Well…damn, back to waking up at 4 and trying to go back to sleep didn’t work today so I was up for good at 5:20 and that leaves me pretty exhausted again…and I didn’t sleep well at all and I’m almost tempted to take one of the OTC sleeping pills I have in the cabinet but I haven’t taken one of them since September and don’t want to start that up again…I did get a workout in yesterday and it didn’t hurt too much after so I can try it again today…but, that will wait for a while since I am moving up the weekly grocery run to today to avoid having to go out in the really cold air that comes in tonight and lasts until Sat….don’t want to put the strain on the battery that starting it at 7 below would do…and, I have a bunch of other errands to run this morning  that will charge the battery up…haven’t taken the car out for any distance since last Friday so it really needs to get completely warm…I do need to clean around here today after I get the rest of my stuff done and need to have it done before Man U plays this aft but I am not motivated again…and I still don’t feel that hot today…think I have a bug that is leaving me more tired than usual….more later…

Well…with all of the snow today, I decided to stay home and not shoot pool…couldn’t even get out of the lot here until they just did the snow a few minutes ago…and there is another reason that it was a good idea to stay home…I feel pretty crappy and warm right now and my intestines are giving me fits…lots of pain and I just figured out what the cause of it is…the whole thing started with my stomach getting really queasy after I had a couple of bowls of my homemade broccoli/cheddar soup and I wonder if it can have gone bad after just 3 days? Have been taking antacids since lunch and that hasn’t really helped so it must be the soup…oh, the intestines…just figured out what that is from just a couple of minutes ago…I had peanut butter on toast for breakfast yesterday and my recent sensitivity to peanuts is what is twisting my intestines into knots…damn…and I like peanut butter, too…oh, well…one more food to completely avoid…

Well…running a little late this morning with not getting up until almost 7…and that is quite strange for me…slept okay but feel worn out again today and I hope the coffee will help with that…I should go out and clean off my car to start the long day of snow but I just can’t take the cold yet…my car is going to get 0 mpg the next few days as I need to warm it up with the below zero temps that are coming but the roads are going to be too bad to take it anywhere…at least today, that is…supposed to be the coldest air in almost 20 years wed…during the day, that is…I remember a few years back that it was -16 and I couldn’t get the Miata to start even with running it overnight….that was before I had the battery box to help and Brian had to get his truck to jump it…brrr…I may need to make some more coffee this morning since I didn’t have much left over this morning and I want more than two cups…have never done that before….not much to do today…just going to hunker down here and try to work out without damaging my shoulder…and a long ride on the bike since I took the day off yesterday…my legs hurt like crazy and needed a day off….more later…

Well….stayed in bed until almost 6 this morning and that seems like a win to me after being up around 5 for the past week…but, it’s not…I do feel better this morning…not as exhausted as I have been but that usually kicks in a little bit later so we’ll see….the car started this morning with no problem but it is a  balmy 13 degrees out there so it should….I had to break down and take something for my shoulder and neck last night and that is really helping right now, too, with very little pain this morning…and I hope that continues….I know it’s winter in Michigan but I am a little depressed about the snow that is coming today and tomorrow….and the cold doesn’t help, either….I mean -2 for a high Wed? But it should be back up to around 30 by the weekend…I hope…so I guess I’ll just hunker down and deal with it…didn’t get much done yesterday but make soup and it looks like I’ll have to force myself to get anything done since I am not motivated at all right now…at least there is a race on in the background but it is raining in Daytona so it yellow and boring and that seems to describe me right now…more later….

Well…have been doing a lot of cooking lately and much of it has been without recipes…just using techniques that have worked for other things that I have transferred over to a new soup that I made for the first time today….looking in the fridge this week, I noticed I had some fresh broccoli and leftover cheese from some tacos I made a couple of weeks ago and it struck me that I could use them to make broccoli cheese soup…one that I have never made before and something that would go really well with the cold weather we are stuck in. So, for lunch I made soup that came out really well but a small batch since I only had enough leftovers for a small batch…as with the other soup that I make, this first batch is a baseline and has given me some ideas on how to make it better the next time I make it…and this one is kind of healthy since it doesn’t have any heavy cream in it but it does have 3 tablespoons of butter and 4 ounces of cheese in it…there just isn’t any way to substitute the cheese or the butter to get any flavor…so, now I have another soup to make that won’t end up in the freezer since that would ruin it…darn…I’ll have to eat it all….

