Well…that was a little better…didn’t get up til 5:22 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep so 5 hours or so is going to have to do it…and that does leave me a little slow today and I need to ease into it….man, I could take a nap right now…my stress levels are still at 11 and I think they will be until I pull back into my house after returning the truck on the 27th…I did get out to get a ride in yesterday and will today since it is going to be in the 30’s, but next week is going to be cold with highs in the teens so I won’t even be thinking about riding…got so cold yesterday that I was under a blanket the rest of the day after I got back here….I did have to run a bunch of errands yesterday but didn’t accomplish much and have some more to do today but not until later in the day…didn’t get anything done yesterday and I’m only going to pack today so it should be an easy one….man, this is too early, it will be an hour until the news comes out and I need to have more coffee…more later….

Well…damn, forgot to make the coffee last night for the first time in years so I am sitting here waiting for it to brew and that is not helping my mood one bit…slept crappy and woke up at 4:24 and could barely get back to sleep so I am worn out this morning…and this is the third day in a row that I haven’t slept well and that is getting annoying…just exhausted all day and I know I can’t keep this up…but, my heel is still getting better and I am almost walking normally again so I guess that’s something…didn’t get much done yesterday but shovel the snow but I have an errand to run this morning and need to get packing so I will get some stuff done today…but I still don’t have a lot of motivation right now with not having any coffee yet but I hope it gets better….more later…

Well….not sure if you know this or not, but in many people with migraines, the headaches are preceded by what are called auras in your vision that consist of sparkly zig zag lines that look like you’re looking through broken glass…I haven’t had one of those in many years but they came back this morning while I was reading the paper…and the strange thing is that I don’t get migraine headaches, just the auras…I remember the first time it happened and it completely freaked me out…thought I was having a stroke but now that I understand them and know that they will go away in 30 minutes or so, I can look at them with a little amusement…and they don’t really mean that there is anything wrong with you…they just are and can be caused by stress or extra caffeine or any number of other causes…and I have lots of stress and caffeine today…just a little weird is all….and shoveling snow is really a trip when they are happening…but they were gone before I finished so that was cool…

Well…running about on time for a Sunday and I just finished the paper so it’s time for this…I was just thinking about what my Sundays will be like when I move….I wonder if Muskegon has a newspaper or if I can get the GR press out there? Reading the Sunday paper has been a ritual for me since I was 7 or 8 years old  and I would like to continue to read a real paper…I guess I’ll have to check on that…tossed and turned a lot last night and got up around 6:30 so I do feel a little slow today and I was lazy and didn’t shovel the snow before I went out for the paper so that will make it a pain when I do go out…oh, well….I wonder how much snow Muskegon gets? Lots of lake effect stuff I bet…so there may be a snowblower in my future…didn’t get much done yesterday and all I have to do is continue packing so that will be the goal for the day…after I shovel that is….my heel is finally getting to the point that I can walk on it again with very little pain and that was a long time coming….the skin is still peeling off it so I think I’ll continue to treat it to make sure the cracks don’t come back….not much to do today…just packing and cleaning that I am going to get to after I have more coffee and watch the first race of the year, the 24 hours of Daytona that is on right now….more later….

Well…with almost getting to the end of the purchase project on the new house, I have been reflecting on the fact that this is going to be my last move before I die…and I think I want it to be more than just a move…maybe by including the few friends that I have left and making it a little bit of a party…I know my youngest son and his wife are in, and K and J have offered to help and J has a new pickup that would help…and Tom, maybe you’d like to come and hang out? Part of my thinking here is that I don’t know how much my back will take moving my big speakers and couch…the rest of it, I can handle since nothing is very heavy other than my matreses and box spring…so I think the move is going to happen on the 26th of February…and that will give me two weeks to clean up this house and get it ready for my son…then I settle in to the last house and relax for a bit…that’s going to be a long day and I can use the help….

