Well…it looks like there is a window to get out on the bike with no rain right now, but then sitting here, I heard the wind howl along the side of the house and shake it a bit and that is going to keep me off the bike with how bad my back has been lately….and there is only a small break in the clouds that is going to end in about an hour and I sure don’t want to get wet….I did spend a ton of money today with having to pay 60 bucks for the medication I need for the colonoscopy since it is not covered by medicare…even the liquid stuff that I took last time was over 40 bucks so 60 bucks three years later isn’t bad…Meijers didn’t have the Hatfield pork loins but they did have some small Meijer ones that I am hoping will be as tender as the ones I got earlier in the week…that may be the key, getting smaller ones but we’ll see when I cook some of one of them….and I still have room to cut these two up and put them in the freezer but won’t be buying any more protein for a couple of weeks…I did get the couch and living room rug vacuumed and laundry done so I have accomplished a couple of things today and will continue to do a few small things for the rest of the afternoon….will probably clean up the dining room, too since the table in there is covered in junk that needs to be put away so it doesn’t get dusty when I start sanding in there later this week…damn, I spent 147 bucks on prescriptions and food today but that included 13 bucks for paper towel that will last me the rest of the year and lots of staples that will do the same…and almost 12 bucks for the pork loins didn’t help…oh, well…won’t have to spend any money next week…
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October 12th
Well…darn…up three times overnight and I am running out of steam…but it looks like I’ll have the day off the bike today with it raining right now and forecast to continue all day…glad I got the lawn mowed yesterday and two rides in….my damn back is still hurting and this is the longest time it has hurt in a long, long time and I’m not sure how I continually hurt it but it is so stiff that I am trying not to move much….so the rain means I’ll be working on this place after the grocery runs this morning and I do need to clean the living room and rotate the couch cushions…and vacuum everything so I will have stuff to do even with the rain….don’t need to cook anything today with still having pork loin leftovers and a couple of brats to use before I make the pork stir fry later in the week…and I think I may even do the slow cooker recipe that I made with chicken last week but I think I’ll make it with pork this time since I like these pork loins so much…that is if they have any left at Meijers when I get there this morning….I do like hearing the rain hitting the house since it happens so rarely…it is kind of relaxing knowing I don’t have to rush to get on the bike…and I don’t have to get out of here until after 8:30 since I do have to pick up a prescription and the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9…so forced relaxation, how does that work? Not much to do today….still have two hours before I have to get out of here and it will be cool seeing my newly waxed and rain-x’ed car shedding the rain as I drive it…yeah, little things like that make me smile…and my garage door opener has worked for two weeks now without any problems and I wonder if it was my cleaning of the electric eyes that stop the door from hitting things that are in the way? Whatever it is, I’ll take it….more later….
A disjointed day…
Well…it was just so easy over the summer figuring out how each day was going to go and the routine was pretty consistent…but, as the weather has started to change, I’ve found I have to be much more flexible and that makes my days pretty disjointed…like today when I had to wait to get on the bike and had to find something to fill the time until that happened…so, I cleaned the bathroom and the new cleaner I bought to do the shower worked pretty well but I think it will need another spray and scrub to get all the calcium and soap off…after I got back from the second ride, I grabbed an already cooked brat and wrapped it in a slice of bread and ate that on the run for lunch as I went out to mow the lawn…it looks like it’s going to rain off and on for the next few days with some high wind and I wanted the grass to be short so at least some of the leaves would blow away and I won’t have to pick them up….after that, I got cleaned up and used my sparkling shower and finally had the chance to read the news and get a political one done here…finally…but I was still hungry so I got out the piece of leftover pork loin fro yesterday and sliced that up and had it with some horseradish mustard that I got from aldis…after having the other half of the pork loin in marinade for more than a day, I decided to cook up the other 4 pieces that were in the bag and I cut the other pork loin up and got it in bags in the freezer…so I really do hope that they have more and I can get another couple of bags in the freezer to have some that will last a while….so now I’m back here after this day of winging it with no plans and it still feels disjointed…like I’m missing something…and it looks like rain here for the evening and through most of the night that should start here around 5 or so and we can sure use it….right now it’s soccer time and then a leftover dinner of chicken, pasta salad and tomatoes…..that’s enough for the day….
