Well…the two days of 5 hours of sleep is starting to catch up with me and I am damn exhausted and it is only 1 in the afternoon….I think I will attempt to take a nap in a little while just to see if it’s possible…I have decided that there will be no bike ride today or tomorrow with all of the snow we’ve gotten are going to get later today and tomorrow…I may try to do a street ride tomorrow after they work on the streets some but we’ll see…I did make the lasagna soup from the new recipe yesterday and it came out really good and even tasted better for lunch today..that one is going to join the refrigerator recipes as a keeper since it so easy to make and is so damn filling that I had one bowl and that will probably keep me for the entire day…and it’s not too unhealthy with just a little ground chuck in it but lots of veggies so I can have it about once a month and still not feel too bad…I did get the 4 inches of snow that we got here cleared already since I wanted to get at it while it was still light and fluffy and easy to push…and I cleaned the kitchen some since the sink and counter was needing some work but I’m pretty sure that will be the extent of the work today with the morning coffee wearing off and with me running out of steam already…oh, and I vacuumed the car with a little shop vac that I found in the garage since the driver’s footwell was full of crap and it was annoying the hell out of me….and I filled the bird feeders again…hey, I already did quite a bit today…I guess I don’t have to feel too bad about trying to take a nap…

Well…yep, didn’t come back for a second one yesterday with getting a call from Tom for a surprise pool day and it was fun to get out of here for a while….it was a long day with getting up at 4:30 and not getting a nap in the afternoon and the strange thing is that it didn’t make any difference on how much I slept last night…back up at 4:30 this morning so that makes it two 5 hour days in a row and something has got to give…and one bad thing about getting up so early is that I have all of my news sites read by 6 or so and that left me edging toward boredom way too early…so, I got started on the kitchen blinds and the small curtain that is on the window over the sink…cripes, I thought the blinds and curtain were tan colored before I got them washed but they are both white now and they look pretty good…so, with it still being early, I got after the last remaining blind on the front dining room window but the blinds are so old that the fabric that the slats sit on ripped in a few spots so I had to repair them but now I have clean, functioning blinds and the only thing I have left to do in the kitchen is repair and paint the windows and it will be done…I did get a bike ride in, too but I’m not sure about today with the snow that was on the trails yesterday and the additional dusting from last night….we’ll see after it starts to warm up later this morning…not much to do today…going to just sit here for a while and watch some soccer and have coffee to try to get enough energy to get moving….more later…

Well…it’s another 4:37 morning this morning….and that makes it only about 5 hours total in bed last night…I know I bitch about not sleeping a lot here but, damn…I remember what it was like to get a whole night’s sleep…but, the weird thing is that I don’t feel tired at all…even got started washing the small curtain from the kitchen window already and have it hanging to dry in the bathroom and will get the metal shade down to wash in a little while…I still can’t believe that some of this stuff hasn’t been cleaned since the early 2000’s…how do you live that way? I did skip the bike ride yesterday and that has really helped with the overall soreness I felt from getting back outside to ride…but, I will get out today if just to look and see what the trails look like after the snow yesterday…I do need to get the recycling bin out this morning since I have filled it and today is pick up day…I think it’s pretty cool that it’s free to recycle all the papers, bottles, etc that would normally end up in the trash…but no trash to put out today and I think that makes it over a month since the last time I put it out…and I may not have the bin filled for a couple of weeks yet….I do feel a little good about progress on the last room yesterday but I am still trying to figure out how to patch the big hole in the wall…may have to cut a filler pattern for it since it is almost 2 inches deep and I’m not sure that the plaster I use will fill something that size…I just noticed that I didn’t cough much last night and haven’t much this morning, either…and even after working in the dust and dirt of the last room…still feel like my head is plugged up but I’ll take that over coughing anytime…not much to do today….going to clean that shade in a minute so I can let it dry before putting it back up…if I keep the old ones, they are going to have to be painted this spring since they have chips and rust on them that looks like crap…but that’s not today…need more coffee and a little news first….more later….

Well…after skipping the bike ride for a rest day, I decided that I needed to get my butt in gear and get some stuff accomplished around here…and I did which really surprised me with how unmotivated I have been lately…got all of the extra furniture out of the last bedroom and moved it upstairs to clear it out for painting and then I took the broken door off since how the idiot repaired it was just annoying the hell out of me and I wanted to do it right…so, after removing it, I found all of the pieces that were broken out around the hinge and glued that back in so I don’t have to have the stupid looking braces that the idiot used instead of just glueing it back together with wood glue…and the welded upper hinge pin was loose, too but I took the easy way out on that one and just tried to use some JB weld on that since the frame that it mounts to is metal and there is no access to replace it…if that doesn’t work I’ll cut a hole in the door frame big enough to work through and replace the pin with another bolt and a nut to hold it in place….after all that, I got the trash and recycling out and got what little snow we got shoveled…so, all in all, not a bad day of work so I don’t feel bad about taking a break and vegging a little now…oh, and I got out to get the stuff I need to make the lasagna soup and will do that tomorrow or Saturday….it does feel good to get some work done…

Well…damn, coughing like crazy again this morning and I am just damn tired of it…think I may even take something for it if it doesn’t get better soon…I’m even a little sore from it and that is annoying, too…I did sleep okay and stayed in bed til 5:43 but that didn’t help with feeling so damn tired this morning…and part of that may be that I had to go hard on the bike just to stay warm with going out when it was 27 degrees…probably one of the hardest rides yet this year and I am going to go out around 10 this morning if it’s warm enough…we didn’t get the 3-5 inches of snow that was predicted so I am going to try the trails and see how they look with the inch or so we did get…the radar looks like more areas of snow showers are coming in so we’ll see later…didn’t get much done yesterday other than the grocery run….I did find a recipe for lasagna soup in the Free Press yesterday that I want to try so I will need to go out and get some burger to put in it tomorrow and I need some tomato sauce, too but it looks good and easy to make…and I need to expand what I cook since I am getting bored with the same old food…this recipe even has melted mozzerella on top that you need to brown under the broiler…could be yummy…not much to do today…just the normal work around here and some cleaning but I feel so damn worn out today that it is going to be a while until I can get started…more later….

