Trying to not feel guilty…

Well…I’m just having one of those days that I don’t feel like suiting up in full thermasuit and braving the wind to get a ride in today…and I am trying to not feel guilty about it. I wonder if being good offsets the lack of motivation I feel today? I sure hope it does since the only thing I want to do is sit here and watch a little tv…I did get half of the basement cleaned up and the stuff put away and I cooked some chicken in a mushroom cream sauce over brown rice that came out pretty good so maybe that’s enough to do for one day? Sure hope so since I’m pretty much resigned to taking it easy the rest of the day…cripes, I haven’t even taken a shower yet and it’s almost 1 pm….and I’m not motivated to do that even…so can I call this a wasted day? Not really wasted but with less accomplishment than I hoped for…but, I still haven’t taken any time off to rest after the past few months of busting my butt…maybe this half day will have to do?

We knew this was coming with Matt Gaetz…

Well…doesn’t it seem that the more holier than though a repub is, there is something in their past that makes them such a damn hypocrite? The latest one of these assholes is Matt Gaetz, the mini trump who has attacked everyone in the repub party who is not a qanon spouting moron like he is…oh, and he is the only person in congress who voted against the new sex trafficking law that was passed last year…I wonder why that would be? I guess we now know since he is under investigation for having sex with a 17 year old girl and paying for her to travel across state lines for that purpose which is a federal crime…and a felony to boot. Oh, and Gaetz is good buddies with the Florida state treasurer who has just been charged with the same crime…cripes are all repubs sex criminals? You would think it after the litany of reports from everyone from Jerry Fallwell to trump himself being accused of attacking women against their will…and then ole Gaetz goes on fox news last night denying everything and trying to lie about the investigation, saying that he is being extorted by a former DOJ official for 25 million dollars and the whole investigation is fake. I can believe that this smarmy little shit did all of this since repubs these days have no morals at all and think laws only apply to the little people…and dems, but that he and his cronies can do whatever they want to whomever they want….remember that old Matt led the charge aginst Liz Cheney when she voted to impeach trump for all of his crimes, going so far as to go to Wyoming and trying to lobby state officals to censure her and remove here from her leadership post in the House. This is how self important this little asshole thinks he is…but now he doesn’t have the trump DOJ to protect him and he is in deep shit…and I am grinning about that….bye, bye matty…

March 31st

Well…Okay, didn’t get up for the second time until almost 6:30 so I guess that’s something….and I had a really busy day yesterday trying to get a bunch of stuff sorted out that I did successfully and that gave me a little bit of a relief…only have one more thing to get done and that is to get my mortgage set up to come out of my checking account automatically so I don’t have to write checks to pay it…I did sleep okay last night even if I tossed and turned a bunch and slept on my right shoulder again but that pain went away after I got off it….not sure what I’m going to do for the next two cold days with not getting on the bike but I think one thing is going to be cooking with my new cookware today…going to make some chicken thighs in a mushroom cream sauce with brown rice and I have a deep sauce pan in the new set that will be perfect for a one skillet meal….I’m looking forward to something other than ham that I’ve had for the past week…I may get out for more yard work today but I probably should start the indoor work to get this place organized and get the rest of my stuff put away…we’ll see….not much to do today….just cooking and cleaning up but not until I have more coffee and read the news…and I need to check to see if anyone won the Mega last night….more later…

What a day…

Well…damn, another busy day and I’m just now getting the first chance to breathe…the whole thing started with doing the grocery run today since I wanted to get my Mega tickets for tonight and I had to stop at the dollar store for more sunscreen and a new set of sunglasses for riding…then over to Aldi’s for a bunch of stuff to make mushroom chicken tomorrow in one of my new pots and then to Meijers for the rest of the things I need…cheap day with not buying any booze…I think I only spent about 20 bucks at both aldi’s and Meijers combined so that was cool…and then over to the bank to cash and deposit my 600 buck check and then back here…before I got started, I had to call PNC bank to make sure my first house payment got applied to my account and get a pin to set up my online banking with them…after I got back here I had two hours on the phone with comcast trying to get my accounts straightened out and finally got that done so now I can take a break and just relax for a bit…no bike ride today since the wind is just howling out here and I had to weigh down my leaf bags to keep them from blowing away until they picked them up this afternoon….this has been a lot more work than I wanted to do but that takes care of everything that I had to do this week other than pay a bunch of bills that will burn through another 1200 bucks before it’s all over…but the next big thing that I have to pay for is my taxes and car insurance at the end of August…so I need to start saving right now for that…that should be another two grand…yikes…

Grifters gotta grift….

Well…I wonder why a “billionaire” would do this…just today, the idiot trump and his idiot wife have put up a website that is selling personalized greetings to his idiot followers….Now, does anyone want to bet on how long this will last? The laziest person on Earth is going to sit in a studio all day recording greetings to people he has the utmost contempt for? As always, it’s just another grift from the grifter in chief…how long do you think it will take until he records 3 or four greetings and then does what the Wayne and Garth commercial for grub hub did…just superimpose him saying  a name inserted into the stock greeting? Or even getting a trump impersonator to do all of the work for him since he is so damn lazy? I guess he has to raise the money for defense of all of the lawsuits and criminal charges that are circling him right now…there are even two grand juries in Georgia looking into the moron’s attempts to strong arm the SOS into “finding” the votes to give the state to him…tick tock, idiot boy…your time is almost up….

