November 3rd

Well…slept okay again last night and I may be getting convinced that it is the new pillows…my neck doesn’t hurt either, so that is a plus and I hope it continues…haven’t been able to move it easily for the past few weeks….had a nice day with getting out to have lunch with T and it was good to see her and buy her lunch for her birthday…had a huge olive burger and I am still not hungry even after not eating anything for dinner last night…but, I will have to eat today since I can’t eat anything tomorrow…but, nothing but protein since I can’t have any fiber…and that is a little weird….didn’t get anything else done yesterday but I do need to clean the bathroom today and do a little clean up in the kitchen….and I have bills to pay that I can do online so I don’t have to think about it early next week….can’t wait for the election to be over…the stress is killing me and I don’t even want to imagine the hellscape this country is going to be if the repubs keep the house….can’t wait for Wednesday…more later…

Vote for Debbie…

Well…There is just one race left that I wanted to talk about before the election Tuesday and that is the one senate seat that is up for a vote…now, there is really no choice to be made here….the only person to vote for is Debbie Stabenow, who has devoted her entire life to serving the people of Michigan…both in the Michigan legislature and for the past two terms as one of our US senators. I have worked with Debbie in the past when I was a parent lobbyist for the Kentwood schools during the Prop A fight and found her to be dedicated to what is best for the people of Michigan, not for the rich or corporations like her challenger has already admitted is his focus. So, let’s not elect another trump clone to do more damage than has already been done and let’s send a good senator back to continue the great work she has done for all of the citizens of Michigan.

November 2nd

Well…okay, not sure if it’s the new pillows or not but I didn’t get up until 6:36 this morning and that is an hour later than the new normal…and my neck doesn’t hurt too much so that’s maybe another plus…I did sleep okay, too with not too much tossing and turning but that might have been from not sleeping too well over the past week or so…we’ll see tonight…I am getting a little stressed out about the procedure Monday but I think it’s more the prep for it than anything else…and thinking they might find something is starting to add to the stress…and colon cancer can just be there with no symptoms so I guess I should look at it that way…let’s just find out and go from there….didn’t get a lot done yesterday but I will need to clean today to get a start on the weekend…don’t really have a lot to do but I don’t want to have anything to do Sunday when I’m prepping…I may have lunch with T today but I have to remember the no fiber diet I’m on and try to keep it…I really don’t want to screw up the test so I have to do another one….more later….

Bargains….

Well…it has been a little bit of a weird day with T cancelling so she could get some rest…and with her schedule, I don’t blame her one bit. But, that’s not what this is about…it’s about the screaming bargain I got on pillows at Kohl’s today. Every Thursday, I pick up the Free Press when grocery shopping and today they had an ad for Kohl’s in it…and, in the ad, they had pillows on sale for 2.99 each that are regularly priced at 12 dollars each…so, I picked up 4 of them and got an even bigger deal at the register…my total for the 4 pillows was $10.30 so they were only a little over 2 bucks each. Now, they may not be the best pillows in the world, but damn…only 10 bucks? Couldn’t pass that up….can’t wait to try them tonight….

The proposals…

Well…as I said yesterday, with my medical procedure taking me out of commission Sunday and Monday, I am going to try to get to all of the politics that I would normally deal with on the day before the election. So, let’s start with the proposals on the ballot here in Michigan…oh, and these proposals are citizen led and deal with the fact that the repub cheaters that control the state don’t care what the people want…they just care about their donors and the rich so the people of the state took these important issues into their own hands and got the hundreds of thousands of signatures that put them on the ballot. Proposal one deals with making marijuana for personal, recreational use legal in the state…taxed and regulated like alcohol and the tax money will go towards many programs that the repubs have decimated in recent years. I have to agree that this one should be passed for no other reason than the damage the prohibition has done to the state and it’s residents…locking up thousands of people (and very disproportionately people of color) for possessing a plant that has been demonized for political purposed since it was first made illegal in the 30′s. Proposal 2 would create an independent committee to draw the state’s legislative districts, taking the control out of the hands of politicians (the repubs) who always cheat since they can’t win elections if they don’t. This control that the repubs used in last redistricting to cement their control of Michigan even when dems got more than 10% more votes than the repubs in the last election. So, this one is a yes if you think fair elections are necessary for a fair society. Really the only thing you need to know about prop 2 is that the DeVos family is spending millions to defeat it since they will no longer be able to buy the legislature if the districts are fair. Proposal 3 also deals with voting rights and makes it easier for people to register and vote…another thing that the repubs are against since they only want white repubs to vote and have done their best to make sure it stays that way even though the state is much more diverse than their power base here in West Michigan. So, a yes vote on every proposal will make this a much more fair state and get rid of the failed war on drugs….so do it, get out and vote!

November 1st

Well…finally on time today with getting out to do a small grocery run…going to be on this restricted diet until Monday so there was not much I could buy or that I needed…still spent 40 bucks and that is a little disappointing….slept okay last night but was still up at 5:39 that will be 6:39 after the time change….I did get a nice bike ride done yesterday in shorts but today will be back to thermasuit since the high is only going to be 48 and that is too cold for shorts and no gloves…I did have a pleasant surprise with the BP this morning when I got a reading of 97/74 that I thought must have been a mistake so I took it again and got 113/74 and that was closer to what I thought it should be…and that is the lowest it has been since I got my machine so I am not going to worry about it anymore…I did have to buy the prep stuff for my test on Monday and that set me back over 30 bucks…I just want it to be over…and the really nasty stuff won’t even happen until Sunday night…I do have a tentative meeting with T for this aft but, with her schedule, who knows? More later….