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Live Together, Die Alone

May 2nd, 2025 3:48PM

Robert left for Alaska a week ago today. For the last couple weeks before he left, he was volunteering at the Home Co-Op. I was on vacation during the last week he was going to be in Maine, so I decided to volunteer there as well.

Brief tangent, I decided to volunteer because I was preaching compassion and empathy on Facebook in protest to Donald Trump's administration, but I didn't feel like I was practicing what I was preaching, so I wanted to find a place that I could volunteer for the little bit on time I had off, I'm glad that worked on day. unfortunately it was short lived.

On the second day I went with Robert to volunteer, we were going to be helping another guy move some stuff from Verona Island and bring it back to the Home Co-Op, but when we pulled in, Robert went to the moving van to get directions and apparently the guy through a fit, and was screaming and yelling. He threw the moving van in reverse, and floored it. He didn't allow Robert enough time to get out of the way, and the large rear view mirror smacked Robert across the face. HARD, and he never stopped, he just took off.

Obviously Robert was pissed, and quit volunteering at Home because of it. Apparently that guy had driven other volunteers out as well.

Tasha and I had our first fight just recently. An ex boyfriend of hers messaged her, and I trust her, so I told her as long as nothing weird was happening then I was fine with it. But something weird did happen, and she didn't tell me about it. She also didn't acknowledge the fact that he had said what he had at all, so I wasn't really worried she was cheating or anything, but I still felt like it was a breach of trust for her not to say anything at all. We got it all worked out, and I think I may have found that she is feeling lonely. Which I've tried to remedy by putting some extra effort into communicating and hanging out with her.

We went to the Pine Tree Expo during the first few days on my vacation. I look forward to our Portland trip every year, and this year Austin came too. I was a bit skeptical, but I ended up having a good time with him too. I met the voice of Squidward and Goofy!

Schultz has a new girl, she's been around the past couple weeks. Last night she came over to spend the night for the first time, and Kory had a bit on a conniption fit over it. She came to guys night, which is usually against the rules, but I want to encourage Schultz to do these things, so the timing didn't really make much of a difference to me. Kory quietly ranted to me in the living room while Kenzie and Schultz played ping pong. He ended up storming out after about twenty minutes of ranting.

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Self Realization Moments

February 2nd, 2025 10:48PM

I had come to the realization that I am more likely to be heated in a debate with someone that going into the conversation I assume they will agree with me.

I wonder if this comes from the shattering of my view of my mother over politics. This woman raised me to be thoughtful, caring, empathetic, understanding, to others. I saw her go on a missions trip to New York city to help the homeless, but now she supports Trump? She'll veil her support of Trump through the lens of her hatred of abortion. I don't like the idea of abortion, but I also don't like the idea of woman dying because they can't handle the pregnancy, or the thought of a woman having to give birth to her rapists child. I've always been against abortion used as birth control. That's incredibly irresponsible in my eyes, but how can you look past all the other atrocities Trump is committing just because of your support of that.

So, when people i assume will agree with my opinion and then don't, I seem to have a more heated reaction then to someone I know would disagree.

Also, just as a life update. Tasha and I just celebrated Valentine's day by going to Applebee's and going to see the stage show "Ride The Cyclone" that was actually very funny. It was the first live show that I've ever been too that had a man who was cross dressing. I had a great time with her that night.

Matt quit at Hannaford, and went and joined the Searsport DOT. I have mixed feelings about him leaving. He was a good worker, when he wanted to be, and a good friend. I won't miss the drama he brought to the department, it got exhausting after awhile.

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A Slimy Little Fuck

August 6th, 2024 9:15PM

Robert got home. He seems to be in good spirits, isn't smoking cigarettes, and has been trying to better himself. It gives me a bit of motivation to do the same. I've been trying for so long to do that. I just haven't put any of my thoughts into action for more then a couple of days at a time.

Yesterday, Robert. Schultz and I went swimming. We swam around and hung out, and then we started to build a rock pile. Unfortunately, we kept losing the fucking rock piles that we were making, but we finally stuck with one, and built it up. Robert found a stick that I lounged on, and even kept my balance while laying completely down on it in the water. I almost fell asleep.