Well…it does look like I’m feeding every sparrow here on the west side with the quantity of feed they have been going through…I mean only one day to empty the feeder? When I started feeding them, it took them almost a week to eat all of the food in the feeder, but as the days have gone on there are more and more of them coming in and they are banging into each other in the air and pushing each other off the feeder…I even counted 8 of them on my small feeder at once and there is just not room for that many at a time. It does look like a mosh pit out there at times and some of them are sitting on the windowseal to rest before they go back into the fray….a couple of them have even given up and figured out how to land on the clear feeder to be able to eat in peace….so, I am starting to be entertained…but I think I’ll need another bag of feed next week…

Well…damn, I thought I’d escaped the effects of the downstairs work on my allergies yesterday but no such luck…started to get miserable in the afternoon and that extended right into the night and continues this morning…it was such a luxury to not cough for the past few days but I guess that’s over for a while…didn’t sleep too badly though so I guess I can live with it but I slept on my left shoulder all night and now that hurts like crazy and that won’t be fun with the snow that is coming tonight and into tomorrow..damn, I’m getting creaky in my old age…I did get a nice bike ride in yesterday and it looks like I’ll get one more in today before the trails are iced over again and then it looks like I’ll be back to the streets for a while since I don’t want to go back to the trainer in the basement…still, it hasn’t been a bad winter so far and it’s only three weeks til March so it looks like we’ve survived another one…and now it will turn ridiculously cold and we’ll get a blizzard that will last til April just from my saying that….not much to do today…I do need to do the grocery run but only to Meijers today…have a lot of food in the freezer that I need to use so I only need a few staples today….more later…

Well…damn, I’ve finally had a productive day with very little coughing….got started at 7:30 with lots of work downstairs that took about two hours to complete, then I got out for a long bike ride, and then finished up downstairs when I got back here…and just finished that a few minutes ago at 1:30 or so…but, I got everything done that needed it and now it looks like I have about 6 weeks before I have any big work to do downstairs again so I won’t have any excuse for not getting the last room done….I did have to take an antihistamine  with the allergen exposure today and that helped with my itchy eyes and plugged up head but we’ll see how that works as the day goes on…I may even take the rest of the day off and watch some soccer I accomplished so much today…yeah, that sound you heard was me hurting my shoulder patting myself on the back…oh, well…

Well…didn’t make it til coffee o’clock this morning with getting up at 5:40 and with getting to bed late, that made it about 5 hours of sleep last night…ick….but, that’s pretty normal and I wonder why I expect any different? The change back to riding outdoors left me hurting last night and I was hobbling around here all afternoon but I don’t mind it at all…just getting back on the trails yesterday made me smile and I’m hoping we don’t get much snow since the trails are all clear right now and I can take it being cold if they are clear…I did put the computer back on the front wheel yesterday so I guess I’m committed to riding outside for the time being and I am going to try to be less hard on myself when the weather keeps me off the bike…just couldn’t do the inside riding this year and part of that is that I couldn’t get tv signal downstairs and that left me looking at the walls and that made it just so boring…didn’t get much done yesterday but a run out to HF and then I fixed the latest stitching failure on the top of the car…bought a couple of little spring clamps at HF for 99 cents each that worked like a champ and that should come in handy around here when I need to glue anything….not much to do today…I have some work to do downstairs and then need to continue working on the spare room…need to get shades for the new window in there and paint and I hope to get that done this week…but, if it’s done by the end of the month, I’ll be okay with that….more later….

Well…hmmm…that was a night of weird dreams last night…not sure what it means when you have one that you can’t find a clean shirt but it went on for a while…oh, and I couldn’t find a mirror to shave with…now these could be work related but I don’t work anymore so that would be even more weird…slept okay last night but was up at 5:34 but I guess that’s pretty normal by now…it sure would be nice to sleep in just once in a year…I did get a nice bike ride in on the streets yesterday and rode into GR to just take a look around but I hope the trails will be melted enough to get out on them today…the river still looks pretty high so they may still be flooded and it’s nice to know that I have the streets for backup…took Lake Michigan drive to where it turns into Pearl street and then up and over to Rosa Parks circle and then Monroe over to Michigan to Bridge and back to Stocking and back here…not sure how viable those routes will be when there is traffic but I’ll give it try sometime and see…didn’t get anything else done yesterday but go out to have a couple with K and watch the SB but I do have errands to run today…need to go to HF an get some small zip ties so I can put the computer back on the front wheel of the bike for a while and I’m almost out of vinyl gloves for working around here…and I can get 50 pair for 5 bucks on sale so that’s a pretty good deal…not sure how much I’ll get done today after that but I do need to finish up the prep on the last room so I can paint this week….more later…