SLEEP

As many of my friends and family will attest to I love to sleep. Thus it is puzzling to me why I wake up so often during the night.

For example: Last night I was exhausted. I am recovering from a nasty sinus infection and had just finished working a twelve hour day followed by cooking a quick meal upon arriving home and then cleaning up after the meal. I was tired, beat, in desperate need of sleep.

I went to bed, read until my eyes became droopy and fell asleep about 11:00 PM only to awake at midnight.

Perhaps it was my bladders fault. I took care of that. Went back to bed fell back to sleep only to be awaken at 2:30. This time I think it was Citrus who was the culprit. But then maybe it was the bladder again.

Went back to bed, sleep, and again was reawaken at 3:15, then 4;00, then 5:30 when the alarm went off, and for the final round at 6:30; where I gave up the fight and got my big butt out of bed.

My dream is not of winning the lottery, buying a bigger house, not even having a life of leisure, no my dream is eight full hours of uninterrupted deep solid sleep.

AHHH... the possibilities........

I, we, are on a budget.

Yes, seriously, a written, formulated, thought out budget.

Down to what I, we, can spend on food, entertainment, piss-off money, utilities, home improvements, etc...

I have been adhering to it for FOUR days now. It is painful. But getting oneself into an economic hole is even worse. We are not poverty level by any means. We are not rich, but between what I make & what Kurt makes we should be fine, right.

WRONG.

We are pitiful. So we have made a plan. We will stick to it. We will get a surplus. We will not practice deficit spending like our current government is doing.

I, we, will not spend money we have earmarked for other ventures.

It is just a simple matter of just deciding that this is what I, we, will do.

So, if we, with the limited resources at our disposal, can do this

...why the hell can't the Federal government?????


The National Debt is $8.1 Trillion! and counting.

We are borrowing billions a day from China just to stay afloat.

Federal deficit forecast at $477B
By Peronet Despeignes, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit will reach $477 billion this year, the biggest ever in dollar terms, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday

How do we ever expect to dig ourselves out of this hole. Kurt and I are tighting our belts, cutting unnecessary spending, while congress decreases revenue by giving people with the most more.

Oh and they are cutting out stuff too: Medi-care to the elderly, benefits to the VA, (Great way to support our troops) school lunch programs, and of course vital social services that help the lower middle class and the working poor. But hey, gotta tighten that belt.

Yet we are still increasing our federal deficit. We are spending billions of dollars to help create a radical Islamic theocracy in Iraq, We are spending millions on helping Paris Hilton have more free time on her hands, oh and I believe we just gave a raise to our federal representatives because they are doing such a bang up job.

God Bless America.

BTW: Every one should go back and read the Declaration of Independece. It is as applicable to today as it was in 1776. And a bit scary...

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html

Check out this article

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060109/schell

Happy 2006

I am a bit late. It is January 2nd, 2006.

Still batteling a nasty sinus infection, still trying to finish our bathroom, still trying to get the house clean.

It seems I am entering into 2006 with a multitude of unfinished stuff.

Question is will I end 2006 with stuff unfinished or completed?

Only time will tell.

Happy New Year everyone.