Tag: TinyTown

Well I hear you in the morning – and I hear you at nightfall

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Good morning everyone! Who has two thumbs, and forgot to shut off his alarm? This guy right here! Up as if I was going into work today. So the coffee is brewing, and I’m up, and dressed. I’m ready to greet the day.

It’s Boxing Day today. The day the rich people give their servants boxes of left over food and gifts I believe. It’s weird. I’ve always kind of explained it like this is Canada’s version of Black Friday. However things have changed since I’ve been gone, and Canada does the whole Black Friday thing now.

Anyways, I hope everyone had a good Friyay. Here at Shady Acres, it was pretty ok. I got a couple shirts, a toque, sheets for the bed, and a toque. No books! I was very surprised. Monday, we’re supposed to be heading into BiggerTown. I’m going to lobby to go into BigCity. For one simple thing:

I want 30 minutes of unfettered access to a book store. Yes, 30 minutes. Not too long, not too short. Just enough to choose one or two books that have been on my list for a while. Then we can do anything they want. That’s all I’m going to ask for.

Keep your fingers crossed for me!

But right now, coffee. There’s a Christmas movie on TV, but I’m not really paying attention to it. Justice League is up next. Then Wonder Woman. The funny thing? I bought my dad Avengers: Endgame, thinking he’d seen Infinity War. He hadn’t. So when we go into BiggerTown, or BigCity, I’m going to get it for him. He’s never seen Thor’s entrance to Wakonda. Blows my mind!

I have no idea what’s going on today. But for now, shhh, let Shady Acres sleep. Happy Saturday y’all.

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.

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.