July 22: It's a Brand New Car!

Today's post is dedicated to a good night's sleep, which I haven't had in several days. You can eat right, get plenty of exercise, take care of your body, mind and soul, but without a good rest, none of that other stuff matters. Good sleep contributes to a healthy heart, the continued release of certain essential, cancer preventing hormones, decrease in inflammation, and an increase in creativity.

"My eyelids are heavy, but my thoughts are heavier." - Unknown

"My nights are for overthinking. My mornings are for oversleeping." - Extramadness.com

Goodbye

Hello

That's Sean.

Last night was the first night that it did not rain - yep! But, I could not sleep. I guess it could have been the coffee ice cream that I had for dinner - or - possibly the incredible sadness I've been feeling about the loss of my father. Not the actual physical loss, but the emotional loss of the father I thought he was. I could choose to believe that it is the old age - dementia - alzheimers - whatever, but that would not account for the past 30 years or the embezzling money from the family taxidermy business, or the selfish attitude that alienates everyone. I promised someone that I would give praying and Jesus a chance in my life. So, I bought a journal of Bible versus for each day of the year. I read the verse - ponder it - and write a response about how it might apply to my life. Here is my problem - dilemma, I guess. When I see so much hypocrisy among so called Christians and self proclaimed religious people, it makes me seek solace in other places - medication - the God within me - the Universe - Mother Nature. I really can't stand it when the very people who are supposedly modeling their lives after Christ, act unkindly towards their fellow man, lie, cheat, steal, and put themselves on a pedestal to look down on others.

So, let me talk about something more pleasant. I traded in my Explorer and bought a new truck; a Ford F150 4x4. It's a 2018, but such a better vehicle than the Explorer for my purposes - well because - my purposes have changed. It has a full tow package, which I had installed on the Explorer for $2500. It has brake assist to the trailer, which I had installed on the Explorer for $700. It has trailer back up assist and it can tow up to 10,000 pounds. The Explorer's towing capacity was 4,000 pounds and my trailer weights $3,500 pounds dry. The new truck has 8 cylinders and the Explorer only has 6. Therefore I was operating at the absolute limit of the Explorer's capacity. I feel safer in the F150.

I got my laundry done. Dinner was chips and guacamole. We watched the movie, The Other Missy. So funny and so dirty.