This Time I'm Really Going To Do It

Watty1

I gave up caffeine a few years ago so its not that. Drink decaff tea and coffee only. And chamomile tea. Bought some for the horses and tried it myself and found it rather nice
Kitten progress made this weekend - which is why I've not been on here much - have spent a couple of hours with her each day and she has pretty much given up on the hissing and spitting, is accepting treats from the edge of the metal I use to push the treat through the pen, playing with a feather on a stick toy I bought, and playing with enthusiasm today in pen rather than just watching it - and - drumroll - accepted a headscratch very cautiously through the bars of the pen. Am delighted with her progress.

Less delighted with credit card bill which I just opened. Rather than just shrugging it off and paying it I am going to go through it carefully and list what I actually bought. There are a few too many purchases from Amaz0n which are suggestive of a busy panic ordering so I think it warrants some careful checking.

Watty1

Been through credit card bill. I think I just sank into fatigue before Christmas and bought stuff on Amaz0n just to resolve problems. I need to be more mindful of that perhaps but goodness it is tempting to resolve something with one click I can pay it off but it will eat into the amount I had set aside to overpay this month.
So, I will now keep a list of exactly what I order on my card and a running total as I think that will help me be more mindful.

Watty1

Another failed sleep night. Although my excuse would be last night we were up till 1 am as had to sort out Mr W's dad who felt ill and wondered if he needed an ambulance. A quick trip there and reassured he did not, he just needed to sit up in bed and take his antibiotics :(However rather than focusing on that, I have thought about what I can do instead.
One thing occurs to me is to take my phone out of the bedroom so I have moved the charger downstairs. I will charge during the night in office. This will stop me using google for random things at 1.30 am and reading faceache feeds! And I will get an alarm clock for bedroom. In the short term will put the alarm clock from spare room under bed (it is too bright even at its dimmest setting). Was tempted by a "wake up light" but decided I could spend some time on line trying to work out how my blue light works and wake to that instead.

AlexLK

So, I'm not the only one on my 'phone / iPad at silly o'clock checking out the news (which can lead me spiralling into a low state of mind) / rubbish on google or social networks / or the worse one now I'm not sharing a bed with Mrs K ... playing the type of music which will wake you up rather than settle down. If I need an excuse to get my marriage back on track, there it is.

If is for those reasons apparently that I have to take the phone / iPad to bed with me ...

elantan

Watty1 wrote: »

Been through credit card bill. I think I just sank into fatigue before Christmas and bought stuff on Amaz0n just to resolve problems. I need to be more mindful of that perhaps but goodness it is tempting to resolve something with one click I can pay it off but it will eat into the amount I had set aside to overpay this month.
So, I will now keep a list of exactly what I order on my card and a running total as I think that will help me be more mindful.

I decided in December to close my Amaz0n account, I recognised it was too handy, so far it has helped, before I would just order things but now I'm going and searching other website's and doing a bit more research, where as before ( with the ap) it was click on the search bar put it what I wanted couple of clicks and it was bought, no thought about the affordability at all

Kitten sounds fun

atypicalblonde

Hi Watty,

I used to use ebay in the way you use Amazon. I had the app on my phone and would use it far too often to buy things, especially clothing for the kids, all at "bargain" prices. But then I saw all these blasted Paypal transactions coming out of my account! I removed the App from my phone which has helped. I would second the suggestion of closing your account so you simply can't buy.

I have also started leaving my phone downstairs at night - DS is still night waking a lot, and when he does I often check the time on my phone resulting in me waking up more, so I end up reading the news/facebook/whatsapping people at silly o'clock! Have a little digital bedside light now.

Hope Mr Watty's dad is ok

ATB xx

Karmacat

Watty, there's messing about on your phone, and there's staying awake for a possibly life-threatening emergency. You had to check on Mr Watty's dad, of course you did! Hope today hasn't been too bad for you and your family xx

hiddenshadow

Watty1 wrote: »

This will stop me using google for random things at 1.30 am and reading faceache feeds!

I've found this to be quite helpful: http://socialfixer.com/download.html

It's a browser extension that only hooks in to fb and adds a bunch of options. I mainly use the "mark as read" option which collapses all the feed stories into their own line (read at xx:xx time) so you can choose to re-expand them and read them but if you're just mindlessly checking for new stuff on fb you don't wade through stuff you've already read.

There are apparently also loads of options (which I've only just discovered ) to hide news/political things, sponsored posts, those "shared memory" posts, etc.

FB is still a distraction, but now it takes 20-60 seconds to run out of "content" whereas before I'd end up re-reading half the feed because I didn't realise I'd already seen it! And it's very helpful for those posts that you know will just go insane comment-wise...mark as read and pretend it's not there, haha.

gallygirl

Another bad sleeper here - though mine is not getting back to sleep when I wake during the night, I can drop off easily enough. What has helped me is not having any 'stimulants' in the bedroom. No TV, no ipads etc, no phones. The bedroom is for sleeping (or, ahem, other activities ), not for browsing etc. I will read a book but only on paper, not on a Kindle etc. It has made a big difference to me - why don't you try it Alex? And Watty - if you need the phone for dad then at least have it face down, with apps silenced, on the other side of teh room.

AlexLK

I need to try it, Gally.

I have made a list of books I want to read in 2017, I should go to the library and make a start on one. My ideal bedtime routine would be 11pm go to bed and read, 11.30pm lights out but that seems ridiculously early to me at the moment and for some reason I start to think I'm "missing out" on the hours after midnight. :mad: