When You Feel So Tired But You Can't Sleep

I think I have a problem. I just can't sleep anymore.

I went to bed last night, laid there tossing, turning and sighing for about an hour and then realized that it was futile so got up to continue my job search, check some email and think about cleaning up our kitchen.

So, yes the post time at the bottom of this entry really is when I wrote this entry.

Oh my good heavens! In my whole time on Facebook I haven’t seen anything pass around as quickly as ‘The 25 Random Things About Me’ note that everyone seems to be writing these days. Although I have been tagged, countless times, to complete my own list, I had no intention of actually completing one. But I caved and so here is my list.

I apologize to everyone who read this list originally on Facebook. If you didn't, why aren't we Facebook friends yet? You know that you don't have any friends until you have Facebook friends?

Anyways, here is my list. Feel free to lift the idea for your own blog or whatever.

1. Considering that they broke up 11 years before I was born and that John Lennon died six months to the date of my birth, I am a huge Beatles fan. Who else do you know, who, at 27 has not one, but two Beatles posters in their room? Since my discovery of them in the middle of Grade 10, The Beatles and I have been in a grand love affair. (Oh my good heavens, it just made sense why I am still single.)

2. I don’t have a middle name. Seriously. Nothing. This is a fact that usually doesn’t come up in casual conversation, but when it does, people are shocked, nay, outraged at my first and last name existence.

3. I love bagels. In fact, as I am writing this, I am eating a bagel. I love bagel sandwiches, breakfast bagels, bagels at night, bagel in the morning, bagel really anytime. However, I do not like them with cream cheese, and please put away those “dessert” type, cinnamon raison, apple, blueberry bagels. Give me a savory bagel with just a whisper of butter, and I am yours.

4. I don’t eat butter. Okay, maybe just a tiny, tiny, tiny bit on my bagels, but that is about it. People do find my butter hatred weird. I don’t really eat toast or popcorn and I prefer corn on the cob au natural, so there is no real need for butter in my life.

5. While we are on a similar subject, I don’t eat salt either. I really don’t eat chips or fries. (Poutine is another story)

6. I sadly have way too much of a sweet tooth. I love candy, but more specifically chocolate. Call me Claudia Kishi (way to get that BSC reference) but I usually have some emergency chocolate stashed away, just in case. Being a purist, I usually reach for Hershey Kisses, but really, any chocolate will do.

7. Since the age of five, one of my favourite movies has been Disney’s Robin Hood. I, sadly, can probably quote the whole thing to you. I have seen it way too many times to count.

8. I am addicted to magazines. I love them. I love them so much that I should probably work at a magazine, or at least start my own. Every time we are at the store, Real Simple and In Style, I swear, call my name.

9. I hated hot dogs as a kid. It seemed like every birthday party I ever went to had hot dogs. But strangely in my adult years I can’t seem to get enough.

10. I probably spend too much time in front of a computer. Between catching up on all the Facebook gossip, reading all of the many, many blogs I follow, watching favourite tv shows, checking email, and of course writing, re-writing, reading and re-reading my own blog.

11. I could be a blogaholic. I think of my whole life in terms of blog entries. Always on the lookout for the next post.

12. I love cleaning bathrooms. My bathroom, my parent’s bathroom, your bathroom, public bathrooms, really any bathroom. It’s weird, I know.

13. I have been cleaning bathrooms since a young age. In fact my mom had to sit me down as a small child and tell me, “When we go to someone’s house, you don’t need to clean their bathroom.” My response was, “What if it’s dirty?”

14. I knew in 1985 that Michael Jackson was creepy. I was terrified of the Thriller video when it first came out. And in fact, that video could be the reason I still don’t like Halloween. I do think he is, or was, a talented singer/songwriter, but I still don’t like him.

15. I also am unjustifiably afraid of the dump. Only Satan and Michael Jackson trump my fear of the dump.

16. I went to the circus for the first time when I was twenty years old. It was not fun. In fact, it was actually quiet creepy. I think had I gone as a child, the circus would have been my number one fear.

17. I talk to my family almost everyday, more specifically my mom. Thankfully they only live a block away, but since I moved out of their house ten years ago, I have have kept in pretty close contact with them.

18. It’s true. I did cry when I found out that Eric, my little brother, was a boy. After all, I already had one brother; heaven knows I didn’t need another. But I fell in love with him shortly after I met him, and I can’t even imagine our family with an extra girl.

19. It sounds really lame, but the best decision I ever made was to become a brunette.

20. I bought my car on September 11, 2001, and so far (knock on wood), it has been a pretty great purchase

21. I really love shopping. Grocery shopping, clothing shopping, really shopping for anything. I even love just window-shopping or bargain shopping. Maybe I just really like stores.

22. I own an obnoxious amount of black shirts. I would estimate 15+. Colour, apparently, is overrated.

23. I hate “thrill rides.” I don’t do roller coasters.

24. I can snap really loud. Although, snapping isn’t really a marketable skill, so I don’t know if it really is a handy talent to have.

25. Lots of people think it is weird, but don’t put all of my keys on one key chain. Car keys on one key chain, house keys on another, and if I still had church keys, I would have to wrangle up a third key chain for them.

Wishing for more than people with a hero complex. That wasn't the kind of answer I was looking for!

Good luck to us all. Keep your fingers crossed for better sleeping tomorrow.

As Always,