Tag: mornings

Another year over, and a new one just begun

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Good morning. It’s Friyay! We made it again. Also, Merry Christmas. I hope everyone got to sleep in a little. Not me, because I forgot to shut off my alarm! It went off as if I had to work today. So here I am 7:13, wide awake, waiting for coffee.

So yeah. Happy birthday Jesus.

I think in an attempt to help me feel better, my dad went downstairs and found the National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. It was a movie that we’d watch every Christmas. It didn’t disappoint. Still just as funny as ever. So it did help.

Mom must have gotten up in the night. And moved the tree out of the shower and plugged it in.

So right now, I have coffee. I’m letting Shady Acres sleep. I do however, hear my mom moving around. So the bustle starts.

Happy Friyay all.

You gave your presents to me – and I gave mine to you

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It’s Christmas Eve. There’s only one place that I want to be. If Christmas wishes are real, they haven’t been working for me yet. It’s a short day at work today. So I won’t be taking a lunch today.

These next two days are gonna suck. I’m trying to stay positive. I’m very excited for Crystal’s amazing dinners the next couple of days; Chinese food, and then Indian food on Christmas Day. It’s gonna be very yummy food for her.

I did ask her over the next two days, if she could, watch the greatest Christmas movie of all time: Die Hard. So hopefully she can watch it.

Other than that, nothing much is going on these days. I hope I can get in some reading over the next couple of days. I have the weekend off, but back to work next week – the bonus is the shop isn’t open until January 6th. Lots of cleaning and rearranging of the shop, and cleaning of the warehouse and getting everything organized the kicker; the warehouse isn’t heated.

Ok time to watch some news and sip some coffee. I don’t have a quiet morning to wake up here. My mom has sung to the cats at least 3 times already. She doesn’t have an “indoor” voice. And isn’t a good singer.

Well happy holidays y’all. Hug your loved ones. I wish I could hug mine. I love you Crystal.

Home video: The Christmas Club

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Here’s another edition of Lockup Library Home Video. Its the Christmas season, so it’s another Hallmark movie. Hey in my defence (as bad as it is), there’s nothing on TV at 7:30 in the morning. So I usually catch the last 15 minutes of one movie, and then I can catch the whole next movie.

This weeks movie is The Christmas Club.

In all honesty, I haven’t really been paying attention to the movie, but the plot is tried and true.

Two strangers meet to help an old woman find her live savings, which by the looks of it totalled about $80 dollars. One is a dance instructor, the other, I think is in real estate. They have total chemistry. And by chemistry I mean it’s like a lab rat and a scientist type of chemistry.

She finds out that his client wants to buy her dance studio and turn it into something.

I think he’s going to surprise her by buying another building for her studio.

It’s a Christmas miracle.

ALL THE PLOTS ARE THE SAME.

But if you’d really grab me tight – all the way home I’d be warm

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So we had our first major snowstorm here. I couldn’t tell if it was snowing hard, or if it was the 30kmh winds. I think it was the winds because where i had just shovelled it had drifted.

I think it snowed maybe 6-7 inches. Total. My dad says there’s about 4 inches on the ground where I shovelled last night.

Coffee.

I slept like a stone last night. Up just once to pee. And then I was out again. I needed a solid sleep like that.

My mom has some pretty wild cats, and this is what she has to do every night. I don’t think they even exchanged gifts or put up a tree last year or the year before. Somewhere in there is a gift for me and Crystal. When I saw it last night, I had tears in my eyes.

So yeah. Sigh. Tears. I love you

So deck those halls – trim those trees

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Good morning everyone. I’m just gonna cut to the point. I had a much better sleep than the night before. It still took a few minutes to fall asleep, and sleep was light before the alarm went off. But it was a better sleep than the night before.

I could’ve slept for another couple of hours. But I forced myself to get up and dressed.

Coffee.

So I’ve been internally freaking out because we’re expecting lots of snow – like 25 centimetres of snow. Sounds like a lot huh? Well I just did a cm to inch converter. It’s only like 9.8 inches. That’s not a lot. I don’t have to freak out anymore. I’m not worried at all now. I’m getting used to Celsius but centimetres and that stuff. Still working on it.

So just two full days of work. Today, and tomorrow. Thursday, we close at 2. Thursday at 3, I’ll probably be wrapping the gifts for mom, dad, and gramma. Because that’s how I roll.

Happy Tuesday y’all.