Can't sleep. I actually went and did my week's grocery shopping at 2.15 in the morning. No queues, no waiting. Really, I just went because I was having a craving for some Fig Newtons (soft fig-filled cookies). 
So, I bought a beef roast on sale for 2.50 off, thought I'd use it to make mum's old pot roast recipe with, and I also bought a small ribeye steak that was on special, and then filled out the rest of the week with hot dogs, tinned tuna, soup, fish sticks (fingers) and macaroni and cheese.
I slept most of the day, 'cos I seem to have picked up a stomach bug. I wasn't feeling great last few days, but chalked it up to a combination insomnia and the side-effects of one of my meds. But today, I had a fever, sore throat, sweats/chills, headache and all the little nasties that accompany a stomach ailment. Feeling slightly better now, thankfully, tho' a bit light-headed and feverish, still.
Maybe going out to do my shopping when I feel like this, wasn't exactly clever, but, for the most part it's over and done with (except the cat food, they didn't have the cat's brand, and yes, they are fussy...waste of money buy food they'll turn their noses up at).
Unfortunately, 'cos I slept most of the day, I now can't sleep most of the night. 
I tried editing an old Dr Who story, but every time I tried to access the story to mess about with it, it kept coming up with a box that said "script error" that warned it could mess up my computer, so I guess that's one story that will never get edited, perhaps. Well, no one reads it ("Mad Country") anyway, so it's no big loss, I reckon. I was just doing it cos' it needed doing, and I needed something to do.
I have to go to Social Services tomorrow, up to Lake George. That's a bit of a hike, 'cos the bus doesn't stop there regularly, but I can take the trolley bus to the main municipal complex--the social services offices are on a side road down from the county's main offices...God forbid that the poor should be seen with the "normal" people! 
I have to fill out some paperwork, and I need to see if they can help me get some better health care (not holding my breath), and help with the National Grid situation (ditto on the breath thing). I got an increase in food stamps and I don't know why, but I'm not kicking about it, it's helping me maintain a slightly more "normal" existence than I had before...well, more than I've had in a long, long time, anyway.
Trust me, I know whereof I speak: Going hungry is never pleasant, but it hurts all the more when you're working over 40 hours a week, and/or working 6 or 7 days a week, and still can't afford to eat!
So, while I dislike being on benefits, I kiss the ground and am thankful for them. Anyone who looks down their nose at people on benefits, needs to spend a few days with virtually nothing to eat, or, try to live for months without friends or family to turn to, and/or without a phone or internet or televison. Or, suffer from horrendous pain/illness, with no ability to buy medicine or pay for a doctor....or, better still, try to spend a few month's in the heart of a bitterly cold northeastern New York winter with no heat or hot water. At various times in the last three years, I've lived through all of that, and I spit (metaphorically) in disgust, on anyone who looks down on those who are forced to ask for help from the government, just to survive.
So, it's heading into 4am. I have some kind of bug in my room--possibly a Japanese beetle, that keeps biting me, as I'm sleeping. It hurts enough to wake me up, but I can't catch the darned thing. The Japanese beetles are terrible this year....one got into my hair the other day, and I couldn't get it out...yuck! They just swarm all over you! The flies are bad, as well--they always are in my city. They call this "Hometown USA," but I think they should change it to "Flytown USA." I've got bites all over me, from being out and about, Friday and Saturday.
Hope you all have a good day, I'm going to try going to bed for a bit. Cheers.
