Well…man, when I got up this morning, I hadn’t felt that lousy in quite a while…probably since I quit drinking the first week of Jan…but I feel better now and can’t figure out why…did everything as I always do every day and just now ate for the first time today…I did take some of the flonase and an ibuprofen since I hurt so badly and my head was stuffed up like nuts and that might be part of it…but I still have the off and on headache that I’ve had for months now and the sinus pressure has given me some eye pain, too, that hit like I’m being stabbed in the eye but only lasts a minute or so and then  subsides….I would really like to know what the heck I did to feel better so I could keep doing it….even filled all of the baseboards in the bedroom and should feel really sore but don’t…weird….I may do a little more in there in a while and remove the hardware from the closet door frame but that will be it….should still have the bedroom done by the second week of May but I do need to start on the yard soon, too….too damn much work to do….

Well…this is bad, had to take some allergy meds already today since I am so miserable and can’t breathe…crap…and even my left hand hurts today after using it to sand the window yesterday and I am running out of body parts to switch to….but I need to get that room done and that won’t happen unless I just keep going and working through the pain…so my friend ibuprofen will be necessary here in a minute….I did get up in the attic yesterday to get an idea of how big the job is going to be to even out the insulation and it may only be a couple of days….and I think I’ll just keep using the ladder that is there instead of putting in a pull down in to use the space…I do need to put hinges on the door so I don’t have to push it aside when I want to get up there…and I discovered that the wall between the kitchen and dining room is open to the cold up there since there is no insulation blocking it off from the attic and I’ll have to cut some to fit in the spaces….just another project to do and the amount of work is getting pretty overwhelming….still need to sand and paint the bathroom, too, and I wonder if taking the summer off is going to happen with all of the work waiting for me…do I ever get to be retired? Oh, and that is a topic for later on today that has been rattling around in my head for a couple of days now….not much to do today….I do need to make a lasagna for lunch so  the work in the bedroom has to be  done by 11 or so…but I think that will be enough with how sore I am…more later….

Well…hmmm…slept okay last night so I wonder why I feel like I didn’t sleep at all? I know I worked pretty hard yesterday but 6 hours of sleep is normally enough for me and that’s about what I had last night….oh, well…I really do think I may have to start alternating hard work days with easy ones since I’m just damn old and I feel beat today after the long day yesterday….I guess we’ll see…I wonder if I’ll lose my capacity to work hard if I start taking it easy even every other day? I feel that way about missing bike rides and time off always seems to set my fitness level back a ways….have to think about that one….I do know my hands and right arm are feeling it from the abuse….okay, I’ll stop bitching about getting old….I did pull 24 tacks out of the window frame in the bedroom yesterday and I wonder if they were there for plastic covering the old windows in the winter? I do know they were painted over instead of removed and I’m still shaking my head about that…I do need to do one of these about working on houses and the fact that I don’t remember painting or doing any other work on the house I grew up in…so I wonder why I’ve worked so hard on every house I’ve owned since then? Not much to do today…well, that’s not true…have 5 places to stop at during the grocery run/errands this morning and then back here to finish the window and get started on the two door frames in the bedroom….and I do need to make lasagna later today to use up the cheese that I bought last week…won’t be able to ride outside today with rain forecast all day but maybe it may break this afternoon….more later….

Well…after doing the 5 hours on the bedroom yesterday, my plan was to take it a little easier today but, you know me, that was just not going to happen…but I didn’t plan on a really busy day like today…started out with getting on the bike downstairs and then right to the baseboards and spent 3 hours on that before I just called it a day…I did get them pretty much done so I was okay with that…so I made lunch and it was warm enough to get outside for a ride…finally…so I got 13 miles in and got back here in time to see part of the champions league matches and write checks for a bunch of bills I needed to pay along with getting my absentee ballot request filled out…but it was bugging me that I didn’t clean up enough so I suited back up in the work clothes and put in a couple more hours in the bedroom cleaning and then starting work on the window in there…the beige paint they had slathered all over my nice vinyl window was irritating the heck out of me so I worked on figuring out how to remove that without hurting the window and came up with a brainstorm to use rubbing alcohol and paper towel and lots of elbow grease and the paint mostly came off….so I know I can restore it to normal with just a little more work…I gave up for the day around 7 and that made for a long, busy day…going to try to take it a little easier tomorrow…yeah, right….my hand really hurts…owwww….

