Really tough day!

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I woke okay. I also woke with a world wide headache. I do not think it was, completely, the beer. I do not believe alcohol played more of a part than being a fast sugar fix. I had also had sugar at dinner, too much. And, I have been finishing off the sugary stuff purchased during my mother's visit. I think I toxed bad. I was moving too slow and harhsly to do more than suffer through my appointment and return home. It was also really hot today, though that may have been in part due to my reaction to the sugar spike. Very tough day. Thankfully, I am pretty much out of sugar. A few aspirin, well a handful of aspirin, well several handfuls, moving very slowly, and I am almost feeling human tonight.

I did a little straightening, made some late lunch and then late dinner, and have been watering the lawn. Little else could be done. I have not had a migraine this bad in a long while. Two straight doses of aspirin to begin to tame the thing. I had wondered if I was simply "out", so that the chiropractor work would fix it. I was really out, but that was not the whole picture. Yep, sugar high probably caused me to sleep too deep, thus still. You have to love it when you crash and then burn? Ha!

Something I noticed today was that I probably had worked pretty hard physically while my mother was here. Though I knew I worked long, I did not think any of the work was really hard. However, I see the muscle gain now a lot more plainly. As well, veins are now becoming much more apparent on my hands, forearms, and to a lesser degree on my upper arms. I would not say that I am now chiseled. But the gains are decent. I also note that I bruised myself extremely deeply shortly before my mother arrived. I did not really think it was much then, but the inner part of that bruise is just now blooming on my left forearm. It is coming out like a 4 to 5 inch dark rose. I still have no idea what I bumped into, dropped on it, or whatever.

I really have to dig in. I am taking a small handful of Tylenol tonight, going to bed a bit early, setting two alarms for no later than 8:30, and trying to get it in my mind to get up and get going tomorrow. I have business I want to tend. I need to find some pictures (of the front and back of my house) for the insurance company. I need to take those and a blank check to initiate automatic pay on insurance. I then want to go on in to Logan and talk to someone about changing my driver's license and voter information, and find out about the tax rebate and whether as a vet I have a tax exemption. I also need to pick up salt for the water softener. If I get most of that (insurance part is vital), and I return home with a little spit in my polish, I hope to move the dirt piles.

Hey, it might not happen. Simply put, life is hard and I am broken. But I have to keep the goals fresh, keep trying, and go at it when able. I have to assume I can dig in again tomorrow. It is all I have, today is gone. I know tomorrow will be hot again (though that may just be a sugar issue, or not?). I am hoping to have the weed whipping done soon too. And I need to get those big rocks moved to the front yard, or wherever. I am not sure, yet, what to do with the piles of branches and other such. But I might have figured out how to treat next years garden spots. The fellow who is cutting the alfalfa has not paid me for that yet. Instead of pay, I might ask if he could disc those areas, plowing in goat, chicken, horse, or such dung richly and deeply this fall. I cannot be sure the deal works to my advantage. But the truth is, with personal trades, it often simply comes down to "good enough". Horse trading comes with practice and use. Perhaps it would be a great deal, in "real terms", or not. But it is what I need and he already has the goods from my part. Wish me luck? On all of it.

Oh yeah, while I was shooting, I picked up 1k .22 long rifle and 400 .22 shorts (excellent at close range... quiet and accurate as heck). I may get another 1k before the month is out. As well, I picked up 12 medium sized boxes of strike anywhere matches, they were on sale. I had been looking for those anyway, and not finding them. So finding them, and lot of them, and then on sale... A no-brainer. I am keeping my eyes out for tradeables and usables. I have a heck of a collection, if there is a very eclectic and disordered nature to it. I just... do not have what it takes to run this thing with military precision. Come on, I have trouble knowing my name... or getting on simple projects, moving, or taking care of simple business. Honestly. I will get there.

I am going to hit it. For as easy a day as it has been, it has been one of the toughest days I have had in a long time. Good night.