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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Well…finally got the snow tires on the car today and that was a relief…damn near spun it going to discount but it drives like a tank now…and the black wheels with chrome lugs look badass just like it did on the 94…they didn’t have the Falken tires I ordered so they substituted Hankook tires that cost 50 bucks a tire more than what I paid for the Falkens at the same price…coming back I ran through some 8 inch deep snow and it just drove through it like it wasn’t there…put the top down and had two summer tires on it and two in the front seat…and when I stopped the car to unload the tires on the incline up to the garage I just let the clutch out and it walked straight up it and into the garage…oh, and the kicker is that my son texted me and said my DIL’s trip has been postponed til Feb so I have this week to myself…still going to have to get to know these tires to see how they work but that will be fun to not have the car trying to kill me… and discount even washed th summer wheels for me…pretty cool…

Well…damn, I’m tired of being out of bed at anytime that has a 5 in it…and today it was 5:22 and that makes three days in a row and I am just worn out…and it snowed a ton last night so I’m going to have a heck of a time getting out later…the stress from all of this is wearing me out…damn, I feel old today…don’t have a lot to do today but read and shovel snow and that is getting old…I need some days where I can just take it easy and not have something hanging over me that I have to do…and that won’t end until Saturday night when I do the last move I’m ever going to do…I forgot about Man U playing yesterday and they won 4-1 over Wolves so that sucks…oh, well…need to get moving so I think I will….more later…

Well…man, it’s too damn cold for the second week of December after it got down to 2 degrees last night…so, as I was clearing a spot to store the summer wheels this morning, I decided that 2 degrees would be a good battery test so I fired the car up and it started with no problem so I let it run for 15 minutes as I shoveled the alley to get ready for getting out to get the new tires tomorrow morning…so I guess I can stop thinking about a new battery for the car since it cranked just like it always does…this has been a brutal start to the month with record snowfalls and 2 degrees tied for the coldest temp this early in December and it’s not even winter for 12 more days…ick…