Well…damn, didn’t get out of be til 7:28 and my back is hurting so bad that I have the heating pad on it and I have no clue how I hurt it…I did carry the big ladder to the front steps and climbed up to clear the downspout but if that is enough to hurt my back, I’m getting too damn old….it was a good day yesterday with the good health news but I have bruises on my arms from people fishing around trying to draw blood but part of that is on me from having such small veins to work on…I did get some stuff done yesterday and got the metal box spring put together and it was really pretty easy…going to unbox the mattress today so it will have time to expand before my daughter gets here….it’s pretty sunny out there right now and there is some wind blowing the branches around so the rides may be a chore today…and it’s after 8 and I can’t get started…it was supposed to storm today but there’s nothing on the radar right now so maybe later….okay, just looked at the weather and it looks like the rain won’t come til tomorrow and might make it easy to take the day off for my birthday….not much to do today…going to grill some chicken later after I make breakfast for lunch but I still need to watch the calories….I should have bought a steak or something for my birthday but I have too much stuff in the freezer that I need to use…man, I’m worn out…I think the medical stuff has caught up with me it is so much work and stress…and it’s only going to get worse….more later…
Monthly Archives: July 2023
OTC birth control…
Well…in a blow to the right wing misogynists who are doing everything they can to control women and prevent them from controlling their own bodies, the FDA has approved the first OTC birth control for women meaning no expense of going to the doctor and no records of it’s use that the fascist repubs are trying to use to hurt women in red states…now, we know that there is going to be pushback from right wing pharmacy owners who think just because they own the company it gives them the right to screw with any woman they want to…and that goes for the pharmacists who will make sure the stores don’t stock the medicine or will do whatever they can to make it as uncomfortable for women as they can. At least the Biden admin is trying to use the power of government to help people instead of hurt them as the asshole trump and his cronies still are doing…just look at the rulings coming out of the SC lately…and Biden needs to keep it up to try to protect women in red states that can’t get the hell out of dodge and move to a blue state that protects women’s rights….keep it up, Joe…geez….
Medical tests were good…
Well…I am getting really tired of all of the medical stuff I’m going through…and today I had to go in for my pre-op physical and they were much more thorough than I expected…first off, my BP was good at 127/73 and that surprised the heck out of me when I was expecting it to be much higher…I guess skipping coffee and cocktails really does work…then they did an EKG on me and it came back “perfect” to quote the PA and that made me smile a bit…but then after two people and 5 tries to draw blood, they gave up and sent me to the lab in the north end where the nurse hit it first try and I didn’t even feel it…and I got to drive out to the north end in sunshine with the top down on the car so it’s all good…and I got the downspout unplugged already and I am having coffee right now and I’m going to read some news….more later…
July 13th
Well…finally, it rained like crazy yesterday but that showed me I need to get the big ladder out and clear the gutter downspout since it was overflowing onto the front steps…just leaves over it and won’t take long to fix it….this is going to be a tough morning with no coffee to jumpstart my brain…trying to see how it effects my blood pressure at the pre-op physical this morning at 11…at least it just over at my GP’s office and that’s only a mile and a half from here…and I’ll have time to get the rides in before that if I get a move on and get on the bike by 7:30…my daughter is still sending me lots of stuff to prep for the surgery/recovery and two things showed up yesterday…a rack for the dumbbells she is bringing to work out during recovery and the metal box spring for her bed that I need to put together this afternoon after I get the gutter cleaned and have lunch…was up at 4:40 this morning but was able to get back to sleep til almost 6:30 so that is a win for me…was good for another day last night and I hope that helps the blood pressure, too….not much to do today…my teeth hurt from grinding them last night so I had to take an ibuprofen since they are still really pressure sensitive….that’s different from the last time and I hope it heals like the last time….more later
But wait, there’s more…
Well…I’m sure you’ve seen and I’ve talked about the almost comically corrupt Clarence Thomas on the supreme court who has been taking millions of dollars in gifts from people who have cases in front of the court…and since there are no rules that apply to him, he hasn’t recused himself from any of those cases and the donors are sure getting what they paid for in rulings…but it has been revealed just today that it hasn’t been just gifts of trips, travel, and vacations…but just raw cash that has been paid to his aide’s Venmo account that I’m sure ended up in Thomas’s pocket….how much more corrupt does he have to be for even one damn repub to call for his resignation? Yeah…he would have to shoot someone and then they still wouldn’t do a damn thing about it…at least Dick Durbin is introducing a bill that sets ethics rules for the SC like full disclosure of any gifts similar to what every other damn federal judge has to comply with…but what really needs to happen is expansion of the court to keep these right wing illegitimate judges from screwing up the country further…geez…
