Everyday Randomness

When I curled up in bed with Hubby at midnight and drifted off to sleep with almost no effort I should have known it was too good to be true. I slept well at first, but I woke up at 4:30 am wide awake. That’s the second night in a row I’ve woken up from a deep sleep a little after 4 hours with no possible way to go back to sleep.

I laid there tossing and turning for an hour trying my best to fall back asleep, but my mind just doesn’t seem to be no where near as tired as my body.

UGH!

I guess I’ll take some more time snooping around Ebay before Hubby wakes up for work. Last night I sat here for 3 hours making sure I won a bidding war for the subframe we need to fix the bike. It’s a $400 part that I got for $85 including shipping in almost perfect condition, so it was well worth it.

There’s only 1 more major part we need that’s super expensive, and that’s the front forks. Just the tubes themselves without all the internals are almost $500 each from the dealership. Add up the internals and that’s another $300-400 for each fork…and we have to replace both of them. One of them snapped in half, and the other is bent horribly.

I’m watching an auction for a full set right now including the lower triple tree and all internals that’s sitting at $14.50 with 10 hours left. I know the price will jump up, especially since they’re off a bike with only 1500 miles, but if I can grab them for less than $500 I’ll be happy. That would be a steal.

Once we have the subframe and front forks in hand, the rest of the parts are pocket change compared to those. Besides we can’t do anything on the bike until we receive at least one of those parts. When the subframe comes in we’ll be able to start the rear conversion, and if we get the forks we can start putting the front end back together. Without the forks we can’t do shit to the front end.

I’m pretty much paying for everything up front, but our friend/my cousin who wrecked the bike will be paying us for everything in the end. We wrote up an agreement and had it notarized saying he’ll pay for everything over about a 6 month period. I know he can’t afford to hand me the cash right now, but he’s being a man and stepping up. I’ve got to give him props for that. I mean if he didn’t make things right after what he did I would never speak to him again, family or not, but I know a lot of people who would try to weasel their way out of it.

Right now I’m just keeping a print out of everything I buy from Ebay, and I’ve started a folder that will house all the receipts. As he gives me cash, I’ll check off what’s been paid for, so at least having to completely rebuild an otherwise totaled out bike isn’t really going to kill my pocket in the long run…and it’s still thousands cheaper than him having to pay off what we owe.

We spent a good bit of time up at the pasture today helping my dad. Even though tomorrow is Memorial Day we’ll be back at it again. He spent all weekend cutting, and we’ve got to get the hay bailed and put up before it rains later this week.

I also found out I get to do something super cool that I haven’t done since I was a kid. He’s got a 3 month old calf that’s being bottle fed. The mom died during birth, so the only hope for this little boy is to bottle feed him. My dad is friends with the teacher who’s in charge of the 4H club at the high school, so for the last 3 months the 4H club has been taking care of him, feeding him, and getting a great learning experience.

Now that there’s only a couple days left of school the calf is back in my dad’s pasture, and we’re all going to be chipping in to keep him fed and cared for. Feeding him will mainly be my job over the next month because my dad will be going out of town. I was going to take some photos of him tonight, but it was too dark by the time we got to the pasture. We’ll be up there at least half the day tomorrow, so I’ll definitely get some photos. He’s a cute little thing!

The school kids named him “Baby”, but we’re trying to come up with something else. Growing up my sister and I named all of the calves, and we grew close to a lot of them. We each picked out “our calves”, and those were the ones my dad never sold. This little boy will be the first one I’ve really dealt with in years, and he’s already said he’ll spend his life in his pastures.

Even though I’ve been running my legs off today I’m just not tired. I’ve got more energy than I know what to do with right now. I’m thinking it’s because I’ve felt pretty crappy the last couple weeks, and now I finally feel much better. Now I just don’t want to sit still. Too bad it’s, ya know, midnight, so there’s nothing to do except clean! Ugh, and we all know I really don’t want to clean!

Honestly my heart is kind of racing, and I feel like I used to feel when I took diet pills in college. It’s the same feeling I get when I drink an energy drink. That’s why I don’t drink them.

Hmmm…I wonder if Fenphedra would make my heart race like those old diet pills used to do.

Hubby and I planned to be as lazy as possible today, but you know how that goes. The day you want to be lazy is the day you end up running your legs off. We’ve been going practically all day. When we did finally get home he took off to work on the bike some, and I decided it’s time to finally sit down for some blogging.

I really don’t have too much to say right now except I think this is one of maybe a handful of times I’ve mentioned how crappy the gas prices are. We live in one of the cheapest areas of the nation as far as gas is concerned, but we’re still paying between $3.75-3.90 depending on the gas station.

I think today was the first time it really hit me how bad things are getting. On our way back from meeting up with my dad at one of his hay fields the gas light came on. I pulled into the gas station that’s a couple miles from our house, and since it’s a little more expensive there at $3.87, we threw $10 in the tank so we’d have enough to get home and head back out in the morning.

Hubby laughed at the fact that $10 wasn’t enough to make the gas light turn off on the Blazer.

I just can’t find anything comical about that. It’s really a sad state this country is living in right now. Both of my Grandmas have treadmills, so I think it’s about time I start borrowing one a few days a week. Looks like I might need to get myself back in shape for that long walk I’m going to have to town and back if gas prices don’t come down soon!