Dear Body: I Am Not Impressed

( Cut to preserve the delicate sensibilities of those on my flist who don't want to read about girly issues )

It's 03:15: Do you know where your sanity is?

Three more nights, not counting the three hours and fifteen minutes left today. Whee!

I should not be allowed on amazon.ca (or .com for that matter) at night unsupervised. It's a good thing that I'm not keen on using my credit card online and especially not at work, but I have discovered about fourteen thousand books I want.

This is NOT a veiled plea for people to look at my wish list. It is horribly out of date anyway, and no longer really reflects stuff I'd like.

I'm just bored and going slightly out of my mind here, and thus am wandering through LJ communities and finding books on homesteading and beekeeping and all sorts of cool stuff on teh intarwebs.

This night refuses to freaking end. Aaaaah! *headdesk*

While I'm obsessing here...

Despite the fact that I'm no longer hurting for money, I get the impression that I need to be more on top of my finances than I currently am. I mean, all my bills get paid on time now, and everything gets filed away neatly, but I don't keep a close record of where my money goes: I only have a general idea.

I'm thinking of getting myself a ledger, or something. That way I could, if properly disciplined, keep track of all the money that goes in and out. I'd have to keep receipts more carefully, but it would help me to see where my money goes and identify potential spending problems (at a guess: books and DVDs, since they're my primary "leisure" expenditures). Not that I know how to use a proper accounting ledger or anything, but I bet I could learn.

So, dear flist ('cause I haven't asked enough questions lately :P), how do you manage your household finances?

Time for a break

I think I'm a little burnt out.

I have no discipline, so I'm not going to start this until Monday, but as of Monday morning I think I'm going to take a break from the internet, and LiveJournal in particular. I have the week off work, and I have a bunch of things I want to do during that time. The internet seems to suck away gigantic gobs of my time, and lately there have been a lot of flare-ups and controversies and drama, all of which have left me with a bad taste in my mouth and even less energy than I had before. So, I'm taking a leave of absence.

I am going to get myself back on a proper sleep schedule, go outside, and get stuff done around the apartment. I'm going to do some gardening, and take the cats to the vet. I can't do my floors this week, but at the very least I will prepare the way so that I can do them at the beginning of July.

Right now I don't even want to think about interacting with people, online or off. I don't feel like seeing people, or writing, or anything remotely close to that. Things that I normally find fun and relaxing have begun to seem like chores, and things that are usually chores now seem practically insurmountable. Mostly the only thing that doesn't seem too hard to do is sleep.

What I really want is to be transported to a cabin next to a lake for, oh, about a month, and have everything in my life be magically taken care of.

Oh, and I also want a pony.