Why is it so much harder to wake up than to stay up late.
The party I had (actually just people over for a barbecue followed by some board games) ended at around midnight. I felt a little sleepy, but I was awake enough to pop a DVD into the player and start watching TV. Now it is 4:00 in the morning. I feel fairly alert, and I know I am more on the ball than I would be if I went to sleep and got up at an early hour. Sleep will not make me more awake but more sleepy. Why bother going to sleep if it won’t help me.
In sleeps defense, I am not taxing my brain hard. I was not watching a searing documentary on current political happenings. I was watching a television series.
Needless to say, I have decided, in my heart of heart, that I will not be running tomorrow morning. Or rather this morning. That would require getting up in three and a half hours, and that isn’t in the cards.
Saturday morning (note the subtle use of the name of the day rather than the demonstrative pronoun. Classy eh?) I had my hair cut. I spoil myself with the hairstylist. I acknowledge that I don’t have a proper sense of style, so I trust the stylist to make the important decisions. Ergo, I go to a more expensive place where there are trained professionals. I experimented with a different stylist for that session and the previous one, and I now realize that I have made a large mistake.
Don’t get me wrong, my hair looks very nice and I am pleased with the outcome. Just not at the amount of money I had to pay. The stylist proposed certain operations on my head, and they sounded reasonable. However, she didn’t quote a price and I only found out about the amount of tender after the ordeal was over. In fact when I was paying the bill, I was told I was also paying for something they forgot to charge me the last time. I suppose I might have been able to argue that last part, but services had been rendered.
It got me thinking that I am going to have to acknowledge the damage this has done. I feel there is now a lack of trust between me and the stylist. I am definitely going back to the old stylist, and not try to do anything fancy with the hair I have. The money is gone, and the best way to recover it is to start a budget.
For the past ten years I have been earning enough money to be comfortable and never really worry about money. I have a mortgage, and I have been doing a good job of killing it. But I could be doing a better job. A budget might just be the thing.
I’m not talking a major sweeping budget of all income and expenditures. Just the stuff that isn’t necessary. Groceries would continue to be me buying whatever I feel like. But I buy a number of books and reading material. I’ve been keeping an informal budget of that in my head, giving myself just $30 a week to blow how I feel like. Now I’ll start doing the same with hair stuff. Based off the recent bill, I’m in the hole, so I just need to figure out the average amount I would spend on hair stuff in a week (Very little except for the spikes when I actually do get it cut. We’re talking averages here people.) and figure out how long it will take to pay off what I just did.
This is all making great sense in this middle of the night time period. I’ll be interested to see what common sense the morning brings.