Lady of the night

I don’t ‘do’ sleep very well. Never have. If I do manage it, I don’t do it for very long. Or long enough. I am not an insomniac yet according to a recent survey by the Sleep Council I seem to be suffering from the latest teenage disease called “junk sleep”. Junk sleep is when the quality of sleep is compromised by spending too much time on computers and watching T.V. and apparently one in three kids survive on as little as four hours sleep a night. I think the experts have attributed this latest health syndrome to the wrong age group. In our household my three offspring do precious little EXCEPT sleep through the night – it’s their old mother that restlessly wanders about watching absurd quiz shows at 4am and aimlessly Facebooking in order to pass time before dawn arrives. I may look haggard through lack of sleep but at least being a lady of the night I can now rest assured I’m suffering from a youthful disease…..