{"id":236,"date":"2014-09-14T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puuikibeach.com\/chamberofchaos\/?p=236"},"modified":"2014-09-14T17:05:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T03:05:01","slug":"day-fifty-two-not-fully-recovered-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chamberofchaos.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"DAY FIFTY-TWO: Not Fully Recovered, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not yet fully recovered from the lingering cold that has been plaguing me for two solid weeks, but at least most of the sinus congestion has cleared up. A nagging, deep cough continues to bother me and my energy levels are low. Nevertheless, I puttered away at a few little projects today.<!--more-->I scrubbed and caulked the inside of a kitchen cabinet, one where the trash bin is stored. It was pretty disgusting, with quite a bit of cockroach and mouse droppings. I scrubbed it out with Comet cleanser and then sealed up all the cracks and crevices in the corners with painter&#8217;s caulk. This is one more project I should have taken care of years ago. The kitchen cabinets are low-grade pressboard with flimsy plywood backs and sides that flex under pressure. If we end up staying in the house I think a kitchen upgrade will be high on the list of priorities&#8230; and expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Then I shuffled junk around in The Room of Doom. I packed away the thirteen &#8220;crystal skulls&#8221; \u2013 those would be the crystal skulls that saved the world from the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse \u2013 as I won&#8217;t be needing them for another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/12\/20\/167626648\/maya-expert-the-end-of-times-is-our-idea-not-the-ancients\" target=\"_blank\">thirteen bak&#8217;tun cycles<\/a>; or at least, a row of grinning lifesize skulls might put off potential buyers if we actually ever put the house on the market.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I finish typing this entry I&#8217;m going to try to sort through some boxes and get some more stuff pulled out for a yard sale. The next yard sale is tentatively planned for the coming weekend. I do hope I am feeling better by then. Then I hope to get to bed reasonably early before starting another miserable work-week tomorrow morning when the alarm sounds at 5:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m feeling less woozy and exhausted than I have in weeks, I&#8217;ll quickly address the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puuikibeach.com\/chamberofchaos\/?p=158#more-158\" target=\"_blank\">100 Days Goals List<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the house ready for a real-estate appraisal and possible listing for sale\n<ul>\n<li>Complete structural and aesthetic repairs, like painting and patching \u2013 <em>multiple rooms still require painting; several spaces need patching and touch-up prior to painting; lots of cleaning and painting outside, including reinforcing the deck; kitchen cabinets need to be stained and varnished.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Clean out the clutter! \u2013 <em>no matter how much I take out, the existing stuff expands to fill the space. I disassembled and removed an entire piano \u2013 you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d have some floor space in The Room of Doom by now, but no!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Resume exercising\n<ul>\n<li>Lose weight \u2013 45 to 50 pounds (starting from 195) \u2013 <em>still at 195 &#8211; 197 pounds; eating and drinking lots of sugary junk to get through the work days while I&#8217;m sick.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>increase cardio endurance (run ultra distances) \u2013 <em>this cold has settled in my lungs. Even minor exertion results in heavy sweating and heavy breathing. No, not in a good way.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pay off my credit cards &#8211; <em>no progress. Money from my few recent eBay sales goes to gas for driving to work.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Find or create a new career &#8211; <em>no progress<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a living at a job I don&#8217;t hate<\/li>\n<li>Make more money than I do now<\/li>\n<li>Have as much or more free time as I do now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Write and publish eBook novels on Amazon (and other formats) &#8211; <em>no progress<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Start a blog\n<ul>\n<li>Post daily for 100 days &#8211; <em>Currently at Day 52; quite a few posts have been two word &#8220;I&#8217;m sick&#8221; updates.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Figure out how to make it look cool<\/li>\n<li>Decide if blogging is worth pursuing longer-term<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, my car, a 2002 PT Cruiser, is leaking coolant so badly I can no longer drive it to work. I am now driving my spouse&#8217;s 1997 Suzuki Sidekick. At least the Suzuki runs, but it has so many rusty holes in the roof and body panels that rain runs in, and the engine makes a piercing squealing noise when starting up \u2013 I think the air conditioning compressor is seizing up. I don&#8217;t have the money or the space on my credit cards to have my car looked at, let alone repaired. I suspect the problem is the water pump, which is <em>inside <\/em>the engine, and would cost about a thousand dollars to fix.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, fifty days in, I&#8217;m actually in <em>worse <\/em>shape than when I started; house repairs aren&#8217;t finished, we have not had a real estate agent look at the house yet, my decluttering efforts have been ineffective, and now my car is an immobile hunk of junk in the driveway, currently serving as a storage bin for yard sale items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not yet fully recovered from the lingering cold that has been plaguing me for two solid weeks, but at least most of the sinus congestion has cleared up. A nagging, deep cough continues to bother me and my energy levels are low. 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