Dayquil....My Muse

I'm not feeling too well so I stayed home from school. Snow days are better, but this is pretty good except that I don't have much energy. I also seem to be having thoughts that are even more strange than usual. I'll share.

In the last three days, I've spent more time asleep than awake. Last night I woke up and just couldn't sleep any more and I thought "How does Dooley (the dog) do it? He's slept even more than me and he's still at it." My admiration for him continues to grow.

You know how Amish men who are married have beards and the single guys don't? I guess that's how you're supposed to know who to hit on at the barn dance. You can thank me for that tidbit of dating advice later. Anyway, I've realized that when I'm single, I'm thin (or less fat) but when I get married (yes, I've been married three times, get off my flabby back about it. At least I have some basis of comparison.) I get fat. I suppose it's better than growing a beard, but I'm still not happy about it.

I'm sort of in that point of being sick where I'm not tired enough to sleep but I'm too tired to do much (particularly good blog writing). I thought "what if I took the laptop in bed w/me?" Then I worried about falling asleep and rolling over on it and then I'd be like those people who do that w/their babies and kill them. Wouldn't that be awful? And I know the laptop is not a baby and that it's horrible for the people that happens to so don't write any hate mail about it.

I had ramen noodles for breakfast.

Gold Coast - The Desert Experience

You, are loyal friends and fans, know how much we enjoy our Gold Coast Living.

Imagine our cumulative shock when it was reported a month ago that we actually live in a DESERT! A Food Desert!

Apparently this means that access to healthy food is difficult and not affordable. Perhaps this is true. However, I'm not so sure.

To find out, I'm starting a new blog. If you want to read about it, go to the link.

http://fooddesertliving.blogspot.com/

We're Having a Contest!

I've been reading other blogs lately and lots of people have contests and giveaways in order to "drive traffic" to their blogs. Well, if anyone needs some traffic driven to them...it's us.

I recently learned that November is Prematurity Awareness Month. This is news to me and since I know premature births can be stressful, and even tragic, I'm good with supporting Prematurity Awareness Month.

HOWEVER---once I saw the word "prematurity" all I could think about is whether there is an IMmaturity Awareness Month. Every cause has a motto, a color, logo, and a month.

Here's where the contest comes in---in the comment section below please submit your contest entries with suggestions for motto, color, logo and month. We encourage creativity and if you have any other ideas for things that Immaturity Awareness Month needs (like a celebrity spokesperson) then feel free to add those.

Just like Dancing With the Stars, winners will be determined by a convoluted calculation based on audience votes (no 800 numbers, sorry, just put your votes in the comments too) and Judges' Scores (we are willing to be bribed).

Prizes will be awarded from the assortment of crap in my guest room. This could be anything from a partially finished craft project to a box of Christmas ornaments or (my favorite) a shoebox of my family photos.

Enter as many times as you like.

All prize entries become the property of The Bitter Train. heehee

Found On The Road, Part Five