Well…up at 4:14 and out of bed before 6 and I need to pour coffee down to get ready for the last moving day I’m ever going to do…but it’s my job as part of a family to do this…it’s only 19 degrees out there so I’m going to have to dress for it with my boots, long johns, and stocking hat but before that I need to get my butt moving to get the weight work in and one ride done before I get picked up at 8:30…should be back here by 5 or so and then the next week is empty until I need to get blood drawn on the 22nd…I am going to revel in having a week that there is nothing to do…I did discover a couple of new authors to read and now I have 6 books to read over the next week…no cooking to do today after doing the big ham yesterday…but that gives me the ingredients for omelets this week….more later…
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Good ham…
Well…made a big ham on the grill today and it came out good and I even made stuffing and green bean casserole to go with it…but I ate so much for lunch that it will be a one meal day today…and I ran an errand to get more books and pick up some stuff I forgot at Meijers and driving the car with the new tires still amazes me…effortless and no stress at all…and the cars computer finally reset itself so it idles perfectly again…it had been hunting around and almost stalling when I stopped at stop signs and that is now gone…yay! Didn’t get anything else done today but the normal stuff and cooking and cleanup but that’s enough for one day…sure hope they plow the alley next week when it gets over 40 and turns the 8 inches of ice into slush or I’ll have to go out and shovel it…crap…
Is anybody else exhausted?
Well…is anybody else exhausted with all of the crime, fraud, and stupidity that passes for and administration run by the idiot trump? I mean murdering people in our name or using the justice department to attack his political enemies like he is doing to attack Leticia James who convicted him on 33 counts of felony business fraud…for the 2nd time in two weeks grand juries refused to return an indictment for fraud against her but I’m sure they will try it again…and it was just revealed that idiot boy designated two houses in Florida as his primary residences to get a better deal on his taxes…and almost every other repub has done the same thing and it’s still felony fraud…but have you seen any repub indicted for that? Nope…and I think I’m going to have to stop reading the news again since all this crap is just exhausting…and now we have a “peace plan” from trump on Ukraine that was written by the Russians and it’s one of the biggest betrayals of an ally in our country’s history…so maybe you can understand why I’m exhausted…geez…
December 12th
Well…up at 4:04 this morning and out of bed by 5:30 and I’m not sure why I think that’s okay…I mean I don’t sleep a lot and that leaves me worn out all day…I know I could take something for it and I just might tonight…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but shoveling the alley out and today looks a lot the same but I am going to cook the big ham on the grill today and that will feed me for a week or so but I forgot a bunch of stuff so there will be a run to Meijers after I hit the library for more books…going to do the full boat holiday food today with mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and stuffing…and I really do need to eat more than I have been so this will help…need to get the weight work in and one ride before I head out so I need to get moving right now….more later…
A little sore…
Well…I wonder if the new neighbors did too good a job of getting the city to plow up here? Over the past few days the truck have come around 3 times with today’s run with the big plows on the front of the trucks to push the snow piles back to the curbs…so I had to take the spade out so I could shovel the sidewalk out to the street…twice…and the latest time they threw 100 pound chunks of the snow piles that I had to lift and throw into the snowbanks….and then I had to shovel the end of the alley out…again twice…and they left behind a 3 feet deep blockage and that added to the pain that came from shoveling the 3 inches of slush with 2 inches of snow over it yesterday…my arms are just killing me and I will be taking an ibuprofen later…the slush in the alley refroze overnight so I shouldn’t have any problem getting out for the library run tomorrow…the weather was so bad yesterday that the schools were closed and the library didn’t open til noon…felt good being able to get around in that with no problem…more damn snow than I’ve seen in the years I’ve been out here…
Gaslighting America…
Well…since they are so incompetent and don’t have a clue about the economy, the idiot trump and his cronies have chosen to gaslight America trying to convince people that the staggering economy is just great and everyone should just shut up about it…price of laundry detergent doubling? Their solution is to just buy less…the same with school supplies and the idiot even went off on rant that kids don’t need “37 pencils” or “37 dolls” as if that’s why prices are rising across the board…it’s your stupid tariffs, moron…the thing is that people in the US aren’t buying what trump is selling with polls showing his performance on the economy is at 31% and there has never been a president with a lower approval rating in the history of the country…telling people that things are fine in their household economics is not going to work this time since it’s pretty clear, even for me, that high prices are taking a bite out of my budget…as I said before, the price of laundry detergent has doubled in the past two months…and that’s only one item…geez…
December 11th
Well…slept in all the way to 5:24 this morning…yeah, that’s sarcasm…feel so damn worn out this morning that all I want to do is sleep some more but I’ve started the coffee so that’s not going to happen…just feel so damn old and nothing I can do is going to change that…have one more book to read before I head to the library tomorrow but I’ll have to shovel the alley if I’m going to get out even with the new tires…but that will be after the weight work and rides…might cook the big ham on the grill today so I’ll have food for the next week but I may wait til tomorrow…didn’t eat much yesterday and I know I need to have a minimum of calories but when you can’t taste anything that makes it much harder…it’s a little after 6 and I just can’t get going and the coffee is not helping at all…oh, well…only did one ride yesterday and now I feel like a slug for not getting enough exercise…so I’ll fix that today…it didn’t snow overnight so I’ll only have to clear the alley today but that is going to be a chore after the slush froze overnight…more later…
Can we wish for him to just die already?
Well…with the idiot trumps clear deterioration since he started this term, can we wish for him to just die already? He is already not doing the president’s job anyway…and when he pardoned the former president of Honduras who imported 400 tons of cocaine into the US and murdered thousands of people and was asked about it, he didn’t recognize who he is so they probably just put the pardon in front of him and told him to sign it…and he has started falling asleep everywhere that has been caught on video…but not just that, someone had to put up a big sign in the WH that says “Oval Office” so he can find it when he doesn’t have an aide with him…I just hate the media who spent all of 24 attacking Joe Biden for his aging and gaffes but then let idiot boy off when he is much worse shape that Joe was…at least people like Dan Rather and Robert Reich are going there and are chronicling the idiot’s decline…geez…
I love my new tires…
Well…after going out for groceries this morning and hitting three stores in the ice and slush, all I have to say is I love the new tires…no drama at all and the car has turned into a tank…I was even able to get it back in the garage even though there was 8 inches of snow and slush in the alley…so no stress for the rest of the winter since I now know I can get around no matter how bad the roads are…we had about 6 inches of snow here overnight and it’s still snowing and warm enough that the packed down snow is melting and we’ll get another 4 later today…need to get out and get the snow shoveled before all of the slush freezes into ice…more later…
December 10th
Well…up way too early today at 4:50 and I think I’m getting to the point that I’m going to have to take something to get more sleep…just damn worn out and the coffee needs to work soon or I’ll just melt back into the couch and take the day off…but you know I won’t…yesterday took a lot out of me getting the new snow tires and I am going to try them out this morning doing the grocery run…even going to hit DD since they have dollar December going on and have a three meat rising crust pizza for 3.99…I am just miserable right now… my allergies are really bad and I’m sneezing like crazy and I really don’t know why that would be…going to run the hepa filters today to try to help that….not much to do today…just need to get started on the weight work and bike rides before I head out for the grocery run at 8 or so…going to get a big ham and a pork shoulder so I’ll have plenty of food to eat and I’m just going to try to survive the day…need to go to the library to take 4 books back and get 4 more….more later…