Hey Griswold, where do you think you’re gonna put a tree that big?

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Welp, here we are again. Good morning my friends. I once asked a guy I worked with long ago, that if you have to work on Saturday, is Friday still an important milestone for the week. He said of course it is, it’s still the end of the week, and that’s fuckin important! Don’t shit on Fridays.

I consider that pretty sage advice.

Happy Friday everyone! We’ve made it! It’s been a long week of closing the shop, then opening it, and here we are, closing the shop tonight. Tomorrow will be my first weekend shift. I’m told it’s busy.

I got my first pay check today. woohoo!

Yesterday wasn’t too bad. The day went pretty quickly, until about noon, then time seemed to slow for a little while. Then all of a sudden, it was time to go. I flew out and drove home, ready to relax for a bit.

I gave Crystal the choice of going out for dinner or just ordering a pizza. She chose pizza, and it was pizza day, so we got two free appetizers. I believe she enjoyed the mozzarella sticks over the mushroom bites.

It was yummy, but a dense pizza. I could only get three pieces in me. I was stuffed.

But today is a new day. Let’s see what happens today!

I really can’t stay but baby it’s cold outside

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Hey hey, bitches. It’s ya boy. It’s very bright outside which was the complete opposite of this morning when it was very dark out. But surprisingly warmish out.

I got up, and shut off the alarm, and stumbled into the bathroom to do my thing, and get dressed. Coffee on, cats fed. I watched a little bit of the news this morning. More on for not noise, but something.

I made my lunch, ate breakfast, and started the Hot Mess. I pull into work and mentally prepare myself to start the day. I much prefer the morning shift – not the waking up at the ass crack of dawn? But because the opening shift has stuff to do, unless second shift got a lot done.

They got a lot done.

So I do my usual morning routine, and then… pretty much both me and the BossLady just didn’t do too much of anything. I mean we did stuff, but since there wasn’t too much to do, we didn’t do anything too quickly. If you know what I mean.

Since there was only two of us, and the boss was putting in her order, I was left to myself to do most of the stuff I was trained for. I got through it without any problems, which is awesome! I can still learn new things! It just takes a little longer for it to sink in.

We’re getting pizza for dinner tonight, since I’ll be working our usual date night. It’s pizza day at the restaurant close to the Flat, and we’ll be getting some free appetizers, yum!

Which is good, because I’m a little peckish.

All I want for Christmas is you

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Oh geez, I almost totally forgot to post today. I don’t have a lot of time in the mornings when I have to be up for first shift, so I figured that I would post as soon as I got home. Well, I was tired, so I went onto the bed for a quick hour nap. Pippin chose to come to bed with me, and snuggled right up under my chin, where she stayed for the hour that I was there.

Lawd, 4:30 cones wicked early – especially when I only lightly slept until about 12:30 or so this morning. I was either too hot, or way too cold. I did manage to fall into a nice deep sleep until Crystal’s alarm went off, which I quickly shut off, then 2 minutes later, mine went off. I shut the second alarm off pretty quickly, and started my day.

Feed the cats.

Turn on the coffee.

Eat a quick breakfast of a bowl of cereal.

Start the car, to let it warm up.

Make lunch.

From there I drove to work, and started the day. Turning on the lights, making coffee, verifying last nights counts. You know, all the fun stuff.

It was very slow this morning. Before I left, the delivery came, so for the last half hour, I put as much product out before I left.

So when I got home, I was a little tired, so like I said I put myself down for a nap. It was nice, and when I got up, I was freezing. I’ve slowly warmed up over the course of a couple of hours.

I fed the kitties.

And then I started dinner. Crystal gave me the choice of hamburgers or poutine. I chose poutine, and I am a fat man right now. Crystal just finished the dishes m, and Pippin has taken over the cube. I’m sure Chaucer just decided it wasn’t worth the effort, so I believed that he just went up onto the bed.

Another early day tomorrow. I’m working my first weekend day on Saturday. Then it’ll be the staff Christmas party on Sunday. Oh happy day!

12 drummers drumming

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Here we are again, o dark thirty. I’m a broken record, but I slept like the dead. It only took mere minutes for me to drift off to sleep. I think I was up, and out to the bathroom around 2 or 3. Or I just woke up and look at the clock. I really can’t remember. The next time I woke up, it was 6:58. Come on! Why couldn’t I just wake up when the alarm went off?!

But here we are.

Awake.

It wasn’t a bad day at work last night. Kinda slow. But we got it done, and made more money than first shift. The night crew kids are very nice, and so much patience for an old dude like me. So far, I get a long pretty well with everyone. I’m on my third week this week, and things are starting to click. Slowly. But they’re clicking.

Today is the last day off until Sunday I believe. Two opening shifts then a closing shift, and then Saturday shift – 9-6. Should be too bad. And I should be getting my first pay check on Friday.

Nothing major planned for today – heading over to the second hand store, and the post office. We gotta pack up the package for the in-laws today. Other than that, nothing is planned. Which is nice.

I’m gonna end this today, I need to get more coffee, and do some other things. But I have a snuggly Chaucer. He’ll be mad that he needs to move, but he’ll get over it. Happy Tuesday y’all 🙂

11 pipers piping

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Good morning. I was up mere minutes before the alarm went off. I think, that I actually fell asleep with one minute left – so the alarm was a little frightening when it went off. But here we are now.

The kittens have been fed, and their litter cleaned. Chaucer is wandering around. I need to get some more paper towel out just in case he pops. I really should get up and get another roll out.

It was a chilly day when we actually went out into the world. Inside, nice and warm. I took over the Switch yesterday. I think I beat No Man’s Sky. I’m not too sure though. My character woke up and again my ship was missing and damaged somewhere on the planet. I just called another ship and left the planet.

I needed up selling my class S ship, and I started rebuilding on a class B ship. It looks cooler, and it actually is functional with the solar sail. The solar sail is nice because it recharges some of your systems. So it’s cheaper in the long run.

Long story short, I’m back to square one. I have once again, no idea what I’m doing. I’ll keep going for a little bit longer just to see what’s happening in the game. I’m enjoying it.

After that, we headed over to Shady Acres. Mom handed us three small food totes of cookies. She says she’s just about finished baking.

We have cookies!

When we got home, Crystal fired up the Switch and played some Divinity 2 until it was time for hot cocoa. We fell into bed, and I was out in record time.