One big thing I have to regulate and fight against is my sleep cycle, without the kids here it's easy to sleep in and mess up my schedule.

I'm also working hard to overcome my addictions - shopping, smoking, and caffeine. My biggest problem is shopping actually, it hurts our family's finances and makes me feel down after I come home and realize how much I spent.

We are typical, living paycheck to paycheck, but we are working on fixing that, and me curbing my shopping will get us there. I have to thank my t-doc for all the support and help she has given me in over coming my shopping addiction. Not that I am there yet, but I am getting better. I know I have to write lists of what to get, since I can't avoid buying things all together, and stick to them.

In some ways I think my shopping addiction is worse than alcohol or drugs. I can't totally avoid my addiction. Unlike alcohol, where I could avoid bars and keep it out of my house, or drugs where I could avoid certain people, or even my other addictions that I will be conquering in the future where I can just cut them out one by one, I can't avoid the store. I have to get groceries and I have to get new clothes and I have to get household needs, especially with my kids. If I was a single woman I could get away with rarely shopping, have take out, that kind of thing, but that's just not healthy for my family, and it costs more anyway. My addiction is not with the money, I don't have to spend a certain amount to get my high, I just have to spend. I get my high when I buy things we actually need or sort-of need too.

Like today, we bought dice so we can play games with our friends, we needed to not borrow dice anymore, so we kind-of needed them. I got such a high off of picking out and walking out with my new dice. Less than $5 for mine, and I loved it.

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