Gee when I said I didn’t think I’d be around for a few days I didn’t mean to come down with a flu bug! I’ve been stuck inside for days laid up in bed doing nothing but watching tv, sleeping, and working from bed when I felt up to it. I caught up on a few episodes of Super Bikes! I’ve missed, so at least something good came out of it. I still feel like crap, but at least I feel like getting out of bed to get something done. I’ve been so restless, and it’s driven me crazy.

I told Hubby if nothing else I was going to at least get some laundry and dishes done, and most likely I’ll Lysol the bathroom again. At least then I’ll feel like I’ve accomplished something, and if I get to feeling too down again I’ll go back to sleep. It won’t be hard to fall asleep with all this rain falling today.

I don’t want to go back to bed though. I’ve got a list a mile long of things I want to get done over the next few days. For starters I still have to pull the Christmas tree out. Then I need to do a search for cheap auto insurance. It’s been awhile since I compared quotes. We’re currently with Nationwide for the Blazer, and I hate it. I hated Progressive for auto, too, but not as bad as I hate Nationwide. We’re only with Nationwide because Hubby has a crappy driving record, and it was the cheapest we could get for the full coverage we have to keep on the Blazer. Luckily the bike insurance is with Progressive, and that just dropped another $30.

I’m sorry if you don’t see me around here over the next few days. My sleep schedule is totally screwed up again, and that means I feel horrible. I’ve also still got a sore throat lingering that doesn’t want to go away, and it’s driving me crazy.

Hubby tried to wake me up around 5:30pm. We were supposed to go help my dad transplant a few fruit trees he needs to move so he can move his fence line. He’s got a couple small apple trees he wants to move before they get too big to move, and I know there are a few wild Plum trees that may need to be moved as well. Hubby woke me up and told me it was still raining, so we wouldn’t need to meet up with my Dad toady. That’s all I needed to hear, so I drifted back off to sleep and slept until 10pm. Then I laid in bed for a good hour watching tv because my body just didn’t want to move.

Even though I slept 10 hours I really feel like I need to go back to bed.  A couple days each month I have some health issues that will put me in bed for anywhere from 12 hours to a couple days, and this has been one of the rougher months.

Sit tight.  Hopefully this will be over soon, and I can get back to normal posting.  Right now I just don’t have the energy to sit here to do research for my blogs.

While it’s extremely cold outside for most of us, and we don’t even want to think about A/C, let’s take a time out from bikes to talk about auto air conditioning for a minute. Did you know that the winter is the absolute perfect time to get the air conditioning in your car checked and fixed? It’s a great time to do minor maintenance on things like this or to fix a system that isn’t working. You don’t want your A/C to die in the middle of the summer when it’s seriously hot out, and you definitely don’t want to spend another summer without A/C if it’s already quit on you.

I know how horrible it can be to spend a summer without A/C. When the A/C compressor went out in my Saturn we couldn’t afford to have it fixed. We were ok until the sunroof quit working, but then things just got miserable. After that I swore I would never spend another summer without A/C again.

If my A/C were to die right now I’d definitely start looking for the parts on 1airconditioning.com. Not only is it cheaper to purchase your own parts in most cases, but 1airconditioning.com has parts offers free shipping and a warranty just in case the part happens to go bad on you.

I still haven’t had the time or cash to purchase a new card reader yet, but I did take some more photos of the bike today.  As soon as I have a chance to get those uploaded I’ll create a photo album just for them.  I really need to sort through all of our bike photos anyway.  Hubby asked me to create him a bike album on his domain a few months ago.  I got a few photos uploaded, ran out of time, and completely forgot about it until now.  If I have time tonight I might get to work organizing that into something I can share.  If I do I’ll add the link here for anyone who’s interested.  If not, I’ll eventually get to it.