Love and Hate

Love and Hate

I’m not going to lie; I have this whole really strange love hate relationship with all the random idiots who drive on the road, in Wisconsin, when it’s snowing. You have 8 scenarios.

1. The Bad Ass: you got the person who has a big truck and is like ‘I’m not scared of no snow’ who ends up in the ditch because they got sick of tail gating you , fly past and go off the road. 
2. The Wussy: that moron who SHOULD NOT UNDER ANY CERTUMSTANCES be driving in this weather. They can’t seem to make it over 25mph... When there is no snow accumulating on the road. I mean really, is it that hard to drive without snow on the road? Go back to California. 
3. Semi Drivers: they all do their own thing and none of them do the same. I mean one will cut you off, the next is polite, then the next speeds up to go in the ‘fast’ lane only to slow down and bog traffic down… it’s ridiculous. Hence the sign saying slow traffic (and large trucks) keep right. But of course this makes it ten times worse here in Wisconsin snow because of all the kick up they cause. Passing them is almost suicidal because you have like three seconds of momentary blindness from the slush coating your car. 
4. The Weaver: the person who does not know how to drive in snow, but tries way to hard as not to come off as a wussy and goes back and forth across the lane getting sucked from one snow pile to the next fighting an endless battle to stay out of the ditch. 
5. The Kamikaze:  that insane person who decides to drive faster than is safe. But they not only speed, they insist that they should not be slowed down by us other measly humans and feel the need to weave in and out of traffic like a mad man running from the cops. These are the best ones to see in the ditch… they really skid ;) 
6. The Closer: the person who minds their own business, setting a speed and staying at that speed at all costs along with not deterring from the path. As soon as they close on another car, they move to the next lane, pass, then get right back into the right lane, just staying on track and closing the distance to said destination. 
7. The Roll-Over: that person that no matter what, no matter how much snow is out there, as soon as they touch the gas they manage to spin out of control, go off the road, and roll over. Typically seen with vehicle on roof and a fire truck (or ten) nearby. 
8. The Gunner: this one is a real dandy. They don’t understand that snow=slippery=no traction, so they continue with their race car tendencies and gun the engine over every small change in speed resulting in a lack of traction, which leads to sliding, which leads to them in the ditch and the cops measuring the skid marks on the way across the road.

I mean I love seeing the idiots struggle but I hate it when I get stuck by or around them and they influence how fast I am going or where I am going. It’s just snow right? So if you like leave a comment. Maybe even tell me your Wisconsin Winter driving style. Just don’t get in my way ;)

So it begins (The Random Mutterings of an Over Analytical Insomniac)

Don’t you hate when people tell you not to think? It’s something that just happens. You know? And for some of us it happens all the time. I’m seriously… like can’t stop thinking it just happens so much. So much that you become an insomniac and people tell ‘stop thinking so you can sleep’ or ‘you can’t sleep because you think too much’. All I can think is seriously? Have those people ever thought that instead of telling us to stop thinking they should think and maybe shut up? I mean if you think all the time and you like thinking all the time then why stop? Maybe the idea of trying not to think is why you can’t sleep… 

In my years of ‘sleep-less-ness’ I have realized if I think and just keep thinking I will fall asleep from my thoughts. Not because they are boring but because thinking is normal to me and soothing. As I get lost in my thoughts I drift off into sleep. It is hard for me to still get lost in my thoughts but I still give it a shot. And you know what? It is working. Though I sleep less than the average person I get enough sleep so I can at least function semi-normally.

I know I think enough I give myself chronic daily migraines (My sympathy for all of you who suffer with me. It is a real pain in the hindquarters). Medicine does not really work, I try to use it, I hate using it, and I normally stop when I get sick of the crazy side effects. Plus when my head hurts, thinking takes the mind off it. I tend to think so much and over analyze so much that I forget what I want to say or I’ll jump topic so fast that I lose people, so bear with me on my topic jumping. I even over analyze to the point where these ‘simple’ blogs I am muttering about get over thought, re-read about ten times, edited by my own thoughts, and then, after all this craziness and then some, finally posted.