When I got home from work today, Robert and Schultz were playing magic, and I sat there and watched for almost two hours before they left to go to a Lamb Of God concert.

Tasha and I have been good. Shyann keeps making kissy faces at me during work, and I've told Tasha about it because it made me feel uncomfortable. It's weird, especially when she is Logan's ex-girlfriend. I know Tasha is upset about Shyann doing that, and she has every right to be, I just want her to know in her heart that I would never cheat on her. She means a lot to me, and I picture us being together for the rest of our lives.

Amber was suppose to come into work today. Her second first day back. Except she didn't show up. Good start.

Kyle and Markus are nimrods. I don't mind Markus for the most part but he really pushes my buttons when he starts asking questions about a conversation he wasn't a part of to begin with. Kyle has straight up lied to my face before, so I'd never be able to trust him. As Matt would say "He's a slimy little fuck".

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Wesley Snipes, Madame Web and the Quest To Save Bikini Bottom

August 2nd, 2024 3:30PM

Yesterday, Schultz and I went to see Deadpool and Wolverine. The movie was excellent, and funny. It did seem like it was missing just a little something, but I can't put my finger on what. Kory came after after we got home from the movie and we played a new Uno called Uno: No Mercy. We played the same game of that for almost two hours, and then started anew game that lasted almost an hour before we gave up on it all together. Schultz ended up with over half the deck in his hand at one point.

We found out two days ago that Robert is coming back today. It should be an interesting situation, because now Schultz is back out on the couch, and doesn't want to be. He's been having a hard time, overthinking and existential shit. He just wants to be in his own space, and feel like he's got his life under control. I don't know how everyone is going to fit together. I want Tasha to be living here at some point too, but probably without them. It just doesn't seem like that's going to happen anytime soon..

Speaking of Tasha, I keep asking her about our future, and it really doesn't seem like she has a plan or idea. She talks about getting an apartment, but why wouldn't she just live with me? It's almost been three years.....

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God Bless You Dick, Stay Healthy

June 27th, 2024 8;35PM

(Title Quote: A man speaking at Dick's memorial service)

What an odd day. Because Matt (probably) quit, he didn't come in today, and so it was just Markus, Kyle, Ly, Taylor and I. It would probably be the same tomorrow and Monday too. Neither Matt nor Catherine will be in again until Tuesday. Matt says he doesn't want to "slit his own throat" so he might have to just suck it up and come into work Tuesday.

Matt honestly makes a lot of good points about why we should be upset about the way Hannaford is run (lack of communication, lack of consequences) but it doesn't mean that he can just yell and stomp off whenever he wants too. Kyle and him fight a lot too. It's hard to listen too sometimes.

I went to Dick's memorial service today. He died quite a few months ago, but Am didn't want to do anything until now. They had the band play, and everyone brought food. I went up to get food with Aunt Barbra, and grabbed a cupcake like thing at the table, and as we were walking back I threw into into my mouth without realizing it was still wrapped in paper. I didn't want to dig around my mouth in front of everyone, so I just ate the paper. Aunt Barbra almost peed herself because she was laughing at how stupid I was. It was a fine time, but I had to duck out when they started yodeling. Especially bad yodeling.

I have to run the shift again tomorrow, and I hope it's not as bad as I think it's going to be.

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Ducky Ducky Quack Quack

July 26, 2024 9:41PM

It's been an interesting few days. Matt seems like he has quit working at the Bucksport Hannaford, and says that he has already been offered a job at the Ellsworth Hannaford. I find that a little hard to believe, but I really hope it works out for him. I'd hate for him to fuck himself out of a job.

Natasha and I went on a walk around the Miles Lane Trails today, the second time we've done that since we started dating. Although the first time we went, we also had Krystals with us, and she isn't with us anymore unfortunately. It was a good walk, and we talked a lot. We even talked about this journal/blog thing.

