The ground is dry. The grass is green. I’ve accepted that the only place I’ll get snow is in my dream. Gah that sucks.
After restoring an old pc that took up most of my mental capacity, I found it to be *meh* and didn’t realize the storage was so small- so I put it back in the closet. Now I’m back to sitting in my living room, writing on my laptop and realizing it’s not as bad as I thought.
A few other comparisons put my thoughts into perspective today:
Cleaning out the litter boxes for the two Velociraptor’s who reside in my apartment caused me to think of all the people who have to clean out horse stables- or even worse, people who have to clean up after elephants.
This one is a little personal: Annoyed with wearing a thong to avoid panty lines- I was wondering, “How come men don’t have panty lines (or brief/boxer lines)?” I posed this question to a friend. At first he said that perhaps men’s pants were thicker or worn more loosely (which is what I started to ponder initially) and he informed me that a certain male co-worker had them and the visual made me feel very ill. I guess men do have the lines after all, they just don’t care… and the material on their pants is a bit more loose and thick. No fair, but the visual caused me to be okay with the torture garment that is the thong.
I was also realizing how pleasant the morning drivers were lately and it caused me to smile, perhaps it was merely due to being in a good mood last week because today after I had that *realization*, all of a sudden every moron came darting out in all directions, acting like morons and reminding me that I was still in Salem.
A conversation this morning had me thinking even further. I can’t recall what prompted it… AH! Cats. They had been driving me crazy the past few nights as I had been fighting insomnia. I was wondering if I should get a cage for the youngest one to be used at night. My friend reminded me, “Sure if you don’t mind hearing (he made a ton of annoying meowing sounds)” I let him know that his point was made; and then he suggested that I could always let him out at night.
First of all: Yeah right. Secondly, I reminded him of all the busy roads I live by, including the freeway! That took the conversation to road kill and the how even in the busiest areas, a raccoon could get hit and no one scrapes it off the road. It will just continue to get run over until it’s pulp, and then the rain washes it away. I’ve always wanted to take a picture of that and do a time lapse photo of the carcass (as morbid as that may sound). Then I asked, due to the recent event of people walking across the highway and getting killed, “Do you think in time people will be known in Salem as road kill? People will become so used to it that soon they’ll be treated like the raccoons, ignored until they become pulp and then just washed away by the rain?”
I also had my third week of the year traditional question (at least in the past 3 January’s) “When will I have my first kiss of the year and with whom?” Then I remembered the first guy I let kiss me in 2007 which was half way through the year… and it caused me to be quite okay with going a full year without.
Okay, so back to the insomnia. I didn’t want to be dependent on wine in order to assist in helping me sleep. I hate that, so I stopped drinking it. Oy, it was right back to the sleepless nights. One of my friends suggested benadryl, so I tried it and omg ‘restless legs’. I tried it two nights in a row and it was the same issue. My body and mind were fully awake, only my eye lids (not my eyes), wanted to close down. It was weird, awful and my insomnia sent my cats schedule all out of whack- which their schedule was already a little weird as I’ve only had them one and two months.
Tonight I bought a sleep aid. I have a feeling it’ll be back to restless legs again and a night of hell. And no- I don’t want suggestions of working out before I go to bed as it only energizes me. Tea does nothing. Warm milk will keep me up all night being as I’m lactose intolerant and I’m not drinking spirits.
There you have it- those were my January 24th thoughts.
Current Mood:
bored
