Blogger...

The new Blogger system forces you to see how many page views your blog has. I find it weird that my blog keeps increasing page views every day. Not in large volumes, just creeping upwards steadily. I know it's not me because I don't visit my own blog very much...

I don't know why I find it creepy to think people are even reading my stuff?

So anyway I have to abandon everything right now because I'm in a caffeine withdrawal, and can't think straight for more than 10 minutes at a time, and become fatigued really easily.  I haven't had caffeine for a week now, except a cup of tea about two days ago, which I hope hasn't set me back for another two weeks.  I remember that cup of tea being a huge caffeine rush for some-reason...

I was drinking caffeine like a fiend. My steady rate was 500mL of energy drink per day (2 small cans), but sometimes would drink 750mL (3 small cans) or up to a whole litre (2 large cans). Today is Friday, and I decided to quit starting Friday last week--cold turkey--when I turned up to work totally forgetting to buy some more drinks the night before. But I decided I don't want to be addicted to any substances. If I want my life to be dictated by my addictions, they will all have to be purely psychological, and ones that I choose for myself.

They say it takes two weeks for withdrawal symptoms to wear off. That means I've got another week to go. I know I can do this, I've managed to quit alcohol, even sugar--I had to stop eating sugar for some reason--it's a long story.  Another addiction I'm trying to quit is less substantial: shopping.  It's hard because there are lots of really cool stuff to buy right now, but I don't want to buy something unless I'm dead serious about buying it.  Another thing I've got to stop is picking at my face, which is a huge problem for me.

Here are a couple of interesting articles about addiction, including one about "relapse", which is important if you're deciding to quit something:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201209/why-were-all-addicted-texts-twitter-and-google

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201007/the-new-quitter