So a bit of hope for getting back into a routine of riding 1-3 mornings a week before going to work. But both days I was really late getting to work and have been dragging quite a bit at work so I have got to get that fixed. I am hopefully past the jigsaw habit. I actually pulled a couple up and went, nah this is not that fun in the last week.
I wanted to spread at least some of my grass and clover seed last weekend and I could not find the damn little broadcast spreader thing mom had bought. I know I've seen it multiple times looking for other things over the last couple of years. Argghhh I hate when this happens to me. It's a big motivator for even doing the de-cluttering efforts. "remove junk so I can find useable stuff when I am looking for it" Oh well I guess I'll web search for makeshift seed spreaders.
I've been thinking for two months "sheesh I need to get a burn permit. Finally pulled up the website yesterday and no burning Nov to March 31 anyway so I lost no time with that. The bad news is I can't burn this weekend. I may try to burn in the morning on Monday. I really want to get rid of a bunch of cardboard and paper sacks etc in the garden shed and the feed room.
I found out DSW shoe shop in Westminster will take donated shoes so I can try to get a bunch of mom's shoes cleaned up and take them in there.
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Harumphy hump day
Ok its just a typical crabby day for me. I'm behind on doing my taxes and have to call the #*#& IRA outfit to get some tax form because I mis-typed my password or maybe didn't have the latest one written down. Argghh, I should not have to mess with top security to get a stupid statement for taxes. I shouldn't have any but last year I screwed up and put $40 too much into 2017 catch up fund when I thought an email to have some money put in had disappeared. I took $40 out 1 or 2 days later when I realized what happened but I suppose the damn market picked that 1-2 period to go up. What a PITA this trying to be extra responsible for retirement has been.
Because I'm annoyed at myself for not taking care of this already plus not taking care of faxing form to stupid oil company to direct deposit those dabs (hanging fire for weeks now) I'm projecting onto the world and annoyed at work whenever I ask about something and the responsible person comes with "I dunno, I think so&so that left did that"m or some other lame ass deflection, and I'm annoyed at home because dad is creaky, old, and seems to sleep an awful lot. Maybe I should nag him about his diet, but if he won't change how he eats when his doctor tells him I don't think he's going to take dietician advice from his kid. And I don't know what I'd tell him. I don't want to try to come up with paleo/keto/Atkins meals and snacks for him to eat. *IF* he was asking me to make it easier for him I'd have him try the "Carbohydrate Addicts" plan (you can have whatever sugary or flour filled goodness you want, but only during 1 hour a day and rest of day eat only low carb things. or just do the IF like I do; my *fasts* are 16-18 hours M-F and I take weekends off. I need to cut back on the stuffing my face on weekends. If I did that, maybe I'd look like a better role model, but dad would still probably stuff his face with candy throughout the day.
I got myself on a computer app jigsaw kick and am having to break that habit because it was cutting into work time plus mousing the pieces around gets hard on my neck/shoulders/forearms. I have been having to fight the urge now on day 2 after telling myself I have to just stop cold turkey since the # of puzzles I wanted to do ramped up. I don't even know why doing them seems so mentally soothing. I suppose any task that takes just a bit of attention w/o requiring serious thought fills that role; its just too bad that I start thinking I need that soothing more and more frequently. Just doing work stuff should suffice but there is a huge tension at work with new boss wanting everything python and super object oriented and I can barely understand anything he has written because his OO style makes things so obscure.
I rode Tanza again on Sunday. He is funny sometimes. The one place we go that only has a single track trail had snow over the trail and icky gopher dug soft spots off the trail where the snow had melted so I asked him to go through the snow where the trail was. He was pretty good about doing that but then on the way home he got silly about any spots where snow drifts came within a foot of where we were walking on the road. I call it the arabian horse ghost stories effect. When its just routine, like coming the last 1/2 mile home and being asked to just walk and cool down a bit they start telling themselves ghost stories and jumping at every shadow.
Because I'm annoyed at myself for not taking care of this already plus not taking care of faxing form to stupid oil company to direct deposit those dabs (hanging fire for weeks now) I'm projecting onto the world and annoyed at work whenever I ask about something and the responsible person comes with "I dunno, I think so&so that left did that"m or some other lame ass deflection, and I'm annoyed at home because dad is creaky, old, and seems to sleep an awful lot. Maybe I should nag him about his diet, but if he won't change how he eats when his doctor tells him I don't think he's going to take dietician advice from his kid. And I don't know what I'd tell him. I don't want to try to come up with paleo/keto/Atkins meals and snacks for him to eat. *IF* he was asking me to make it easier for him I'd have him try the "Carbohydrate Addicts" plan (you can have whatever sugary or flour filled goodness you want, but only during 1 hour a day and rest of day eat only low carb things. or just do the IF like I do; my *fasts* are 16-18 hours M-F and I take weekends off. I need to cut back on the stuffing my face on weekends. If I did that, maybe I'd look like a better role model, but dad would still probably stuff his face with candy throughout the day.
I got myself on a computer app jigsaw kick and am having to break that habit because it was cutting into work time plus mousing the pieces around gets hard on my neck/shoulders/forearms. I have been having to fight the urge now on day 2 after telling myself I have to just stop cold turkey since the # of puzzles I wanted to do ramped up. I don't even know why doing them seems so mentally soothing. I suppose any task that takes just a bit of attention w/o requiring serious thought fills that role; its just too bad that I start thinking I need that soothing more and more frequently. Just doing work stuff should suffice but there is a huge tension at work with new boss wanting everything python and super object oriented and I can barely understand anything he has written because his OO style makes things so obscure.
I rode Tanza again on Sunday. He is funny sometimes. The one place we go that only has a single track trail had snow over the trail and icky gopher dug soft spots off the trail where the snow had melted so I asked him to go through the snow where the trail was. He was pretty good about doing that but then on the way home he got silly about any spots where snow drifts came within a foot of where we were walking on the road. I call it the arabian horse ghost stories effect. When its just routine, like coming the last 1/2 mile home and being asked to just walk and cool down a bit they start telling themselves ghost stories and jumping at every shadow.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Got some vitamin H yesterday
The weather was kind and it stayed sunny and not windy past noon so I was able to enjoy a pleasant ride on Tanzaknight yesterday. Did my soul a lot of good. I am still feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the "I should get this done" tasks but most of them are not urgent. I also got Diamond's front feet trimmed up. I had trimmed his hinds a week and a half ago. I did one front foot on Mojo and need to get him finished up. Frosty's feet don't look as bad but I should try to get him done within 2 weeks.
Saturday, March 9, 2019
March madness
I don't follow basketball either college or NBA. But March madness sounds better than grumpy grinchy bitch session. It was cold for quite a while so just filled water troughs, no dumping them. Its plenty warm this weekend and I could have dumped the minis tank earlier but figured it is so warm it would matter that the heater element is in air cuz it wont need plugged in tonight. So DAD decided to be helpful and top it off when he fed them tonight but without bothering to dump it.
I know he is old and and hobbling, but I am so annoyed that he didn't use his head and just leave it till I dumped it tomorrow. Crazy level of frustration for something that is not all that big of a deal. I suppose I'm bummed because I wasn't smart enough to change my plans and ride early today while it was nice and it is not going to be as warm tomorrow vs being nicer tomorrow like was forecast. And just generally feeling grump about realities of living with a 79 year old redneck, even though I take some pride in my own redneck style.
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