Itchy fingers

:computer: Monday I turned off my computer at 7pm. I’d been noticing for a while that I can always find something new to do on the internet to keep me up at night. And I’d been a little disconcerted about how much time my lap top spent on my lap when I was sitting on the couch with Brett in the evening.

So I turned it off.

And then I had time to soak my feet, read a book, and do some yoga before we went to bed at a pretty decent hour.

Success.

Last night I had a meeting from 7-9pm. I printed off the agenda and then turned off my computer at 6:30pm. Because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to put off certain computer things until late at night, I even made significant progress on them before I shut off my computer.

When I got home from my meeting I told Brett it was nice to not have that distraction sitting on my desk calling to me. He laughed and asked if I wasn’t itching to go over and turn it on though. And I said, “YES! Which is why I know I need to leave it off.”

I could think of several things I could be doing online, checking things, updating things, looking up things, pretending to do productive things.

But I left it off. And guess what? All of that was still available when I got up this morning. And I had time to sort the laundry last night before bed.

I’m going to try turning it off again this evening. Eventually that itchy feeling should go away, right?

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