I Can't Sleep!

It's 4:32 in the morning. I've been up for an hour. Sleep is completely eluding me. Normally I would whine about the time I've wasted laying awake instead of resting, but instead, I've found the hour to be quite productive. So far this morning I've found a tick crawling on me and I burned it. I put my sour dough starter in the fridge. I dumped out the container under the kitchen sink that collects the water dripping from the hot water pipe. Then I updated Quicken to include my spending over the last week (I have $5.84 in my checking account...PARTY TIME!). I've gone over my bills for the next month and scheduled their payments. I've thrown out some trash. I've been on the scale and cursed the cookies I've eaten for the last two days. And I've sworn to exercise and eat right for at least two weeks (yeah...right...).

All in all it's been a pretty productive hour of insomnia. Of course that won't mean squat when I can't function a little later on in the day, but for now, I've made the most of my time.

Did I mention the peanut butter and chocolate chips I ate for dessert after dinner? Didn't think so. But I don't really need to TELL you about them as they are now sitting on my hips and thighs.

HEY! We have an eggplant forming out in the garden. It's our first one. We also have several green tomatoes. I'll need a LOT more though if I'm going to can tomato sauce. I have eighteen plants, but about six of them have no maters on them whatsoever.

Damn drought.

We haven't had any rain in nearly three months. There have been two short rain showers that haven't even been enough to settle the dust in the air or even wet everything. The lakes are low. Some ponds are completely dried up. Other parts of the midwest are dealing with floods. We have a dust bowl.

When South Florida has a drought people boo hoo because their dead grass makes their yards look for crap. When we have a drought the cost of food for the entire country goes up. It's a bit more serious. Floods that wash the crops and cattle away aren't very good for your future trips to the grocer either. So prepare for the winter food prices is all I'm trying to say.

And assholes in the northeast, have some pitty for the farmers who are loosing all of this year's livelyhood. That might be a good idea as well. Remember, they feed you! And if you can't have pity for them and support getting FEMA or some other government agency to help them pay their bills this year, then I suggest you try growing your own food and raising your own chickens and a cow for meat. Make sure you set up a little slaughter house out back as well...

And if you're more into beer, yeah, see, beer is made from GRAINS. The grains are dying in the drought or washing away with the floods. That means your beer prices are gonna go up too.

You see, it effects us all...