Well… just got a text from my brother that my offer was accepted…so I have a house! Still a lot of stuff to do but it is such a relief that I have a place to land….my emotions are all over the place but I am looking forward to figuring out a new town and riding my bike over to Lake Michigan to swim this summer….it’s not much but it’s mine and I look forward to working on the lawn and sitting on the porch with the windows open when it’s raining…and growing some tomatoes….and knowing I never have to move again….lots of work to do but, as I’ve said before, I have one more house in me….still won’t sleep tonight….I need a cocktail…
Monthly Archives: January 2021
Scheduled for the vaccine…
Well…just got a surprise text from Spectrum health that I could schedule my first dose of the covid vaccine for tomorrow morning! I am a little excited about getting it and the protection it provides…and I thought I was going to have to wait a long time to get it but that will make it the first week of Feb to get the second one and get to the 95% immunity it provides….man, that takes a load off my mind and I’ll be part of the solution to get this damn thing behind us….Yay!
Fingers crossed
Well…just got back from looking at the house and my brother is going to put an offer in this morning…pretty nice house…new roof, windows, furnace, water heater and the basement is painted and clean…quiet neighborhood and a double lot with a porch on the front that is enclosed…and the neighborhood is in transition with new houses going up just across the alley at the back…and it’s only a mile to the bike trails that go all the way to Montague and it’s only a mile and a half to Lake Michigan and the state park and a city park on the water…so there will be swimming! They are asking 80K but my offer is going to be 90K to make sure I get it….and even with that my payment is only going to be 500 bucks a month including taxes and insurance…it does need some work but it’s just stuff I can do like painting…and I do need to buy a washer but there is a dryer and kitchen appliances that work so I don’t need to buy those….oh, and it has a garage with an opener so I don’t need to buy that…needless to say, I’m pretty excited…and I do have my fingers crossed….
January 23rd
Well….another 5 am morning and I am really tired…and driving a hundred miles yesterday didn’t help…and the house I drove out to look at in Hastings was a dump so it was a total waste of my time…but, I have an appointment to look at one out in Muskegon this morning that just came on the market yesterday and looks pretty good…only 80K but I think I’ll go over that if it looks as nice as the photos…small house on a double lot with a garage and an immaculate basement…it’s an estate sale and the people who lived there were there for 50 years and took great care of it…and it’s only a mile and a half from Lake Michigan in an area where they are building new houses to replace the old ones…but, the whole thing is paneled and looks very 70′s…can live with that if the rest of it looks okay…so, obviously, I didn’t get anything done yesterday and it was too cold to ride the bike so I need to get out today when I get back here….my heel is almost done hurting and that is a relief after how long it has been driving me nuts….not much to do today…probably be depressed since someone won the Mega last night and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me…darn….could be a home owner today…wish me luck…
January 22nd
Well…damn, another 5 am morning and I am just worn out…and I didn’t sleep much and that doesn’t help, either…..but, my heel is better…good enough so I can walk on it again but it still throbs which is really weird but I can live with that….I am still re-training myself how to walk on it again since it’s been so long that I’ve had to walk on the front of my foot that it’s become a habit and I find myself doing it even when the pain is not there..didn’t eat much yesterday since I only did a short ride…think I only had about 700 calories all day and I know that’s not enough but I just don’t feel like eating right now…I do have a house in Hastings I need to go take a look at today and need to be there by 10 so that is going to be a lot of work with how I feel right now….but I can relax when I get back here before noon….spent most of the day yesterday trying to get my car started and looking for houses so I didn’t get any work done…need to pack today and get some cleaning done but we’ll see how that goes later….don’t feel like doing anything right now but have coffee and read the news…more later….
Holy Joe….
Well…I guess Joe and his team are not screwing around and I am cheering…in the first day, wow: Killed the Muslim travel ban, restored LGBTQ rights to serve in the armed forces and be treated as equals, stopped asylum seeker deportations, stopped oil and gas drilling in the ANWR, killed the Keystone pipeline, fired the anti labor counsel of the NLRB, cleaned out many, many trump supporters civilians out of the armed forces, rejoined WHO, rejoined the Paris climate agreement, fired the trump loving head of the federal media agencies…oh, and his people are telling the truth. Gee…it’s like these guys know what they are doing and they are doing it for everyone in this country to try to make this a better place to live…imagine that…no scandals, no unqualified appointments and no golfing at his own club….and just the bestest thing is that ole Mitch is fuming along with all of the rest of the repubs calling these moves “divisive” and overreaching….it wasn’t when idiot boy did it but it surely is when we reverse it….but we all knew that was their game plan….bitch and complain about everything when they don’t get their way…tough luck, repubs…
Finally…
Well…finally, got the car started after putting my trickle charger on the battery for 3 hours and letting my battery box charge for the same time…so, I got my errands run today and can go out to Hastings tomorrow to look at some houses….and I did buy a new battery charger but not from HF…got one from Amazon that does basically everything…it’s a regular charger, a float charger, a 40 amp car starter, a battery conditioner, and an alternator checker…and it can be used on AGM batteries and it was only 5 bucks more than a normal charger at HF…only 45 bucks so I don’t think that is a bad deal…and I needed one anyway…the day has gotten better…and I got my 900 million dollar Mega tickets for tomorrow…now I need a nap after a 4 hour of sleep night before soccer starts…
Crap….
Well…crap…when I went out to the garage to get in the car for errands this morning, the trunk was open and that means I forgot to disconnect the battery when I used it Tuesday….so, the battery was dead and I hadn’t charged my battery box so it wouldn’t start the car…and I don’t have jumper cables or anyone to jump it to get it started…so, my whole day has been a pain…if I ever get it started, I’m going out to HF and buy a battery charger…which I should have done when I moved in here…the only reason I bought the box was living in an apartment, there is no electricity to run a charger outside…so, here I sit waiting and hoping that my battery box will charge up enough to start it one more time…can get a 15 amp charger for 39 bucks so that’s not a bad deal…..still…crap…
January 21st
Well…damn, up at 4:54 after getting to bed a little late last night so I feel pretty worn out today…my heel is making real progress but it still throbs as I sit here…no pain but I can feel my heartbeat in it and that is a little weird….didn’t get on the bike yesterday for the second day in a row since the temp never got out of the 20′s and that is just too darn cold…but it is 34 right now so I will be getting out after I run an errand this morning….and I do need to run down to Hastings to take a quick look at a house…running out of time so I need to just buy anything so I can get out of here…there are a couple of others in Hastings, too so I need to dig out the listings and make a plan…didn’t do anything but watch the news and soccer yesterday and enjoy the fact that idiot boy is gone…and Man U won which puts them in first place in the PL and it has been a long time since that has happened…so, all in all, a good day but I need to get stuff done around here….need to get packed up and start looking for apartments in case I can’t find a house…but, right now I need more coffee and to read the news before I get going….more later….
What a relief….
Well…I am just so relieved that trump is finally, finally gone….I wonder if there are going to be other physical effects from today? Have been watching the news since around 9 this morning and I am getting to the end of news for the day…one thing I did do was follow Joe on twitter… and that is something I would never, ever do with idiot boy….just going to let this day soak in a bit and get ready for Man U to play in a little while….so this is going to be the last one for the day…I think….just going to let the peace flow over me and enjoy it for a while….