Well…running kind of late today and just can’t get started so this one may be short…didn’t get up until almost 6:30 but, from 4:14 on, it was nothing but tossing and turning so I guess I got about 5 hours last night and that is not enough….still think I have the cold I have been fighting all week and I am really tired still….and I hurt everywhere again so I think I may take something for it and stay off the bike to rest the legs today….I went over 300 miles so far this year and it looks like I may be able to get to 500 or so before the snow melts in spring and I get back on the trail…that is if my legs can take it…didn’t get much done yesterday but I do need to clean some today…the footies I have been wearing to keep my feet warm have been shedding all over the place so I’ll at least need to vacuum today but should do more…not sure if I’m motivated to do more but we’ll see after the coffee and news…more later…

Well…that was a little interesting…woke up at 4:45 again this morning but decided to go back to bed to just lie there for a while and did fall back to sleep…even had a dream that was really weird and didn’t get up until 6:24 and that is so unusual that I had to say something about it…had another night of flipping and flopping all night so I don’t feel refreshed at all even with the late arising…or it could be the cold I’ve had all week that I can still feel…who knows? all I do know is that I’ve been up for 35 minutes and I feel exhausted already….so maybe I’ll take it easy again today…after I work out and ride the bike, that is…I do have to go out and see how badly frozen the car is after it rained last evening and then froze again last night…the locks have been working for the past two days but we’ll see this morning…I may go out to get some more of the fresh mozzarella that I picked up earlier in the week…used some of it to make a homemade pizza yesterday and it was really good and at 3 bucks for two pounds it is a steal…and it freezes okay so I can store it for a while….not much to do today…just the normal stuff and I am going to try to clean a little but that’s about it…need more coffee and the news right now…more later….

Well…running a little early today with getting up at 5 again so I thought I’d get to this early, too…think I may be getting over the cold already since I don’t feel that bad right now…the coughing is better but my throat still feels weird when I swallow and it remains to be seen how much energy I’ll have today… wasn’t too bad yesterday and I even got two rides and a workout in but that did take a lot out of me…one good thing is my shoulder barely hurts today and that means I may be able to get on the weight machine again today…probably should keep to the every other day schedule since it has been working and being essentially pain free for the first time in two months is something I want to enjoy for a while…didn’t get much done yesterday but clean a little and will probably do the same today…couldn’t get motivated to vacuum yesterday but I will do that today after the grocery run…after I have my coffee and read the paper, that is….okay, am already feeling worn out and I’ve only been up for an hour so the grocery run may be a chore today….more later….

Well….it’s official, I’ve got a damn cold and feel pretty crappy…it started to get bad yesterday with a sore throat and lots of coughing and that explains why I have been so exhausted lately, too…and just getting out of bed and sitting here on the couch I’m sweating through my clothes…I sure hope it’s not the flu and I would be pretty irritated if it is since I got a flu shot this year for the first time in a long time…so, it looks like a do nothing day today…okay, not do nothing…I am going to try to work out and get at least one ride in but I feel pretty miserable right now so we’ll see…I did sleep okay last night…for me, and didn’t hurt my shoulder much so that is a good thing but I think there will be a nap in my future to take care of the cold…I just want to lay down with a blanket right now but I have a few things to do…I need to read the news and I should vacuum my bedroom today since the plastic coating on the cables of the weight machine is shedding all over the place and it is annoying to look at…but, I don’t think I’ll get much more done feeling as I do….more later…

Well…running a little late for me today…didn’t get out of bed until after 6 and you would think that would mean that I slept okay…not really, tossed an turned all night and feel really slow right now so I hope the coffee will start to work soon…I did get out of here for a while last night to have a couple with G and it was not terrible…and I didn’t get back here until almost 9:30 and that is a late night for me…that may be part of why I feel so slow today…but, it was nice to get out for a while and be around some people again…I am waiting for the big snowstorm that was predicted for last night but it hasn’t happened yet…it does look like there is some ice out there that will have to be melted off the car but not much snow…of course, I’m not bitching about the lack of snow…I could do without any more snow this winter….I did get out to run some errands yesterday but I am going to lay low today and just do the normal routine….going to try to clean a little before Man U plays at 3 but I’m not going to worry much about that…more later….

