About a month or so ago I was feeling very sanctimonious. I had announced to the world that I was giving up Diet Coke. I felt like one of the healthy people as I reveled in my new-found hatred of drinking “black acid”.

As I scrolled through the scores and scores of articles online I felt better and better about my decision to give up. Diet Coke has been linked to a variety of medical problems, everything from weak bones to kidney dysfunction, acid reflux to reproductive disorders. Researchers have compared the effect of the acid in diet drinks to the use of methamphetamine. I have seen Breaking Bad, I don’t want those teeth.
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I am not a beach person. I hate heat, sand and crowds in no particular order.

School holidays in Sydney are a particularly hard time for me because my son loves the beach, in fact he loves the heat, sand and crowds in no particular order.
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I have completely misplaced my memory.

This has come to my attention once again since my friend Kerri Sackville started a little blogging game called #MyFirst. Every Monday she provides a prompt for herself and other bloggers to write about their first experiences in a raft of different subjects. I really want to join in but I can’t because I cant remember anything.
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It’s almost the end of the year and everyone is feeling a little frazzled and worn. You can read it on Facebook, sense it in the shopping centre and hear about it from everyone you know. So while I am not alone in being absolutely exhausted I think I have a particularly severe form of exhaustion because I cannot sleep.

I have always been a problem sleeper, I can only imagine that I must have been a nightmare as a baby, and it’s not getting any better with age. Of course, like all insomniacs, I go through periods that are worse than others so I decided to make a list of what it is that is keeping me wide awake from the 2am-6am time slot
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