It is 5:30 in the morning. I can’t sleep. I’m bored. And all of my thoughts are random.

    Although it still feels like today since I haven’t slept, yesterday I drove my Mother and my Grandmother into DC so that they could see the World War II Memorial. After that, we went uptown and into Maryland so that Grandma could visit with one of her cousins. What with the long quiet ride into DC, then listening in on my Grandmother’s conversations with her 95 year old cousin and her husband, and then an entire night of not being able to sleep, I’ve had a lot of time to think today. Is this a good thing? I don’t know. But here’s my collection of random thoughts anyway.

– When/if I have children, I’d like to give them middle names from ancestors. After listening to funny stories of my Texas relatives all evening, I’ve realized I had rather colorful ancestors I knew very little about. Some of the names are great – Tenny, Raiford, Covington, Hazel. One of my future kids will get one of those as a middle name, unless when I wake up I realized this was an insomnia-induced “good idea”.

– “I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities. But I forgot what it is… I have it written down at home some place.”

– In the wise words of Ed, I am not a drive-thru of love. I am not trite, I am not wrapped in paper, and you cannot order me your way. Rather, I am a fancy restaurant with valet parking, a real maî-tre d, leisurely waits between courses, filet mignon that arrives on the finest china, and food that won’t ever give you indigestion. The whole dining experience may take longer, but it will be more worthwhile and far more enjoyable.

– Should I be worried that I now own a gel pen with sparkly pink ink that smells like bubble gum?

– On the palm of my right hand, my love line never intersects my life line. Apparently this means that if palm reading has any truth to it at all, I will never be married. Now would be a good time to figure out if I’m superstitious or not.

– “I don’t care if it rains or freezes, long as I’ve got my plastic Jesus, sittin on the dashboard of my car. It comes in colors pink and pleasant, glows in the dark cause it’s iridescent. Take it with you when you travel far.”

– Does that new show ‘Lost’ give anyone else the heebie jeebies?

– Some day I want to own a company named “Neeröm.” And no, it’s not the latest chair from Ikea, it’s an onomatopoeia of my own design. It’s the sound a car makes when it drives by real fast. I have no idea what Neeröm Incorporated will do, but it sure sounds good.

    Well, that’s all I can remember at the moment. Despite the waking exhaustion this past evening, I was able to accomplish something. The past few nights I’ve been keeping myself occupied by making jewelry. Several months ago I purchased a bunch of beads off ebay so I could make my brothers rakhis as an early Christmas present. I completely over-bought and now I have a million and one beads left over. I’d been wanting to create something with my hands lately anyway, so I’ve come up with Insomniac Jewelry. Now that I’ve gotten slightly better at it, I’m toying with the idea of selling one or two on Ebay, just to see what I can get for them. Unfortunately my Mom has my best one at the moment, so I couldn’t get a picture of that one, but check them out. The one in the upper left corner, I made that one just now. It’s a junk necklace – I saw one in a store recently for about $200, and yet it was really easy to make. Hmm, who knew. All of the stones are authentic – the junk necklace is quartz and malachite, the blue one is quartz and lapis lazuli, and the bottom one is green and red agate, yellow turquoise, and wooden beads I got from India. Not bad, eh? Think they’d sell?

    I think I might try to sleep now. Wish me luck, I think I’ll need it.