Well…another month starts and that means we are one month closer to spring and it can’t get here fast enough for me…I did sleep okay last night and had some dreams that were weird as heck that included Ore Ida french fries and an old Monte Carlo with a tach that was stuck at 6,000 rpms and Scarlett Johansson who I knew somehow…..and she was driving my Monte Carlo…yeah, I told you they were weird but nice to have any dreams again…I can’t believe how lousy I felt yesterday and I hope that doesn’t happen again today…I did eat a lot more than normal yesterday and I hope that shows up today but I think I may have a cold but who knows these days? I do feel okay right now but I felt okay yesterday morning, too, so I’m not sure that means much….I do know I have a headache today but I’ve had them off and on for a month or more now so I think it’s from the dust I’m generating around here since my head feels plugged up….I am going to go out and wash the car this morning since it is already 30 out there right now…and I need to hit the atm to get some cash out so I’ll have some in my pocket for stuff like that….not much to do today…need to get my butt in gear and get on the bike right now to keep on schedule for the day and get more work done on the doors….I’m hoping to get 4 done today and 4 tomorrow so I can do the finish sanding Thursday and get started painting Friday…and that will leave me only the drawers to do after I get the doors hung….but right now I’m late and need to get moving…more later…
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I’m exhausted and I don’t know why…
Well…damn, I am exhausted and I can’t figure out why…I mean I’ve been good for almost a month now with no cocktails and I’ve been sleeping okay, and I only did three doors today…I know it took me three hours but I haven’t been this worn out since I started being good…I know I only had some beef stir fry that was mostly veggies for lunch yesterday which was about 500 calories or so and then just a boneless skinless chicken breast for dinner with nothing else other than a glass of milk and that is about 300 cals so maybe it’s just from not eating enough? I didn’t really do anything yesterday so I didn’t need to eat much so 800 calories should have been enough…yeah, I know…a normal person is supposed to take in at least 2K calories a day but how do you eat that much? I’ve never been able to…okay, going to stop bitching about it…you know I have an eating disorder and it’s the only way I don’t weigh 300 pounds…hmmm…I did get a bike ride in this morning so maybe that is it? I’m tired of thinking about it but I’m still only going to have another chicken breast and some steamed broccoli for dinner…all I know is that I’m damn tired…and this is the last one for my record breaking month….124 of these? That’s an average of 4 a day and I feel pretty good about that…no more later…unless I read something that I need to talk about…
Have to adjust my schedule…
Well…after starting on the doors this morning and spending 3 hours working on them, I am going to have to adjust my schedule since there is no way I’m going to get them ready for paint in three days…only got three sanded and filled in three hours and, with 11 to do, that makes at least the rest of the week for sanding and filling and I won’t get to painting until this weekend or next week…and my hands are right back where they were with stiffness and pain and I split my left thumb open…okay, nope…it’s a damn splinter from working on the doors and it hurts like crazy….and my right thumb is about done from sanding and it’s going to hurt for the rest of the week if I keep going….but, I have to so there is no if about it…just have to resign myself to being in pain for the next two weeks…okay, just pulled a half inch splinter out of my thumb that went straight in so you could only see a tiny part of the end of it but I was finally able to get hold of it with my tweezers and I was really surprised when it just kept coming out as I pulled on it…at least that’s one less pain to deal with…need to hit it with neosporin…
January 31st
Well…here we go into the last day of the month and I am hoping that the winter ends after the next month so I can get back outside on the bike…but, I’ll have to have the kitchen done before then so I need to get my butt in gear to have that happen…slept okay last night but had dreams about horse racing for the second time in a week and that is strange since I’ve never been to one and have never bet on a horse race…I did sleep okay and feel good with getting to a full month of no cocktails other than the one night out but I’m starting to eat more and need to have more discipline if I’m going to maintain or lose weight this winter….didn’t do a thing yesterday and my hands are thanking me for it…they are much less stiff and most of the pain is gone and the cut on my right index finger is almost healed but I am going to start abusing them this morning with getting started on the cabinet doors after I get on the bike…not sure how long they are going to take but I know I have 11 of them and a filler plate to sand fill and paint and I need to work out how to do that efficiently since I want to do all the insides at one time and all of the faces at one time to save money on roller covers since I am going to roll the flat parts for the finish…if I work my butt off, I may be able to get all of the first sanding and filling done today and then on to the finish sanding tomorrow with painting starting Wed…if I can do that schedule, I can start hanging doors Friday and have them done over the weekend…I hope that I’ve had enough curing time for the shelves in the cupboards so I can start putting things back into them but I need to get the wall patch sanded first so I can clean up the dust that will go everywhere…at least with the doors on, the dust will stay outside the cabinets and make the cleanup easier….more later…
Ordered the kitchen blinds…
