Stronger than a couple hundred bottles of Johnny Red

Here I am, fam. It’s ya boy. Yeah I was up early today. Opening shift at the shop. It was very slow at the beginning, but TinyTown slowly woke up and needed to buy shit.

So we sold the shit.

And they were happy with that.

Other than that, I went over to Shady Acres, brought in wood pellets, cleaned the stove. Then I went back upstairs and fixed their Netflix for them, and made sure it’s working, and told my parents that if needed I could drive my dad to CapitalCity if he needs me to so he can get chemo.

Back to work tomorrow. Technically only an hour longer than today, but open to close feels a hell of a lot longer. Probably because I have to both opening and closing paperwork.

Good times.

Now to find replacement shoes. Because I’m old.

There’s a real good chance that I’m gonna burn the whole town down

It’s day light here again. That means Podrick is awake and being an asshole. I was first woken up around 5am, with my brain trying to identify the sounds I was hearing. Once I figured out what he was doing, I was able to get back to sleep. I dozed for about another 40 or so minutes through his shenanigans, or at least tried to.

So we got up, and I got the lights on, and the coffee going. The cats have been fed. Podrick is lounging on the shelf in front of the big window. Pippin is still in the bedroom dining on the bed.

It was supposed to snow here yesterday. We were expecting like 5-6”. But nothing really accumulated. It was much too windy, and the snow, when it started, was like just about 2 hours late, so of course nothing really landed. A customer was saying about an hour and a half south, they got about a foot of snow.

Back to work again this afternoon. And I’m opening tomorrow, so I have to set my alarm right now, so I don’t forget. There, the alarm is set. Everybody’s working for the weekend. Me? I’m working for Monday. That’s my next day off.

Moar coffee please.

Well, I guess he forgot about the Smoky Mountain rain

Good morning everyone. It was a bit of a morning. I would’ve been able to sleep a little better, if my nose was unstuffed. Oh, and answer me this: why does everything feel so much hotter when you’re in bed, and then you get out of bed, and you’re bundled up, because it’s so freakin cold in the house?

But I digress.

Podrick was up at his normal time this morning. I ended up taking a soda cap away from him. I don’t care if he plays with one in the morning, but why does he have to play with one 6-8 feet from by ear holes? I snatched that shit away from him quick-fast. Then he just found something else to play with.

I’m trying to navigate Podrick playing with something, and a Sleep Daddy, that was starting to annoy me, I tried a couple different ones, and finally just said fuck it, and just landed on one, and hoped that I could sleep, even just for 20 minutes. I dozed on and off, all while trying to find a comfortable position that I could still breathe in, AND that wasn’t holy fuck it’s hot, vs. why is it so cold? I would just find the perfect spot, then a blanket would fall over my face, or my nose would plug, etc, etc.

Back to work this afternoon. I’m working through the weekend again as we’re a little short handed. But either way, the weekend is gonna be a good one. There’s snow in the forecast today; 5-6 inches or so. But wait, after it snows, it’s supposed to get windy. So what was the point of it snowing.

I need more coffee.

Look at this photograph

It was a long, long ass day yesterday that started at 7:30am, and ended at midnight, when I power smoked a bowl, and kissed The Beautiful One good night. I was still wired, so it took a while to fall asleep.

I didn’t mean to banish Crystal out of the bedroom. I tried. I tried so hard to ignore him. I made 2 mistakes: I looked to see what time it was, then I didn’t get out of bed to use the bathroom right away.

I’m sorry Crystal.

One’s got the matches, one’s got the lashes one’s running her mouth again

Up early. But change of plans for the day. My grandmother is very very sick, so I’ll be escorting my dad to YetAnotherBigTown today. It’s about 5 hours away. He has a big scan today, so I’ll be there with him, while my mom is pretty much on death watch.

So this’ll be a short post, as I’m gonna drink some coffee, then get dressed, and prepare to leave in like an hour and a half. It’s gonna be a long long day. Hopefully it’s a good good one.