Category: Life

Seven swans a swimming

Posted on by Shawshank

Oh, it’s morning again. That sleep went very quickly. I was up I think, around 5. Just to go to the bathroom, then I was back snuggled in the warm bed. It felt like only a couple of minutes before the alarm went off.

It’s not too bad, but a week of closing shifts is hard. Getting home between 9:15-9:30. Tonight will probably be closer to the 9:30 mark. But we’re getting closer to the weekend. This’ll be the last full weekend off, probably for a while. I almost have my big boy pants. I can mostly work unsupervised on the register.

We’re supposed to have some weather tonight, going into tomorrow. Rain tonight, then it turns into snow whilst everyone sleeps. I’ll believe it when I see it. So just a little rain before it quickly changes to snow tonight – then lots of snow tomorrow morning. Yay snow, said no one ever.

The people I work with are pretty cool. They’re very nice, and have infinite patience with me. I ask stupid questions, but they just smile and answer the questions.

But, I have two more days of closing. Then the weekend off, and I close again on Monday. Then it’s a couple of opening shifts, and a closing shift. Then my first Saturday shift. It shouldn’t be too bad. I have 90% of the basics down. It’s just remembering how to do all the functions.

It’s not rocket surgery!

Six geese a laying

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Well, here we are again. Good morning, I hope y’all slept well. I’m waking up very very groggy this morning. It took me a while to fall asleep last night. I think it was a good sleep, but I’m not sure. I’ll know more in an hour or so. I mean I slept, but it doesn’t feel refreshing yet. I woke up around 6 this morning, and I don’t think I was tossy turny though. Just awake. Sometime Pippin came over and meowed, and I moved back a little and raised the blankets. She came and later down, but then got up and left. I think that’s when I started to doze off. Just a light sleep until the alarm went off.

I could feel Pippin when I was rolling over, but I didn’t feel Chaucer. I don’t know how Crystal was sleeping, I knew I couldn’t snuggle her. If I’m warm that totally means that she’s a lot more warmer than me. The king size bed is weird, I rolled over to face my side of the room, and I knew that Crystal was right behind me, but I couldn’t feel her. I knew she was there, but it felt like I had the whole bed to myself.

But we’re both up now, and Chaucer just climbed up onto my lap and has snuggled me. We have the news on, and it’s freakin dark out. However, it feels a lot warmer out there than normal. We’re above freezing here this morning! Woohoo! Also we’re expecting snow tomorrow night into Friday morning. So that should be interesting at work, but most of the snow will have fallen before I even get to work.

Ok time to start the day. Happy hump day everyone.

Five golden toques

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Good morning my friends! It’s another dark morning out there. However, it doesn’t seem that cold out there. the coffee is brewing, and all that happy horseshit. The cats are doing cat things. We think Chaucer just ate a leaf, Pippin of course, is doing Pippin things.

My first closing shot was last night. I definitely prefer the morning shift – there’s way more things to do. More stuff to put away, just more things in general. I think there was a lot more downtime at night as well – less people coming through the doors. But for the most part, we got everything done long before the evening was over.

I left, and decompressed for about a half hour at home. I chose not to shower last night before bed, I’ll do it in a couple of hours, as it’s a week of closing, so I don’t have to be in until 1.

We are getting closer to the weekend. That’s a good thing. But we’re not quite there yet, but we’re making headway. Viva la weekend!

Four calling birds

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Morning all. It’s been a morning already. I was fast asleep, until 6am. Then I was awake. Awake and very tossy turny. I couldn’t get comfortable, and then I was too hot, or too cold. Then I started to get anxious. My mind said, you’ve been doing so well at work, what if it was a fluke, and you really suck ass there. You’re stupid, and sooner or later, they’re gonna figure it out. So here’s some anxiety for you to try and deal with. Have fun, idiot. You deserve this.

So needless to say, yeah. Tough morning so far. But I’m up, dressed, and the coffee has been brewed. I already have Chaucer on my lap. I’m trying to discretely do some deep breathing and just trying to calm down. I mean, it’s not too bad, but it’s been a while since I had a panic attack. I didn’t even have one before I started the new job. Why the hell did it pop up this morning?

Nevermind, it’ll pass. Hopefully quickly. But it’ll pass.

Yesterday was a nice relaxing day. I took care of the chores first thing. I thought I’d have 3 loads of laundry, but I managed to get it into two. Which is nice. The sweaters are hanging over the doors to dry. As the laundry was going, I made brunch. It turned out pretty good, except for the fact that I dropped one of Crystal’s waffles, and it broke in half, but she said that was ok. She’s a trooper for sure.

We went over to Shady Acres for dinner, and that was good. It’s relaxing over there. Mom made some beef stroganoff, and it was very good, minus the mushrooms.

After there, we came back to the Flat, and relaxed some more before heading to bed. It feels warmer out there, which explains why I felt a lot warmer this morning, than yesterday or the day before.

So happy Monday y’all. It should get better as the day goes on. Let’s get the week started!

Three French hens

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Another dark morning. Coffee is brewing, and I’m struggling to shake the cobwebs from my head. It was a pretty good sleep. I’m still tired though. I don’t know if I’ll ever not be tired, but here we are. Good morning my friends, welcome to Sunday!

I’m pretty sure I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. The last thing that I remember is calling for Chaucer, who was singing the song of this people. I think I was still awake when he finally jumped up onto the bed. I don’t think I was awake when he finally got comfortable.

We’ll never know. Chaucer doesn’t speak English.

But here we are. When I’m finished with this post I’ll be getting up and doing laundry. We’ll probably have three loads this morning. I have to wash the sweaters that I wore all last week. Other than that, it’s a typical Sunday, which one difference: I go back to work tomorrow. The days of having three day weekends are over!

That’s ok. A normal schedule is just fine with me. I just gotta get used to it. Once I am, we’ll be right as rain.

Ok, let’s get comfy for a bit. Wake up for a little while, then it’s time for chores. Need a little more coffee in the system first. Plus Chaucer is on my lap.

Happy Sunday friends!