Well…that was early…out of bed at 5:34 this morning but I feel okay so I can live with it….and my eyes are better today but the allergies continue to get worse as the days go on and I’m not sure if the little red allergy meds are going to do it any more….darn….and I have another long day of work on the bedroom today where I have to go over all of the walls with a sanding block to make sure I have all of the residue off the walls and can start working on the repairs…I am damn tired of dust…every day I work around here, I put another coat of dust everywhere no matter how much I do to try to contain it…and I am looking forward to the summer and not working on anything that will make dust…I have let this place go and haven’t done any of the normal cleaning that I should be doing so it looks like I won’t have my Sunday off like I have been doing to heal up after working all week….but I will stay off the bike at least…I am still really sore after the work this week and I wonder if I should just power through the bedroom and get it done…but, the door needs to come off and the door frame is going to take a good day or two to repair it since it has dripping paint glopped all over it…I do have to remember that I have until the end of May to finish both the bathroom and the bedroom and will need to get paint for both this week…so I’m going to spend around 60 bucks on paint this week with needing two greys and another gallon of white…ugh….not much to do today….hope to be done with what I want to do by noon or so today and I may clean the stove up after cooking for lunch since it has dust all over it from peeling the wallpaper off the bedroom….how that happens with the door closed and a fan blowing out the window, I don’t know…more later….
Irony is alive and well in NY..
Well…just a short one on a bit of good news that happened today on Staten Island in NY…an Amazon warehouse workforce voted to approve a union and it is the first one that Amazon hasn’t been able to lie, cheat, and steal to prevent…and the delicious bit of irony is the union organizer was a former worker that was fired for promoting the union…which is really against the law but Amazon got away with it somehow…okay, we know how…payoffs and millions of dollars to professional union busters that come in and lie to and threaten the workers with the bad things that will happen to them if they vote for the union…and with the record of abuse that Amazon piles on it’s workers, it is easy to understand why it would scare the workers into voting against the union. But, not this time….and it is a brand new union that Amazon is going to have to negotiate with as they try to make Amazon pay a living wage and actually adhere to the labor laws that they regularly ignore or break. So, congrats Amazon union… good job and let’s hope it’s just the start…after all, Jeff Bezos can surely afford to compensate his workers fairly…but, as we see with all these billionaire assholes, they are not happy until they have all the money that they make on the backs of their workers…oh, and one last thing…a quote from the organizer, Chris Smalls…”we want to thank Jeff Bezos for going into space, because while he was up there we were organizing a union”….a good bit of shade there…
Progress…
Well…after waking up and feeling sore as I have in a while, I really never entertained taking the day off to heal…so, after a good bike ride, I get started on removing the leftover wallpaper backing and adhesive in the big bedroom…and 3 1/2 hours and 3/4ths of a gallon of wallpaper stripper later, that part of the job is done and making progress made me notice the pain a little less…not completely, but a little less but I do have to pay attention to how my body is reacting to all of the work…as you know, I’m not young anymore and just powering through a full day’s work on this place just isn’t in the cards…it is nice to have a clear path to finishing the room and that starts with hitting the sloppy patches with my grinder Monday to see what has to be done to smooth them and make them less noticeable…I may start with my sander first just to see if I can smooth them without spreading dust everywhere….I may start on filling the divots tomorrow since that takes little work and I can even sit on a stool while I do the low ones…but, I’m done for the day…I do have to remember that I’m not trying for perfection on the wall surfaces…just clean and better than it looked before…again, the next owners are the ones who can shoot for perfection….or they can live with my work…I’ll be dead so I won’t care….
God I hate republicans…part infinity…
Well…how terrible can one group of people in this country be? Cripes, it appears that the repubs are again racing toward the record and they are all smiles while doing it…just yesterday, after the repubs promised that if the dems separated the price of insulin from the big budget bill, they would vote for it to help people paying thousands every month for the drug that will keep them alive and take it from 1200 a month to a cap of 35 bucks a month…so, did I mention that repubs lie their asses off all the time? And this time is no different as 192 repubs voted against the bill…and their reasons are full of the inarticulate bullshit that they normally spout or they won’t explain it at all… but, we all know that the big pharma companies got to them and paid them off to keep a drug that costs 10 bucks to make at over 1200 bucks a month…and they don’t give a damn after hearing from Americans who have to ration the only thing that is keeping them alive since they can’t afford it…how the hell are we losing to these guys? This vote needs to be tattooed to the forehead of every damn one of them that just sentenced Americans to death with this vote…and then they have the gall to go on tv and whine about gas prices that are up a buck and try to blame Biden for it when it is the oil companies that are driving the price increase…now, I hope you get why I just hate these assholes….geez…
April 1st
Well…it appears that the two day pain rule is in effect today and I hurt everywhere from scraping the last wall Wednesday with how hard it was…but I am going to be back at it today to try to get the remaining paper and adhesive off the last three walls…and then I’ll have to wash it to get the stripper off the walls before I start the repairs of all of the divots and missing plaster….I am a little depressed that my allergies are really bad today and my eyes are affected and filled with crap that is making my vision blurry…just used eye drops to try to fix that and it seems to have helped a bit but the small print on my tablet is still a bit of a chore to read…when is the damn snow going to stop out here? We got another couple of inches overnight and the ground is covered again and that is a bunch of crap for it being April 1st….and, with just one nice day day next week, we are going to be two weeks into this month before I’ll be back out on the bike outside….I am tired of it being in the 40’s…but I have to remember that I shouldn’t waste my energy thinking about it or I’ll just got more depressed….not much to do today….just the walls in the bedroom, the bike ride, and cleaning the bottom of the fridge to get the blood out of it from the pork chops I thawed the other day when the bag leaked…what a pain in the butt…but I am going to get to have a marinated pork chop for lunch and that almost makes up for it….not quite, but almost….more later…
Done for the day….