Well…not sure if I should celebrate not getting out of bed until 6 today or not…I did sleep okay last night and my shoulder doesn’t hurt much so that is celebration worthy and I’ll take it…didn’t have any dreams that I can remember but that’s pretty normal for me…I did try to eat enough yesterday but, as you know, that is pretty hard for me…going to try again today…you would think it would be pretty easy to do but it isn’t for me…I guess it’s ingrained habit from years of trying to control my weight…and not too successfully…didn’t get a lot done yesterday with all of the sports on and today will probably be the same…I do need to get out and get my hair cut this morning and put gas in the car for the mess that is coming tomorrow…another round of show/rain/sleet/freezing rain and the rest of the crap that I am getting really tired of…but, I guess it’s February in Michigan so I need to just roll with it and hibernate for another couple of days…I think I may try to do a bike ride that mirrors the normal ride on the trail…I’ve done it so many time that I can remember what gears and how many shifts it takes…I do wonder how to simulate the coasting downhill since the trainer just stops when I stop pedaling…maybe use my imagination? More later….

Well….have been trying to think of a topic to do in politics today and have just decided to give up for now and just noodle around a bit…I did watch “Bohemian Rhapsody” last night and it was an okay movie but, since I’ve seen a few documentaries on Freddie Mercury before, their were no surprises in it and I think the portrayal by Rami Malek was kind of like sleepwalking through the film….I think the only reason I watched the whole thing was that I decided to have cocktails last night after taking the whole week off…I’m still fighting the frozen locks on the car and I can’t figure that out since it has been above freezing since the big rain and freeze last week…I could barely get them open to go out to have a couple with K yesterday, and going out to get the paper this morning, even with flooding them with WD-40…well…kinda flooding them…I found that my normal WD can still has material in the bottom but it was out of propellant when I went out this morning so I had to use the water resistant can that still worked…need to get more this week with the new ice storm that is coming Tuesday…this weather is wearing me down and I need it to be over…I think today is the first day we haven’t had a watch or warning out in a couple of weeks but that ends tomorrow night and then it gets COLD again later in the week….I can live with it if I can get in the car….

Well…running a little late today and just can’t get started…wasn’t good last night and feel pretty crappy this morning…don’t want to do that anymore so I think I’ll go back to no cocktails tonight and keep that up for the week…slept okay last night but my shoulder was hurting again and I can’t figure that out….it happened after I went out to have a couple with K and the pain was back to after I just hurt it….so I did have to take something for it…it’s not too bad this morning so maybe that is all it takes…it was nice to get out of here for a while and get caught up with K and I think I need to do that more…just need to find things to do…I think I may take today off the bike…just can’t get motivated to do much right now and I am looking forward to just vegging out here today and watching some soccer and races….but right now, I need more coffee and to read some news…man, I can’t believe how slow I feel this morning…should just go back to bed….more later….

Well…okay…maybe there is a good thing to being good and having no cocktails…for the first time in a long time, I had dreams all night long…three different threads that ranged from storms, to murder, to two Audi TT’s racing and crashing into the Grand River…and yep, they were just as weird as they sound…probably the best sleep I’ve had in quite a while and didn’t get up until 6 or so even after going to bed early from boredom last night….I wonder if that sleep will help with the exhaustion I’ve been feeling lately? I think I need to re-adjust my calorie intake without the calories from the cocktails…I know they are empty calories but they are still calories and without them I’m down to around 1,200 a day and that is not enough with riding the bike twice a day and getting back on the weight machine….so I need to figure out how to add calories that are not red meat…I did buy lots of fruit and veggies this week so maybe I can make up the difference with those…I hurt pretty much everywhere this morning but my shoulder is not too bad…the pain from sleeping on it went away as soon as I got off it so that is progress that I welcome….not much to do today…I may get out to have a couple with K either today or tomorrow but that is about it…still didn’t clean much but I will cook today with doing some chicken in the Instant Pot…I do have 10 lbs of chicken that I need to cook or freeze in the next couple of days so that will be in the plan for the day…more later…

Well…about on time this morning with getting up at 5:44 and was only up one other time all night so that makes it a good night…slept okay and there were some dreams that had my old Fiat in them and lots of blankets for some reason…so that was cool…haven’t had them in quite a while and I wonder if it’s the no cocktails finally changing my sleep patterns? All I know is I’m going to continue being good until next Thursday when racing starts and we’ll see if maybe I’ll even go past that if the improvement in how I feel continues…I am going to hurt my shoulder again this morning by getting back on the weight machine but the pain wasn’t so bad last time so I may be improving enough so it won’t hurt too much…I did get two rides in on the bike yesterday and even extended each to 25 minutes and I think that will be the goal for today, too….I do need to thaw the car out today so I can go out and get my powerball tickets but the wind is howling out there and it will take time to get the doors open after the rain yesterday and the freeze overnight…didn’t get much done but cook yesterday but I will get some stuff done around here today…not sure what but something…more later….