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Google maps is the best (true dat) Double true!

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It’s been a lazy day here at Shady Acres. Well, it really hasn’t. But it feels like it. I haven’t cleaned or organized anything today, haha. But I have done things! Really I have!

  • I applied for my health card.
  • I donated books to the library.
  • I dropped stuff off at the second hand store. (forgetting things at home)
  • I made a second trip to the second hand store.
  • I have a bit of a plan to move the bookcase of DVDs downstairs.
  • I’ve watched too many hours of ‘Roadkill’ on Discovery Velocity.

So now I’ve been mentally planning on where I’m going to move the DVDs to down there. The wall I want to use needs to be cleaned up a little. I’ll do that sometime next week.

Saturday, we’ll be heading into AnotherSlightlyBiggerTown to get wood pellets for my parents pellet stove. I think they’re getting 3 pallets. I don’t know how many are on the pallet, but I’ll be moving most of them, because my dad is farming and is really busy with harvest right meow. It’ll be arm and leg day as I take the bags downstairs, one 50lb bag at a time! Woot! I’ll be useful!

Featured image: Found On Road Dead

Down by the river in the full moonlight

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Awake! It’s almost Pre-Friday. Almost. You can make it. One of the talking heads on the local news is talking about the NFL and opening day. This guy is a moron. He’s talking about how good the Cowboys are gonna be.

The. Cowboys.

I’ll let that sink in.

America’s Team.

I’ll still root for the Patriots. I’ve rooted for them for 20 years. Most of that time, they’ve had rebuilding years. This year will be the biggest one they’ll have. No Tom Brady. It’s gonna be different for sure.

Ok let’s stop talking about SportsBall.

I have an announcement;

I’m wearing jogging pants. And plan to go out in public wearing them later. Public. I don’t think I’ll ever take them off. Ever.

Ever.

Yesterday, we drove to SlightlyBiggerTown to do some grocery shopping. I ran over to the local second hand store. Hoping, and dreaming (literally, I had a dream about this), that is find the Twilight Saga. Spoiler alert – I didn’t, but I did find The Hunger Games, and Pet Cemetery.

I started to read it last night. It’s like totally NOT scary at all. I mean the first 5 or 6 chapters are normal. The dude is drinking beer with his neighbour across the road. I keep you updated.

Let’s go out to lobby and have ourselves a treat

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Okay, I do feel pretty accomplished on cleaning the basement. I felt even more accomplished by hooking up a 30ish year old VCR, and having it play a VHS tape. It only ate it in one part and I wound it back up. But I wanted to get a DVD player to work down there and use the switch so it would be easier than plugging and unplugging etc.

I got the DVD player hooked up, but I think the RCA cable was bad. It’s probably at least 10 years old. So I said “screw it”, and hooked up the PS2. Two birds, one stone.

So now it’s time to play a fun game of:

WHAT MOVIE IS PLAYING!

Here’s the pictures, when you know, or think you know what it is, put it in the comments.

You could win a prize!

I don’t wanna miss you like this

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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!

Well you forgave and I won’t forget

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Polka is life.

Like I said in my last post, I knew it would only take a couple of hours to clean the basement. About 6 to be exact. I turned on some tunes donned some gloves and went at it. Thankfully after about 20 minutes my mom gave up helping and left. I didn’t really feel like chatting as i did this. I respected them and didn’t play the music I wanted to.

But I’d say it’s pretty much clean down there. If I had the drive in me, I’d hook up the PlayStation 2, the Xbox, the GameCube, or the N64. Or the VHS player to play the 5 shelves of VHS tapes. There’s some classics down stairs.

Oh the picture that looks like a bed in the middle of the room, is a pool table, if you didn’t figure it out by the pool cues on the wall.

I’m tired. It’s been a long day. I have a headache. Why does Tuesday feel like a Monday? I shouldn’t have gotten out of bed this morning.

That’s one of the classy VHS tapes. I started to organize them as I put them back on the bookcase, I gave up on the pretty quickly. I just put them back. I did take some pictures for C. I’ll sent them to her tonight. She’ll need the laugh after her day from hell.