Lucky as a seven, livin’ in heaven, with my Dixieland Delight

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I slept like the dead last night, and while it was a little chilly this morning, I aggressively tried to snuggle Crystal, to stay warm. Podrick was just starting to get into play mode. I had pulled him under the covers and gave him some snuggles, before he powered his way out from under the blankets.

Back to work this afternoon. Three shifts, and then I’m on a long weekend. Woohoo! I can definitely make it. But, unless the schedule has changed over the last couple of days, which I’m sure it hasn’t, I’ll be working with GenAlpha for the next three days. It shouldn’t be too bad. Workin’ for the weekend!

We didn’t do a whole lot of anything yesterday. Crystal’s package came in, so I went to get that, and then I delivered the mail to my parents. Once back at the Flat, I opened the package, and grabbed the USB-C cable and with crossed fingers, I plugged it into the Switch. ITS WORKED! Crystal can once again play in docked mode. W00t!

I got little joysticks that sit on my phones screen to make it a little easier to move around while I’m playing Persona 5X. It actually helps out a lot. It makes it a lot easier to actually interact and do things in game. I played for a little while, while Crystal played Neir Automata.

I made poutine for dinner, and got it on the table in time to watch NXT. It’s a lot different than Raw or Smackdown. I don’t know a lot of the wrestlers, or their storylines, so it is a little more boring. But it’s still entertaining. After NXT, I put on the first episode of new WWE series – Unreal. The behind the scenes show. It was actually pretty freaking awesome. I have three more episodes left. Hopefully, they keep making episodes.

Well, fuck this city, I’m movin’ to Saskatchewan

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Good morning everyone. Crystal and the kittens let me sleep in. I didn’t even hear Crystal picking the cats out of the bedroom. My face is stuffed full of snot this morning. I can feel it pressing against my eyes. Like I said to Crystal, thank you for letting me sleep in. I guess Podrick was playing with something under the bed, and whatever it was, it was really annoying Crystal.

Yesterday was a really nice day off. I did the laundry, and the rest of the chores. During the chores, I made us some brunch, which was also really tasty. We didn’t do too much yesterday. I kinda puttered around. I repotted the Christmas cactus, but other than that, I really didn’t do too much.

I played a couple of hands of Balatro, but didn’t really get any good runs in. The cards weren’t there. The jokers definitely were not there. So I switched to lower stakes. It didn’t matter, I think I only had one run that got to round 15. Every other game didn’t make it to round 5. So yeah I knew when it was time to put it down.

We had beans and wieners for dinner while watching Monday Night Raw. It was a bit of a mess. They did another tribute for Hulk Hogan, and then just jumped into the most random matches I’ve ever seen. Don’t get me wrong, they were good matches. Just random. After Raw, I put on some History channel shows, because I still like learning things. After that it was starting to get late, and my eyes, and nose had caught something in the air, and I had having a bit of an allergy attack. So that’s when we decided to go to bed.

And now it’s a new day. It’s gray, and the kittens are mostly active. Podrick is trying to get on the upper shelf that holds all the plants. Pippin is probably at the back door, keeping to herself. She’s starting to get tired of his shit (we hope). She is starting to stand her ground. Yay!

Living my life in and out of the twilight zone

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That’s great, it starts with an earthquake. Metaphorically. Podrick, annoyed from being locked out of the bedroom, finally launched his attack. It sounded like he threw his body at the door. It was at that time, Crystal and I were ripped from slumber. Because in my dreams, The Beautiful One and I, are curled up asleep, Crystal of course is quietly snoring. Me? I’m probably curled up, and slightly drooling.

What actually happened, you ask? Well, I’m not sure but it probably was like this – Crystal, watching TikTok, or editing photos, or videos. Me? Trying to snuggle Crystal. But it’s warm, so I’ll try and shove a hand under her. Also, I’m drooling like a leaky faucet. I try and snuggle Crystal more, but like I said, it’s warm, so she envisions slowly putting a pillow over my face, you know, to stop me drooling.

Finally, a day off. It was an action packed week. First time in a while, where I had five days scheduled. But I powered through it, and ended up on the other side. I’ll be doing chores. I’m really gonna try to actually do all of them. I always skip at least one chore, because I’m a lazy bastard. But I’ll try and do them today, or tomorrow.

It’s been warm here the last four or five days, and the last couple days it’s been humid. This is Podrick’s first summer, so he’s experiencing the heat and humidity for the first time. Pippin is mostly used to it, and will hang out in the cool areas of the Flat. Poor Pod just exists – he’ll sleep on the linoleum. He’ll find a cool place to sleep.

You know I’m in love with an uptown girl, my uptown girl

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Before I even knew what I was doing, I kicked Podrick out of the bedroom this morning. He was chasing his tail in between us on the before probably around 4:30-5am. So out her went, and I was back asleep pretty quickly.

The rest of the Flat didn’t look too bad this morning. I guess over stimulated rage can’t be contained by overwhelming tiredness. I’m guessing that Pod fell asleep after playing a little. Only a couple of things were knocked over. I consider that a win for sure.

Back to work for an all day shift – the Sunday shift. One of my coworkers hates working Sundays. He doesn’t like to open and close on the same day. He says it’s too much work. Le sigh. I don’t mind Sundays, as you open the door at 10am, before you know it, it’s noon, then 3 pm, and it’s time to start getting ready to close. Then, BOOM! It’s closing time.

And scene.

But first, I need to get coffee in me, and a shower, so I don’t stink up the place. And maybe if I’m lucky, snuggles from a cat. Happy Sunday my friends.

Tommy used to work on the docks, union’s been on strike he’s down on his luck, it’s tough, so tough

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Hey hey. Another late post. I was up again, at the ass-crack of dawn to go to work. But I made it there in time, and got the store opened. They I did the extra stuff that’s needs to be done on a Saturday morning. It was a wicked slow morning, even more so than other Saturdays – so we cleaned. We have a weekly and monthly cleaning list. The monthly is finished. We usually finish it around this time, so my coworker and I moved on to the weekly list. I think there’s 15 items on the list – there’s two not finished now. Accomplishment!

After work, I picked up The Beautiful One, and we headed to SlightlyBiggerTown for much needed supplies. With the supplies gathered, we stopped at Subway, and picked up lunch/dinner. Once home, the groceries were put away, and the food was consumed. Now I could nap, but it’s way too late for me to nap. So I’ll find something on TV, perhaps Smackdown or possibly play Balatro for a while. My attention span isn’t really that long right now. I’ll find something though.

Just gotta survive tomorrow, and the. I’ll be on two days off! W00t. Sundays aren’t usually too bad. I do find my energy slowly start to taper off around 3ish. But we’ll get it done, and have the store looking good for when the BossLady comes in Monday morning. And tomorrow for dinner, motherfucking burgers!