Well…it looks like getting up at 5:15 is now a thing and I am sure that I’m not too happy about it…even tried to go back to sleep and after 20 minutes I decided to just give up and get up…I guess that will just mean that there will be a nap later when Daytona is on…had a good day yesterday with getting out to have a nice lunch with T and getting my soap that she beings back from the Bahamas…and that little waft of scent makes me smile…a bonus was that the car didn’t leak any coolant at all with warming it up and then out and back to lunch…and that is a good thing with the brutal weather that is coming for the next week…it looks like I’ll be hunkering down here and hibernating for the next week or so and, with the foot of snow were supposed to get Monday, pool probably won’t happen….and Wed’s high is supposed to be below zero so there will be much warming the car up…almost 10 below wed night so I may do the grocery run wed since I won’t want to wait for the day to warm up thurs to start the car…not much to do today…just going to ride the bike after injuring my shoulder again working out with full weight yesterday and do a little cooking…but right now I’m going to have more coffee and read a little news….more later…

Well…sitting here waiting for the coffee to finish and I wonder if I should change the start time on the timer since I’m always up before it starts at 6:30….and that’s true today with getting up at 5:11 and not being able to get back to sleep…so, here I am again, looking at being exhausted again this afternoon but I don’t have anywhere to be so I guess that’s okay…didn’t take anything for my shoulder before bed last night and it doesn’t hurt much this morning so that’s more progress that I am happy about…I am going to work out again today to see if I can do two days in a row without hurting it again….that would be real progress…didn’t do much yesterday but work out and ride the bike and today will probably be the same with maybe having lunch with T…okay, the coffee is done and I need some…there, have a cup and maybe that will clear my head and get me moving…I am a little depressed about cold that is coming for the next week…the high wed is only going to be 3 degrees and that cold is going to continue as long as the weather channel has forecasts and that is well into feb…brrrr….more later…

Well…just a short update on the car and the coolant leak I have been searching for…the last day it was warm enough, I went out and tightened every clamp on every hose and kept my fingers crossed that would do it…so far, so good…warmed the car up this morning and there were no leaks under it and none at Meijers when I went over for groceries this morning…and I just moved the car so they could plow and there was still nothing under it so that kind of makes my day and I am going to keep my fingers crossed that I get through the rest of winter with no more work…yay!

Well…just looked at the weather for the next couple of weeks and it is going to be brutally cold around here with a couple of days that the high is going to be zero and many of them below zero at night…so it does look like the hibernation for the winter is going to start this week…slept okay last night but have a cough like a cold this morning and feel like I have one…can’t figure out why I’m so exhausted lately and this may be it….my shoulder survived the night with just a little pain so I think I’ll try the weight machine again after the grocery run and coffee…not sure if I’ll try to do anything else today other than ride the bike but I should at least try to clean some…but, racing from Daytona starts this afternoon and I will probably just veg out and watch that instead…I did send a bitch letter to the complex here yesterday since the new company they have clearing snow is doing such a shitty job that there are piles of ice now that I have to climb over to get to my car and this is the first time in years that this has happened…I even moved my car yesterday so they could clean and they just ignored it and left the snow…will probably bitch to the guys today so that will get back to these incompetents…more later…

Well…after a month of not being able to work out on the weight machine, I decided to try it this morning since I have noticed a loss of muscle tone and I do need to use the 300 calories or so that it takes to do the workout. So far, so good…there was pain during the workout but not nearly as bad as two weeks ago where I couldn’t complete it since it felt like I re-separated the collar bone…but, today…the pain was perfectly tolerable and there was very little carryover to getting on the bike…it even is just a little stiff right now but I may need to take some ibuprofen later to be able to sleep on it tonight…would like to not do that but I know that tendon injuries in that shoulder have always taken a long time to heal…and I do want to sleep tonight…at least a little…