Here’s the problem…
Well…as you can see, there is a problem with getting out of bed a little after 6 and not being able to get on the bike til almost 10…have too much time to fill and I’m really not motivated to start on the windows in the dining room, so I sit here and do another one of these….when I should be cleaning the bathroom…hey, that’s an idea, I think I’ll do that here in a minute…have a new bathroom cleaner to try to get the soap scum and calcium deposits off the shower….and with the white trim, it needs to be washed all the time with how dusty this house is…and I have an hour before it’s warm enough to get out on the bike…that would be an accomplishment that I can build the rest of the day on….once I get started on the bike, I won’t be done til almost 1 and that will make for a late lunch but I still need to do an early dinner to try to work on my new eating pattern…think I’m going to cook the rest of the pork loin later and that will keep me eating for the rest of the week…need to get off my butt and get cleaning….more later…
Last colonoscopy?
Well…as you know, I have my second colonoscopy scheduled for the 24th of this month but there is a new study out there that questions the effectiveness of the procedure saying that it has little effect in preventing colon cancer…but the study is a little confusing and I’m not sure what it really means…the headline says that people are questioning it’s effectiveness but then the states in the article that people getting colonoscopies had a 31% reduction in colon cancers and a 50% lessened chance of dying from it…and an American study showed even better results with a 40% lowered risk of getting cancer and a 68% reduction in dying from colon cancer. With having 5 polyps removed last time, that is 5 sites that won’t be turning into cancer in my colon and I really hope they don’t find more of them this time….I’m getting to the age that the sedation they use poses higher danger than for young people and I wonder if that will be the determining factor on whether I get another one? The prep is pretty unpleasant but the procedure is okay…the stuff the give you really makes you not car what they are doing and it is even a little interesting for a science geek like me since you can watch the pictures on a monitor and that is a little cool….so I guess we’ll see if this is the last one or not…to go through a day of unpleasantness to get a 68% death reduction seems to be a good tradeoff to me…just don’t want to do it every year….
October 11th
Well…that was a little better…slept okay and even had some dreams last night that hasn’t happened in quite a while….but my allergies are really bad and I am coughing like crazy….crap….at least I’m not as sore as I was yesterday and I can move a bit today but there is still pain in my back and sides…and the weirdest thing is that the fingers on my left hand have hurt for a few days now and I’ll be damned if I know how I hurt them….didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to get going on the dining room today and I probably will but I’ll need more coffee before I do that….and I need to find topics for later today but my brain is fogged up with sleep right now even though I was good last night…and I think that is just getting old…not sure when I’m going to mow the lawn this week with the leaves starting to fall and I am waiting for the changeover to bagging as I need to pick the leaves up…but that won’t happen til next week at least…probably get one more mow in before that….and I need to plan meals better since I have too much food in the fridge right now…need to cook the rest of the marinaded pork loin today and then I’ll have some for sandwiches and it should last longer than raw….and I need to cut the second one up and get it in the freezer and I really hope they still have more when I do the grocery run tomorrow…and I need to pick up the prep prescription for the 24th and that’s going to cost me over 50 bucks since it’s not covered by Medicare…I’ll never figure out those rules….not much to do today…just going to have coffee and read the news as I wait for the temp to come up enough to get out on the bike…it’s only 42 right now and it needs to get much nearer to 50 before I go…there is a gale warning up for later today with winds nearing 40 so I need to get out this morning before it starts to blow….more later….
