Well…damn, I’m so tired of feeling crappy and coughing all the time…and my abs hurt so much from it that it hurts just to move at all…and let’s top that up with a headache I’ve had for a week now and it adds up to feeling miserable…I wonder if part of it is not being on the bike for two days with all the rain we’ve had? I am getting out today but it will wait til the afternoon since it is cold out there right now and I don’t want to do full thermasuit just yet…..what a waste of a day yesterday…didn’t do a damn thing but put the trash out and roll the empty bins back behind the house…they finally picked up my recycling after a couple of weeks of trying so I can get back to it again instead of putting it in the trash…I had things to do but just couldn’t get motivated with all the coughing and feeling sore…and today will probably look much the same with all the soccer and racing that is on this morning and Man U plays at 12:30 so that will put me out on the bike at 2:30 unless they are losing…I do have to get the chicken in brine to cook tomorrow and make chili today so that will be fun to do….but right now I’m watching MotoGP qualifying and then F1 qualifying and having my coffee…and there will be news in there,too….more later…

Well….you know I talked about the pasta sauce in this morning’s post and I was not too sure about it…with the bitterness that comes from using fresh tomatoes that I had to try to smooth out by adding a little sugar…okay, what a difference a day in the fridge makes…just made some pasta for lunch and it doesn’t even taste like the same sauce…I guess sitting in the fridge overnight gave it a chance for the flavors to smooth out and meld together and all I wanted to do was make another batch of pasta to have more…I didn’t, of course, since it is the second day of not riding with all the rain and can’t afford the calories….I was disappointed in the sauce yesterday but I am so pleasantly surprised today that I may just freeze some of it for another time…yummy…

Well….damn, my whole chest hurts from coughing again yesterday and last night and it is all from working in my own personal Chernobyl downstairs for only a half hour yesterday…and now I’ll be suffering all day today and probably for another week until my body recovers….but, I’m almost done down there so my exposure will be pretty limited until I’m done…slept okay last night and don’t feel really crappy today… a little crappy, but I can live with that….didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with all the rain but I am going to try to get out as soon as it gets light since it is 66 out there right now and I can get out for the last time in a shorts and a t-shirt if I can beat the rain and storms that are coming in…it’s going to be a race but I won’t feel bad if I don’t get out…there is a long line of storms and rain that are just to the northwest and the weather channel says it may storm around 10….then the temp is going to plunge later in the day and I’ll be back to full thermasuit tomorrow…I did make pasta sauce with my veggies yesterday and it came out good but forgot to put sugar in it to compensate for the bitterness of the tomatoes…but I fixed that after lunch and that made it much better…and I’m going to cook over the weekend…have a whole chicken to get in the brine tomorrow and I need to make chili with some burger that I have thawing downstairs and I’ll use up the rest of my tomatoes…dicing them to replace the canned ones I normally put in….not much to do today…just want to get a ride in before I start thinking about the rest of the day….more later….

Well…yeah, no political ones as yet but I’ve had a lot to do and have most of it done so that feels good…just sitting here now waiting for the pressure to release from the instant pot so I can get to the rest of the process of making the sauce…I did find my blender and got that cleaned and ready to smooth out the sauce and then it needs to go into my two biggest pots to thicken on low….oh, I just remembered I have a big pot that I can use or I can just put it back in the instant pot to thicken it….I did get to shutting down half of the downstairs project this morning and took the equipment down…it will only be about 56 days until I can shut the rest of it down for good and start cleaning up after it and I am looking forward to that…I think I torched my lungs again this morning working downstairs since I am coughing again right now….damn…I will get to a political one this afternoon once I find a topic but I need to get on finishing the sauce right now….more later….

Well…made it all the way to coffee start this morning! But, I still feel pretty darn crappy and the cough is just as bad as it was yesterday and that makes it over a week that I have been suffering with it…it may be a little better since I was able to stop taking the medicine for it and still slept some…and I got out for a bike ride that was okay and didn’t have any shortness of breath so I guess that’s progress, too…damn, I just want this to be over and to feel well again…I do have some work to do downstairs today so it will probably get worse later….crap…but the work needs to be done so I’ll have to suck it up and live with it…and I am going to try to make some pasta sauce in the instant pot to use up the ripe tomatoes I have sitting on the kitchen table…I did get out to strip the gardens of what peppers and tomatoes that were left and I am hoping that some of them will turn red…I already froze the jalapenos and I have enough of those that I don’t think I’ll plant them for next year’s garden and I have some half sized green peppers that will go into the sauce today…have to drag the blender out to puree it after it cooks…this is going to be the first time I’ve made sauce since I was in my first house and we had spaghetti parties and I am just winging it without any recipe but how hard can it be? I’m going to make chili tomorrow or Saturday and use the rest of the tomatoes for the diced ones I need for it…not much to do today….just cooking and the downstairs work…and probably no ride since it’s supposed to rain all day….more later…

