Will-Power

I was very good yesterday, so thrifty and restrained that I can hardly believe it! I went to Waterstone's which is having a big 3 for 2 promotion, and easily found 2 books that I wanted. There wasn't another book that attracted my attention and I managed to put down the books and leave the shop without making a purchase, instead of either wandering round the shop for ages until I found a suitable third book, or just picking up any old book and justifying it by saying that I would give it away as a present.

Of course, it would be easier to avoid temptation in the first place if Waterstone's didn't have a coffee shop with a good view on the third floor!

Insomnia Gripes

My insomnia is getting worse as the weather gets hotter. As midsummer approaches it stays light later and later into the night and the blinds at my window don't block it out.
Last week I felt more and more shattered as the week went on, enough to get in a strop with my colleagues on Wednesday afternoon at work (I apologised to them for my bad mood on Thursday). I couldn't have a lie-in on Saturday morning as I had an appointment to get to, but after watching Time Team I had a couple of hours nap in the early evening, and went back to bed at 10 o'clock. I woke up a couple of times on Sunday morning, before finally dragging myself out of bed at about 11 o'clock. I went to bed at 10 o'clock again last night, which is quite early for me, but I still feel tired today.
The problem is that even though I spent so many hours in bed, I wasn't asleep for very many of them as my insomnia ensures that it always takes me hours to get to sleep. The getting to sleep insomnia has been a problem my whole life, whereas the waking up several times in the night insomnia comes and goes. I might have a phase of it lasting several months, then not for a year.