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If I could get in, drop me a pin, hop in the whip and come over

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I don’t know if Podrick let us (me) sleep, or if Crystal shooed him out of the bedroom before he could wake me up. But it was a glorious sleep this morning. It was a good sleep all around. But as always, the last two hours is the best sleep. And the bed was the perfect temperature.

Work wasn’t too bad last night. Quiet, but it was still a great night. We did some cleaning, and helped out the customers that came in. We got a new air compressor, so the public will be happy that they can once again use free air. I have to get used to the air compressor randomly turning on to maintain air pressure.

The rains came last night around 7, I believe. It was too bad, the step up from drizzle. But we got a mini light show with some lightning, and the thunder was pretty loud at some points. Since it was close to the end of the night, I didn’t have to go out into it too much. But I closed up the shop, and I was on my way home.

It looks like it’s gearing up to be a nice sunny day out there. Sure beats the gray days from last week. The sun makes me happy. However, according to my weather app, the sun is short-lived – the clouds will roll back in. Yay

When the lights go down in the city

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The troubles started when I woke up early this morning. I had lost my mask, so I improvised. I go to the bathroom, and that’s when I woke up Podrick. I climb back into bed, and try to go back to sleep. I think I might have even for a minute or two. He was in full Podrick form this morning. He really was pissing off Crystal. The last straw was he got into a cabinet. Crystal flew out of bed. A few minutes later, after trying to get Pippin to snuggle, I figured it was time to start the day.

Day started.

I think Podrick and Pippin are actually sitting together on the table at the back door. I don’t want to get up to check, because that’ll remind Podrick that there’s other people in the Flat, so I’ll let him think that he’s the king here. The next time I’ll get up is after this, to refill my coffee.

Yesterday, was really nice. I didn’t do shit. I did a quick meal prep for today and tomorrow’s lunches. Other than that, we just played Nier Automata all day. We’re almost in the same spot, I’m just a couple of big fights behind the Beautiful One. Crystal made a gorgeous, and tasty curry last night. We feasted and watched NXT. After the wrestling, I put on a couple of National Geographic for the rest of the night.

And now here we are. I believe it’s Thursday my dudes. So yeah, it’s another day.

More coffee pls.

They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard! Gard, gard

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I’m awake. Yep, it’s a little later than normal. I’ll try and contain the cats, if The Beautiful One would like to nap this afternoon. I didn’t even feel her get out of bed this morning. Suddenly, it was quiet, and no movement, so I zonked out. When Crystal came to woke me, I jumped up thinking I had to work. she assured me that I wasn’t late for work.

So I pulled her down and we snuggled for a couple of minutes, and gave Podrick all the attention while he laid on my chest. He loves all the attention. Eventually, he got bored, and got off my chest. That was the signal to get out of bed and start the day. So here we are, coffee on our tables, and news on our TV. Who knows what we’ll do today. I’d love to get a nice bacon cheeseburger – one that I didn’t have to cook myself, but the closest A&W is a half hour away. Both SlightlyBiggerTown’s have an A&W. Who knows. We’ll probably just hang out here.

But for now, it’s nice just sitting next to Crystal. We take turns reading or showing each other memes. Mornings are always so nice to slowly wake up. Work yesterday wasn’t too bad. My coworker was very sick, he even texted one of the new kids, on the kids birthday, to see if he’d come in to finish his shift. Thankfully, the kid said no, so my coworker stayed the whole shift. It wasn’t a bad shift one out of two trucks showed up, so we got the product out. It was a quiet night, but we made it to closing. I took the deposit, and told my coworker to go home and relax and get feeling better.

The sun is starting to come out after the lightning show and rain that we got last night. From what I could see when lifting my sleep mask, the lightning was really lighting up the sky. I just got a refill of coffee, and I’m almost ready to greet the day!

Look at this photograph every time I do, it makes me laugh

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Yep, we’re awake, but not liking it. Podrick was being Podrick this morning and was trying to climb through the blinds. I was awake just a few moments ago, Pippin was about to snuggle, but Podrick came up on the bed, and chased her off. So, I figured it was time to get up.

I assume that it’s fog out there, hanging out. But you never know, it could be smoke from the wildfires up north. I’m going to say it’s fog. It’s kinda thick out there, but in the fog, I hear birdsong, so I know it’s not killer fog. That’s a good thing.

Podrick has grown since we picked him up on April 24th. He eats like a pig, and he’s still very cute, even though we have to have a locked and loaded squirt gun, that he pretty much just shrugs off when we squirt him. It’s quiet in the Flat. I don’t know where the kitties are. But, if it’s quiet, they’re not fighting. Maybe they’re sleeping next to each other.

Hopefully, it gets a little warmer. It’s been a weird summer so far. I still carry my hoodie with me to work, and I’d say 9 times out of 10, I’m wearing it by the end of the night.

So, gather up your jackets, move it to the exits I hope you have found a friend

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Good morning. The Beautiful One let me sleep. And sleep, and sleep. She’s a national treasure. I shall feed her a burger and possibly tots this evening as a thank you. The bed was so comfy, and warm when I was snuggled up against Crystal. it’s been a really nice weekend, but the weekend is slowly, slowly fading into the new work week.

Podrick was quickly locked out of the bedroom, and then Crystal kidnapped Pippin and brought her into the room with us, and miss Pippin got lots of snuggles for the hour that she was shut in with us. So that was nice to wake up and give Pippin some pets. She puts up with a lot when they’re both out in general population. She needs snuggle time with us.

We didn’t do a whole lot of anything this weekend, except watch a lot of wrestling. For the first time, SunmerSlam was two days. Yesterday, was day two. So, we watched it. The second nights matches were not as good as night one, in my opinion. So much so, that I was cooking while the matches were going. The first night, we paused it, last night though, we just let it run as I cooked.

I much preferred night one, over night two. The twist on night one, was better than the guy they brought out on night two. I’ve never watched the guy wrestle before, and I don’t really want to watch another semi-retired wrestler try to recapture whatever is missing from their life.

I go back to work tomorrow afternoon, so this is my last day of freedom, so to speak. What shenanigans will we get into today? Probably not too many, as today is Family Day in the province.

But first, coffee. Happy Monday y’all!