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Still Sunday 8th

Hello my love!

2 books, with sappy endings made me tear up. Where do I send my man card? I miss you lots n lots. I really liked the visit today. You’re so beautiful. New country – get ready for kilometres, litres (litre o’ cola) and Celsius! I’m going to have to do the same. Oh, and Mom complaining about Trudeau. Fun fun! But seriously, you’re doing a great job. Before you know it, it’ll be time to hit the road.

20 minutes in to lockup and again I’m really missing you. A LOT. Again I’m almost in ears. I wish, I wish, I wish. Like I said in a previous letter, the nights are the worst. For you too, I bet. It’s almost quiet in here. OH thank you for the commissary money. At least in here, I’m being taught patience, right? Ok, I’m going to read for a bit and try to sleep, and dream of you smiling and holding my hand. I love you so much. Sleep well babygirl. Kisses you.

It’s a crazy Monday! Finally caught some actual news on NPR – the BBC. It’s crazy out in the world. I don’t think I slept all that good. I think I was having nightmares, I dunno. I felt very creeped out though. I mostly tossed and turned, and was cold for most of the night. And with the time change, that didn’t help too much either. So I’m feeling kinda like a zombie today. I’ll get over it. I always do. And if I’m annoying you with these letters, just tell me, and I can stop for a while.

So this morning I got up shortly after 7. Made my bed (we have to do that here) and finished A Walk Across America. This guy walked across the US in the 70’s. I didn’t tear up! Even when his dog died! I should go and try to find another book, I’ve read most of em down there. I hope they switch them out tonight. Still fighting my way through A Clash of Kings. I’m about 1/2 way through it.

Checking the commissary transactions, they refunded me $0.55 – the price of a stamp. Ugh. The next time I can order is Wednesday for Friday. I’m going to have to double up the letters and order a book of stamps. But we’ll see Tuesday afternoon, if the stamp is there, but my hopes aren’t high. You may get a couple of thicker envelopes. But I’ll mark which ones to read first. 🙂

The afternoon flew by. Got our hands on an Uno deck. Actually 3 decks we made one, which will stay in our room, and returned the other 2 decks. So yeah, we actually laughed today, first time in a while.

¡BAÑO EN USO!¹

Another thing to add to the keep pile: polar bear, and go the fuck to sleep bear.² I love you baby 🙂 After Uno this afternoon I swept the floor in the room. Tonight before (or after) I call you, I’ll shower. You’d hate the showers here. The spray is very fine, mostly warm, and automatically shuts off. And you have to be an acrobat to clean + rinse your undercarriage.

So the shower was before the phone call, and before dinner too. I looked out and saw all the showers were empty, so I showered. The water started off cold, but got warmish hot pretty quickly. Dinner tonight was sheppard’s pie, but with a lot more carrots. More carrots than “meat” or at this point, is it “meet”? HAHA

But this concludes another rambling letter.

I love you more than Brad Pitt, cooked carrots, and prison showers.

Love, Shankshaw.

Kisses

¹ Their unit, from what I can tell, is more like a dorm. Each room has a narrow window in the door, and a plastic sign that fits in the window for privacy when they’re using the toilet.
² Bedtime Bear, a birthday present to him last year – editor