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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!

Let’s spend the night together from now until forever

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After I pulled Podrick away from the blind cords, it sounded like he was throwing himself against the door like a little police officer trying to serve a warrant. He was so relentless, that the squad from Law & Order should be calling him to arrange an interview. Eventually he was let back in, and within minutes, The Beautiful One had to get up and out of the room to feed them, so I could sleep for another couple of minutes.

It was a big day here in TinyTown. It’s the annual Heritage Day. It’s a day of parades, food trucks, petting zoos, orbs, and of course, country music, and beer. We didn’t end up going. It’s gotten a little expensive with the cabaret being added onto the ticket. So we did our own thing. We watched the parade, and then managed to get some ground bison, and a block of Velveeta. for the rest of the afternoon, we were lazy. Crystal played Neir: Automata, and I tried to play Civ 7, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on my phone. Civ has way too much information, and GTA is playable but difficult. I’ll probably uninstall them.

Then it was time for SummerSlam. I had a couple seconds of trouble trying to get it up and running, but a quick reboot of the Roku, and we were off to the races. We followed along with the WWE subreddit for a while, until it was time to start to cook, so I paused it, and The Beautiful One and I started to make our Nachos. I think we enjoyed the matches that they put on for night one. As we got our plates of nachos, I hit play, and we ignored the subreddit.

I thought that matches were pretty good. Some a little slower than others. Some were funnier than others. But finally it was time for the main event. CM Punk vs Gunther. It was a very slow, technical match. I enjoyed it as much as you can for a slow technical match.

SPOILER ALERT:

Living my life in and out of the twilight zone

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That’s great, it starts with an earthquake. Metaphorically. Podrick, annoyed from being locked out of the bedroom, finally launched his attack. It sounded like he threw his body at the door. It was at that time, Crystal and I were ripped from slumber. Because in my dreams, The Beautiful One and I, are curled up asleep, Crystal of course is quietly snoring. Me? I’m probably curled up, and slightly drooling.

What actually happened, you ask? Well, I’m not sure but it probably was like this – Crystal, watching TikTok, or editing photos, or videos. Me? Trying to snuggle Crystal. But it’s warm, so I’ll try and shove a hand under her. Also, I’m drooling like a leaky faucet. I try and snuggle Crystal more, but like I said, it’s warm, so she envisions slowly putting a pillow over my face, you know, to stop me drooling.

Finally, a day off. It was an action packed week. First time in a while, where I had five days scheduled. But I powered through it, and ended up on the other side. I’ll be doing chores. I’m really gonna try to actually do all of them. I always skip at least one chore, because I’m a lazy bastard. But I’ll try and do them today, or tomorrow.

It’s been warm here the last four or five days, and the last couple days it’s been humid. This is Podrick’s first summer, so he’s experiencing the heat and humidity for the first time. Pippin is mostly used to it, and will hang out in the cool areas of the Flat. Poor Pod just exists – he’ll sleep on the linoleum. He’ll find a cool place to sleep.

Two more years and you’ll be done with school, and I’ll be making history like I do

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Good morning party people. We’re up and sitting in the couch, on this gray, chilly, rainy morning. The Beautiful One, kicked out Podrick, and shut the door on him. I was out like a light again, and slept until her alarm went off. She, of course, was wide awake. Probably from about 4:30-5am. I don’t know how to help her stay asleep after that time. I really wish I could help her with that problem. It must be so tiring for her.

Work wasn’t too bad yesterday. At one point my coworker asked if it was gonna be busy or not, due to a rodeo the next town over. I had totally forgotten about the rodeo. I said it’ll probably be quiet. And it pretty much was. After 6, business dropped off. We still had people coming in, but it was just a handful of people instead of more coming through before we closed. We did have a couple of barrel racers come through with their mom to get diesel, and to get a propane tank filled up. That was the last large bill that came through. After that it was just the usual locals coming to get cigarettes and snacks before we closed.

Today is chore day, so I’ll be starting that in a bit. It’s too quiet, I think Podrick is planning something. But he’ll be helping me get the laundry sorted. He loves to dive through the clothes piles as they sit and wait for their turn in the washer. It’s cute. He’s like a clothes pile shark. Then we’ll head over to Shady Acres this afternoon for dinner. Work tomorrow afternoon. Coffee now, thankfully. Also, in a few hours, brunch.

My sticky paws were in to making straws out of big fat Slurpee treats

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It’s bright and sunny out there, so while Pippin was eating her breakfast, and in between making sure Podrick wouldn’t jump up onto the table to steal her food, I opened the back door, and then the front door. Then back to guard duty. Crystal took the Rick of Pods into the bathroom while Pippin finished her breakfast.

Work yesterday morning was slow as balls, but surprisingly, the morning went by really quick. Before we knew it, the next shift was there and ready to work. Woohoo, time to go! I stop and get the mail, and head back to The Flat. Podrick, inspired me to do the dishes, and clean up some of his toys while I watched the Great American Bash on Netflix. Crystal and I made fun of the wrestlers,

I cooked burgers and tots for dinner. And discovered that there is a way to watch Saturday Nights Main Event. It’s on NBC in the states, but the WWE puts it on YouTube for the rest of us heathens. It was pretty good minus the fact that there’s a commercial every couple of minutes – it’s usually about a 3-4 minute commercial. In the middle of wrestling matches. Crazy.

We’ll be heading to shady Acres this afternoon. I’ll be popping some allergy pills, and hopefully getting the riding lawnmower started, and then I’ll be mowing the back 40 for my parents. It’s past due for its two mowings a summer. In my defense, it has been a rainy summer so far.

Then, guess what? More wrestling! I’m pretty sure The Beautiful One will be getting tired of wrestling, but this should be a pretty good PPV – it’s an all women’s show! Evolution 2 will be on tonight. So we’ll start watching that a little late, cause we’ll probably be eating at the time.

Psst … Raw is tomorrow too. lol