Well…I’m not sure how it happened but I’m back to getting out of bed at 5:14 again and that is way too damn early…I know it helps me get my day going but having my first cup of coffee before 5:30am seems a little weird to me…so I’ll be on the bike before 6am and I could even get two rides in before I head out to the grocery run but I’m not going to do that…want to get an outdoor ride in to take a look at the trails to see if they are passable…if they are, it will be the earliest in the 5 years I’ve lived out here…need to do some meal planning today but I am picking up some smoked turkey so there will be sandwiches for the next few days…need to get some food out of the freezer but I’m not sure what that will be yet…a little tired of pizza but I still have 4 in there so I’ll probably use one this weekend…it’s going to rain a ton over the next few days so the snow will all be gone but, with the 30’s that are coming, we could get more next week…ick…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and grocery runs…and maybe some cleaning…more later…

Well…finished up the last book this morning so I had time to do some cleaning and that felt good so I think I’m going to wean myself off books for a while…but I am going to pick up a few more tomorrow but not 8 like I got last week..going to do a wander in the stacks tomorrow to try to find new authors who look interesting…my BP machine has been throwing error messages so I think I may need a new one…and it’s reading about 10 points higher than it used to and I’m not doing anything different…or I guess I could just stop taking my BP since we do have the meds figured out…going to hit DD to get some sliced smoked turkey they have on sale for 4 bucks for 2 1/2 pounds and I have lettuce and tomatoes so I can make sandwiches with it…looks like I’ll be able to ride outdoors tomorrow with the high getting to 50 or so then we have a short stint of warm weather and then it freezes again on the 12th with temps in the 30’s…ick…oh, well…that’s March in Michigan…

Well…up a little before 5 this morning and I went straight out on the porch to look for the lunar eclipse but it’s cloudy here so I didn’t see much of it…slept okay but feel pretty worn out this morning and it’s going to be tough getting going this morning…and, while it warms up this week, then it goes down into the 20’s for a week and that sucks…didn’t eat much yesterday but I need to do better today…so, I’ll have a bagel before I get on the bike here in a few minutes and lots more coffee…didn’t get much done yesterday but wash the car but I do need to get the grocery list ready for the run tomorrow even though I don’t need much other than milk…going to do the breakfast for lunch thing again today…have been having trouble with my BP the past couple of days and I may have to make a doctor appointment…I couldn’t get under 140 yesterday and that’s way too high…not much to do today…just need to get started on the weight work now and then grit my teeth and get the rides in…more later…

Well…after I got the normal stuff done early today and finished up the 2nd ride a little after 8 so then I decided to drag my butt out in the cold and wash the car…the only problem was that it was only 13 degrees and the car turned into a block of ice and I couldn’t get all the soap off of it…oh, well…I did get the last of the sub 3 buck gas today but we won’t see that price again this year after the idiot’s stupid war…only did one meal today of two slices of pizza and no bagel for breakfast…so that is about 700 calories for the day and I can live with that…will have to plan meals for the rest of the week and get some food out of the freezer…but I can do that tomorrow since I have one more day of leftovers to have…got my new BP cuff a few minutes ago and I’m going to try it out and then go back to reading for a bit…

Well…darn, back to getting out of bed by 5:14 again and that just sucks…but I feel okay so I guess that’s something…need to get off my butt and get going by 6am so I can get two rides in before I take the car to wash it around 9am…the stupid trump war has raised gas prices by 45 cents a gallon so now I guess 3-4 bucks a gallon is the new normal and it’s just another tax that asshole has put on the country…and who benefits? Yep, the Saudis and his cronies in the oil industry…I can’t wait to see the inflation numbers after that…I’m sure it’s going to be 6-7% for this month…nice job, maga…you did this to us…okay back to life…took an easy day for the second one in a row yesterday but it’s not going to be 3…in 14 minutes I’ll be on the weight work and then the rides…my BP cuff sprung a leak yesterday so I had to spend 10 bucks to order a new one…need to plan some meals in a few days but I have leftovers for the next two and I really do need to eat out of the freezer for a couple of weeks…more later…

Well…that kinda sucked…up and down all night and woke up for good at 5:14 but I tried to sleep more but gave up at 5:44…feel pretty worn out but need to get off my butt and get moving now to get the rides in before Man U plays at 9am…not sure if I’ll have a bagel for breakfast but I probably should so that means I need to get the teeth in now and get on the weights by 6:30…didn’t get a lot done yesterday and today looks the same with soccer and two races on starting at noon…and I have a book to finish so it will be a nice relaxing day…okay, not really with needing to get two rides in before 9 and that is pretty stressful…and it snowed overnight and again I think Michigan is just screwing with us…we made it to March and it’s supposed to be warming up and it looks like it’s going to but then it’s going to crash back into the 30’s by the middle of the month…ick…only 17 degrees out there right now and I am just so damn tired of the cold…more later…

Well…it’s the last day of February and I’m damn tired of being cold…didn’t drag my butt out of bed til 6:21 and I’m going to feel it all day today just like yesterday…need to get going and do the weight work that I skipped yesterday but I needed the day off for recovery that I never give myself…took a way too easy day yesterday with just an indoor ride and an outdoor ride and then just reading and I really hoped today would be the same but I can’t allow that…it’s 7am and I’m just getting through the first cup of coffee and it was strange to smell the coffee already brewing when I was lying in bed…I had a long string of getting up at or before 5am and the benadryl really knocked me out but the after effects make me feel like crap so I’m not sure if it’s worth it…not much to do today…just need to get off my ass and get moving…should clean today and I might but I’m not sure what that will be…more later…

Well…it got up to mid 40’s today so, of course, I got an outdoor ride in…the trails have melted a little but they are still impassable and it looks like they will be until at least the end of March unless it really warms up and stays there and it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen…I will be happy when I can get back to 25 miles a day…almost all of the snow has melted except for the big piles and the roads are still icy from the snow that fell a few days back so I had to be careful today…won’t be back outside until Monday since it’s only going to be in the 30’s this weekend…okay, it looks like I won’t be outdoors again til at least Wed but this is pretty normal for out here…heading for spring…okay, have some reading to do…

Well…damn, running so late this morning that I don’t think I’ll catch up…didn’t get out of bed til 6:27 and that is the fault of taking a benadryl to try to get over getting out of bed around 5 every day…but, I feel like crap so I won’t be repeating that tonight…today is the anniversary of moving out here to Muskegon…5 years and I have no clue where the time went…it’s not a bad place to live and I’ll have my house paid off in another 10 years if I live that long…so today is going to be a day of throwing out the schedule and just letting the day flow and be what it wants to…I may be able to get an outdoor ride in this afternoon and I am really curious about how much snow is still on the trails…I would love to get on them but I know there is still ice and snow on them if it’s anything like the past 4 years…they haven’t been clear until April but the time is coming for 25 mile outdoor days and I can’t wait…not much to do today…should clean but I have a new bag of books to read and no motivation to do that…more later…