Well…made it all the way to 6:21 this morning with only getting up once overnight and I’ll take that…more tossing and turning than normal but that’s okay…my hand and shoulder got better after two ibuprofens yesterday and they don’t hurt that much today…will abuse them again today working on the baseboards so the pain will probably come back…who am I kidding? The pain will come back and I am really looking forward to the day when I can paint the bedroom and have it done but I still see that as a month away but I’m inching toward it…it looks like I maybe able to get out on the bike outside today around two or so…will still only be 48 degrees but I need to get some fresh air and can suit up for that…then it looks like big rain for a few days and then back outside Sunday…and then back into the 40’s again and the whipsawing of temp is driving me nuts…I think this is going to be one of those years where we go from winter to summer and skip spring altogether…and I’ll miss that…I do love the smell of spring and the feel of the sun when it warms up….not much to do today…just the bike ride and then on to the trim in the bedroom that I have to figure out how to sand with 5 coats of really hard, old paint and carpeting stuck in it….don’t want to use my grinder with a flap disc but I may have to…and that will make much more filling necessary…oh, well….more later….

Well…this has been one of my strangest days in a long time…maybe not strange but different than most of them…I mean, still drinking coffee at 3 in the afternoon? There is definitely something wrong with that…I’m normally done with coffee by 10 in the morning but all of the work today put me so behind on everything that I just had lunch at 2 and that never happens..but, that will mean there is no possible way to get a second meal in today so I guess I’ll have to live on a baked pork chop and a handful of oven fries….and I really need to stop drinking coffee or I won’t be sleeping until tomorrow…I am done for the day and need to get to my allergy meds and even an ibuprofen since I am not very good at using my left hand on the space bar….maybe tomorrow will be easier…hope so…

Well…damn, running late, late, late today with working 5 1/2 hours on the bedroom and just finishing up…haven’t even looked at the news today so I haven’t been able to find a topic yet or eat lunch…and my right arm and hand just gave up on me so now I’m hitting the space bar with my left thumb it hurts so much not even using it…but I did get all of the plaster work and divot filling done…used up another 8 pound tub of the plaster filler I’ve been using and I am getting a little concerned about all of the dollars going out…spent 300 bucks on house stuff this month and that’s without the 3 gallons of paint I need to keep moving…glad I got the 400 dollar check for my insurance rebate but I still need to save for the 700 bucks going out in August for my car insurance…oh, well….need to go read some news so I can come back with a political one….more later…

Well…that was better…slept pretty well last night and feel okay this morning and my eyes are better…at least I could read my tablet without resorting to having it two feet away and everything seems clear today so I’ll take it…but, I’m coughing like crazy so the trees must be starting to bloom and my allergies are going nuts….crap….I think my right shoulder is edging up to needing some rest since it hurts all the time now and I have more abuse to heap on it today and for the next few weeks as I get the bedroom ready to paint…I do need to plaster a couple of spots that I missed yesterday and I can’t figure that out…I mean one place as big as my hand is right next to one that I filled and I just had to shake my head about missing it….and I do need to do a corner and fill some of the bad skim coat on the ceiling that they ended a couple of inches before it hit the wall…so probably two batches of plaster today before I get to fixing the divots that I put in the walls scraping….we were supposed to get3-5 inches of snow last night but it looks like it stayed warm enough for it to be all rain…we even had a winter weather advisory on all night until noon today and I really, really hope it’s the last one for the spring….not much to do today….back on the bike again here in a few minutes and I hope to get all of the divots and holes in the walls filled so I can sand later in the week….I really can’t believe how many nail holes there are in the walls that were revealed when I removed the wallpaper….not sure if this is a contender for the worst room in the house after the mess that was the kitchen but it’s close…the trim was painted with the carpet in place and some of the old fibers are still stuck in the paint and I’ll have to get some really coarse sandpaper for my small sander to smooth that out…damn, there is still a lot of work to do in there…but it will be worth it when I move in….more later….