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Three French hens

Posted on by Shawshank

Another dark morning. Coffee is brewing, and I’m struggling to shake the cobwebs from my head. It was a pretty good sleep. I’m still tired though. I don’t know if I’ll ever not be tired, but here we are. Good morning my friends, welcome to Sunday!

I’m pretty sure I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. The last thing that I remember is calling for Chaucer, who was singing the song of this people. I think I was still awake when he finally jumped up onto the bed. I don’t think I was awake when he finally got comfortable.

We’ll never know. Chaucer doesn’t speak English.

But here we are. When I’m finished with this post I’ll be getting up and doing laundry. We’ll probably have three loads this morning. I have to wash the sweaters that I wore all last week. Other than that, it’s a typical Sunday, which one difference: I go back to work tomorrow. The days of having three day weekends are over!

That’s ok. A normal schedule is just fine with me. I just gotta get used to it. Once I am, we’ll be right as rain.

Ok, let’s get comfy for a bit. Wake up for a little while, then it’s time for chores. Need a little more coffee in the system first. Plus Chaucer is on my lap.

Happy Sunday friends!

Two turtle-doves

Posted on by Shawshank

Good morning my fritends. Good morning from a normal time! It’s the weekend, and I really shouldn’t be getting used to the weekends anymore. Soon, I’ll be in “general population”, and I’ll be scheduled all over the place. But for this weekend, at least, it’s normal.

Later on in the morning, I’ll be slowly finishing my transition to small town living. I’ll be doing my shopping in town today. Yep, I don’t feel like driving 30 minutes to grocery shop in SlightlyBiggerTown, so I’ll do it here. Whatever the little grocery store doesn’t have, I’ll check the gas station/convenience store. Don’t worry my friends, we’ll have enough food.

Yesterday wasn’t too bad. I’m getting used to all the cobbled together computer systems. It’s also be a heck of a long time since I had to be on my feet the whole day. The first three days was really hard on my back, but Thursday and Friday was too bad. Next week I have a week of closing shifts.

But today, it’s some grocery shopping and maybe breakfast for dinner. I don’t know yet. We’ll figure it out.

But before all that can happen, it’s coffee time. We’ll wait for the sun to come up and then we’ll figure out the day.

A partridge in a pear tree

Posted on by Shawshank

Holy motherfucking shit, it’s motherfucking Friyay! It’s been a long, but pretty good week. Yep, I started a new job on Monday, zoned a lot of product. Put out, or helped put out 6 deliveries, and a lot of award winning customer service.

It’s been a good week. Hard getting up at 4:30am. Who knew that there was a 4:30am? I certainly didn’t know! But that’s ok, I got up with no problem each day. Although today, was just a little harder than a couple of days ago. It’s all good.

Yesterday I spent 4.5 hours staring at a computer doing the lottery CBL. It went over probably 6-8 games. I still don’t know how to play them, but I’m certified to sell them now. So it’s a whole other system to master. The computers there seem like they’re just cobbled together with the express purpose to just barely work together.

Christmas decorations went up today. I have my face taped to a Santa Claus, and I have my own Christmas stocking. lol.

Tonight is date night, so I can’t get into comfy clothes just yet. Soon though.

I don’t have too many plans for the weekend, any groceries that we need I can go to the flagstaff station or the grocery store to get them. Other than that, I’m not leaving the house.

Happy weekend friends!

You can be my Yoko Ono you can follow me wherever I go

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Morning y’all. Just a quick post this am, as I have a few extra minutes today. I was setting up to make lunch today, and suddenly realized that I’m an idiot, who forgot to take the bread out of the freezer. So now I have to buy lunch at work. That annoys me. I hope this doesn’t colour the rest of the day.

It’s a little colder out today. It’s clear and just a little bit breezy at the house so I know it’s gonna be even windier at work. I’m wearing the big coat today. I do like getting up this early for one simple thing the town is still sleeping, and there are no sounds outside right now it is perfectly calm, peaceful and quiet, all you can hear is the wind.

I seem to be waking up just a couple times in the night. Never getting up? But just looking at the clock, then doing math so I know how much time I have left, if I were to fall asleep right then. Once at 1:30, and once again right before the alarm clock.

So yeah welcome to Thursday. Let’s kick today in the nuts.

And without you is how I disappear

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Hey hey party people, it’s ya boy. I’m home from work. It’s getting better – back pain wise. I could walk up right when I left, which is a good thing! I may not have to take some painkillers this afternoon.

And of course it’s getting easier to get up in the mornings, especially when I only have a couple of days left on opening shift. Next week, I’m told, I’ll be closing all next week. Yay.

I met the I guess district manager today when he dropped off the grocery order. He’s a typical district manage – a blowhard. You know the type that likes to tease the manager. So of course I just did the usual routine of buttering up. When BossLady had thought he was following behind her, and was surprised when he wasn’t, I piped up and said of course he’s not following you he charts his own course – which he loved and immediately promoted me to store manager.

I declined the promotion.

We did more out of dates today. I brought home some mashed potato’s and some oregano. Not too shabby, but I was shut down when I asked when we did out of date gas.

Spoiler alert: we don’t get free gas, lol. But I was told, when they do change the price of gas, we’re allowed to fuel up before the price change goes into effect, as long as it’s not too busy. That’s cool!

Ok, time to relax. Have a great Wednesday y’all.