Monday - evening

Not sure where I left off last, but here we are starting a fresh week, tho this one is nearly behind me.  I'm nearly pushing myself into the next size up pants, we aren't going there. I started fasting again today and intend on getting very aggressive with it.  It was getting a bit fatter that was one thing, it's an entirely level going up to size 36. THIRTY SIX! NO THANK YOU.  It's been recent that the fat just piled on like crazy. I haven't started eating like a pig or anything, my eating habits haven't changed  But apparently it's too much food.  

I don't know how many days I will last, I just know I've made it through today. 3 days would be my minimum, 5 days would be better. And then, start fasting 36 hours per week. That's eat dinner one night, miss the entire next day and don't eat until around lunch time  I'm like to start intermittent fasting as well, which I do on and off anyway. That's where you don't eat for - whatever, usually 16 hours - and then you have a 6 hour window.  So that's actually 18 hours.  Oh, a 6 hour window to eat that is. That doesn't mean you can eat whatever you want, not at all, it's just that time frame window.  

I haven't been greatly motivated to lose weight, but now I am.  This is getting ridiculous and untenable.  It's not good for my health, either and I'm just done with this.  I will probably have to do some version of keto on top of all of that to keep the fat burning. 3 days of not eating? You will be in ketosis.  I'm not sure how far I'm going to go with this, I just know I'm at the crossroads now and there is only one direction I want to go.  

I dunno, I'm sort of winging it at the moment, well not really. I know what works, it's just very strict and it's not nice, lol.  Keto sucks, to be honest.  And having to cut out fat will make it worse - that's for the high cholesterol count I have, or had, not sure haven't had it tested again since they told me that.  I have been cutting out a lot of fats so I hope it's come down some.  

I received 2 notices from a power company in Houston informing me that they regret they can't provide power for me unless I call them and work out some details.  The address for the power to be turned on? ... is 500 miles away.  The address is a different RV park but a specific lot number.  So, I call the power company who puts me through the wringer for 15 minutes before telling me that they can't do anything, I need to call their business customer number.  So, i called them and they were closed of course.  I then looked up the address, found the name and number of the rv park and called them.

They don't have anyone at lot 4, they claimed and furthermore, they don't have separate meters, all power just goes through the park, just like mine.  Interesting information.  Why would someone try to turn power on  to a lot that already has power?  I then thought, well maybe this new person from my park decided to try and turn the power on to their lot? But that doesn't make sense at all, they plugged their rv in and walaah! they had power.  It's a bit confusing, but I'm going to pursue this for I am not paying for some illicit scam for someone attempting to buy power through my business.  

Friday was my appointment for the fingerprinting.  This is for the hazmat certification.  2 towns over, I went into the place. It's an Army Navy store but the fingerprinting business has a small office in the rear.  The lady was up front and took me in - I was 30 minutes early but she didn't care, let's go!  Well, I go through that process - they take all of my fingerprints, both full hand and individual fingers and then take a pic.  Like, whatever.  I've already gone through this, fingerprints don't change, why are they forcing me through this? Not to mention the almost $100 price tag that goes with it - tho the company conceded to pay for it. 

I'm not even hauling hazmat for them, my route is non hazmat.  Anyway, done with that and I couldn't resist. They had a full firearms section and they had a beautiful pistol for concealed carry - I've been wanting one for a while.  I treated myself, I don't buy myself a lot of stuff. Sometimes I go on buying sprees, but it's pretty rare, few and far between.  It wasn't cheap, either, but I didn't expect it to be. Firearms are at a premium right now if you want quality.  

The lady of the house is getting sick again, but apparently this sickness she is getting has phases. Phase 1 is nausea.  Phase 2 is headaches. After that? I guess you get full fledged sick, like the flu bug and it's apparently sending people to the hospital. Let's hope that doesn't happen to her.  The father is out on the road and will be for a long time. He'll get time off but it's 30 days out at a time.  He apparently doesn't mind it but the house sort of suffers because of it.  I am fortunate to be able to help them for my schedule works to deal with a lot of it.  I'm trying to help them for the father wants to start bringing in a better income. 

There are things this house needs, that's for sure.  The kitchen needs to be redone. The house is on pier and beam and it definitely needs releveled. It would be good to add an extra bedroom and get those kids separated. The oldest is coming into the phase where he needs his space.  I dunno about you, but I always had my own room growing up, even with poor parents when I was very young.  They eventually got into a much better financial situation, the point is that there was always a separate bedroom.  I had a servants quarters in Pittsburgh, very small but I was ok with that. 

Just the ability to do what you want to do when you want to do it and that takes money.  And a flexible schedule. I'm working towards that, my motivation levels are starting to increase again, I will be tackling that expansion project again soon.  I want to get those 4 lots in there and get it behind me.  I can rest a bit easy after that, get those filled up and put the proceeds - after paying the bills for those lots - in a separate savings account. I don't want to discuss that too much here today, I am not doing anything at the moment and that's just a lack of motivation. I've been doing super early loads a lot and that messes up my entire day. After I get done with that? I am ready to go home and crash out, not get into a ditch and start putting sewer pipe together.

Yet, I have the money invested and it needs to get done.  I want to get the sewer line completely done and then the water line done as well and then I will buy the pedestals and the underground power cable. It's expensive and I want to have the income to start coming in quickly to pay for it.  I don't think I need to buy any more sewer pipe, but if I do, it's just going to be a few sticks.  

But, there's still work.  I have to locate the main water line,  dig down to it, turn the water off to the park, install a T, then a piece of pipe and then a valve. Then I can get a ditch witch to trench to my existing sewer line trench.  The water line is behind the newly installed septic system, it shouldn't take a lot to to trench it from there to the existing trenchy, the problem? Actually finding that line. Lol.  I have pics from when it was installed, I hope to be able to locate it from that.

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 Hours later.  The lady of the house has had a bad headache all day. So I made dinner, made the kids do their Monday chores - which there is a pretty good list on Mondays - hang out for a while with them and put them to bed.  She has taken headache meds and they did nothing for it.  She is kind of in agony right now having had that headache alllll day long.  Also an emotional encounter, nothing I will go into detail but it was a good thing, to say that. nothing bad. 

I dunno, but it's getting late.  I have regular first load, going to deliver tomorrow.  That will take around 7 hours.  If I can sleep decent, I will get in that ditch and spend at least an hour in there.  That's enough time to get quite a lot done, actually.  Otherwise, I will wait until the next day off and devote that day to the sewer line and attempting to finish that.  

The fast is going quite well, actually, just to end this with that. I haven't really been hungry all day long, amazingly enough. The first day is usually the worst. If an entire fast could go like this, I could do a week lol.