Happy 2007 to all

Ann you beat me to it! Happy New Year nonetheless

As the easter eggs are now appearing in shops I want to be the first to wish everyone a Happy Easter

but they were there before xmas

Hot cross buns appeared in the supermarkets on January 2nd. I know I should make a silent protest and not buy them until 2 weeks before Easter, but their cinnamon deliciousness is calling "buy me, eat me" already.

Midnight munchies Piglet?

Would love one, thanks insomniac, but I am on a diet because Christmas turned me into a fat patooba.

What a great word Piglet - can I use it (same applies to me, hehe)?
Did you pull an all-nighter? Our lifestyle is so unhealthy! I think I must have been programmed wrongly, or been a fox in a past life.

Hi insomniac. You can use patooba as much as you want - I use it to describe a lazy fatty who sits on the couch doing nothing, but kind of in an endearing way. My boyfriend calls me patooba all the time!

I am not pulling an all-nighter when I post on here in the middle of the night - I am in Australia, so I post when most of you are asleep. Do you struggle sleeping?

The clue's in my username! I had a baby during the summer holidays after my first year at uni (as an undergrad many moons ago...) and got into the habit of working through the night. It stuck! Over the last decade I've had all my best ideas and been most productive when the world around me is fast asleep - it's so peaceful, quiet. Some people get bleary and stop making sense with only a little sleep deprivation, but I become more alert as the night goes on - I literally have to set myself a deadline/bedtime, then (eventually) drift away to the sound of talk radio (others' conversation distracts me from my own thoughts/concerns).

Googled 'patooba' - appears to be American slang for big back-side! I'm sure yours isn't!

As soon as I wrote my last message, I realised how dumb my last question sounded! Der-brain.

I had no idea patooba was in fact a real word. I asked my boyfriend last night how we got the word and he said he made it up (I am sure I made it up) but perhaps neither of us did after all. For us it doesn't mean big butt though.

I'm the opposite to you - I stop functioning after 9pm and a freight train could go through my bedroom and I would still fall asleep.

Hi Piglet - you must be completely 'at peace' to sleep so soundly. I, on the other hand, frighten myself when it's dark: little noises could be someone creeping up... the curtains MUST be drawn. And remember to pee before you go to bed because the devil might grab your ankle as you slip it out from under the duvet and go to set it on the floor.

Do you think counselling would help?! *LOL* at how insane I sound! Actually, it's something I'm used to now.

Not sure I sleep because I am "at peace" - just lazy maybe?

When my boyfriend is home, I sleep fine. If he goes away, I am just like you. I have to look under the bed before I go to sleep to make sure no one is hiding under there. I check all the rooms of the house are empty, all the windows are locked and I look in all the wardrobes to make sure no one is in there. When I turn the lights out, I am convinced every psycho south of the equator is trying break into my house! I don't sleep properly and am even too afraid to cough in the middle of the night in case someone is outside and then they know what room I am in!

We are a concern, aren't we?