Tag: awake

This is a song for the ladies, but fella’s, listen closely.

Posted on by Shawshank

Oh, well hello there, my friends. When did you get here? The Flat is officially awake. I’ve been up since around 6:30ish, and Crystal suspects that she’s been up since around 5:30. It wasn’t my fault this time. Chaucer was snuggled up very close to her. And he’s like a tiny furry easy bake oven.

So we were up at the normal time yesterday to be ready to leave around 10 to drive out to the farm with my dad to repair the heater core, or blower. Whatever. Ha! I got a text about 9:30 saying that he was going to take his work truck out so we could follow. We pulled up to the corner just as he was getting there.

We made it out to the farm and pulled into the garage. Immediately he got to work. I was wearing an old hoodie expecting to help, but as we saw it truly was a one person job. In about 20 minutes he was done. The windshield wash was dethawed and emptied out. The Hot Mess Express has warm silent heat again!

At that point only about an hour had passed, so I asked what Crystal is most afraid about – do you want to go for a drive? I could see her internally screaming! So we drove to a new SlightlyBiggerTown. We grabbed some bread, liverwurst, and a few other things, brought it home, and….

Had the yummiest lunch that we’ve had in a couple of years.

But today is Sunday. Fun day. Chore day. I’ll be starting those in about an hour. But first I have to disturb the tiny cat that’s asleep on my lap. I need more coffee.

And the music there it was hauntingly familiar

Posted on by Shawshank

Good morning! It’s Tuesyay! Y’all made it! You kicked Monday’s ass! I knew you could do it. Now suck back that tea, and make another cup!

I slept like a log. I don’t think I even woke up in the night. If that’s the case, it’s been a while since that happened. I’ll be happy if that happened more often.

Coffee is ready, excuse me.

I have to tell you this coffee is really good. Yesterday was voting day, and while I didn’t get a sticker, and I learned that voting in Canada is vastly different from voting in the USA, I did get to keep the pencil. I also snuck some pictures.

All I needed was this and my photo ID
So you say voting is easy?
Oh snap, it is easy. Almost too easy.

Goin places I’ve never been, seein things that I may never see again

Posted on by Shawshank

Awake. The alarm was set for 6am. That was unneeded, as my dad didn’t get home until 12:30 this morning, so the note I got this morning says we’ll leave around 10am. Sigh. I can’t go back to sleep once I’m awake. I basically got up, turned on the shower, and turned on the coffee. And now here I am. So you now get to read whilst I wax poetic for a while.

I had weird dreams last night. I was getting all sorts of weird calls, some spam, some like I said, weird. I got into a fight with my mom for some reason, and I woke up from sleep or a nap in my dream, and I remember saying “I hope you’re happy, now I’ll be in a bad mood all day…” weirdness for sure. I’m not in a bad mood. I’m sleepy, but that’s what I get for getting up early. Read on!

Small town living. Here in TinyTown, the sidewalks roll up at 6 when the grocery store closes. Sure, the “C Store” is open until 9, but that’s about 2km outside of town. Then it’s quiet. You can hear cows mooing. Some cars drive by. People wave at you. It took me about 2 weeks to get used to waving back. People are so nice here. But people definitely move at their own pace here. It’s relaxing, and frustrating at the same time.

I applied, and was approved for my provincial health card two days ago. I should have it in about 2 weeks. Then, I can get photo ID. Then, I can apply for a drivers license. Hopefully, I don’t have to go through the graduated license program. If I do, I’ll have to have a licensed driver with me for 2 years. And part of the testing includes parallele parking. In about the 20 years (rounded up) that I’ve been driving, I’ve never had to parallele park before. I understand the theory, just have never had to. We’ll cross that bridge when we get there.

This coffee tastes so freakin good right now. I need more.

I don’t wanna miss you like this

Posted on by Shawshank

Worst. Sleep. Ever. I was so stuffed up. I couldn’t breathe, except through my mouth. I just want to take a pencil to my sinuses, and stab them until they drain. Add on to that by tossing and turning all night, because I couldn’t breathe. Then I was hot. Then I was cold. Then I had to pee. I woke up this morning with one of my blankets in a literal ball on top of me.

So yeah. Coffee is needed right now, considering I have about 10 minutes before my gramma gets up, and exclaims oh it looks likes it going to be a nice day today! No gramma, it’s -3 right now, it’s not going to be a nice day. It’s cold and windy and I want to be sleeping. But I can’t so I’m up. I have a headaches and I’m going to be grouchy most of the day.

The actual answer I give her; yes it looks nice out there. Yes, I had a pretty good sleep, how about you? Oh that’s good, I’m glad you had a good sleep.

Last night, while waiting for Crystal to finish with her Poi, and then finishing her phone call with her mom, I decided to hook up the TV to the VHS player. It took a bit of time because I was trying to hook it through the switch that also hooks up the PS2, Xbox, N64, and the GameCube. That failed last night, and I have no remotes for the TV or VCR, but I managed to get it to work.

Ugh. Standard Definition.

So my next challenge I think will be to try and hook up the gaming systems. But later. It’s coffee time. later we’ll be going into SlightBiggerTown to do some grocery shopping. That that’s also later. I can hear my grandmother moving down the hall.

It’s show time!