Carve the turkey turn the ball game on mix margaritas when the eggnog’s gone

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Good morning, merry Christmas! I hope y’all have a great day, and enjoy being with family and friends today. We have a whirl wind day planned. Over to the nursing home for a Christmas lunch with gramma, and then home for a couple of hours to bake a cake, and relax, then it’s off to Shady Acres for Christmas dinner.

The big package of Christmas gifts are somewhere between BC, and who knows where. The estimated date that they’ll arrive, is Monday the 29th. So we’ll have Christmas exchange then. I’ll grab my package, and Crystal’s , then we’ll be able to wrap the gifts, wait 3 minutes, and then we’ll rip the wrapping off

Yay! Destruction!

Well do what we alway do this Christmas, we’ll watch White Christmas, and I’ll silently cry. I don’t look to see if Crystal is crying, because she probably is. We don’t make a big deal out of it. It’s a very cute movie. I enjoy it every year.

So let’s greet the day! Happy Thursday! Merry Christmas my friends. ❤️

Oh, yeah, Santa we’re going to see AC/DC

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We’re almost there. It’s Christmas Eve. All that stands before us and some time off is just a simple 8.5 hour shift. Yep, I’m working the Christmas Eve shift. But, at least there’s 3 of us working today. I’ll be heading in a little early, just like I do on Sundays. It’s the same hours.

I slept ok last night. I forgot to loop the video, so I think I actually slept through some Tibetan throat singing. But that’s on me. I ended up shutting off the mask, and raw dogging that last 45 minutes or so.

It was a somewhat busy day. We baked two cakes. I brought one up to work, quartered for some of the employees. And came home. We played some Red Dead Redemption, and I asked the question, which made Crystal the adult for the afternoon:

“What do you want for dinner?”

We ended up going across the street, and I bought The Beautiful One dinner. We listened to Christmas music, and the restaurant was actually somewhat busy.

We relaxed by watching NXT, and then I, in a flash of actually wanting to move the plot forward, put on a couple of episodes of House of Guinness.

So let’s get this day started!

Happy Christmas Eve everyone!

Christmas bells those Christmas bells ringing through the land

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Good morning my friends. It’s the day before the night before Christmas. Podrick was definitely stirring this morning. I guess he knocked over the box that we have in the bathroom. I’m thinking he has somewhat of an idea what time it is, and he’s lonely. He just wants his humans and his sister to get up and be with him.

I had to restart sleep daddy last night. I was 1000 miles away, so I reset the video I was listening to. I’m pretty sure, on the second go around, I made it to the body scan, and when the started on the crown of the head, I was out like a light. The bed was almost the perfect temperature. Just a little bit warm. Crystal had to get up to make sure Podrick didn’t destroy the apartment.

Also, it’s still dark out. Stupid solstice.

It’s baking day today. that is, if I can get sugar at the tiny grocery store. I think I’m going to do two pumpkin chocolate chip cakes today. One for Christmas and I’ll split one for the two other key holders at work. So once the grocery store is open, I’ll head up there to get the sugar (fingers crossed) and start baking.

But first, coffee.

Tracking update for the Christmas presents:

Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet

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It’s morning time here at The Flat. It’s dark out. But the solstice was last night, so technically, the days are slowly starting to get longer again. So we have that going for us.

It’s still dark as night out there. And cold.

Back to work this afternoon for the easiest week possible. I’m only working 3 days this week, but I’ll be getting paid for 4 days. Can’t beat that. I just have to make it through today, Christmas Eve, and then Saturday. But I’ll concentrate on making it through 1 day at a time.

It was a nice day yesterday. I was totally lazy, and since I did the laundry the day before, I neglected to do the rest of my chores. I feel a bit bad. But, I was really nice to do nothing. I did cook brunch, and Crystal’s pancakes turned out amazingly well.

After brunch, when it was time, we headed over to Shady Acres. I hauled in half the wood pellets, and cleaned the stove. On Boxing Day, I’ll head back over, and haul the rest in, and clean the stove, as I’m working the weekend, and won’t be able to clean it on Sunday.

My Christmas package finally updated last night. The bulk of my parent’s gifts, and all of Crystal’s gifts won’t make it for Christmas. I guess they’ll be New Years gifts. I even ordered them with lots of time! The slow down was, as far as I can tell was when they delayed for 10 days when they were “picking” the items. Good times.

So let’s get ready to greet the day. Happy Monday y’all!

They talk Italian to him, and he even understands Cummares and cumpares too, they dance ‘a tarantelle When Sannanicola comes to town, and brings ‘u ciucciarello

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It’s dark out.

Up to about 15 minutes ago, it was dark in here as well. But Podrick started to get the itch. The itch to climb all over me. I could tell that was resisting for most of the morning. He went across me twice I believe. His paws hurt. He has no powers of silence or quietly walking around.

But it was around the normal time to get up, so I got out of the almost too warm cocoon of the bed. It was starting to get very warm. Sleep daddy was no longer talk to me, and just playing the background music. So I figured it was time to get up.

So yeah. That was this morning. We didn’t do too much yesterday. I shovelled the side walk, and hit up the tiny grocery store for some bacon for brunch this morning. I stopped at the post office, and picked up my parent’s Christmas present. I’m just waiting for the main package.

They have 1 day to get this shipped to me. The 2 packages have been late. But I guess that’s what happens when it takes the company like 9 days to actually start the picking process. Now that I’ve thought about this for a minute, I’ve already gotten a sorry for the delay $5. This package has everything in it. Crystal’s gifts, secondary gifts for my parents. The wrapping paper for everything.

I have a feeling that it’ll be late. I ordered with lots of time. But we’ll see. Technically, there’s still three days that it can arrive. Hopefully, it makes it here in time.

Time for more coffee. It’s Sunday my dudes.