it is finished!! :-)

 today was the last day the handyman came over for this project of mine....i think we are both pretty happy with how it turned out. he forgot his phone but wanted pictures so i texted him a bunch.  this was the little shelf he made for over the sink. i had found this tiny vase in Girdwood the other day and bought it just to add to the shelf he built...so cute.

 i was pretty excited today seeing it all complete. he also got the stove in so that is working and i cooked my first real meal in my kitchen...taco's.

 i didn't want to leave my kitchen to go walking.  I've just never had such a beautiful kitchen. 

 i did make it out for the walk today though. the dogs and I walked out Campbell Airstrip for a loop.  it was so beautiful out there.

 the stove looks so beautiful.

 this weekend was tile.  turned out totally nice.  i did salvage the glass tiles for possible use in the downstairs bathroom.

 now it's got all the grout in it and today i sealed it. 

 the microwave is now in the kitchen as well. at first i couldn't get a few outlets to work but i was able to trouble shoot it myself....and it was the fuse was off. it's working now.  :-)  proud i didn't have call the handyman back.

 had a massage this afternoon, it felt great.  after i started to feel sick.  hope I'm not getting anything...thinking it's just from the massage releasing toxins in to my system.  trying to drink a lot of water.

 at least the kitchen has been a great distraction from the disaster our nation is heading for. there is just a segment of the population who seems to have forgotten history or chooses to ignore it.  faux news is pushing the crazy agenda.  the iitoo wants to appease his boss, Put and get the US out of NATA, faux news was pushing this as well, what have this country or that country done for us...what they forget is that those nations put the lives of their own citizens on the line after 9-11.

 the iitoo VP was announcing that we have beat IS_IS today soon after IS-IS took credit for a bomb that killed 4 American citizens.  they have not been beaten, they may not be as obvious or as powerful but terrorists don't need to be organized to be successful.  ideology is not an enemy that is easy to see. we have our own religious nuts that are game for a holy war and have been preparing for it in their minds...they seem hell bent with this administration to separate us from our allies...fools.

 you can't talk sense into nonsense though.  not sure what if anything will wake up those who have chosen to be willfully ignorant to the corruption and foolishness of this administration.  best to just not bother i think.  they have an excuse for every decision, they have a tale on repeat that they have been spoon fed by the media on the right.  it excuses horrible behavior. 

 those private meeting with Put, no records, no body there.  he even snagged the US interpreters notes...Put has a record of what our iitoo said, what he may have promised.  i suspect our iitoo is such a tool it's been easy for Put to manipulate him, flatter him.  it doesn't take much.

 Manafort is in deep.  then the idiot and his henchmen have opted to take away sanctions from the companies of one of Rus oligarchs that was working closely with Manafort.  a vote failed to stop it today.  they talk nonsense on faux news but those believers suck it up and spit it back out like it's truth, they parrot back the one liners that they believe justify the insanity

 the partial shutdown continues.  some say the current far right in the GOP are set on destroying the federal government, feeling it has become too powerful.  I'm not saying all governments don't get spread but destroying our nation to get their way is not a good way to decrease the feds...and oddly they seem totally fine blindly following the iitoo.  faith in a God is one thing....no one should grant that same level of faith to any government or government official. 

 no one should grant absolute faith in any religion either imho.  religions are run by humans, who are fallible.  one should always have some level of distrust in governments and religion.  some level of distrust in those running these things.  religions in most ways in our nation have simply become corporate entities.

 England is also having issues that are similar.  a grumbling group who want to separate from other nations who they have been previously allied with. Put is in heaven...after all these years, his wish is seeming to come true.  will it?  or will there be enough Americans who finally pull their head out of the sand and see what is happening.

 i have less and less faith in my fellow citizens with each passing day.  many have been duped and continue to look the other way to the truth while holding onto every conspiracy theory tossed at them.

 this was just a cute young moose munching on some twigs...it's what they eat. 

 hopefully a good night sleep will help me feel better.  it will be great to sleep.  even though I'm a sound sleeper, it's no doubt been tough to really get that deep sleep when there is someone doing work i the house.  i did tell him I'm game for some more projects when he is free. light fixtures need changing, the stairs would be great to get done.  the downstairs bath could use a face lift as well.

 having successfully tackled the kitchen remodel has given me some confidence to move on to something else.

 wouldn't mind a little break from construction for a few weeks though.  i still must clean up the garage and organize it, then i can also get the upstairs spare room organized.  it's purge time.  :-) 

 you do learn a bit with each thing you tackle.  i learned a lot just watching him...not that I'm ready to tackle it on my own, but i do at least understand more what all is involved. 

 enjoyed my taco's...I'm sure i will be meticulous in my cleaning for awhile at least.  so great to have such a pretty space. 

 i was in the car, this moose was on the side of the road. 

 i haven't spotted Betsy, the cow, yet.  she was a rodeo cow, perhaps she dreamt of being a circus cow...the circus is over though.  maybe she dreamt of being a moose.  thought today it would be funny if i ran into her and she had taken up with a moose. she is doing well surviving out there all these months, but it was pointed out to me that there are a bunch of wild cows out on Kodiak Island and they have really big bears there.  i wonder if that is safety in numbers though.

 I'm sure I'll be shifting stuff around for a bit trying to figure out what works where for me. 

 surrounded by crooked pictures on the walls...I'm just leaving them crooked. 

 heading to bed early and hoping whatever this is passes by morning.  some times as a nurse you get stuff that feels like you are getting sick and then your immune system kicks in and licks it...go immune system!!  we just get exposed to so much. 

grateful for:  A.  a job completed and done well.  B. a pretty new kitchen to enjoy C.  the prospect of a deep sleep.  back to work tomorrow for three....