Category: Life

Grey Days

Posted on by Shawshank

It’s a grey day here at Shady Acres. The alarm went off at 7:30, and I got up and dressed. I was warned that there was a little bit of drizzle. But I got up and dressed to run anyways. I managed to do 1 loop this morning. Disappointed with myself. It’s cool, and I could’ve done a lot more. But I didn’t. Wednesday I want to do 3 loops.

Got home, watched some news, and the changed it to Discovery Velocity. Some Canadian based reality shows. Then I got up and sliced some bread for the week. Instead of buying bread, it’s cheaper to make the 4-5 loaves. So my job is to slice all of them. 

Grey days like this make me loagy. It’s too damp to do any yard work. But it is what it is, hopefully I’ll get out of this funk today. I’ll make it a good day, I know it!

Happy Monday, eh?

A Bugger

Posted on by Shawshank

My gramma came out to say good night. She says she knows what I’m going through she said it was really hard when she lost my grandpa and then came to live here. She knows it’s not fair for them. She looked like she was going to cry which makes me want to cry.

Then she said whistfuly, “life’s a bugger”, smiled a little smile, and said good night again.

Finally, a happy update!

Posted on by Shawshank

Until I can get some time this weekend, so that The Editor can help me login so I can post myself I resort to emailing posts. I got a phone on Monday, my dad is lending me his old phone. He still has it, because he’s pretty much a low key hoarder. He has a wall of VHS tapes that he’s been moving for about 30 years. Still has a VCR too. But, I digress. Back to this sweet phone, it’s an iPhone 5 running, I think, iOS 5 or 6. But it does what I need it to do, and a little more. By little more, I can run Netflix, which means on the lowest setting Netflix has (4 hours will cost me about a gig of data), means that I can watch the third series of Dark. I just did a quick test, and I can watch and read the subtitles not too badly. I took two screen shots too

The town is really cute. There’s an air raid siren that blasts at noon. No one tolde about this, and I thought we were being invaded! No one paid any attention to it. 

Today I started the yard work. I pulled weeds, and weed whacked the front and side yard, and around the planters my mom has. Tomorrow after my run, I’ll be working on the back yard. Then I’ll be spraying roundup on all the weeds. Last weekend my dad and I thought we fixed the leaking water tank on his trailer. Well, it’s still leaking, so I figure we’ll be under it this weekend too.

It feels good to be doing stuff again.

At 6pm, this town rolls up its sidewalks and EVERYTHING closes. I have been having a blast wandering around town taking pictures. I’m sure the whole town knows I’m here now. It’s that small. If you’re looking for a stop light, ya better find another town. But let me tell you, I think this town could use a bakery/coffee shop. Badly. Looking into home based businesses we could have a home based slaughterhouse. Crazy huh? 

Ok time to end this post (written entirely on an iPhone 5), my meds are kicking in, and no one else is gonna do my run.

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.