I've been digging deeper on my Facebook posts and trying to get as many of those down as possible. It seems more and more likely that I will be deleting Facebook all together again. People are crazy. Nate Levandowski literally told me I was racist over and over again, but couldn't form an explanation behind why he thought that. He ended up blocking me, after telling me that I was incapable of taking criticism and hearing other people's perspectives, HE BLOCKED ME. Silly bastard.

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Biden, Match Game, and The Bucksport Bay Festival

July 21st, 2024 9:27PM

Joe Biden announced that he is not going to run for President anymore, and officially endorsed Kamala Harris. I don't know how I feel about Kamala Harris, but anyone should be better than Donald Trump.

Tasha and I went to the Bay Festival yesterday with her brother Austin. We had a really good time! I watched them throw axes, got to see a dude in a giant velociraptor costume, and then the same person in a bumblebee costume. We also toured a tug boat and had food at the Chicken Pollo food truck where I tried the "Nicolas Sparks" burger. It was very good, and I believe it was fried plantains, friend cheese and chicken salad. I also bought a $95 3D printed Predator head, it's really cool looking.

Matt came in today holding his arm weird? Saying he thought he might have broken it from the night before. Fell off his porch. He went to the ER and found out he had a sprained wrist and a deep muscle bruise.

Feeling a bit more myself these past couple days. I think it's because I've stayed more on top on my insulin. I need to take a pill before I go to sleep.

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Failed Brake Lines, Kids, and Eminem

July 12th, 2024 1:58PM

I drove Schultz to the big apple this morning, and as we were leaving the parkin lot I completely lost the breaks, and almost rolled out into oncoming traffic. I was expecting my life to flash before me eyes but it didn't. Actually, it didn't really even hit me until after I got home and called Mom and told her what happened.

I'm currently sitting in my room because Wynter is here, and I'm having a really hard time with being around her. She's annoying. I've never had a kid get on my nerves more then she does, because I can see behind her eyes that she knows what she's doing, and I can't stand it. I complain to Natasha a lot about it, and I hope she doesn't think this is what it's going to be like when we have kids. If we have kids. I still don't know if this is a world that I want to bring a kid in.

My Uncle and I put the new brake line in the car earlier, and we had a good conversation about the media, and the presidential election. It seems like he and I are on the same page for the most part, even if we still aren't a part of the same political party. We both agree that it seems like the media's job is too divide us instead of trying to unite us, but it's more than just the media.

Nate Levandowski is a problem. I need to think about what I want to do in response to his word vomit on my past few posts on Facebook. Maybe Facebook is a problem all together. (I just messaged him, now it's just about his response.)

I know that the things I do aren't as stressful as what others deal with. But sometimes I feel like I'm over my head, and I'm sinking even more.

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Have You Heard About A Petition?

May 25th, 2024 9:49AM

I hate when people lie to me. It completely changes the dynamic between me and that person. Logan would lie to me occasionally, so I knew I would have to be careful around him. I wasn't expecting Kyle to blatantly lie to my face today, but here we are.

Hannaford is in disarray the past few weeks, and it started with Brandon from meat room, hitting on, being rejected by, and then yelling at Kim the new seafood woman. Kim is dating Kyle, and Kyle didn't like his girlfriend being yelled at, heard that Brandon had done this with other women before and wanted to start a petition.

Now that got to managers, and it became a thing. I know better than anyone that Hannaford hates petitions. I got pulled into the office about it, but didn't know much past what I've just put above.

This morning, Kyle comes up to me. Feigning ignorance about the petition thing, asking me if I had heard of one going around. Acting like he knew nothing about it. My face definitely told the whole story, but I just told him that I couldn't talk about that.

Now I've got to go back to work.

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Being Sued, Adrenochrome, and the Eclipse.

April 9th, 2024 3:08PM

So, a few days ago Schultz's ride came to pick him up for work, he opened Dunkin so it was very early in the morning, and the lady picking him up accidently drove over the edge of the driveway and crashed her car into a tree. She smashed out her back window, and had to call a tow truck to get her car out.

I slept through this whole interaction, but it was explained to me, and I found it quite humorous. Little did I know this event was going to open up a whole can of worms that I could have never seen coming.

