Well…that was early…out of bed at 5:34 this morning but I feel okay so I can live with it….and my eyes are better today but the allergies continue to get worse as the days go on and I’m not sure if the little red allergy meds are going to do it any more….darn….and I have another long day of work on the bedroom today where I have to go over all of the walls with a sanding block to make sure I have all of the residue off the walls and can start working on the repairs…I am damn tired of dust…every day I work around here, I put another coat of dust everywhere no matter how much I do to try to contain it…and I am looking forward to the summer and not working on anything that will make dust…I have let this place go and haven’t done any of the normal cleaning that I should be doing so it looks like I won’t have my Sunday off like I have been doing to heal up after working all week….but I will stay off the bike at least…I am still really sore after the work this week and I wonder if I should just power through the bedroom and get it done…but, the door needs to come off and the door frame is going to take a good day or two to repair it since it has dripping paint glopped all over it…I do have to remember that I have until the end of May to finish both the bathroom and the bedroom and will need to get paint for both this week…so I’m going to spend around 60 bucks on paint this week with needing two greys and another gallon of white…ugh….not much to do today….hope to be done with what I want to do by noon or so today and I may clean the stove up after cooking for lunch since it has dust all over it from peeling the wallpaper off the bedroom….how that happens with the door closed and a fan blowing out the window, I don’t know…more later….

Well…it appears that the two day pain rule is in effect today and I hurt everywhere from scraping the last wall Wednesday with how hard it was…but I am going to be back at it today to try to get the remaining paper and adhesive off the last three walls…and then I’ll have to wash it to get the stripper off the walls before I start the repairs of all of the divots and missing plaster….I am a little depressed that my allergies are really bad today and my eyes are affected and filled with crap that is making my vision blurry…just used eye drops to try to fix that and it seems to have helped a bit but the small print on my tablet is still a bit of a chore to read…when is the damn snow going to stop out here? We got another couple of inches overnight and the ground is covered again and that is a bunch of crap for it being April 1st….and, with just one nice day day next week, we are going to be two weeks into this month before I’ll be back out on the bike outside….I am tired of it being in the 40’s…but I have to remember that I shouldn’t waste my energy thinking about it or I’ll just got more depressed….not much to do today….just the walls in the bedroom, the bike ride, and cleaning the bottom of the fridge to get the blood out of it from the pork chops I thawed the other day when the bag leaked…what a pain in the butt…but I am going to get to have a marinated pork chop for lunch and that almost makes up for it….not quite, but almost….more later…

Well…it has been a long frickin day with not being good last night…and yes, I am still hating myself for it…but all I can do is go forward and get back to taking care of myself…after all, only two nights of cocktails in 3 months is not bad when you think about it….I did do my penance and got on the bike just after lunch…and it showed me just how bad I retain water when I have cocktails…rode 5.7 miles before I started to drip sweat and yesterday I set the record of 4.8 miles on a normal day…and that was from just one night of 3 cocktails…so, no more of that…I did go back out to get my long sleeved t-shirts for 4 bucks each at ollies and was going to get more regular ones, too, but all of the xls were gone so I guess I’ll have to live with 7 new ones….and I bought the only 3 long sleeved xls they had but that is okay…don’t use them much in summer if it ever comes this year…so, from the day going to be a lost one to getting a few things done with how crappy I still feel does make me feel a little better…but I am still so sore from doing the wall yesterday that it is going to be light work for a few days until I heal up some…I did find that I can get a bi-fold door for the closet in my new bedroom with all of the hardware for about 60 bucks….it looks like there was never a door on it since there are no hinge pockets or mounting holes for any door but there is a wooden dowel there that I’m sure they had curtains on…but right now, I’m done for the day…I’m tired….

Well…this is a little too weird to wrap my head around this early in the day…just got back from running errands and I am still shaking my head…just bought 7 100% cotton t-shirts for only 14 bucks…I know they are seconds with some flaws in them but, for that price, I can wear them once and throw them away…I did have to dig through a huge bin to find the colors and size that I wanted but 15 minutes of my time is worth it to replenish my t-shirt drawer….I did have to buy 3 larges when I normally buy x-larges to allow for shrinkage but for 1.99 I can live with those…going to go back and get some long sleeve ones they have for 3.99 each and that is about half what I can get them on sale for at Target…and the ones I have are falling apart so that needs to happen next week…I did get the heat gun returned, too, so a successful morning and the heat gun return paid for the t-shirts….might even go back there tomorrow and get a few more shirts and then I won’t have to think about t-shirts for another year or so….more later….

Well..damn, I am so disappointed with myself that I’ll probably be depressed for weeks…fell off the wagon last night and had cocktails and feel like crap today…not sure why I did it but part of it was all of the work I’ve been doing and….nope, that’s just a damn excuse and throwing months of healthy living out the window for nothing is just another failure that I am gong to have to live with…along with all of my many other failures….crap, crap, crap….and I had some chicken I was thawing leak all over the bottom of the fridge so I’ll have to tear that apart to clean it….and I’m going to skip the bike ride today so that will add to the depression that is going to blanket me all day…and the pain from overdoing the work yesterday is making it hard to move…okay, enough wallowing in my failures…when this crap happens, I need to just get moving and start doing better…and that starts now…I do need to go out for an errand this morning to Ollies outlet since they have t-shirts on sale for 1.99 and it is next to HF where I need to return the heat gun since it really doesn’t work to remove paint that I bought it for….I’m sure they won’t have the shirts but it is only a couple of miles from here so no big deal but I could use some new painting shirts since my old ones are falling apart…I am going to make a burger for lunch since I bought 5 pounds at Aldi’s Tuesday to fill  the freezer…and I’m going to make lasagna this weekend….the rest of the day is going to be a waste and I am going to try to not get more depressed about that…but how I’m feeling now, that isn’t going to happen….more later…

Well…on a whim, I thought I’d see if Meijers had any appointments for the covid boosters today and they did….going in at 10:30 to get it out of the way and that is pretty cool…one less thing to think about but it will make me late for working on the wall today…will probably wait for that until after lunch….and take the next hour and a half to just sit and read the news…and that is such a big luxury to me that I don’t know how to act….but, I’ll figure it out…yay booster!

Well…it looks like we didn’t get the snow or ice that was in the forecast and that sent me on the grocery run a day early and I’m okay with that…but it is going to rain all day today and I hope that starts to green up the lawn and washes all the crud from winter off the sidewalks…it looks like they are going to replace the crappy patch they put in the road out front of the house finally and there was a crew out here yesterday with a huge diamond cutting machine that was putting straight cuts across the streets on both sides of the patch…I sure hope they clean up after themselves this time after leaving gravel, concrete, and mud all over my lawn when they dug it up last fall…I am still pretty sore from yesterday’s wall work and I am going to abuse myself one more time today to do the last wall in the big bedroom….my right hand looks like I was in a bar fight with every knuckle rubbed raw from scraping it on the wall but today I’m going to tape it up before I get to work and I hope that will protect it enough so there isn’t more damage to it….I do need to get on Meijers website today and try to get my next vaccine scheduled since they were approved yesterday for old farts like me and I really don’t want to take any chances with getting the damn virus…I have a summer to enjoy and don’t want any covid effects to screw that up….not much to do today…just the bike ride and the wall that I should have done by noon or so and then will probably sand the patches in the bathroom so I can paint that next week….more later….