I am not trying to be an alcoholic.

December 2, 2009 by Dawn · Leave a Comment
Filed under: food and drink, guilty pleasure, life lessons, vanity 

reasons that I am choosing to abstain from alcohol from this point on: 1) Alcohol makes you age faster (especially the sugar-filled drinks and beer that I tend to enjoy), and I have always wanted to be a hot middle-aged lady. 2) Hangovers are not fun. 3) I bet cirrhosis of the liver isn't either. 4) I am just as pleasant  when I am sober, and people who disagree with that do not know me very well at all. 5) Drinking is expensive. 6) Who needs a weakened immune system with the swine flu on the loose? 7) Most importantly, alcoholism runs in my family, and I...

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I scoff at insomnia.

October 27, 2009 by Dawn · 1 Comment
Filed under: health and beauty, product review 
These help me sleep.

1) Melatonin- I take one 3 mg pill of these bad boys about thirty minutes before I get in the bed. Since melatonin is a hormone that the body (more specificially, the brain) already makes, I don't feel guilty about taking them to help me sleep. Word to the wise, do not take these unless you plan on getting eight or more hours of sleep: any less and you will feel hung-the-hell-over. Also, in most situations I opt for the natural version when given the choice between natural or synthetic, but when it comes to melatonin it's probably safest to...

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