The meat carved was drawn from succulent juices

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Good afternoon! I’ve been up since 5 this morning, when my alarm scared the shit out of me. I managed to shut it off, but accidentally turned on the second alarm, which went off around 6. At that point, Podrick had already been in the bedroom terrorizing Crystal while she tried to sleep. So she was up and getting dressed when I went in to shut the alarm off.

I worked this morning, and struggled to remember how to open the store while at the same time trying to instruct a new hire on how to open. But we managed to get the store open, and I managed to get the extra Saturday stuff completed before we opened. We opened on time, and a regular came in as soon as we opened – needing change. He had 3 $100 bills. I told him he’s my first customer, we literally just opened, there’s no way I can give you change without totally depleting my entire drawer.

Pippin and Podrick are slowly starting to get along. They still play the chase game, taking turns on who’s chasing who. But she’s holding her ground, and yesterday we watched Pippin get him in a headlock, and turned letting him go from the mid point on the cat tree. It was hilarious the expression on her face – pure boredom.

With my dad in the hospital getting a hip replacement my mom is alone, and she wanted to know what we wanted for dinner on Sunday. Crystal, using advance calculus and logic determined it’s easier for us to cook for an extra person than it would be for my mom to cook for two extra people. So we invited her over for dinner. We’ll be making homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs. I picked up a pie from work for desert.

So I’m doing laundry today, so I can do some cleaning for tomorrow. We’re not feral, the house is say 80-89% clean. I just need to do a few more things, as I was lazy last week and didn’t really do anything other than laundry.

Fun times huh?

Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes and Lenny Bruce is not afraid

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The baby let us sleep. Well, let me sleep. He sucked on crystals fingers for probably a few hours, while I slept blissfully unaware. Currently, Pippin is on the second highest shelf in the front window, and Podrick is on the shelf below, playing with a ribbon on a stick. Pippin has turned around to watch him hang off the shelf, fighting with the ribbon. Podrick climbed up to the shelf Pippin was on. Pippin just slapped him off of the shelf to the floor.

It’s the May Long here. That’s what the locals call Victoria Day for the rest of Canada. It’s always a mixed bag for the weather. Currently we’re under a rain warning. As of this morning, the area that we live in has gotten about 2.7 inches in the last 48 hours. And the building where I work the front window and floor leaks. Good times.

I have a day off today, I’m working tomorrow morning, so I figured that we’d go and do our twice a month travel into SlightlyBiggerTown for supplies. I have a list made, so in a few hours, we’ll be heading out. While Crystal is putting on her makeup, I’ll head over to the school to pick up tickets for the musical that the grade 10, 11, and 12’s are putting on at the end of the month. It should be pretty good.

I had to put her six feet under and I can still hear her complain

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Podrick left me alone last night/this morning. Crystal says he actually snuggled in between us in the night. Of course he’s so small, I didn’t feel him. I slept undisturbed all night. I just wish that Crystal could sleep through the night as well.

On the Pippin/Podrick front. Pippin isn’t taking his shit any more. It’s normal now for her to pin him to the ground, or knock him off the cat tree, and watch him fall to the ground. In the evenings, she plays the chasey chasey game. He chases her, she chases him. You can tell she’s holding back, because she could totally run right past him.

He still sleeps in the dresser in my socks and underwear. However, he’s growing so much, I don’t know how much longer he’ll be able to do that.

Work wasn’t too bad last night. It was my first full shift alone with GenAlpha. He’s not a bad kid. He’s just a talker, and I’m not much of a talker. So yeah, it was just a wicked long evening. But I think it went off without a hitch.

Throw the snacks in the bag (and I’m a ghost like swayze)

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Good rainy morning everyone. It’s gonna be a lot cooler today, than the last couple of days. It’s gray, and looks a little moist out there today.

Podrick was mostly good last night. I woke up around 4, and I think he was chasing his tail in between both of us. I woke up and picked him up and put him on the floor. I did that 2, or 3 more times. He hissed at me a couple of times. I put him on the floor the last time, and whispered, “please go to sleep, little guy.” And that’s then I was out again. And I was out. I don’t think I moved until the Beautiful One nudged me, and whispered time to get up.

Now we’re up.

Podrick is off doing Podrick things, and Pippin is very content to sit in the front window and watch all the birds in the front yard. Crystal just tried to show Podrick the birds out the window, but he’s all about the toys, and just running around.

Back to work again today. Hopefully the day will go quickly. But either day, we’ll all have good days today.

Have a super sparkly Wednesday!