Category Archives: My Life

July 19th

Well…up at 4:34 again today but was able to get back to sleep…kinda..until 5:30 or so and now the magic coffee needs to do it’s work so I can get moving and get the rides in before I get back to the last part of cleaning this joint up…it really does look like rain this afternoon…ha,ha…I’ve written that so many times without rain ever getting here that it is not even a joke anymore…need to get on the bike by 6:30am today to get two rides in before 9 and get the cleaning done…not sure when my son is coming over but it will probably be early…the bike rally downtown was not nearly as loud as it was last year and there is only one more day to go…have no interest in going down there to see all the maga assholes play acting patriotism as they continue to support the asshole in chief and his racist bullshit…okay, I normally don’t do politics in this post of the day but damn…I just hate these assholes who saddled us with the idiot trump…not much to do today…I’m tired of cleaning but this place is looking pretty good and I won’t have to do anything for a couple of weeks…I do need to figure out some meals with using up the chicken tacos yesterday…more later

Cleaning, cleaning…

Well…it has been a day of cleaning all day today with getting the dining room done, the fridge cleaned, the back stairs vacuumed, and the kitchen cleaned…just need to do a quick once over on the bathroom and vacuuming the living room and I’ll be ready for the visit tomorrow…didn’t go to lunch with T today since her hands have flared in pain as she waits for surgery on them on the 31st…and that really helped me get everything done…I did have to run an errand out to aldis since I ran out of pickles and tortillas and I wanted to drive the car since I cleaned it top to bottom yesterday…the battery in the key fob died just as I was getting used to using it to open the trunk so I ordered a couple and will get them tomorrow…easy to replace and they should last a couple of years…okay, have some messages I need to respond to over on Mastodon…

July 18th

Well…damn, it got down to 53 degrees last night and it was pretty darn cold in here…woke up at 4 or so but was able to get back to sleep til 6:30 and that makes me late for the day…going to need a fleece to get on the bike by 7:30 and I need to pour coffee down to get that done…I did get a lot of cleaning done yesterday and the rest of it can be done Sat morning before the visitors come over…looking forward to seeing Art, my son’s dog and my son and DIL…got the car completely cleaned and I think I’m going to run out to aldis and meijers this morning to pick up things I forgot on the grocery run…supposed to have lunch with T today but I’ll believe that when it happens…haven’t seen her for over a year and that’s too long…oh,well…my damn right elbow is still howling in pain and it hurts to pick up my coffee cup…I think I’m going to hurt from cleaning the car today and I’m starting to feel it right now…I think I may try some ice cream to see if I can finally eat it after years and years of pain…but there is no room in the freezer so I guess I’ll have to wait a while until I empty it a bit…not much to do today…just need to have more coffee and get off my butt and get going…more later…

Still Trying…

Well…have been trying to find a political topic to do today but no such luck so far…I did get the rides in and the car cleaned and waxed and even did the entire interior along with the glass and then ran over to the library to get more books that will last me until the damn motorcycle rally is over…there is no place left to park for the people that live here and that sucks…making an easy town into a pain in the butt until Sunday night…and they just did a sound check for one of the stages and it sounds like it’s in my front yard…that is really going to suck later…I have been getting the cleaning done and need to get the floors done today right after I do this one…have the microwave clean and will do the stove and countertops later and that will just leave the bathroom and living room to do…and a day and a half to do them…okay, time to get off my butt and get moving…I’ll be back for a political one later…

July 17th

Well…damn, running late today and I just poured the first cup of coffee at 6:39 so that will mean I won’t be on the bike til 7 or so and that makes me late for the entire day…a cold front came through last night but we didn’t get a drop of rain from it and that sucks…it’s only 62 out there right now and the wind is blowing like crazy so the rides will be a chore…the high is going to be only 72 today and that will be a relief after the nearly 90′s we’ve been enduring…my damn right elbow is howling in pain and has been for almost a week now so I’ll have to take some ibuprofen for it in a bit….don’t think I’ll go to the beach today since it’s not going to be warm enough and I have too much to do anyway…need to clean the kitchen today and mop all the floors after I clean the car and go to the library…so it will be a busy day…again…and I need to get it started soon…slept better last night but I sure don’t feel like it right now and I sure hope that’s not my life from now on…more later…

