Hey we finally made it to the weekend. Hello again Saturday you son of a gun, where have you been hiding at? I love Saturdays they are the best day of the weekend, your done with the work week and it’s your first day of freedom. Sunday your still free but eventually if you’re like me you start thinking about heading back to work and get depressed.
Anyway, I broke open the foam and found that I ordered way too much once I got to applying it. The gap that I applied it to wasn’t nearly as wide as it looked, which is both good & bad. Now I have a ton of spray foam and nothing to do with it. There is a white decorative wooden post on the front porch that the gutter is attached to. I found early in the year that part of it was rotting. I opted to inject some foam into it. What I didn’t know is that it was hollow and I wound up with foam coming out of the bottom. It looks horrible now but I am stuck with it. Worse yet, it’s orange foam so it’s not like I can hide it. SOB.
After about an hour I opted to go back out and tackle the clogged gutter. I purchased a gutter cleaning extension pole that hooks up to the hose and blasts water, so you don’t need a pressure washer and can stay off a ladder. I figured this was a great buy considering last time I fell off the ladder twice. It was a great buy but I think it only got part of the job done. Water is flowing out of the gutter but clearly there is still some obstruction and I need to get up on a ladder to find out what is going on. I am hesitant but once I do climb up, I am putting what I refer to as chicken wire, to help keep debris out in the hopes that I won’t endlessly be cleaning the damn thing.
I got next to ivy, which I think is poison ivy and something managed to get in my eye. Not to mention the mosquitoes still love me. When I was done, I got undressed (as in naked) in the garage. Don’t worry the door was down, I am not the neighborhood streak. Although I do think my neighbors know that I like to walk around my house in the nude in the morning and evening. Once I was undressed, it was inside and into the shower. Cold water never felt so good. I was hot and it didn’t help that Gator came in and was meowing at the shower curtain because she was hungry. I had to splash some water on her to get her to go away. Then listen to her express how hurt her feelings were. Honestly, I didn’t much care I was more interested in getting clean and hopefully washing any oil from the ivy off of me. Every itch I have now concerns me but I’ll know soon enough if I have it or not. I am hoping for not.
After the shower I got Gator & Marv their lunch. Then grabbed an ice-cold Diet Mt. Dew and sat in my chair to cool down. Eventually, I wound up in bed and tried to take a nap. My blood sugar fell since I didn’t have anything for lunch and I was really close to passing out. I ate some chips n salsa but that didn’t do it. So, I devoured what was left of the awful red velvet cake I bought. That did the trick but it took a little bit of time before I was back to feeling 100%. I rested some more in my chair and then got up and started moving.
Before leaving I remembered that I had a coupon for the pet food store. It was 10% off for an order of $40 or more. I left it at home and said I don’t spend that on food. Yeah well don’t you know my bill was $42. I have no luck. I grabbed my mail and prescription. I wanted to grab a bite to eat but considering the cake I had about an hour earlier I chose to head home. Several hours later I had a frozen dinner that wasn’t the greatest, but it did provide some nourishment. The kids [Marv & Gator] got their supper.
I am here in the dungeon of a basement, where I spent most of my days working. Only now I am catching up on personal stuff like paying bills, getting my old phone ready to ship and blogging.
I had a change of heart about trading in my old phone with my carrier, only because I found they aren’t going to give me but $60 when Gazelle will give me more. Needless to say, I am going with Gazelle because I like and need money. The new phone is all up and running fine. I got my tempered glass applied and grabbed a new Mophie. The battery life on this new phone is just amazing, when my old phone would drain in nothing flat, this new thing is like the Energizer Bunny, it keeps going and going and going. I will be going days in between charges instead of having to charge it every night. That will take some getting used to but I like it.
Tomorrow is grocery shopping day, house cleaning and general last day to relax and unwind before I go back to the bump & grind. Ah well it occupies my mind and time. I have put in for some vacation and am waiting on approval. I won’t be going anywhere but to the doctor and maybe the hospital for a blood draw. Outside of that it will be a staycation considering the current events of the world.
I read a post on FB from a childhood friend who is now a teacher. He thinks were all cowering to the virus and afraid of it. Yeah, I kind of am, considering I have multiple risk factors and can get it more easily than the average person. In any event his point was that he wants to go back to teaching in the classroom and thinks that we should all just be brave. Yeah okay, you be brave go back to the classroom, just make me your beneficiary. I understand wanting to go back to “normal” I think we all want that but now is not the time and August won’t be the time. We have a fundamental flaw in that our leadership is incompetent and incapable of handling this crisis. Until someone with a brain is in charge and we just push pause, go back to lockdown and start over and much more slowly re-open. Get a vaccine for this and/or more rapid treatment then and only then will it be safe for everyone to go back to normal. If you want to engage in risky behavior and ignore the guidance that the scientific community has suggested well then, I think you deserve what you get and there’s no sympathy from me. You do you and I’ll do me. I think unless I self-destruct from going insane from being isolated, that I’ll be here for many more years to come, while others won’t because they did a dumb thing.
I know that I likely have some new readers and I am not a political person; I tend to keep that out of my blog but right now COVID-19 has upended the world and its part of my reality as it is yours. With the moron we have in charge and how badly he has fucked up our country and how many needless people have died from this, all because someone doesn’t know how to handle a pandemic, I can’t help but express my utter frustration and disappointment. Those probably aren’t strong enough words but I am angry like many other people. At the end of the day I just want my “normal” life back. I think if we had more competent leadership that the picture, we look at today would be vastly different.
Goodnight for now. I hope that your doing well and staying cool in this hot summer heat. Be safe and well. Take good care of you because you’re the only you that you have. No one else can be you but you!
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