How are you keeping yourselves occupied?

Kermit.de.frog

Folks,

How are you keeping yourselves occupied during this period?

Working from home, TV, painting, writing, house chores etc etc...??? I mean there is only so much one can do before going crazy

Me, WFH, house work, hops around the block and to the shops, binge watch and posting nonsense here, skyping friends :pac:

How about yer selves?

WoollyRedHat

Racing guinea pigs most of time.

NIMAN

Much same as yourself, no painting yet though.
Add in gardening.

jester77

My day is getting up in the morning, get kids up and dressed and breakfast, then I spend around 2 hours doing homework with them, hit the gym for an hour, get lunch for the kids, then I start work in the afternoon. By the time I'm finished work I get in a dinner, clean up the house and maybe watch TV for an hour and into bed. No real time for much else these days.

Sofiztikated

I've the guts pulled off meself.

Super-Rush

I've never smoked as much weed in my life.

Kermit.de.frog

Could you imagine if this was, say, 1995 (random year)...what would it be like?

coastwatch

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Folks,

How are you keeping yourselves occupied during this period?

Working from home, TV, painting, writing, house chores etc etc...??? I mean there is only so much one can do before going crazy

Me, WFH, house work, hops around the block and to the shops, binge watch and posting nonsense here, skyping friends :pac:

How about yer selves?

FYP
( you couldn't have any spare time for all the rest)

Harry Palmr

Cutting stuff, growing stuff, developing little sections of the garden, painting walls etc until I ran out
I'm now looking for projects to just give me a bit of focus. I'm going to try propagating F1 hybrid tomato seeds just to see if they'll germinate and produce something.

Working like a dog.

Idjit

Where's the option for 'day drinking'? :pac:

I've been mostly playing playstation and trying to keep up some semblance of a gym routine with the little assortment of weights I managed to order online. God I miss the gym so much..I'll never complain about being too tired for a gym session again after this.

Also going jogging in the good weather as I've somehow (as if I'm surprised with all the snacking and day drinking I'm doing) managed to acquire half a stone in weight over the last few weeks :eek:

Been doing a rake of niggly lil farm jobs,that otherwise would never been got around to

FloatingVoter

Sleeping and vodka orange. Today I've moved onto bloody marys.

the_pen_turner

diy . endless supply of jobs to be done

wally1990

Now that I'm actually managing to write down what I did, I realised I don't want to go back to office work at all, I would have never done the below, ever but for this covid situation

My last 4 weeks(no kids and live with wife)

Wfh 40 to 50 hours a week
Set up a home office
Ordered a skip and cleared out entire house of clutter
Painted hall stairs, Landing, front room. And kitchen
Power hosed back area
Undertook 14 hours of excel training
Continued accounting study
Cleared 2 banks total 2900euro
Started a new course to pass time and learn a new skill which is an introduction to python
Daily chores which are simple, keeping house clean and tidy
Walk Daily or every 2nd day depending on the week/days and walking dogs mores
Listening to more podcasts, about 6 a week depending on the length during work hours
I've read 3 books
Learnt to cook new meals
Sat down and switched my gas and electricity for savings
Helped 2 friends via online set up IPTV
Deleted FB, twitter, Instagram, Snapchat apps
However spend time on Reddit



Cons : I've gained 12 pound and my hair is longer
Drinking Alot more alcohol in first 3 weeks
I'm sleeping less in the last 2 weeks (more reading, lack of tiredness and having no commute is making me stay up later)
Not sure if a con, but I'm watching less TV (just have no real interest in any shows lately)
I'm less socially involved in friends but I'm an introvert so can go days without interaction and it wouldn't bother me
Wife is total opposite and is going nuts

Not a lot has changed here in terms of what I do in the home and work - other than working from home a lot more than before. I still run - meditate - work - cook - interact with my children. The kids mammies have taken the brunt of the homeschooling so that hasn't changed for me.

Biggest change is training - which we have to do at home rather than the martial arts schools. Luckily my partners also train so I have someone to roll with rather than train alone. Thing I look forward to most after lock down is getting back to training for real.

Other than that the only change is I put time saved from not commuting into social work with my "Jedi" students to do things like shopping and pet care for some of the local elderly. And I still do a lot of their "Jedi" training at a respectable distance in my garden.

LoughNeagh2017

I have been a loner for the best part of 10 years so I have plenty of interests to entertain me, in the involuntary celibate online community interests are called "copes", things that help you cope with having a painful life. "Rope or cope" means you have two options in life, kill yourself or learn to live with your problems.

I enjoy watching paranormal documentaries, watching sitcoms, watching retro Gaelic football games, reading my CD lyric booklets, looking at my coin collection, watching soap operas, watching concerts, watching pornography and reading Irish history.

ShineOn7

Sofiztikated wrote: »

I've the guts pulled off meself.

Should absolutely be a poll option for single males on here ;-)

ShineOn7

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

"Rope or cope" means you have two options in life, kill yourself or learn to live with your problems.

Option 3:

Make your life better once you overcome/learn to live with your obstacles