Well…happy Star Wars day to those who celebrate…up and out of bed before 4:30am today and that is just way too damn early…and I’m going to continue to bitch about that as long as it continues…I mean, give me a frickin break…I knew it was going to be ugly when I went to bed at 10 and tossed and turned as soon as I hit the pillow and don’t think I fell asleep until 11:30 or so…ick…so now I’m going to depend on the coffee to make me human and get the day started…I do have stuff to do today and may even get an outdoor ride in today…but that will be after I do the weight work and get the indoor ride in…then I need to rotate the tires on the car to see if I can get rid of the vibration at 80 or so…I only have to go front to back as the tread is directional and only goes one side of the car…and I think I’ve got a heat shield rattling so I need to look for that, too…I think working on the car and getting an outdoor ride in will be enough for the day…I still have 6 books to read by the end of the week but I don’t think I’ll get there with other stuff to do around here…going to have to argue with menards since the expensive grass seed I bought did not come up…not one blade after putting pounds of it in…so I’m expecting a fight there…oh, well…think I need to eat more since the lounge pants I have been wearing are falling off me and I may have to tie them for the first time…a good problem to have…I think…more later…

Well…today was an easy day with not doing anything but the weight work and the indoor ride…not sure if I needed it but just wasn’t feeling it today so I did what retired people do and took the day off to watch races and read…I finally have emby kinda fixed so I could watch the races…my eyes have been better today and I could see the tv clearly all day and read the data panels during the races and it’s been months since I’ve been able to do that…I wonder if it’s the ointment I’ve had to put on to relieve the itchyness in them? Whatever it is, it’s welcome and I’ll take it…didn’t have to cook today and won’t have to for 3-4 more days but I do need to figure out what to take out of the freezer…or just make pasta and pasta salad but that is more like a side dish than a meal…I still have a lot of the breaded chicken patties in there along with 4 burgers or so and that is enough for me to get by for a couple of weeks…and that might get me down enough to clean out the freezer…I guess I’ll have to check…back to reading…

Well…you know how I love my routines and how they feel so comfortable when I know what’s going to happen in my day…that went out the window this morning when emby did a reset and none of my channels were there anymore…and that means hours and hours of resetting them to get back to the channels I watch…ick…slept okay last night but I still feel exhausted and I hope that goes away at some point…all of this channel resetting has made me late for getting my day started as you can see…cripes, it’s 7:23 and I haven’t gotten anything done…still have the weight work and bike ride to do and won’t be done with that til almost 9am and that sucks…oh, well…I did get the bathroom cleaned yesterday and should work on the kitchen today but I may not with being so late getting started…it’s going to be too cold to get outdoors on the bike today and I am trying to not be depressed that we’re not going to see 60’s at all this month…have never seen a May so cold in my lifetime and I’m not sure how to deal with it…don’t have to cook today and I really need to use the potato soup so I may just do two bowls of that today and let the chicken go a day…so, I need to get moving or the guilts are going to overwhelm me…more later…

Well…not sure what the heck is going on but I have been exhausted all afternoon…it can’t be that I made chicken stir fry and cleaned the bathroom…if I’m at the point that those small exertions take everything out of me, then just kill me and get it over with…there is no way that I can live with not being able to do anything without feeling like this…okay, on to something else…I do love my new pan…not having to pick the shedded black coating out of my food is a good thing…and the teriyaki stir fry sauce is really good…what I could taste of it anyway…and it’s so easy to just pour it out of the bottle into the pan…and it thickened up nicely as it heated… so I’ll use that again since I have another half bottle to use…but no more chicken so I’ll have to get some of that this week along with another bag of stir fry veggies…will have to look to see if I have veggies in the back of the freezer…but I won’t need to cook anything for 4-5 days so I don’t have to think of that now…I did buy 4 boxes of pasta for a buck each last week so I can do that with sauce and garlic bread…and I can do a pasta salad that I have been thinking about for a while…okay, back to reading…

Well…up a little before 5am this morning…again…but I’m not going to bitch about that…I am going to bitch about the weather since it’s only 33 out there and we have a freeze warning on…I wonder if this is going to be the first year in history that the high never gets to 60 in May? That’s in the forecast for the next two weeks and it is so damn depressing for someone who loves it hot…looks like I’ll have plenty of time to get the bathroom cleaned today since the F1 sprint race doesn’t come on til 11…this may be a day that I’ll take off from the weights since you’re supposed to give yourself at least one rest day every week to allow your muscles to recover…okay, that’s some weird third person phrasing that I shouldn’t do…I am going to use my new semi wok to make some stir fry teriaki chicken for lunch today and that will keep me fed til next week…going to make rice with it so it should be pretty filling…still eating lots of fruit but I’m going to toast a bagel for breakfast this morning instead of an apple but I will have both an apple and an orange at some point today since I have lots of them…tomorrow will be 30 days with no cocktails and I feel pretty good so that will continue…maybe permanently…we’ll see…not much to do today…just going to drink coffee and get my body jump started right now and then on the indoor bike for a ride and that will still give me time to clean…more later…

