Oh, ouch.

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Just waking here at 17:00.  A bit after.  Still a bit sore.  Achy.  Tired.  But awake enough to not be able to sleep more.  For now.  Though I won't be doing a lot of work today.  I would like to finish the laundry.  The white shirts out to be folded or hung, and the black shirts to finish in the dryer.  As well, I want to clear the dishes that are soaking, get those into the dishwasher.  Maybe finish the ones to be done by hand.  Then get a shower?  But that will be it, IF I can even do that much.

I pushed, strained things.  I hurt, ache in very new places.  I am exhausted, tired, even sleepy, just not enough to sleep more.  Then again, I can get from bottom to standing in a partial forward roll.  I'm nearing 60.  A year and change short.  But... close enough.  Find 60 year olds who can stand from down flat.  Not common.  Especially the nearly dead ones, like me.  And, on a day when I am pretty much shot from overexertion from several weeks of hard(er, for me) labor. 

The clothing racks are in.  And I have covers for them.  Now, though, it's a matter of making room for them.  I'm taking a few days off.  Working Friday and Saturday, if I have it correct.  Working in the bathroom.  Pulling the old vanity and mirror out, opening the wall to do some plumbing, adding a floor drain, pulling the old toilet.  It's in good shape, there is a charity sort of place that takes such.  It's good, just very small for me.  I have a replacement here.

The thing is, will be putting in new flooring, painting the room, adding one or two new medicine chests, either getting a new vanity or building floating shelves for in there, then adding one or two new sinks.  Though, that will depend on the estimates for putting in electrical for, and cost of, a tankless water heater in there.  That would really open up a lot of space.  Allowing, possibly for double sinks (which I already have, as well as fittings for them).  The real question is can the floating shelves be made strongly enough to support two sinks?  Dunno.  Will find out.

So... until then, I'm taking it slow, doing little things now and then.  But I'll need to be ready for whatever that takes.  Though I don't expect, with some help, that to be an excessively difficult set of tasks.

On the good side, even while exhausted, I can tell I am getting stronger.  My stamina is... a bit better.  Strength was good, might be slightly better, but really it was okay as was.  It was just stamina of which I had almost none.  I won't say it is killer stamina.  But, I can do a half hour, hour, even two hours, of hitting things, all at once.  I can even do that a few times a day.  Until... until I can't.  Which... currently... I can't.

Then again, to be absolutely fair, I have been hitting it for two, three weeks now?  And, even then, I will be doing bits of work daily, two or three half hour sessions?  Lighter duty, but still.  I may need long sleep sessions, too.  And more sitting rest, as required.  But... not bad.  Did I mention my kidneys are working at 17% (or... so the last test suggested).  Liver is a bit better, but not much.  Same with heart.  Even if the heart is doing better, by numbers, it was terribly damaged, and doesn't... work like it should, and hasn't for forty years.  What, exactly, do you expect from me?

I'm already doing miracles, just by continuing to breath. 

Blood sugar is 115 fasting.  Much better.  Though, I think the deal is?  My sleep schedule... I had pushed it around.  But, in truth, right now is (or should be) my normal waking time.  So... waking at six, or midnight, or whatever else, is when I should still be sleeping.  When I push my days and nights around, until that becomes normalized, my blood sugar IS off.  The stress of it, and that my blood sugar usually rises while I sleep, then drops at my normal waking time.  Stupid thing.  Weekly average is to 120 now.  Getting better.

Hmm... on to... something or other.  Feeding Sassy, tending the litter boxes, some tea.  Yes.  Later.