July 12th
Well…darn, running a little late this morning and I need to get on the bike by 7 to get the first ride done before the grocery run…my teeth do hurt a bit this morning but I think it’s from grinding them overnight and not the surgery….have been doing that a lot lately and I need to catch myself and stop doing it….slept okay last night but I feel a little worn out and it may be from all of the stuff going on…had to work on the bike yesterday since the rear shifter had run out of adjustment…so, I took the adjuster off the old shifter and adjusted it…it seemed to be working better on the short ride I took but I’ll find out this morning in 20 minutes when I get out for the first ride…it looks like rain this afternoon and we can sure use it…and it won’t start til after noon so I can get the second ride in before that…don’t need to cook today with still having leftovers and that will last into Sat when I’m going to grill some chicken for my birthday…and I still have eggs so I wont have to buy any protein this week…not much to do today…will probably clean the bathroom this afternoon and that will leave only the living room to clean before my daughter comes next Sat….I do hope to get out to the beach next week since I won’t be able to go once I have the surgery……more later…
I’m surprised…
Well…when I got up this morning, I was really surprised when I had no pain from the surgery on my teeth yesterday…and they still don’t hurt at all other than when I brushed them…only have a little pressure sensitivity but I’m still not chewing much on that side…when I was doing the two hour zoom meeting this morning Consumers came and changed my electric meter with no warning or even a knock on the door so, of course, I lost some time while I reset my modem and router and signed back on to the call…the call was pretty depressing when the emphasized how much my life is going to change…no sugar coating anything and basically my sex life will be over at my age and that really sucks….and I’ll be peeing myself for at least two months and that will take me right out to the UK trip…and I’ll have to find a yard service to mow my lawn since I can’t do anything for 6 weeks…damn, I’m so tired of this crap and I haven’t even had surgery yet….crap…
This is really funny…
Well…with the House fixated on trying to dig up and dirt on Joe Biden no matter if it’s true or not, and James Comer and Ron Johnson are right in the middle of it saying that they have a “whistleblower” who has all of the information that would show that Biden took bribes while he was vice president…after these big announcements, these idiots announced that the “whistleblower” had disappeared but that was okay because he was a “spy” and that happens with them all the time…and they were right in that one fact but he didn’t disappear because he was a spy…he disappeared since he is wanted for being an illegal arms dealer all over the world…oh, and by the way, he is really a spy for China…and Johnson and Comer knew that and didn’t care…they are so obsessed with finding anything that Biden did wrong that they will work with our enemies to hurt our country just as long as it is the dems they are hurting….bu this is nothing new with the repubs…they have been working with Russia and other enemies to take and keep power since they looked the other way when Russia installed trump and they still want to work with their disgraced “spy” to hurt Biden…they have no patriotism or shame…vote them all out…geez…
July 11th
Well…running a little late today with not getting out bed til almost 7 and I need to get going by 7:30 so I can get a ride in before the zoom call at 9…it was supposed to rain this morning and I was planning to use that to stay off the bike today but there is nothing on the radar…it’s kind of weird that my teeth don’t hurt at all this morning so I have hope that they stay that way…they are still heat sensitive but I’ll take that…didn’t get much done yesterday but I need to get the paperwork done for my pre-op physical done for Thursday’s appointment but that shouldn’t take long…damn, I have 13 minutes before I need to get on the bike so I heed to get it in gear….the wind was blowing a lot last night but it was a soft wind an I enjoyed seeing it and sitting on the front steps to feel it….not much to do today….just the zoom call and that is going to take two hours…ick…more later….
Getting ready to go..
Well…my stress levels are starting to rise with the dentist appointment getting nearer…have to take the valium in 45 minutes so I guess I should get my teeth cleaned but I’m not sure if I should eat something else first…had a piece of pizza but I’m sure that’s not enough at about 350 calories…I will try to eat something else later and chew on the left side but I’m not sure what that would be…I do have some eggs that would be pretty soft so I could make some of those later…but I think I’ll need to take a nap after I get back here…damn, I’m not looking forward to this….