Decorate the house with lights at night snow’s on the ground, snow white so bright

Posted on by Shawshank

After the last update of Jetpack, things are a little wonky. My tags aren’t in the right order, so I’ve either missed some, or I don’t know. I don’t have a featured image, because every time I tried to put one up, it would crash the app. Come on Jetpack, be better.

Oh well.

Close enough.

I crashed hard last night. I know I was listening to a new video last night. He said where we were going but I can’t remember. All I remember is thinking to myself, “wow it’s taking a while to fall asleep ….”

And I was out.

It felt like it was taking forever.

We didn’t do a whole lot of anything yesterday. We did make it to the second hand store. I bought Crystal a set of blue Christmas lights. I’m sure she’ll use them when she goes to work this afternoon. Oh, I found a new whisk to replace the one I broke, when I was baking Monday.

Dinner was a journey. The first jar of spaghetti sauce just was not good. So out I went into the winter wonderland. I grabbed another jar of sauce, or if you’re from the east coast, and Italian, a jar of gravy, and some stinky cheese. How come stinky cheese is so freakin’ expensive?

After that, dinner was amazing.

The rest of the night was nice and relaxing. I watched NXT, while Crystal played Factorio. I really enjoyed the last two days off.

Back to work this afternoon! Let’s gooo!

Baby, it’s bad out there say, what’s in this drink?

Posted on by Shawshank

I slowly, woke up. I heard a bit of a noise, and internally panicked. I didn’t recognize the sound, so my mind went into slight freak out mode. I breathed my way through it for about 1 or 2 minutes. I slowly took off the mask, cracked open my eye. Just one, you don’t want to waste all the sleep magic, and peeped the clock.

Screenshot

I slowly sat up, and swung my legs off the bed. I found my clothes and stepped into the pants. Once dressed, I padded out and turned the coffee in, and did the bathroom stuff. So now we’re up, and mostly mobile.

The weather app says freezing rain right now, turning to snow for the rest of the day. Fuck the snow! We’re gonna go to the thrift store today. It’s been way too long. Even though it’s the same stuff as the last time, it gets us out of the house for a little while.

I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels

Posted on by Shawshank

I slept twice last night. We get into bed, and do our bed things. I give The Beautiful One kisses, and we slowly start getting ready to go to sleep.

I’m out.

About a half hour later, Podrick did something, and woke me up. I repositioned, and pulled my mask down. I didn’t even have the mask or the YouTube going. So I got that going, and got the volume set correctly. I don’t remember putting the phone in my dresser drawer, and I was out again.

I remember the guy saying to concentrate on the dome of my head, and how there’s a light warming it. That’s all I remember before falling asleep.

Work wasn’t too bad yesterday. At one point I come back in from outside and said, “co-worker, it’s snowing outside, and it’s 1:30. Do you know what that means?”

Blank look in my direction.

“That means for the next five and a half hours, we listen to” … (pause for dramatic effect) …

“Christmas music!”

I’m pretty sure he humoured me.

She’s a power girl in a nineties world and she knows just what to do

Posted on by Shawshank

Here we are, awake again. Final push for the weekend. The dreaded 10-6 shift. Actually it’s closer to 9:30-6:15. But that’s not important. We’ll get through it. Sundays can go one of two ways: wicked busy, or deathly slow. I hope that it’ll be the third option: just busy enough to pass the day quickly.

I slept pretty good last night. Until this morning when I was having trouble breathing through my nose. The sleepy time talking guy wasn’t talking. Just sounds. I tried to focus on them, but my stomach was a little pained, and I figured I could sneak out to the bathroom.

Until I used the last of the trailer paper, and had to get more. And you can’t do that quietly, in this house. But I got more, and as quietly as possible. No cats tried to run into the closet.

So now, I’m just gonna surf the information super highway until 8. Then I’m gonna shower and mentally prepare for the day. Happy Sunday y’all!

Being with you has opened my eyes could I ever believe such a perfect surprise?

Posted on by Shawshank

It’s a lot later than usual, this post. Sorry. My brain is still foggy when I get up at 5am. I almost slept through the night, but around 1:30, Podrick decided to do Podrick things, and I had to ruin his fun. I fell asleep shortly after.

I had to open the shop this morning. I think it was around -7° without the wind chill when I got to work. I got the store ready to open. Then outside with my lantern toque to measure the fuels. I heard my coworker pull up and open his door, so I yelled that I was out back, and to come and use the side door. Once I was finished outside, the store opened minutes later to … no one. It was a quiet morning. Eventually, customers started to come in.

After work, I headed to Shady Acres to clean the pellet stove. After my mom showed me Crystal’s Christmas gift, and the shop-vac bag had been replaced, I cleaned the stove and turned it on. I grabbed their vacuum, and headed back to The Flat.

No plans for the rest of the day, except to finish Smackdown, and then make pizza, and watch the NXT PLE tonight.

Back to work tomorrow morning for the day. Then two glorious days off.