March 30th

Well…running about on time for a change with getting up around 6 but with having trouble getting to sleep last night I only got about 5 hours but I feel okay this morning with being good last night…my hands and arms are sore again today with all of the chopping and raking I did on the lawn yesterday but I did get the back of the yard finished and will probably start work around the house today…need to trim the long grass around the foundation and do another repair on the fence to keep animals from getting through it…and I think I need to buy a reciprocating saw from HF to cut the brush out of the fence, too…but I am going to wait for the 1400 dollar check to come before I do that…and that should be next week…I do need to get a lawnmower, too, and my oldest brother said he had one so I need to check that out before I burn 500 bucks on a new one…but, I need a self-propelled one since this is a pretty big yard….and I want a mulcher and bagger, too, so we’ll see….and once I get the grass cut out of the fence, I’m going to treat the fenceline with grass killer so I don’t have to trim it too much….not much to do today…it’s going to be a busy one with doing the grocery run today and hitting the bank and phone calls to comcast and the new bank that now has my mortgage so make sure the check they cashed for the first morgtage payment was applied to my loan…looks like I may not get on the bike today with the wind blowing over 25 already and getting gusty later today….more later…

Got my 600 dollar check!

Well…damn, just got the 600 dollar check that I had to file a tax return for! And the 1400 dollar check is going to be sent on the 2nd of April…yay! It took a damn lot of work and bitching to get this one so I really do hope the next one comes without any work since the IRS has my info now so it should be easy…the operative word is should…but, we’ll see…all I know is that I can sure use this money…going to call a plumber or drain cleaner and get the kitchen drains cleaned next week and probably get an estimate on taking down the dead tree….and I can now afford a ladder, garage door opener, and a grill so I’ll be set for the summer….this is just such a damn relief….

Joe has a spine…

Well…as time goes on, I am getting happier with Joe and how he’s handling the presidency….after repairing the broken vaccine system that the idiot trump left him and getting almost 150 million shots in arms by today, and then going big on the covid recovery plan to the tune of 1.9 trillion dollars ( that I still haven’t seen a dime of by the way) and now starting to work on infrastructure that has been ignored since the moronic tax cutting that started with Reagan, Joe is showing a spine behind that smile…especially when it comes to trying to get the repubs to come along and help with getting this country going again….I wonder why they are still trying to play by the obstruction playbook when the entire country wants to get things going, including almost 60% of repubs? Just the other day, Joe made the point to them that they could do something good for the country by working with him to repair the crumbling roads, bridges and electrical grid…along with helping more people who are struggling with child care and the new normal of working from home that requires high speed internet everywhere across the country….or he will do it with just the dems so get off your hands and pitch in in that folksy way that you just can’t get mad at…although the repubs are doing their best to do just that, playing to their ever shrinking base. It’s pretty damn nice that we have a functioning government again with competent people running it….but the repubs will never admit that….they are just too stupid or cynical to get onboard…geez…

March 29th

Well…it feels darn good to be able to  come here first thing in the morning after not being able to for two days…after almost 9,000 of these, I still look forward to doing this every day and my day is just wrong when I can’t…slept okay last night and didn’t get out of bed until 6:30 and that makes three days in a row of sleeping through and I’m not sure why that is happening….I’ll take it but I sure wish I could figure out the keys to doing it all the time…didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with the cold, rain, and wind and it looks like this is going to be a pretty crappy week with temps in the 50′s today and tomorrow but down into the 30′s wed and thurs and rain showers almost every day so riding is going to be iffy starting then….I should be able to get back to yard work this morning and I want to finish the back of my lot today…still have trimming and raking to do and then I’ll start on the rest of the yard…not sure when I’ll get started on the interior of the house but I am starting to feel stress about getting going…and that shouldn’t be…after all, I don’t have any schedule to meet and I am perfectly fine living in the house the way it is….and I want a summer off to just enjoy myself…don’t know how many summers I have left and it would be a shame to spend them all working on a house that someone else will enjoy….not much to do today….I am going to try to get a ride in today and the yard work done and the dirt races at Bristol are on starting at noon so I may have to fit the ride in between the trucks and cup cars….more later…

A little good news…

Well….after working and working to try to get my relief payments and not having any luck, I went out to the IRS website on Saturday and put my info in and they have information on me and they are sending one of the checks on the 2nd of April….so, I’m not sure which payment it is going to be but I’m guessing it’s the 1400 dollar one and that would be so cool…have burned so much cash in the past month that I was going to have to basically stop spending any money to make sure I still have a good sized reserve left….I need a garage door opener and a grill..and my kitchen drain cleaned…maybe by the middle of April…yay!