I've noticed myself getting obsessively too into projects, lately. I'm talking WAY too into them. I had to take a little step back yesterday, and want to ensure I moderate. I just plain feel stressed. There are reasons, but also not good ones.

I finally started playing MY music on the CD player. Perhaps hard to believe, but I haven't at all this past year. Hubby has such a convoluted electronics setup that I've just not bothered. We always listen to his music, which other than classical music is cheesy 1960s and 1970s Czech music. Even the car only has that. The stations he plays sometimes have a few songs I like, but mostly the cheesy stuff. I used to mostly only listen to my music in my car, but now I never drive. When he does he only wants his crap. Since he's ALWAYS home, it's not like I can easily listen to mine without him complaining. So now I demanded my stuff, so he's outside. I've started feeling deprivation, in many ways. When he got me set up he immediately turned the bass down. Once the sucker left the house the bass went up again. Much of the music I like is rock from the 1970s through 1990s. There's a 13 year age difference between us, so the generational difference shows.

The Cranberries song I'm listening to now "Empty" so perfectly states how I've felt. Dolores O'Riordan the lead singer, sadly died a few years ago from drowning due to alcohol intoxication. She was my age. She also battled bipolar disorder, from what I've read. If interested, see Cranberries star Dolores O'Riordan battled bipolar disorder in years before tragic death - Daily Record