Well…cripes, running really late this morning and I know what the reason is…had a few cocktails last night after taking the week off and I didn’t get out of bed until 7:30….I had almost forgotten how crappy I feel after a cocktail night and how much I need coffee to get over that and I’m sure I don’t like it so I’m glad I took the week off and I think I’m going down to two nights a week….just too hard on me and I don’t want to deal with that anymore….I did get out for a bike ride yesterday and I hope to get out again today since it felt good to finally get some exercise after a few days off….I do need to set the new bike up on the trainer when I move so I can ride every day and get my miles in…and I’m going to buy a weight machine so I can get back to getting toned every day, too, and that will be part of my fitness room that I am going to set up in the basement…didn’t get anything else done but run around and continue to work on getting the loan papers together so I can close in a couple of weeks….and today is going to be the same except for working on getting some packing done…lots of garbage bags for clothes and everything else….more later…

Well…that was a little better….didn’t get up til almost 5:30 and then decided to go back to bed and didn’t get up til 6:45 and that is as close to a full night’s sleep that I can ever expect…but, I still feel worn out today even with being good for a second night and I’m going to try for three tonight just to see if the effects are cumulative and will make me feel better as the days go on….I did get some stuff done yesterday and really do need to start throwing stuff away and getting packed…it looks like I’ll need to get a bigger truck this time since I filled a 10 foot box last time and I have a few more things this time since I am taking a dinette set, chair, and bookcase from here that I need and I could barely fit my stuff in a 10 foot last time….and it’s going to cost a bunch with having to go 40 miles on the move…oh, well…at least my heel is better to the point that I barely notice it…but I’ve gotten lax at treating it and need to do better to keep it from cracking again….not much to do today…need to go back to the bank to get the statement with my earnest check on it since it just posted last night and I need to get that to my mortgage guy…and I am going to try to get out on the bike today but it is still going to be cold and I am just not dealing with the cold this winter….more later….

Well…I guess sleeping only about 4 hours makes you kind of exhausted…who knew? And coffee works almost too good on the day after a no cocktail night and I was jittery all morning from it….but now I’m just worn out after re-grouting the bathroom where the grout had fallen out and it came out pretty good and cleaning some downstairs…I think part of it is the relieving of some of the stress that came from worrying about whether or not I was going to get the house or not…still have a couple of pieces of paper that the mortgage folks need but I can’t get those until they show up at my bank…I also wrote to my congressman to try to have them find out why I didn’t  get my 600 buck covid check since the website that was set up for people to check has been shut down and there is no way now to figure it out…and I don’t want to miss the next one…that two grand will buy me a lawnmower and washer for the new house and maybe even a snowblower…so I need to get that figured out….especially since they may have a couple more of the 2k checks and that would buy the new Miata almost….okay, that’s enough…I’m tired and am going to watch a little soccer….

Well…darn, another 2:54 morning for the first time up and then tossed and turned until 5:53 when I gave up and just got out of bed…but I know the reason is that I did a no cocktail night to start to get back into shape for the move and that is going to continue for a while until it becomes a habit again….still feel like I have a cold and that was one of the things I was trying to find out by taking the night off….but it could still be allergies they feel about the same…didn’t get much done yesterday but the grocery run…didn’t even get out on the bike since it never got out of the 20’s…I wonder where that warmer than normal winter that was predicted went? At least it hasn’t snowed as much as normal and there is no big event in the forecast for the next couple of weeks at least…we’ll see if I get out today…would like to just for the small amount of exercise it gives now….I have started to pack my stuff back up to get ready for the move but I don’t really have too much stuff…I am taking a lounge chair and bookcase that was here in the house since my son doesn’t want them and I can use a few things other than my couch…oh, and the small dinette set that is in the kitchen and that will fit in my small dining room quite well….not much to do today…just prep and the bike ride but that’s enough for now…more later….

Well…feel pretty lousy again today and I know part of it is only taking in 500 calories yesterday…just had a pork chop for lunch and nothing else for the rest of the day and I’m going to be paying for it all day today….I think I slept okay and didn’t get up til 6:30 but I still feel like I have a cold…lungs are filled with crap and my nose is plugged up and am exhausted…and I have the grocery run to do today but that’s it…signed the papers for the loan on the house yesterday and feel pretty good that I’m only paying 2.25% and that makes for a 350 dollar a month house payment and I can swing that pretty easily….now I just have to wait til I close on the deal in three weeks or so and I can start moving….I did get the house cleaned up yesterday and I had to shovel the snow twice so I am still sore from it…looks like I won’t have to do much today and I need a day like that to relieve the stress from everything going on….was really concerned I wouldn’t qualify for a loan with only SS for income but it all worked out….not much to do today…just the grocery run and no bike ride with the ice and slush on the roads…I may be able to relax a bit and that is welcome….more later…