Got some cleaning done…

Well…after the good news yesterday, I vowed to myself that I was going to go out to the beach to make up for cutting my swim time short to come home and see the results of the tests…so, of course, I did wake up a little happier today and got right into the rides at 6:30am…then did the grocery run, and then out to the beach by 10:30am…where I stayed until noon or so since I really did have to get cleaning and I did…have the dining room cleaned and will work on the kitchen tomorrow and should be able to finish that but I do want to clean the car since it is coated with dust it’s been so dry up here…so it will be two rides and then clean the car…and I do need to hit the library to get more books after the car is done…and I need to remember to just use a little of the car wash soap since I used about 5 times more than I should have last time…not sure if I’ll wax it again but I probably will since it only takes about 10 minutes to do…and I do have new wheel/tire cleaner that I want to try…okay…need to read a bit before tv…

July 16th

Well…darn…up at 4:53 this morning and that is going to make for a long day today since I can’t take naps anymore…it was such a good day yesterday except for the crappy copy of “Superman” that I tried to watch last night but it had advertising type floating all over the screen and that was so damn annoying that I shut it off after a few minutes…I did grind some beans for today’s coffee and it just tastes so good I wonder why I don’t do that all the time? I have 6+ pounds of beans in the drawer and I haven’t even gone through the first bag I bought months ago…it’s going to be a little busy today with getting the first ride in then doing the grocery run…I do want to clean the car today since it is so dusty and filled with sand from the beach trips and I am going to do a full beach run since I cut yesterday short with the mychart notification…man, I have been so lucky with my health lately that I want to just relax and live for a bit…so I’ll have to haul ass so I can get to the beach by 10:30 or so…the math doesn’t work, though since I’ll still need to do the second ride after the grocery run and won’t be done with that til 10:30…maybe I’ll wait to clean the car til tomorrow? I did get started cleaning this place up and need to keep working on that later today…the kitchen needs work and I’ll clean the microwave today along with the sinks…I do still want to carve out some time to read so I can finish the last book and get a few more from the library but I’m going to cut back on that to get other things done around here…ha,ha…they have a 70% chance of storms tonight and I am laughing at that forecast…it just doesn’t rain here…more later…

Just got the test results..

Well…just go the test results of the ultrasound and everything is pretty normal…no masses in the liver and no cirrosis…no gall stones and spleen is normal so I’ll bet the high billirubin IS from being dehydrated…so, it looks I’ll live for a few more months anyway…probably the best results I could have hoped for…yay! and I just got a call from my doctor’s office confirming that there are no problems and nothing to do but check the levels in November…yay, again! Lucky day for me…

July 15th

Well…damn, I’m sore today after all of the work yesterday but today will be a little easier after I get done with the rides and the periodontist appointment…I do need to get started cleaning and I may run over to menards to get some lawn food to feed my burned out lawn with the rain that is supposed to be coming in the next few days…darn, I hurt so much that I just took an ibuprofen for the first time in a long time…it looks like a break in the weather Thurs with highs in the 70′s and we really need some relief….and I need to get some home defense bug killer since I’m getting lots of spiders and other bugs in here and the old stuff I have has a broken sprayer and that’s annoying…and a gallon of spectracide is only 6 bucks at menards…so maybe I’ll skip the beach today so I can get the food on the lawn and get the fridge and dining room cleaned…might be a good day to play a little vinyl while I work….going to get a 2nd cup of coffee down before I head out on the bike and that is going to happen before 7am…more later…

A busy, busy day…

Well…I really hadn’t planned to have such a busy day today but it turned out it was…started out with getting the two rides in and then decided to hit the beach for a swim and the water was just perfect so I was in it for a good 45 minutes…then back here for lunch and then made potato salad and right after that, I decided to get the yard work done so I took the cover off the car, fired it up, and drove it around the block hitting the brakes hard to try to get some of the rust off the rotors and then mowed where the car sits…after getting the cover back on it, I decided to mow the rest of the lawn and trim some branches off the trees…after that, I did laundry and just put that away…then put the trash trolley out and now I need to do my teeth and make ice…no cocktails tonight with the periodontist appointment at 10 tomorrow morning…oh, I forgot, ran out to DD to get more braunschweiger and a package of black forest ham and a pound of kielbasa…so now I just want to have a few minutes to read…this has been a really busy day…