Tender pork loin…
Well….trying out a new time of eating that is supposed to lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and give you more energy…read an article about it today that people who ate all their meals within a 6 hour period earlier in the day experience some real health benefits…but that’s not what this is about…just tried some of the new pork loins I got buy one get one free at Meijers this morning and I’ve never had one that is more tender…I did marinate the pieces in my standard marinade with olive oil, soy sauce, worst sauce, onion and garlic powder, and Italian seasoning…oh, and I threw in a little dijon mustard to try to spice it up a bit and then let them set in the fridge for 5 hours….I’ve used this on other pork loins before and they came out pretty tough so I think it’s actually the meat itself….the loins are quite small in diameter and are from a company called Hatfield that I’ve never heard of before…I barely even needed a knife to cut them they were so tender…so, it looks like I’ll get two more of them and try to find some room in the freezer for them…might have to throw out one of the ham bones I have in there since they take up enough space for two pork loins…and at 1.33 a pound, it is cheap protein that can be used in all kinds of dishes…but two more means I’ll have about 13 pounds in the freezer and that should last me the rest of the year…can’t wait to try some just cut into chops and seared before they go in the oven…that will be a good test for how tender they are…it was nice to have something that wasn’t chicken for a change….
A good deal…
Well…still too cold to get out on the bike so I did make the run over to Meijers to pick up a couple of pork loins…got 9 pounds for only about 12 bucks and that makes it 1.33 a pound and that is a pretty good deal for how high pork has been lately…and I even got some apples for 79 cents a pound since I need to put more fruit and veggies into my diet…I may even pick up a couple more to stock the freezer when I do the big grocery run wed….now I need to figure out what to cook with them…maybe some stir fry? I am going to marinate some of one of them to have some chops tomorrow but I need to figure out how to keep them tender when I cook them….need to look for a political topic right now and will be back later for one of those….more later…
October 10th
Well…I’m sure you don’t care how I slept last night so I’m not going to talk about that….okay, yeah, I’m going to say I didn’t get out of bed til 7:25 and I really don’t care about that with it being so cold I won’t be able to get out on the bike til 11 or so…and that means I need to get off my butt and get started on the dining room today…or I may run out to get a pork loin since Meijers has them buy one get one free and I wouldn’t mind marinating some thick pork chops or maybe cooking some in the slow cooker with potatoes and carrots….but they are still going to cost about 8 or 10 bucks each and I’m not sure if that is a bargain or not….still over 2 bucks a pound but I think I can afford to splurge a little….with all of the pain I have right now, it feels like I have the flu or something…my hands even hurt and my back is no better than yesterday so I am hoping for a day off tomorrow or Wed….not sure at all what the heck I did to my left hand but it hurts like crazy today…now I need to think back to what I’ve done over the past few days so I can figure that out….didn’t get anything done yesterday but I need to clean today after noticing that just sanding on the bathroom door frame left the stove and range hood covered in dust and I am not looking forward to having this place dusty again as I work on the dining room…but that’s what happens when I work on this place…ick…not much to do today….I will come back for a political one today even if I have to read the news for hours this morning…I know I’ve slacked off on that lately but after 10K of these I’m not sure if I have anything new to say…I will try, though, and I guess that’s all I can do…more later….
Still looking for a topic…
Well…have been reading the news a lot today but nothing has grabbed me enough to formulate a post from it…so, what to do? I think I’ll just noodle a bit and see what happens…I think I’ve figured out that it is going into the wind that is hurting my back since it is not healing at all and actually hurts worse than it did yesterday..and today was another windy day on the bike and I went pretty hard coming back, too, and it was nice to have the rides done before 11 this morning…saw a big flock of turkeys on the old paper plant land today and there must have been over 25 of them just standing there feeding and that was pretty cool…I am inches away from giving up and going into long pants on the bike soon…it’s only going to be in the 40’s for highs later in the week and I’ll need warmer clothes for that…and it’s supposed to rain Tuesday and Wed so I may be able to have a recovery day off from the bike…but then I’ll probably just hurt my back working on this place since I do need to get on the trim and windows in the dining room…okay, that’s enough for now…want to watch the race and Man U….more later….