Well…I know you’ve heard me go on about how filthy the kitchen was before I got started tearing it down to clean and paint…but today, I found that it was even worse than I thought…when I was working on the doors for the cabinets above the stove, I had to scrape what looked like a quarter inch of grease off the tops of the doors that had collected there over the years…and that grease had penetrated the paint to make it gooey and damn near impossible to sand off…it was gooey and hard at the same time and I can’t figure that out but I know I’m sitting here in pain from using the sander so much today…can barely move my thumb and I still have the fronts of the last 4 doors to fill after the backs dry in another hour or so….and I need to get ready to eat dust all day tomorrow sanding the filler smooth…I am so sore from being on my feet the past few days that it may be a huge chore to do all 11 of them…and I need to seal myself into my dust room downstairs and open the window to try to get the fan to push some of the dust outside…but, it should be my last day of huge dust since the rest of the windows and the baseboards/door frames don’t need that much repair…at least I hope they don’t since I am really hurting myself with all of this work…at least I’ll be able to paint Friday…I hope…then I’ll need to spend a few days just cleaning up the dust downstairs…owww…
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February 2nd
Well…that was a little crappy…tossed and turned all night and feel it this morning…the worst thing is the lack of consistency in sleep when I do exactly the same thing every night…there should be some way to build a routine that will let me sleep better every night…especially after a full month of no cocktails…so, needless to say, I feel a little run down this morning and that will make it a little bit of a pain to do the bike ride, the grocery run, and do the doors I need to do today….but I still feel better than when I was having cocktails every night so I guess I can suck it up and get things done…and I have to do the grocery run a little late today since I need to get more allergy meds and the pharmacy doesn’t open til 9…so I guess I can take a little time to have some coffee and read the news…still don’t know how I hurt the toes on my right foot but they seem to be a little better this morning and it’s still a pain to walk…it feels like I walked barefoot on concrete and abraded them but it’s winter and I always have socks on…probably should have put shoes on when I did the filling on the front of the doors yesterday and will do that today….still going to be on them for hours today and that is going to hurt…not much to do today…just the grocery run and then I’ll be in until Sunday when I go out for the paper and I hope I get the doors done by then…the blinds for the last window in the kitchen have shipped so I need to clean the dust off that window so I can mount them when they get here…the kitchen is slowly coming together…more later…
Lots of work today…
Well…man, you know I usually complain a bit when I have busy days and not a lot of time to just live…but, after how lousy I felt yesterday, a busy day that I could get through with energy left over is welcome…although the small toes on my right foot are hurt somehow and it may just be from standing on my feet for 4 hours today…and that didn’t help my back either with nasty pain in the lower part and stiffness that I am going to aggravate tomorrow with doing the last 4 doors….but, I did get the bike ride in, washed the car, got 4 doors done, and did my laundry….so, it looks like Thursday is going to be dust day with sanding the filler I had to use on the doors to repair them…and some of them were so bad that I had to skim coat almost the whole face to fill all of the dents and gouges in them…and there were a few of them that had food grease that had run down the back of them that I had to take the putty knife to and scrape it off…who the hell lives that way? It’s a little after 4 and I am done for the day after getting after it since 7 or so this morning….going to have leftover beef stir fry for dinner so I don’t have to work too hard for the rest of the day…my hands hurt and they aren’t going to get any rest until I’m done painting this weekend…ow…
208 miles in January..
Well…I do feel a lot better today and got a ride in and got 4 doors half done…need to go down and fill the fronts of the 4 of them here in a few minutes…but I really wanted to talk about the miles I did indoors in January…got to 208 miles as of yesterday and that means if I keep up that pace, I could have over 600 miles indoors before I get back out on the trails…and, when you do the math, you can see that the total is a multiple of 8 since that is how many miles I have been doing per day…down from the 10 miles per day I started doing since the 10 mile rides left my legs in pain for the rest of the day and took too much energy out of them….the 8 mile rides seem to be perfect for what I’m trying to do…I still come off the bike sweating through everything and I have energy left to do the rest of the things I have planned every day…and the 8 miles keep me from becoming totally bored and hating the rides…they are still tough some days but I can now get them done in about 45 minutes and I think it raises my energy level for the day so I am going to keep it up for as long as I can…oh, and I am still being good and may just keep it up for another month….