It doesn't take long for news to travel down Dance Hall Rd, and it started when Patti posted asking why she had seen a cop and tow truck on the driveway early that morning. The story was told several times, and it finally got back to Am.

Am flips her fucking lid. Tells me I should be living alone, and that Robert and Schultz are essentially liabilities, and she's worried about being sued if they ever got hurt, or had their possessions damaged. I tried talking to her in messenger, but with Uncle in the chat too, it really didn't go anywhere. He agreed with her, and defended her, whilst admitting later that he had no idea what she wanted.

I went down to Uncle's house, where Am is living, and had a conversation with her. It was all about how if anything happened to Robert or Schultz then she could be held liable because it's on her land, and then started talking about how I was getting all this money and she was getting nothing. Which just isn't true, I'm not getting a lot of money from either of them, and what I do get just goes to bills.

She then shifted the conversation and started to talk about my morality, and beliefs. It kind of felt like a trap, but I did find out how deep her conspiracies go, and it's bad. Adrenochrome, kidnapping children, celebrities using it as a way to make themselves look younger. It's all bullshit.

As for the Robert and Schultz living with me, I was able to talk her down to them signing a contract that they would sue her at all, for any property of physical damage.

The Eclipse was also yesterday, and we all (Tasha, Robert, Schultz, and Wynter) had glasses and got to watch it. It was very interesting, and the change of lighting was very creepy. It made the outside look as if it was lighted as a horror movie is. Overall it was a very cool and memorable experience, and I got my first kiss under an eclipse!

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Tic Tac Toe, A Winner

March 17th, 2024 8:23PM

Natasha, Robert and I went to Mum's house for dinner, and had quite a good conversation. From Mum's problems with Lisa (Ray and Lisa, the people I dog sat for) to Robert finding out he had a warrant out for his arrest. From starting a union at Hannaford, to Tasha's newest crotchet project.

The big topic of the night was obviously Robert's warrant. We found out about it about two days ago, and have no idea what it could be possibly be about. We had to wait until Monday (which is tomorrow) to call the Sheriff's office and try to figure it out.

Schultz went and looked at an apartment yesterday and filled out an application for it. This is coming around the same time Robert is leaving for Alaska. That means I'll go from constant human contact to only getting that human contact at work. I literally broke down and tears last year after Robert left because I felt so isolated and alone. I'm not sure if I ever told anyone about that.

With Chelsea leaving her position as Fresh manager and Jess stepping down as the deli ops it means we are getting an entirely new leadership team. That's nerve wracking, but also intriguing.

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Hagrid's Milk Duds

March 15, 2024 10:24PM

The boys and I went on a hike up Great Pond Moutain yesterday, and it took everything in mentioning that fucking moutain. It was a wild time, and towards the end as we were coming down, I was having a low blood sugar and started to enter some sort of weird dream state, my legs and feet felt weird and almost like I was stepping on nothing.

The picture we took on top of the Moutain was pretty great, and I made it my cover photo.

I have to back to work when I wake up, and I really don't want too. I want to much to stay home and keep playing infinite craft, and watching weird Nicolas Cage movies. I just feel like I'm giving my life away to a corporation, and it hurts me. It hurts that I won't be able to experience life the way I want too.

The older I get, the more I realize what's important. Working for a corporation my entire life isn't something I want too do. I've got to figure this out, and stop wasting my life.

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Solar Powered Minotaurpalmlock Holmes

March 10th, 2024 9:48PM

It's been an interesting few days, Robert invited me to go with his family to Happy China Buffet last night, and I decided to go. It was actually a lot of fun! Roxanne and Jerlyn? I don't know how to spell her name, where very nice and I enjoyed my conversations with them. One guy whose name I've forgotten, decided he had to take pictures with everyone at the table! I laughed at lot at that. Robert's sister is also very pretty.

The past couple days I've been watching a lot of videos of "A Difficult Game About Climbing" and then I also found a game called "Infinite Craft" which is where the title comes from, as this was one of my first Discoveries, along with "Old Door" and "Radish of the Lost Wedding". The game is about combining words together, and you only start with Water, Earth, Wind and Fire.

