Still Waiting
Filed under: America, Arizona, Scottsdale Arizona, Thoughts
We are still waiting to get full use of our Kitchen back. It’s 90% there, but the floor still has to be installed.
Personally, had it not been more or less completed under the coverage of our home owner’s policy, I think I would have taken a look at Elkay sinks to replace the sink that was in the house when I moved in 13 or so years ago.
I also would have replaced the counter tops as well. There is nothing wrong with them, they just don’t match the new cabinets, that replaced the old ones that had been damaged.
I’m one of those people who like things to go together.
Still waiting for the New Floor.
Waiting for the new floor to be installed in our Kitchen, has kept me in the mood for redesigning everything in our house. Inside and Out.
While I have been happy with the blinds, (shades) but as I look around I would sure like to take a peak at discount shades to see if there is something I would like.
It wouldn’t hurt to look.
End of the Week.
I wonder if there are books available that tell one how to deal with a Kitchen that has been torn up and all the food stuff and utensils in boxes.
I for one would have purchased one back on 5/28, that’s when we discovered a leak behind the kitchen sink Beginning the reconstruction of the kitchen cabinets.
This is the first time, that I remember being without a kitchen for so long. It’ has been an experience, some not so good, but we survived and it’s exciting as we start to use what a new kitchen.
Crazy Thoughts
Today, the old cabinets from the Kitchen are being torn out. The new one have been sitting on our patio since yesterday, and I have to tell you they look good. I can’t wait until they are installed.
Right this minute there are boxes and bags all over the living room and dinning room with the stuff that was in the cabinets in the kitchen. Leaving little room for me to even sit down in a chair up there.
So what do I do? Well with a reunion for KRUX coming up at the end of August, and the fact that I was told that the High School I went to here in Arizona is planning something for later in the year, I have been thinking about those years.
As a teenager, I had a few years that I was “blessed” with acne. I know back then I used what I thought was the best acne cleanser and cleaned it right up. Today, my skin is what I would call “average”. Not bad for a 6’4″, 275 lbs, almost 67 year old former Radio/Television Announcer.
They have always got there hands out for More.
Let me get right to the point, no matter whether they are holding office in a city government, one in a state government, or in our Federal Government, it sure seems to me, the one thing that you can always count on is that they will always be asking for more of our money.
This week alone I have been asked to pay close to a Thousand Dollars just to attend a party for an individual running for state office.
A few moments ago I received an email asking me to donate to the Arizona Governor and the states fight against the Federal Government over SB 1070. I support SB1070 but just where am I going to come up with money, as Federal Taxes are soon to go up, State taxes have already gone up, our utilities are holding steady but will soon go up thanks to cap and tax. Even though I have done every thing I can to make our house more “Green” and use less water and power.
Oh let me not forget that there has been a cut in the medicare payments that I paid for every year I was employed beginning back in 1966 trough 2005 when I had to retire. But now when I’m eligible for the program I paid into, the payments are being cut.
I’m not happy with those in Government, left or right. The left under Obama want to bring this country down. The right, I’m still trying to figure that out, but I know that their welfare comes long before the American Taxpayers.
If I have to pay taxes, I will grumble, but I will pay them, ask for any thing else, Karen’s first, then ME……Put you hand back in your pocket.
It’s all in my mind.
I find that my mind can produce it’s own phentremene . I love to eat. Always have, always will. At 13, standing 6’4″ and maybe 175, I can remember being told by my family Doctor that I would never have to worry about gaining weight.
Well, in my mid twenties, working on the radio and really not being that active physically, I gain weight. A lot of it.
But as I said, I can drop weight when I want, by just saying to myself….”Self, it’s time to cut back on what you eat”.
And 9 0ut of 10 times….IT WORKS!
At it Again.
Yesterday at lunch I asked that the Bun that came with the Blackened Chicken Sandwich be left off. I do this several times a year and sit back and watch the weight fall off. Less Bread to me is one of the best weight loss products available.
I guess you would call it “Will Power”. If I can just at the same time cut out drinking Cokes by the dozens every day. I would again be one skinny dude.
Things I should think about?
As I approach my birthday in August, should I be thinking about an abs workout ?
As I mentioned in my last post, I have trouble walking. I would guess that’s because I really do not take the time to get out of the house and do even a little walking. If I did on a daily basis, I’m sure my troubles in that area would come down.
I don’t have a beautiful male body, no matter how you look at it, not through rose colored glasses, not after several hours of drinking. Let’s be honest, I just don’t have a great bod.
But I do give great phone.
I had forgotten about it.
Our patio has turned into an storage area while they are in the process of rebuilding our kitchen where we had found a water leak.
I went out this morning, and there to my surprise was a leather Briefcase . I vaguely remember putting it out there, but that was some time ago. It’s from the days when I lived and was working in Florida. Considering that I have not put it in a box or ever covered it up, it’s in great shape. It’s not that it’s been exposed to the occupational rain, it’s been under the Patio cover next to the back wall of the house with a large box sitting on top of it. So I guess you could say it has been Protected.
Same token, I had completely forgotten about it.
Something that works.
If you have followed my blogs, here and on www.normradio.com, you know that I have been battling a weight problem.
I have brought it down a great deal in the past few years, lately though, I find my weight is up one week, only to be down the next.
Phentermine, would most likely work. I however have found something as effective, at least in my book, having the kitchen sink spring a leak and have the counters torn out, leaving absolutely no place to prepare a meal.
There isn’t even enough room to make a Peanut Butter Sandwich.
I wonder if I could live on bags of Potato Chips….?