February 1st
Well…another month starts and that means we are one month closer to spring and it can’t get here fast enough for me…I did sleep okay last night and had some dreams that were weird as heck that included Ore Ida french fries and an old Monte Carlo with a tach that was stuck at 6,000 rpms and Scarlett Johansson who I knew somehow…..and she was driving my Monte Carlo…yeah, I told you they were weird but nice to have any dreams again…I can’t believe how lousy I felt yesterday and I hope that doesn’t happen again today…I did eat a lot more than normal yesterday and I hope that shows up today but I think I may have a cold but who knows these days? I do feel okay right now but I felt okay yesterday morning, too, so I’m not sure that means much….I do know I have a headache today but I’ve had them off and on for a month or more now so I think it’s from the dust I’m generating around here since my head feels plugged up….I am going to go out and wash the car this morning since it is already 30 out there right now…and I need to hit the atm to get some cash out so I’ll have some in my pocket for stuff like that….not much to do today…need to get my butt in gear and get on the bike right now to keep on schedule for the day and get more work done on the doors….I’m hoping to get 4 done today and 4 tomorrow so I can do the finish sanding Thursday and get started painting Friday…and that will leave me only the drawers to do after I get the doors hung….but right now I’m late and need to get moving…more later…
I’m exhausted and I don’t know why…
Well…damn, I am exhausted and I can’t figure out why…I mean I’ve been good for almost a month now with no cocktails and I’ve been sleeping okay, and I only did three doors today…I know it took me three hours but I haven’t been this worn out since I started being good…I know I only had some beef stir fry that was mostly veggies for lunch yesterday which was about 500 calories or so and then just a boneless skinless chicken breast for dinner with nothing else other than a glass of milk and that is about 300 cals so maybe it’s just from not eating enough? I didn’t really do anything yesterday so I didn’t need to eat much so 800 calories should have been enough…yeah, I know…a normal person is supposed to take in at least 2K calories a day but how do you eat that much? I’ve never been able to…okay, going to stop bitching about it…you know I have an eating disorder and it’s the only way I don’t weigh 300 pounds…hmmm…I did get a bike ride in this morning so maybe that is it? I’m tired of thinking about it but I’m still only going to have another chicken breast and some steamed broccoli for dinner…all I know is that I’m damn tired…and this is the last one for my record breaking month….124 of these? That’s an average of 4 a day and I feel pretty good about that…no more later…unless I read something that I need to talk about…
Have to adjust my schedule…
Well…after starting on the doors this morning and spending 3 hours working on them, I am going to have to adjust my schedule since there is no way I’m going to get them ready for paint in three days…only got three sanded and filled in three hours and, with 11 to do, that makes at least the rest of the week for sanding and filling and I won’t get to painting until this weekend or next week…and my hands are right back where they were with stiffness and pain and I split my left thumb open…okay, nope…it’s a damn splinter from working on the doors and it hurts like crazy….and my right thumb is about done from sanding and it’s going to hurt for the rest of the week if I keep going….but, I have to so there is no if about it…just have to resign myself to being in pain for the next two weeks…okay, just pulled a half inch splinter out of my thumb that went straight in so you could only see a tiny part of the end of it but I was finally able to get hold of it with my tweezers and I was really surprised when it just kept coming out as I pulled on it…at least that’s one less pain to deal with…need to hit it with neosporin…
January 31st
Well…here we go into the last day of the month and I am hoping that the winter ends after the next month so I can get back outside on the bike…but, I’ll have to have the kitchen done before then so I need to get my butt in gear to have that happen…slept okay last night but had dreams about horse racing for the second time in a week and that is strange since I’ve never been to one and have never bet on a horse race…I did sleep okay and feel good with getting to a full month of no cocktails other than the one night out but I’m starting to eat more and need to have more discipline if I’m going to maintain or lose weight this winter….didn’t do a thing yesterday and my hands are thanking me for it…they are much less stiff and most of the pain is gone and the cut on my right index finger is almost healed but I am going to start abusing them this morning with getting started on the cabinet doors after I get on the bike…not sure how long they are going to take but I know I have 11 of them and a filler plate to sand fill and paint and I need to work out how to do that efficiently since I want to do all the insides at one time and all of the faces at one time to save money on roller covers since I am going to roll the flat parts for the finish…if I work my butt off, I may be able to get all of the first sanding and filling done today and then on to the finish sanding tomorrow with painting starting Wed…if I can do that schedule, I can start hanging doors Friday and have them done over the weekend…I hope that I’ve had enough curing time for the shelves in the cupboards so I can start putting things back into them but I need to get the wall patch sanded first so I can clean up the dust that will go everywhere…at least with the doors on, the dust will stay outside the cabinets and make the cleanup easier….more later…
Ordered the kitchen blinds…
Well…haven’t done much today but sand some drips off the bottom of the cabinet that the range hood is going to mount to so it will be level…and then I painted the places I sanded so there will be good coverage under the hood…not the bare grease soaked boards that were there before I cleaned and painted it….and I ordered the last blind for the single kitchen window and that will be here next week just in time to hang it to complete the kitchen…should have the doors for the cabinets done and hung by then and will be working on the baseboards, walls, and ceiling…will probably do the door frames after everything else but I do need to sand the sides of them so I won’t mess up the grey paint on the walls…and I found out that I can get the range hood cheaper in store at depot than I can get it on Amazon so I can just go in and buy one when I’m ready for it…and that should be by the end of next week and I didn’t fill the mounting holes from the last one since it was a Broan like the black one I’m getting so I hope I just have to put screws in and hang it….but now, I’m done for the day and am going to watch football for a while and then I have the new Boba Fett Star Wars series out on plex to watch for the night…
Made some beef stir fry…
Well…it looks like I went overboard buying protein this week with getting almost 5 pounds of boneless skinless chicken along with 5 pounds of seasoned ranch steak along with a pound roll of breakfast sausage…and the weird thing is that the beef was cheaper than the chicken…and I bought that to make some beef/broccoli stir fry but I added a bag of stir fry veggies to it since I like lots of veggies in my stir fry…I was a little concerned that the seasonings and tenderizer in the beef wouldn’t go with the stir fry sauce I bought but it came out great… and I put 2 1/2 pounds in the freezer and will do the same with the 5 chicken breasts I have left over from cooking three of them Thursday….oh, and I bought some big pork ribs that were 40% off at Meijers since they were at their sell by date…I am going to try some of the seasoned ranch steaks tomorrow to see how they taste by themselves…the sauce they are in is pretty spicy and I like it…they might make a good sandwich and I may try that….it’s weird to have too much protein but it was nice to get the beef at 1.79 a pound…