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The past few weeks have been incredibly busy, so I have been losing a lot of sleep. Combined with sinusitis and an iffy diet, I am currently a shell of my former self. I have been concocting all kinds of schemes to get more sleep, everything from renting a hotel room and taking the phone off the hook to parking my car in a remote area just to rest my eyes for a couple of hours. I have scarfed down more coffee than usual, and I even bought an energy drink, which I keep forgetting to put in my purse because sleep deprivation has negatively affected my short-term memory. I’ve heard that not getting enough sleep can lead to weight gain, car wrecks and so on. I’ve nodded behind the wheel a couple of times already, so I have got to get more rest somehow. My best option would be to spend Christmas Eve unconscious, and although I dread waiting until then for sweet slumber, I guess I must do what I have to do to minimally function until that glorious day when I can rest and look forward to seeing the six bags under each eye disappear for good.

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“And on the 7th day he rested.” If he can rest considering all his marvelous work, you gotta rest too, Latasha. Take a large dose of Nyquil and go on in, LW. What miracles are you performing LW as you miss all this work? Tell us about them! Get yourself a husband, LW.

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