Well…haven’t done much today but sand some drips off the bottom of the cabinet that the range hood is going to mount to so it will be level…and then I painted the places I sanded so there will be good coverage under the hood…not the bare grease soaked boards that were there before I cleaned and painted it….and I ordered the last blind for the single kitchen window and that will be here next week just in time to hang it to complete the kitchen…should have the doors for the cabinets done and hung by then and will be working on the baseboards, walls, and ceiling…will probably do the door frames after everything else but I do need to sand the sides of them so I won’t mess up the grey paint on the walls…and I found out that I can get the range hood cheaper in store at depot than I can get it on Amazon so I can just go in and buy one when I’m ready for it…and that should be by the end of next week and I didn’t fill the mounting holes from the last one since it was a Broan like the black one I’m getting so I hope I just have to put screws in and hang it….but now, I’m done for the day and am going to watch football for a while and then I have the new Boba Fett Star Wars series out on plex to watch for the night…
Made some beef stir fry…
Well…it looks like I went overboard buying protein this week with getting almost 5 pounds of boneless skinless chicken along with 5 pounds of seasoned ranch steak along with a pound roll of breakfast sausage…and the weird thing is that the beef was cheaper than the chicken…and I bought that to make some beef/broccoli stir fry but I added a bag of stir fry veggies to it since I like lots of veggies in my stir fry…I was a little concerned that the seasonings and tenderizer in the beef wouldn’t go with the stir fry sauce I bought but it came out great… and I put 2 1/2 pounds in the freezer and will do the same with the 5 chicken breasts I have left over from cooking three of them Thursday….oh, and I bought some big pork ribs that were 40% off at Meijers since they were at their sell by date…I am going to try some of the seasoned ranch steaks tomorrow to see how they taste by themselves…the sauce they are in is pretty spicy and I like it…they might make a good sandwich and I may try that….it’s weird to have too much protein but it was nice to get the beef at 1.79 a pound…
A good idea…
Well…as you know, I have been abusing my hands for the past few weeks as I work on my kitchen and they are covered with cuts and bruises along with the damage to my right thumb that hurts constantly now…but, I took the day off working on the house yesterday and purposely tried to do the littlest amount I could do with my hands…and, other than my guilt from not working, it appears that it was a good idea…the nasty cut on my right index finger that has felt like a supercharged paper cut is starting to heal and it doesn’t hurt much to do this when it was so damn painful Friday that I almost stopped doing these…and the overall stiffness has improved, too, and I can move them much easier today and I hope taking today off will continue to help them improve….I have to remember that I’m not young anymore and I can’t just keep abusing my body like I could when I was younger…and I really don’t have a schedule like I had when I was younger, either…back then I had to juggle work, school, and home maintenance but now I just have this place to work on and I can look forward to taking a couple of weeks off after I finish the kitchen in a few weeks….that doesn’t help with the guilt of taking time off but I’m working on that….
January 30th
Well…it was a 5:44 morning this morning and I just laid in bed enjoying that comfortable place between being asleep and awake until around 6:30 and that was cool….slept quite well last night and feel pretty good this morning but the lock on my garage door was frozen when I went out to get the paper…luckily, a little shot of wd thawed it and I didn’t have to get my propane torch out to melt it like I did a few weeks ago….I probably should do the car locks, too since I haven’t done them yet this winter and they are feeling a little stiff…and I should do all the door hinges, too, since they seem stiff and squeaked a little today…I did get a new set of Michelin wiper blades last week but the ones on the car are still okay and I may just wait til spring to put them on…I did take the day off working on the house yesterday to rest my hands and it seems to have helped some but I still feel guilty about doing it with Sunday being my normal day off…it is cool to know I’m not getting on the bike today and can just ease into the day with lots of coffee and the 24 hours of Daytona on in the background….I do need to write about 700 bucks in bills today and that stings a little but that’s part of owning a house and I’ve got the cash so no big deal….I think I’m going to order the blinds and range hood for the kitchen today so I will have them here when I get all the painting done…and I really do want to get the newspaper off the window so I can see out of the one over the sink….not much to do today…just going to clean up the dining room some and get my tools organized for the final push in the kitchen…hoping to have that done in the next two weeks but I think the Olympics are going to interfere with that a little….more later…
A new record…
Well…as you can see, I have been writing a bunch more than has been normal over the years and this month I’ve made a new record for the number of posts in a month with this one being number 115 and I don’t think I’ve ever gotten to 100 before….but, I do feel a lot of it is cheating with so many posts on progress with the house that I started this month…and I wonder if not having cocktails all month has something to do with it? I do seem to have the desire to write more when I’m feeling better and my brain seems to work better, too…I do need to do more of these on politics and other relevant topics and I may even do that today….that would make 5 for the day and that is just so unusual when my normal daily output used to be two a day…but I am going to write when I feel like it..it feels good to not have to force it and to have something to choose from when I come here…and there are two more days in the month so I could get to 120 for before it’s done….and that is just too weird….in a good way…
Taking the day off…
Well…with how my hands are feeling, I know the only way I’m going to get relief is to rest them…so that’s what I’m going to do today…I did get the detail work on the cabinets done and gave myself a haircut and that really made me realize how bad my hands, shoulders, and back are and that they do need some repair time…so, it looks like I’ll be taking the weekend off with my normal off day Sunday and I can really use it…and the racing season starts today with the Daytona 24hours starting this afternoon so I’ll have something to listen to in the background that isn’t related to gold in any way…and Tom will get that one….still one more later….