Meme: Five obsessions

I've been tagged by Him and Her of Make Love, Not Debt.

It's hard to limit myself to just five, but here are the first five that come to mind.

Money. Do I have enough? Could I be saving more? Should I give more away? How can I earn more? Am I getting a good deal on every single thing that I buy, ever? Could I be a smarter shopper? Is my investment strategy too conservative? Too risky? Am I too concerned about money? Should I just relax and go with the flow and figure it will all work out? Maybe it's unhealthy that I check my accounts online almost every day. All three hundred accounts. Do I have too many accounts? Am I making this more complicated than it has to be? Maybe I should simplify. But which accounts should I eliminate? Should I open a new account specifically to save for replacing my car eventually? But I was going to have fewer accounts. Maybe I should rethink that.... Okay, I think you get the picture.

Food. I prefer to eat like a Hobbit: at least six meals a day.

Sleep. I could do with a lot more of it and it's all I can think about some days. I've had insomnia since I was a kid. All I know is I have never gotten enough sleep. The last 3 years have been worse. There is a small whirling dervish in my house who absolutely cannot sleep for more than an hour or so unless he is in contact with another person's body. I spend half my nights in the master bedroom, sleeping diagonally across our queen-sized bed and missing my partner (who is in our son's room). The other half of my nights I spend squeezed into a twin bed with my son the human windmill, sleeping intermittently and getting whacked occasionally by an errant limb. I'm often cold in there, because he likes to kick the covers off himself and also his bedfellow. The other problem is that I stay up too late reading most nights, because it's my only time to myself all day and I'd rather be tired the next day than have no time to myself.

Books. If you have considered becoming a librarian because you love books, don't do it. Librarianship is all about computers nowadays. So I still have to indulge my book lust every other waking hour of my day, not while I'm at work. I like to read. A lot. Preferrably for many hours a day. Luckily my spouse and kid like books also, because if they didn't, what would I have to talk to them about?

Dinosaurs. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Dinosaurs are my kid's current obsession. For over two years before he got into dinosaurs, it was all about vehicles (trains, trucks, cars, anything with wheels). He talks about dinosaurs all the time, and expects us to be as fascinated as he is. It would drive me crazy, except that I have decided that it's in my best interest to find dinosaurs compelling also. Soccer moms, to stay sane, probably have to decide that they are going to love watching youth soccer. Me, I'm a dinosaur mom.

Okay, I tag the authors of the following sites. If you are one of those people who always throws out chain mail on principle, then you probably are not into memes either. Feel free to ignore this and just be glad you got a free link out of the deal.
Frugal Zeitgeist
Fox in the Snow
udandi and the craft of money
This Examined Life
Millionaire Artist