Ugh, I can’t sleep.

See, it used to be whenever I had trouble falling asleep I would think about how I’d meet my dream girl, exploring all the possibilities on how we’d end up together and fall in love.  Just holding on to those dreams would put my mind at enough ease that I could finally conk out and get a good night’s rest.  It was my own personal way of counting sheep, and I’d been doing it for years and years.  No matter what shape or form she took, I could always imagine her easily, beautiful and loving and caring.  My hope kept her real, helped me to believe that she was out there, and that it was only time that kept us apart, until such time finally came to an end.

But now I can’t see her anymore.

As hard as I try to imagine, my mind can’t focus enough for her to appear again, and I’m tossing and turning trying to fall asleep, wondering why it’s so hard now to even put a few thoughts together so I can dream about her for just a little while.

If there was ever a solid indication that my dream has finally died though, this would be it.  Maybe my mind is finally coming to terms with the reality that I will never, ever meet someone.  This world has become too evil, too foregone a conclusion, and I myself am just too different, too detached from humanity for it to even be possible anymore.  Maybe if I had been born 50 years ago I might have had a chance.  But not today.

My dream really is over.  I will never sleep again.

Tags: dream, dream girl, dreams, girl, girl of my dreams, love, reality, sleep, world
Categories: Romance and Relationships
 
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I had one of those nights where I would wake up early, look at the clock… and then go right back to sleep again.

Actually it’s like that every night, only I did it three times in a row today. When I finally did get up, it was a race against time as I blazed down the highways at warp speed so I wouldn’t be late for work. Considering how close I was already cutting it, I probably shouldn’t have stopped by the local market to pick up some DVD rentals and grub on the way.

I snuck inside 15 minutes late, checked the logbook and noticed no one had signed in since 9AM.

Hmmmmmmmm….

So I signed in an hour before my shift was slated to start, then messed up my desk to make it look like I had already been here for a while.

Looks like I’ll be going home early tonight, just in time for the holiday weekend too.

Tags: job, late, logbook, sleep, time
Categories: In The Coal Mine
 
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*Yawn* 

Can’t believe I woke up at one today.  12 hours of sleep and I’m still tired, and on top of that I had to wake up with a neck cramp too.    Now I can’t turn all the way to the left without pain shooting into my eyeballs and screaming like a wild animal.

Ah well, at least I finished my latest blogging errands, including signing up for the Pepperjam network, which will probably mark my last attempt to see if I can garner any kind of success with an affiliate network.  Yeah yeah I know I said I’ll never be an affiliate marketer, but like I also said, I’m willing to make exceptions for products I actually use myself or are of high quality.  And since a lot people have reported great success with Pepperjam, I decided to give it a try as well and signed up for a few programs.  Right now I have them rotating in a 125×125 banner on the top left sidebar, so feel free to check them out.  A few of them are for sites offering camping, military and law enforcement gear as well.  Things like backpacks, pepper spray, Kevlar vests, scopes for snipe rifles, etc.  You know, fuzzy wuzzy stuff. 

I’ll probably wean out these programs over time if I don’t see any results with them, but I suspect the best performing one may turn out to be Whitesmoke, an All-in-One Writing Solution that might be the perfect complement for blogging.  It will correct grammar, spelling and even suggest better adjectives to help enrich your writing experience.  If I wasn’t such a superb writer already, I might actually spring for the software myself. 

I also signed up for two new advertising networks to fill my ad vacancies, since Project Wonderful has done a really poor job of filling my spots lately, and most of the requests I’ve gotten were always for craptastic webcomics that only start making sense to you after you’ve had about 5 beers.

As soon as I set up my site to receive the new ads, WOW what a difference.  I was now getting my ad spots filled from major, high quality advertisers, most of whose products I was already using too.  It was perfect.  Not only that, I could set the rates at whatever prices I wanted, though obviously I can’t set it too high or my spots would never get filled.  Still, where before I was only making 15 to 20 cents a day with Project Wonderful, I’m now making around $1 a day with these networks. 

Probably won’t last though. I know my luck. 

Tags: advertising, advertising networks, affiliate marketing, blogging, cramps, monetizing, pepperjam, project wonderful, sleep, whitesmoke
Categories: Lincoln's Personal Log
 
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I need to sleep.

Tags: sleep
Categories: Tumbling and Stumbling
 
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After I hauled my sleep deprived body out the door for work, I stopped by the drive thru at Wendy’s to grab some grub on the way. I started making my selection and then began wondering why they couldn’t seem to hear my order. Then I saw the reason why: I had pulled up in front of a trash bin and mistakenly thought it was the intercom.

Whoops.

You know it’s stupidity like that that reminds me of why I can’t get a woman. Who wants to be with an idiot like me? That’s why I’m banking on the sympathy factor, in the hopes that I will find someone who will feel so bad for me that they decide to stay with me just out of pity.

Well a guy can dream at least.

Tags: drive thru, insomnia, pity, sleep, stupidity, sympathy, women
Categories: Lincoln's Personal Log
 
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I tend to use a lot of pillows to elevate my head so I can sleep, but I may have been using one pillow too many since I twisted my neck the other night, which must have caused a pinched nerve because now the whole left side of my body is giving off a dull, annoying ache.

For this I blame women.

You see, if I had a girl in my life, then I wouldn’t need to use 100 pillows for leverage so I can get just comfortable enough to fall asleep. All I’d need is the love of a good woman with her arms wrapped around me and my head on her shoulder, and I’d never have trouble sleeping again.

But noooooo, y’all women had to go and marry someone else, or live too far away, or spit in my eye because I opened a door for you, or report me to the police because I called you at 2AM in the morning just to see how you were.

So now instead of getting a good night’s sleep, I’m sitting in my uncomfortable hard as a rock chair here with a heat blanket on my arm, a massager set to max that’s beating the hell out of my back, and just about passing out from breathing in the pungent smell of Tiger’s balm. And my arm still hurts like a son of a b….

All because of you despicable, utter, vile, good for nothing heartless spawns of Satan women. I hate you. Die, women, die.

*&%# man, my arm…..

Tags: ache, pillows, pinched nerve, sleep, women suck
Categories: Romance and Relationships
 
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