Well…it has been a long frickin day with not being good last night…and yes, I am still hating myself for it…but all I can do is go forward and get back to taking care of myself…after all, only two nights of cocktails in 3 months is not bad when you think about it….I did do my penance and got on the bike just after lunch…and it showed me just how bad I retain water when I have cocktails…rode 5.7 miles before I started to drip sweat and yesterday I set the record of 4.8 miles on a normal day…and that was from just one night of 3 cocktails…so, no more of that…I did go back out to get my long sleeved t-shirts for 4 bucks each at ollies and was going to get more regular ones, too, but all of the xls were gone so I guess I’ll have to live with 7 new ones….and I bought the only 3 long sleeved xls they had but that is okay…don’t use them much in summer if it ever comes this year…so, from the day going to be a lost one to getting a few things done with how crappy I still feel does make me feel a little better…but I am still so sore from doing the wall yesterday that it is going to be light work for a few days until I heal up some…I did find that I can get a bi-fold door for the closet in my new bedroom with all of the hardware for about 60 bucks….it looks like there was never a door on it since there are no hinge pockets or mounting holes for any door but there is a wooden dowel there that I’m sure they had curtains on…but right now, I’m done for the day…I’m tired….
God, I hate republicans…
Well…if you’ve been here before, you know of my white hot hatred of every damn repub in this country and what they are doing to ruin this country…and they are getting help from the media..I’m looking at you Washington Post…who just parrot the talking points that are given to them by the RNC…just yesterday, the Post ran a breathless article about Hunter Biden…yadda yadda and it was shown that the entire thing was an almost word for word copy of an “expose’ ” that was given to them by the Republican National Committee…and there was no mention where the info came from…and, who really cares about Hunter Biden’s laptop and the idea that he may have made some money on a deal in China as a private citizen BEFORE his father was even running for president….and daily the repubs keep screaming about nepotism and that it is bad when Hunter did it but they are silent when Jared and Ivanka made over 640 million dollars while they were employed by the government…that is why I hate repubs…or one reason…oh, here’s number two for the day why I hate repubs….a supreme court justice’s wife tried to overthrow the government and it’s no big deal…there has not been one of them even say a mild peep that maybe that isn’t a good thing…but when a black woman is nominated to the SC they all go apeshit over her and not one…or only one repub is going to vote for her…just more bullshit…but I’m tired and need to rest a bit…or I’d be at this all day….
14 bucks for 7 t-shirts?
Well…this is a little too weird to wrap my head around this early in the day…just got back from running errands and I am still shaking my head…just bought 7 100% cotton t-shirts for only 14 bucks…I know they are seconds with some flaws in them but, for that price, I can wear them once and throw them away…I did have to dig through a huge bin to find the colors and size that I wanted but 15 minutes of my time is worth it to replenish my t-shirt drawer….I did have to buy 3 larges when I normally buy x-larges to allow for shrinkage but for 1.99 I can live with those…going to go back and get some long sleeve ones they have for 3.99 each and that is about half what I can get them on sale for at Target…and the ones I have are falling apart so that needs to happen next week…I did get the heat gun returned, too, so a successful morning and the heat gun return paid for the t-shirts….might even go back there tomorrow and get a few more shirts and then I won’t have to think about t-shirts for another year or so….more later….
March 31st
Well..damn, I am so disappointed with myself that I’ll probably be depressed for weeks…fell off the wagon last night and had cocktails and feel like crap today…not sure why I did it but part of it was all of the work I’ve been doing and….nope, that’s just a damn excuse and throwing months of healthy living out the window for nothing is just another failure that I am gong to have to live with…along with all of my many other failures….crap, crap, crap….and I had some chicken I was thawing leak all over the bottom of the fridge so I’ll have to tear that apart to clean it….and I’m going to skip the bike ride today so that will add to the depression that is going to blanket me all day…and the pain from overdoing the work yesterday is making it hard to move…okay, enough wallowing in my failures…when this crap happens, I need to just get moving and start doing better…and that starts now…I do need to go out for an errand this morning to Ollies outlet since they have t-shirts on sale for 1.99 and it is next to HF where I need to return the heat gun since it really doesn’t work to remove paint that I bought it for….I’m sure they won’t have the shirts but it is only a couple of miles from here so no big deal but I could use some new painting shirts since my old ones are falling apart…I am going to make a burger for lunch since I bought 5 pounds at Aldi’s Tuesday to fill the freezer…and I’m going to make lasagna this weekend….the rest of the day is going to be a waste and I am going to try to not get more depressed about that…but how I’m feeling now, that isn’t going to happen….more later…
Ow….
Well…after the booster shot and 3 1/2 hours working on the final wall, I am sore everywhere and have blisters all over my right hand to go along with the thumb pain…and I have just now finished up and it is almost 4 o’clock…this last wall took almost as long as the other three combined and I think I’ve figured out why the others were so easy…there are water stains in the plaster on the two walls that were the easiest ones to strip and that must be from before they replaced the roof…or the reason they replaced the roof and there are two spots where they replaced plaster on the ceiling by those two walls so it was leaking pretty good…but not now…and I really may have to take the day off tomorrow since I can’t really use my hands too much right now…but the walls are done! This phase, anyway and I even went over one wall to remove the paper residue and adhesive before I started on the stripping….so, that’s enough for a couple of days and I really do need the rest….this day was a struggle…