Actually, both better and worse.
First it will get better. It starts seeming like a long ways off, and you tend to think of other things. But then the date starts getting closer and it creeps back into your mind more and more often. That's when it starts to get worse.
When I was in my bow buying frenzy it seemed if I had a bow on order I was less tempted by the classifieds or in stock listings. So I always looked at it as if I was saving money by having one on order.
Yeah, I had it bad!