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Deep down in the holler, pick the tallest pine dig it real deep where the roots touch mine

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Good chilly morning. Podrick was a good boy this morning, and to me, felt like he was sucking crystals fingers mere inches from my ear. It was loud.

I rolled out of bed, and closed the door behind me. I opened the curtains and got the kittens breakfast ready. I put a bowl down for Podrick, and carried a plate of breakfast and put Pippin on the bed, and put her plate on the bed in front of her and slipped back out, closing the door behind me.

I got dressed, and opened the curtains, and did the usual morning stuff, letting Pippin chow down. Once she was finished, I opened the door and gave Podrick what she didn’t finish.

One more shift. One more shift, and I have two days off. I know Sunday, I’ll be over at Shady Acres to finish getting the pellet stove cleaned and prepped. I have to change the door seal, I think I have to clean it (yay), and then we should be able to fill it, and light it, and get some more heat in my parents house.

So, I’ll probably end up doing laundry some time tomorrow. It’s supposed to be even colder tomorrow, so we don’t plan on leaving the house. Currently it’s 22°, but feels like 13°. That’s pretty nasty.

Winter is coming.

Badder than old King Kong meaner than a junkyard dog

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Podrick was really trying this morning. He was really trying so hard to be good. Then he was trying to get up on the nightstand. That’s when he had to go. By then, I was already awake. Mornings are a loud time around here. So I checked the clock and figured it was time to greet the day.

I did the morning routine, and turned the coffee on, and fed Podrick in the kitchen and hand delivered Pippin’s breakfast for her in the bedroom. Both kittens were fed and Pippin is currently on my lap, silently watching Podrick do Podrick things.

I slept ok last night. Some nights it doesn’t feel too restful. Yesterday I felt very rested. Today, not so much. I mean, I slept. I feel ok, just tired. Until Podrick grows up a little more, I don’t think we’ll have quiet, lazy mornings in bed. That’s ok. He’s still a baby – a 15 year old baby. He looks like a meatball.

Back to work this afternoon. Today’s shift, and tomorrows, and well both be on some days off over the weekend. It’ll be filled with laziness, chores, and trying to do as little as possible. And of course Shady Acres. I’ll be finishing the stove chores that we started a couple of weeks ago.

It’s a race and there ain’t no room for someone in second place

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Podrick let us (me) sleep in! I only really felt him once. He landed on my hip, and quickly moved on with what he was doing. He came back up on the bed, and was close to me. I opened an eye and looked at the clock: 7:44. Time to get up. I gave him some loves, an heaved myself out of bed.

Time to greet the day.

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A spike indeed. I had over 190 visitors yesterday! I’ve probably had about 400ish over the last two weeks. Crystal thinks it’s probably bots doing whatever bots do. But it’s still crazy, that bots are so interested in my little corner of the ‘net.

Work was less chaotic than the day before. We had just about 300 people come through our doors and buy something. Yesterday, I walked into work and saw just about every employee outside staring at the ground – a nozzle fell off the gas pump. About 5 litres of fuel had spilt all over the ground. The acting manager was fumbling to try and get a picture to send to the GM. I pulled out my phone and snapped the picture and then it to the GM with the caption “now what”. Within about 45 minutes, the boss got here and fixed it. Woohoo! It actually takes something to break to get it fixed. Nothing proactive allowed!

Put on your brake lights, you’re in the city of wonder

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Morning.

It’s gray, and surprisingly not too windy out there. Nice. I slept like shit last night. It took what felt like 45 minutes to get to sleep. Then I was up early, because, Podrick.

He’s definitely a morning person. I am totally not a morning person. I don’t even know how to explain it, so I won’t. He knows how to poke me to get a response from me. For right now, he’s motionless. he has so much energy first thing in the morning, it’s insane. He gets into everything, because, while he doesn’t look like a kitten anymore, he’s still most definitely is still a kitten.

Work wasn’t too bad last night. It’s that time of the year, as soon as you get back inside, and take off your coat, you have to go back out – coat back on, gloves back on – once more into the breach. It was, I would say, steady last night. Not balls to the wall busy, but just enough people coming in that it was difficult to get our check list completed. We managed to get out pretty much on time, with prodding from me (ie: don’t you think it’s time to count the cash?). My coworker was just all over the place, he was just a little scatter-brained.

Back at it again this afternoon. But we’re doing something different this morning: breakfast for lunch. And if there’s bacon left over, we’ll have burgers for lunch tomorrow.

But before we get to tomorrow, we’ll get through today first. I think work will be pretty good. Busy again I’m sure, which will be nice. Busy always helps the day go quicker. Let’s goooo.

The track hits your eardrum like a slug to your chest

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Good morning. Podrick has been annoying since about 5 or so this morning. I just have to remember he’s just a kitten, and mostly feral. it doesn’t help, but I have to remember that.

But we’re all up and mostly awake this morning. The coffee has been brewed, and poured into mugs. The kittens have been fed, and currently Podrick is sitting on the shelf, looking out the window. Pippin just crawled onto my lap, and is snuggling in.

We drove to SlightlyBiggerTown for supplies. We hit all the stores, except the pharmacy. But we made it work. We stopped at the weed store, and I ran in grabbing our two carts. Then I popped into the other vape store to get my two vapes that’ll last the next two weeks. The one I opened is vanilla banana. It tastes just like the bananas that you get from the vending machine inside Walmart.

Back to work this afternoon. I’m totes working for the weekend! 5 shifts, and I have the weekend off. That’s what’s powering me. I can’t remember if I posted about this, but Saturday afternoon, my mom texted me a picture of my grandmother dressed up for Halloween with a big smile on her face. She’s gotten better, and had a blast according to my mom. That’s awesome!! I was so happy to hear the news.

I need more coffee.