Shut up brain...shut up brain. It is 2:00 AM and I can not sleep. I am obsessing about finances and it's getting out of control! I went to bed thinking about my water bill. I couldn't stop thinking about putting a stupid bucket in my tub to collect shower water. What could I use? The pink container? Too small. Butter tub? Way too small. My son's art box? What? I can't do that. I should buy one...that's not frugal. I know! The bucket that's in the basement that I currently use as a trash can for my dryer lint. Yes, perfect! Ok, now go to sleep....will it fit? Maybe it's too big. I think it's too big. Maybe it's not. I might as well just get up and get the blasted thing so I could stop thinking about it! That was at 1:00 AM. Here I am again at 2:00 AM. Now I am obsession about a shower gift for a friend who is having twins. Shut up brain! Shut up brain! The shower gift is outside of the no-spend challenge because I forgot about it. How can get I around this? I know! Diapers! I will buy $50 worth of diapers. I can use my "spend $70 get $7" off coupon. What should I spend the other $20 on? Then I had to get up to go write all that down that I can get it off my brain and onto paper.
I hate it when I obsess like this!!!! I really do! Sometimes my obsessions are good and controlled, but sometimes they are just out of hand!
And my other obsession...every time I think about money, I need to write about it! I compose blogs in my head all the time! It's driving me nuts! Before I was blogging, it was posting on the forum. I do this! I go hog wild and then BAM!! it's gone. DH calls them "manic obsessions." He says that's the phase I am in right now. If I wait it out, it will go away. The problem is, this is a GOOD obsession! I don't want this one to go away!
Insomnia and obsessions
August 12th, 2006 at 06:14 am
August 12th, 2006 at 09:54 am 1155376476
August 12th, 2006 at 11:03 am 1155380598
From another money obsessed person, I completely understand!
August 12th, 2006 at 01:31 pm 1155389492
And 4:02, Robex? Now that's bad.
August 12th, 2006 at 01:53 pm 1155390839
August 12th, 2006 at 03:37 pm 1155397028
I was awake last night too, but that is not uncommon. I am obsessed with money too, though I have not started my blog yet. I watch TV or read until my eyes are tired enough to shut. Also another trick is I would promise myself I can worry or obsess the minute I wake up, but I have to put it away for now. Sometimes if I just keep reminding myself that I can think/obsess whatever the minute I wake up, it enables me to relax enough to sleep.
Good luck from a chronic insomniac! (DH is too, so sometimes we lay in bed and watch TV in the middle of the night.)
August 12th, 2006 at 06:43 pm 1155408184
Somehow it never occurred to me to get up and go on the computer, though. Thanks for the idea. I think.
August 20th, 2006 at 06:02 pm 1156096949