snuggles, I had to generate my own body heat. Thankfully, the alarm went off shortly after.

And now, here we are.

Crystal is in her rich heiress robe. It’s a very pretty light green robe with fur around the arms and the bottom of it. It was her valentines present. It looks really good on her. She likes it, and that’s a good thing. I’ve been doing pretty good on the gift side this year.

Work wasn’t too bad yesterday. It was totally manageable. Not too busy, but not really totally dead either. Time went somewhat quickly. It’s always the last 20 minutes or so, that seems to take forever. But suddenly we were closed, and there were still some people trying to get in. Thankfully, the door was locked at this point, so we just said “closed”, and ignored them.

Nothing much on deck for today. Chores. Brunch. Hanging out. I’ll be back to work on the holiday Monday. Same hours as yesterday. So hopefully it’ll go quickly. Then after tomorrow, it’s back to opening again. So I can sleep in one more day. The older I get, the more I appreciate the sleeps.

Ok, time to shut up, and to drink some coffee. Happy Sunday, my friends.