Well it’s Sunday again, and the first Monday of the new year is tomorrow. And the next long weekend isn’t until May:( Oh well, I can’t complain too much. The project that I was supposed to get done by the 6th was completed last year (ha ha). So all I really need to do tomorrow is to get my hours in for December and we’re good to go.

I did good today, did 2 miles on the treadmill to make sure I’m getting my steps in, got laundry done AND put away as well as changed the sheets and cleaned the bedroom. That’s the only way I know to make the Sunday blues a little more tolerable. I’m going to try to get on a schedule tomorrow, getting up and doing a 15-minute session on the treadmill in the AM. As I start my first new year as a non-smoker, it’s time to step it up a notch in regards to getting into shape.

We got a good walk in mid-morning, it’s a good thing we did, it was about 70 then and it’s down to 50 just a few hours later, it’s supposed to go down to 21 tonight, yuck…
I tried to make ghee for the first time in my life today, it’s basically melting butter and I’m not sure what it’s good for I’ve heard good things about it. If it turns out well I’ll go ahead and post the recipe. A good start to the year, and I’m still looking forward to the things to come.

2021 is at a close and it’s time to bid a fond (or not so fond) farewell to the old year and welcome in 2022, I like it better already, easier to type:)

Well, it’s coming up to the last day of 2021. I still don’t have my money for the house so I imagine it will be tomorrow, if not I won’t have to deal with taxes for a year, should have done that in the first place. I’m going to try to do some more work on myself in the new year, I need to get more into shape now that the cigarettes are in the rearview.

Today is the day, the house on Billie Ruth is gone. I’ll walk away with enough to pay off Bedford Ct and I’ll trade two mortgages for one property paid in full.

I guess looking back over the last 15 years I’ve owned it, I’ve only really lived there 2 years, the rest of the time it was empty or a rental. I guess I could have kept it for a rental but the neighbors to the south, ugh. Oh well. Supposedly it went to a woman buyer which means it will I left it as I found it when I bought it from my sister. It will clean up really nicely and a privacy fence on the south property line will fix it up well. It sold for $210k and I think I bought it for $88k and now I own the house I bought for $120k and it’s work $300k…

Now I just need the price of land to bottom out like my stock picks and we’re good to go!

I guess that would be a good thing if there weren’t any more scheduled for next year but I don’t believe that’s the case.

Went for a walk today to see the progress on the Hurstview bridge. Slowly coming along. Sandy said she couldn’t believe how long it was taking but I was thinking since there’s a quick detour and it’s not vitally important that it stays open, why not take your time, it’s not an emergency.

Beautiful weather today, 80 and sunny, just what you expect for December 27th LOL.

In other grimmer news, Grace has Covid. I was like oh no, they’re vaccinated right? Wrong, that whole crew isn’t vaxed. Ugh, you can’t fix stupid and I’m happy the stupid are dying, I just don’t want family to be stupid, dead, I meant dead…

So I’ve become worse at dealing with crowds, or maybe it’s just people. I did get completely out of my comfort zone on a recent trip to Sam’s club but I did it. But this morning is more my normal speed. 3 am is a great time to fill up the vehicles at the 24-hour pay-at-the-pump neighborhood Walmart. So $150 later and the Xterra is full and so are both tanks on the truck. Should be good to go for hauling the RV up to Davids for Saturday night.

So everything requires maintenance, well everything man-made anyways. My office chair squeaks, it didn’t when I first got it, but over time, it started to. I honestly didn’t notice until the other night when I did my usual get up in the middle of the night and get some work done, alone and the only one awake I heard it, and then I couldn’t hear anything else. I sprayed, lubed, and tightened but it still squeaked. So last night I took it into the garage and overdosed it with WD-40, that did the trick, and no squeak today. I guess the moral is to keep trying to fix the things you don’t like, you’ll eventually get it…

The shortest day of the year is here, the start of winter, the winter solstice. While we know that the days will now start to get longer, who knows what the weather will prove to be. I’ve gone ahead and started stalking up while the sun is still shining. Exchanged 2 propane tanks the other day and I think that gives me 3 full and 3 partial, probably a month’s worth of heat in the RV. Hit Sam’s club today and picked up another 6 cases of water giving us 7 in rotational storage. And I’ll fill the gas tanks up on the truck and Xterra. The 50-gallon tank on the back of the truck would power the generator for about 7 days while running the RV so good to go there. Enough food to last a month, even if it is old beans and rice. Not sure what nature has in store this year but we’re as prepared as we can be.

I’m not a huge fan of Sundays, it’s not that I have anything against the day on its own but its placement in the week means that it’s Monday’s predecessor and that’s enough to taint its usually good name.
I actually read an article saying that this is a thing and was rather shocked as I believed I was the only one suffering this affliction. To celebrate this revelation I registered the domain name sundayangst.com although I have yet to figure out what to do with it.
I probably should have gone to the church musical today but I got up too late and I’m behind pretty big time on my studies so I’m going to hit the books and see if I can’t make up some time.