Tag: chore day

Here’s to them underneath that burning sun do they know it’s Christmastime at all?

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It’s still windy out there.

So I get into work yesterday afternoon. I pull into my usual spot, and realize I won’t be able to get out because of a snow drift. Long story short, I parked under the overhang. The acting manager neglected to tell us that if it gets really bad, we can leave. I found this out by sarcastically texting the general manager the photo above with Merry Christmas. That’s when he told us. We stayed until 15 minutes before closing. We hadn’t had a customer in 2 and a half hours.

Some idiots: (I think they have the thought – “if they’re open, it’s my duty to try and make it there to buy bullshit.”)

  • The old guy that has a portable oxygen unit comes in complaining that you can’t see the highway. Total white out. I ask why he came in then. His answer: rice. The wife is making cabbage rolls.
  • The woman in the sports car that came in for two cream soda dr peppers. 15 minutes later a regular comes in on a snowmobile, saying a sports car is in the ditch. Karma at its finest.
  • High school kids. Because, why not? I get it. You’re bored. But come on y’all literally just got your license. you have no experience driving in white out conditions.

Thankfully pretty much all the regulars came in as they were getting off work. I shovelled a couple of times. I’m not looking forward to digging out here at the flat. Then I quickly have to pop over to the tiny grocery store for bacon for brunch tomorrow.

It’ll be a somewhat busy day off today. Shovelling, bacon, and making pancakes. Crystal will say, nah but we’ll make them. There’s no wrestling on this weekend. The WWE is on Christmas vacation. And all the live shows have aired, and some that were supposed to be live have been filmed and aired.

So let’s ingest some coffee, and wait for the sun to rise. Boom, Shaka Laka! Let’s gooo!

I got my soul straight, I brush your mouth like Colgate

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It’s been a morning. A morning that Crystal took the brunt of it. I did my very best to ignore Podrick. Maybe I should have gotten up with Crystal. But she let me sleep in an extra hour, while she had to get up and deal with Pod.

Thank you, Crystal. I appreciate you more than you’ll ever know. ❤️

So no major plans today busy laundry and Shady Acres later. I have to do laundry before we go. There’s some extra items in the pile due to the orange meatball not knowing his size.

Watched SNME last night. And contrary to everyone in the WWE subreddit, I enjoyed all the matches. Even John Cena’s. It was a good ending.

I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels

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I slept twice last night. We get into bed, and do our bed things. I give The Beautiful One kisses, and we slowly start getting ready to go to sleep.

I’m out.

About a half hour later, Podrick did something, and woke me up. I repositioned, and pulled my mask down. I didn’t even have the mask or the YouTube going. So I got that going, and got the volume set correctly. I don’t remember putting the phone in my dresser drawer, and I was out again.

I remember the guy saying to concentrate on the dome of my head, and how there’s a light warming it. That’s all I remember before falling asleep.

Work wasn’t too bad yesterday. At one point I come back in from outside and said, “co-worker, it’s snowing outside, and it’s 1:30. Do you know what that means?”

Blank look in my direction.

“That means for the next five and a half hours, we listen to” … (pause for dramatic effect) …

“Christmas music!”

I’m pretty sure he humoured me.

Lazy yellow moon comin’ up tonight

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The wee devil let us (me) sleep in. He didn’t knock over a lot of things. The picture of me and Prince Philip, a cat toy, one Nintendo switch controller. Oh, and a banana clip. Around 6:30 (I think), I got up and used the facilities. Then locked and barred the bedroom door. I lost one mask in the night, but managed to get back to sleep.

We didn’t do anything of any note yesterday. It was amazing. The farthest I went from The Flat, was to shovel the trail from the door to the road, to get cat litter out of the truck. I did laundry all day. And finished it up shortly before dinner.

Dinner was really good: souvlaki burgers, and tots. I saved some bacon from brunch earlier in the morning. And added it to the burgers. I also put a dollop of scotch bonnet pepper sauce on them. Total yum.

We watches Survivor Series: WARGAMES! I was mostly sports entertained. The main event wasn’t all that great. And the big surprise was totally meh, because of course there was no pay off before it went off the air. I’ll give it 3 out of 5.

Today, will be a little busier. After I hit publish, I’ll text mom and give her my plan. We’ll be heading to SlightlyBiggerTown town for groceries, and other supplies. Then I’ll pop over and clean the pellet stove. The town should be without power from 12-5 today, so that should take care of most of the time. I have to turn the heat up so we stay warm.

More coffee pls.

Wake up (wake up) grab a brush and put a little make-up

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Good morning. Podrick was trying his best to get us to wake up and play with him. The Beautiful One was up at 3 to pick up shit that he was playing with in the bathroom. Then again at 6:50 is when I rolled out of bed. I’m sure he knocked the same shit down.

We’re up now.

It’s still dark out.

But with the town-wide power outage, we’ll be doing our shopping tomorrow. So today, we’ll be doing the stuff that I would usually do on Sundays. So today is chore day. But I’ll start that once it’s day light out.

Work was mostly pretty quiet last night. A lot better than the night before. You see, there was a hockey game last night that started about 45 minutes before we closed. We anticipated that we’d be busier in the hour before the game, but we were mostly wrong. Totes quiet.

It was a nice Friday night.

There’s a WWE event tonight, so later on this morning, I’ll find something in the freezer to make for dinner. I think there’s a couple of burgers in there. Whatever we have, it’ll be yummy.

But before human form; coffee.