Well…man, I have been so worn out today and really didn’t do anything to make that happen so I’m a little confused about that…didn’t do anything but go to the library and make potato soup ao I wonder if it’s fallout from doing the lawn and other work yesterday? Who knows? Have been having the inflammation in my eyes again and they have felt like they are full of sand for the past day or so and it looks like I’ll use up all of the ointment that I was hoping to take to Italy in case they got bad there…crap…so, I really need to figure out what the hell is going on…I know I didn’t eat enough yesterday with just an apple for breakfast and then the last of the pork shoulder and that is less than a thousand calories for the day…and I think I did the same thing with an apple again, then a bowl of soup and an orange…I’m just tired of thinking about that all the time…it looks like we are not going to get back into the 60’s until June and that just really sucks…I’ve never seen a spring so damn cold and we even have a freeze warning on for tonight…I just frickin give up…how the heck can you have a normal life when it’s never warm? Oh, well…back to the new book..

Well…damn, it’s May 1st and we are under a frost/freeze warning for the next two days and there are no 60’s in the forecast until the middle of the month…yeah, there is no spring here this year and that just sucks…I’m glad I didn’t do a garden again this year or I would be all stressed out trying to keep the plants alive…we’re staying in the 40’s until Sunday and then we streak up to a high of 52…yeah, that’s sarcasm…pretty sore from mowing the lawn yesterday and I had to put heat on my legs to keep from taking ibuprofen last night…I was just out of synch yesterday and everything felt odd and I don’t know what that is about and I hope it doesn’t happen again today…I do have to cook today and will be making potato soup for lunch and then the chicken stir fry tomorrow so I’ll have food for a few days and won’t have to think about it…trying a new sauce for the chicken instead of the envelopes I have been using…it’s a teryaki sauce I got from aldis for less than two bucks and will do two batches…it will be an easy one today with just the indoor stuff and then a run to the library…I do need to clean the bathroom and the kitchen floor and might get to that…more later…

Well…as I run up on 30 days with no booze, it hit me today that things have gotten easier to do as time has gone on…the 8 miles on the indoor bike today just flew by and I averaged over 14mph when I normally struggle to keep it at 12…and then I went out and mowed the lawn this morning and it was just easy…or easier than it has been for years…I know part of that is the lighter lawnmower that I don’t have to wrestle around to do the job but even after I was done, I just felt good and was walking easily instead of dragging my butt back into the house…oh, and I saw a bald eagle fly over my house as I was mowing…pretty cool…just finished the last book and I think I’ll take the rest of the day off reading and just fool around with little things to keep myself busy…or not even busy since I haven’t had a day like that in a long time…so, I think I’ll read some news and few of the car websites I like and just take it easy…I do need food since I’m done with the pork shoulder after dinner so I guess it will be potato soup tomorrow morning so I’ll have some for lunch…stir fry in the new pan will wait til sat after the chicken thaws…

Well…that was better…not out of bed til 5:23 with no sleep aids at all and I think I like that…feel okay but I’m pretty sore from all the overhead work getting rid of the cobwebs downstairs…still have to go through the cabinets where I keep all my maintenance supplies and clean off the top of them…it’s going to be March like weather here the next few days and that sucks when it’s the first of May tomorrow…there still has been no consistent spring here and it looks like I’ll be mowing the lawn today with the temp about 45 and that’s just not right…I did get my new semi wok yesterday and it’s really nice…can’t wait to use it later in the week but that means I’ll have to take the chicken out of the freezer but I may wait to do that until after I make a batch of potato soup with having more than 10 lbs of potatoes in the kitchen…still have lots of fruit that needs to be used so I may substitute an orange for the normal morning bagel…it was kind of funny that I read
“Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” this week and the movie was on Amazon that I watched last night…Tom Cruise does not fit the description that Lee Child laid out for Reacher with him being 5’8″ and Reacher in the books is 6’6″…I like the books better…not much to do today…just the normal stuff and finishing up the last book so I can go to the library tomorrow…oh, and cleaning the bathroom….more later…

Well…just did and hour and a half on cobweb patrol and the dust has triggered my allergies and I am going to be miserable the rest of the day…but the front room of the basement looks a lot better and I even tossed three bags of stuff that should have been gone long ago…it is pretty nice just buying food on the grocery run…even with hitting 3 stores the bill was still under 35 bucks and I got lots of stuff…I mean how can you pass up oranges, apples, and potatoes for a buck each? I think I’ve had more fruits the past week than I’ve had in the last year and maybe this will start some more healthy food…who knows? I never got over 50 and has been raining all day so it’s been a good one to get some things done…I need to do meal planning for later in the week and I’m not sure what that will be yet…might make some pasta salad with the tri color rotini I got for a buck today and making a two quart container is less than a buck fifty so that sounds like a deal… and I have enough potatoes to make lots of potato soup so that could be what I’ll make later…but I really should eat out of the freezer…will probably make stir fry with the chicken I have in the freezer…and I’ll have a new wok to do it with later today…yay!