Well…hey, slept 11 minutes later this morning than last night…but, I’m coughing like crazy again this morning and my chest muscles hurt again so I must have coughed all night too….I am damn tired of this and can’t wait until the source of the coughing is gone….feel so worn out today that I could go back to bed and stay there…cripes, it’s even hard to do this since my brain isn’t working too well after days and days of this….I did get out for a ride yesterday and it wasn’t awful…was able to breathe through the entire 12 miles so I thought I was making progress but I guess I wasn’t with how I feel right now….damn, I just want one day where I don’t have to bitch about feeling so lousy…I may be able to get out in shorts this morning with temps already in the 50’s but I need to do the grocery run first…I have a bunch of tomatoes that I need to use so I think I’m going to make slow cooker pasta sauce in the next couple of days…it looks like an easy one with just throwing the ingredients in the cooker and letting it cook on low for 8 hours or so…will probably have to run it through my blender to smooth it out after it’s done…I even have a green pepper on the plants that I can add to it…it’s small but I think it will be enough….not much to do today…have to do the grocery run and clean some but that will be about it…just don’t feel up to doing much more with this damn headache I’ve had for a few days now…more later…

Well…this just frickin sucks…felt pretty good yesterday afternoon and wasn’t coughing at all but that all changed last night and I woke up at 5:19 this morning coughing like crazy and feel like crap right now…and that’s why I’m running late today…laid back down on the couch and slept a little while since I just couldn’t do anything else….and I’m so damn exhausted that I don’t think I’ll get out on the bike today…yesterday’s ride was so damn hard with not being able to breathe that I’m not sure if I want to chance it today…hmmmm…I wonder if the work I did downstairs yesterday caused this relapse? I was in full haz mat suit while I was doing it and I do have a little more to do today but I think I may put that off with how I feel today….didn’t get much else done yesterday but the ride and laundry so I don’t have much to do so I may just take the day off….I do have some bills to pay but that won’t take long and I can get that done this morning after I have coffee and read the news a bit…I have been cutting out calories to compensate for only riding once a day and I wonder if that has something to do with how exhausted I am? It feels that way so maybe I’ll try to ramp that up and see if that helps…more later…

Well…that was a little better…only woke up once at 4 and was able to get back to sleep without taking any more medicine for the cough…still coughing but I think I can handle it for a while just to see how bad my lungs still are…I am breathing a little better so maybe there is progress? This has been so damn tiring that I am worn out…but, I am going to try to get on the bike once it gets warmer…it looks like the rain is going to stay to the south for now but it’s only in the 30’s so the wait to go out is going to be a long one…but, I did get out in long pants the last time out so I can do that once it gets to 45 or so…didn’t even try to get any work done yesterday but I do have some stuff to do downstairs that may just irritate my lungs again but it needs to be done today or tomorrow so I can start wrapping things up down there….and I do need to finish up the painting in here so I can start getting my stuff ready to move…to where, I don’t know but I’m not going to wait til the last minute to do it….not much to do today…need to start getting back into the normal routine so I can eat more…2 chicken thighs and 3 small tomatoes is just not going to cut it for a whole day and that may be one of the reasons I feel so crappy…more later….

Well…no, I still feel like crap and my lungs are completely roached still…but, I have been finding a few houses today on zillow and there is one that I would buy today if it was just about 25 miles closer to GR…it sits about 45 miles to the north…about halfway to Mt. P and I think that is a little to far for me right now…but, it is only 119 grand and has 1500 square feet, a huge garage, half acre lot, covered porches on the front and back of the house and it has an easement to a lake that is across the street…and it is on a quiet street in the country…so, I do have a goal of finding a house by the end of the month and getting the buying process started and I may actually be able to meet that…and with having close to 45K to put down, my payment would only be about 400 bucks a month….so I may just be able to pull it off…still have 5 months…and I still feel crappy…ick

Well…man, I’m getting damn tired of all of this coughing and not sleeping…was up most of the night and got out of bed at 4 to take some more medicine for it and I’m not sure why it has gotten worse again…I felt okay yesterday and could take deep breaths but that is gone this morning so it looks like another day of just taking it easy and hoping for some healing to take place…it was an okay day yesterday but I didn’t get anything done so I am going to try to clean some today but I am going to need a nap at some point with not sleeping last night…just damn exhausted right now….needless to say, I won’t be getting on the bike today…I find myself hoping for rain so that doesn’t trigger my well developed sense of guilt and I do something stupid by getting out when I feel so crappy…okay, just checked the radar and there will be rain here in a few minutes so I don’t feel too bad….I can’t remember feeling so crappy in a long, long time and I’m not sure if knowing that it is my allergies helps any…oh, well….not much to do today….going to just ease into it…again…but I’m not sure if doing that will help how I feel….just damn frustrated that I haven’t made any progress since Tuesday and the last time this happened it took months before I healed up….more later….