With such a profound title this post is destined for greatness clearly. It is April and I am feeling pretty groovy on the days where insomnia has not struck. I think insomnia sets out to make us WANT to fight it. So we lie there, in our beds, snuggled under the covers, wearing cosy pyjamas in a possibly post orgasmic floating sleepy state and insist that sleep will come to us. Insomnia is over there, in the corner of the dark recesses of your bedroom, laughing it’s arse off at the futile human attempts to thwart it’s existence. MWAHAHA! You can fight all you want but your brain is in cahoots with insomnia and they both plot together to bring your downfall in the shape of your walking zombiefied state the next day. Your brain is clearly a fickle ally and can turn on you at the slightest whim. And so it does. You lie there, not sleeping and thoughts churning with one big neon blinking thought constantly being flashed across your screen SHOULD BE SLEEPING SHOULD BE SLEEPING SHOULD BE SLEEPING! I like to try and trick my brain and I tell it I don’t care if I’m not sleeping, I’m on holidays, people exist quite efficiently on barely 4 hours a night who needs all this time for sleeping eh? I’ll just catch up on the deficit when I’m dead. So there brain…take THAT! Complete with huffy and disdainful tone. Sometimes brain falls for it and the next thing you know it’s the morning alarm and you’ve actually slept like 5 hours which is good. I think five can keep you going till the next night at least. Other times brains says eff you and you’re still wide awake at 3am….so then I like to turn those insomnia victories into productivity and I’ll either read, play bejeweled blitz (unsurprisingly not very well) or check my emails. At least if I’m not sleeping I’m doing something besides lying there fighting what is obviously a losing battle. So in the end I’m just grateful that this year I don’t have to get up and go to work on the nights when insomnia wins. In the meantime I’ll just add to my Books Read in 2012 list.

Things that have crossed my mind of late:

1) If you just assume that you will have to interact with people who are really quite dumb in your lifetime then you will avoid a lot of wasted time (I used to bitch and moan and grump about said dumb people but now I just expect them and it saves so much time and I feel less resentful of that fact that they are wasting my precious moments on this earth).

2) Some idiots actually do make fascinating test subjects for observation. Current TV show that has helped me see this is called An Idiot Abroad. Such innocent ignorance is hard to go past.

3) I love leather/neoprene jewellery. This is a recent development. But I now have THREE bracelets – one of them a Pandora one even. I suspect it might be a side effect of getting old.

4) The fitness industry is both fascinating and horrifying. And occasionally torturous. Everyone seems to have their own thing when it comes to the best way to use a gym membership. Calorie intake monitoring and controlling seems to be the most effective way to lose fat. Yet you still need to supply nutrients for muscles to get stronger. There appears to be no one definitive expert literature out there to end all other literature. It seems that science changes often. I’m still learning.

I have 15 more sleeps (yeah that’s right Insomnia I said sleeps!) until I fly to Rome. I like to think good things like this happen to good people. I’m so looking forward to it.