I've been thinking a lot about Death lately. Grampy Frye just died, and as I was reading back over posts I realized that I have only really been updating this blog whenever someone died. It's sad that this has just become an update on who died recently. So, I'm going to be writing a little more often then that.

A new guy started at work today. Kyle. The guy I poached from subway. He's training again tomorrow, and I like him a lot. I hope he sticks around. I also found out today that Jessica is stepping down as the deli OPS. Which isn't surprising, no one is happy in the deli.

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Shambles.

March 4th, 2024 11:35AM

Since my last post things have gotten even worse for Hannaford and the deli. Logan was fired for supposedly stealing time. Ben and Nechama have both left because they found different jobs, Chris has put there two weeks in because they found another job. Since my last post, Nate was rehired and quit. Kory may be getting a phone call today at some point to see if he'll interview for seafood again. Matt has taken over as shift lead now. He's done all three departments back there, so I feel he's a valuable asset to the team.

Ashlei cheated on Schultz, so he's been living with Robert and I for awhile now. I'm not sure what his plan is, with Robert leaving in a month or so, it's going to be interesting.

Tasha and I are going strong. She's mentioned a couple of times about trying to get internships out of state, and that's made me nervous. I don't want to lose her, but I don't want to hold her back either. I would never tell her this, but I feel like there is a degree of naïveté about how she thinks things work in other places. Rents are sky high right now, and a lot of big cities I would consider safe. Makes me nervous for her, so I've lightly touched on a few of those topics with her to hope she understands what she might be getting herself into if she does move to another state.

My Grandfather Frye died. This is something I wrote on the day I died, or the day after I saw him the last time.

My grandfather Frye passed away today. I was surprised at my reaction, it was quite overwhelming and I had to leave work. I went down and visited with Mum and Am because I knew I would get the most comfort from them. My dad and I went to say goodbye to him last night at the hospital, and it was heartbreaking to here my dad tell him that he had done a good job, and that he treated my grandmother well, and gave her a good life.

It's been hard, but I moved on pretty fast, which is honestly what I think he would want. He didn't want a funeral or anything, so it just seemed like he wanted people to not be sad, but to move on.

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We Could Teach a Gorilla to be a Masseuse

June 12, 2023

Logan has been on this kick lately that he thinks that Gorillas could be good massage therapists. It's dumb, but somehow the conversation has stretched out three days now. I guess I'll have to bring it up again today.

Work is going to be interesting for the next few weeks. Nick St. Peter, Ernie, and Allie are all leaving the store in the next month, and Deb is trying to get Sierra to be the bakery lead? what the fuck is that? Why would she do that?

Amber has been calling out a lot. They've decided to change her schedule, and are only giving her a couple days next week. She's also going to be kicked off of sandwiches and salads, and brought up front to do freshly sliced. She's going to be unhappy about that.

Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day for the nation. Donald Trump is being brought into court tomorrow, and he's "tweeted" out the day, time, and address of the courthouse. Comments have been made about another "Civil War" by Trump Supporters in the comment sections of different posts, and I don't know if this is real or not, but I've also seen posts for hiring crisis actors.

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And that's Tombstone!

June 7th, 2023

Today is Wednesday, and for some reason, Jessica gave me today off. So, I went and got my check around 11, and then drove to Ellsworth with the plan to go to Hannaford, Nana's Attic, Wal-Mart and Goodwill. I did not actually go to all those places.

It was raining very hard when I got to Hannaford, I went inside, and checked to see if I got my prescriptions in, but they were not ready. I did find Frannie's though! When I came out it was raining even harder then it was when I went in. When I got back to the car, I was soaking wet, and it put me in a pissy mood.

I decided to just go to Wal-Mart and then go home. I didn't do any of the extra fun things, because I was in a bad mood. I got home, and Schultz end up asking if I wanted to watch Tombstone again, as Donna had ruined it the first time we tried to watch it.

Schultz came over, and we got high. The movie was really good, and I enjoyed it a lot. A lot more then I expected too. Doc Holliday was probably my favorite character.