1. Looking for something to watch on TV but it takes longer to decide that then it would to just watch a show
2. Stare blankly at my phone while not really looking at anything
3. Opening a book and not reading it
4. Booze
5. Yelling at my son to get off the iPad
6. Existential dread
7. Telling my son to be quiet and go use the iPad
8. Pretending I’m entering a zombie infestation when I go grocery shopping
9. Cooking something I’ve never tried before
10. Sweet, sweet booze
11. Sex (by myself)
12. Sleeping poorly
13. Cooking the same thing I’ve had a million times before
14. Sex (not by myself)
15. Watching the same show I always watch for the 7,087th time.
16. Eating all the carbs
17. Idly wondering if Joe Biden is still running for president
18. Working from home
19. Getting hit by a bus
20. Watching TV news
im torturing me nimby neighbours…
they blasted their whole driveway clean..
i just swept all that shit back on to their side of the drive way…
you have a bin…fucking use it instead of my driveway
if this drags on my nr 1 hobby may be molotov cocktails…. nr 2 would be pairing them with their house
…think my cocktail of choice is probably more by way of an old fashioned than a Molotov but best of luck with the folks next door
wierd….the neighbours just completely ghosted me when i said hi
wonder who pissed in their cereal
*whistles innocently*
Baking. And as an old, getting baked now means cookies, cakes, and pies.
Reading, yardwork, housework.
Yearning for the sweet release of death.
…so…like Hemingway quantities of booze, then?
I have made so many face masks. But now I’m out of elastic, thank the universe, so I can stop that without feeling guilty.
Cleaning
I think tonight will be booze.
This sounds troglodyte-adjacent but I have done far less cleaning over the past month because while I am still working, my wife isn’t and has gone into overdrive on it (we have rearranged the living room and bedroom. Twice.)
I’ve been kinda enjoying things so far. I ran out of beer sometime in March or so, but that’s okay, because I don’t have to deal with people or stress about rent.
I’ve finished up a couple random projects lying around, and am keeping busy figuring out how to prepare and eat the various forgotten items in my pantry and freezer.
I might have to leave my apartment and hit up a grocery store in a week or two.
Plus, I’m spending a bunch of time fucking around online and watching True Blood (HBO has a handful of things for free this month, that’s one of them)
I’ve done more work in the last 3 days than the last 3 weeks. It sucks.
I have a zoom book club on Sunday but all I’ve done is stare at the book.
I can’t get motivated to read lately.
…have you tried something that’s like the reading equivalent of comfort food?
…douglas adams, terry pratchett or one of the better louis de bernieres books* sometimes works for me?
[https://smile.amazon.com/Louis-Bernieres-Box-Set-books/dp/0749386347/]
Yeah, maybe even something I’ve read before.
…for me all the above would qualify as “read before” so that’s part of where I was going for sure…but if you haven’t already those are pretty good bets for me…YMMV & all that
I just remembered I have “Journal of a Plague Year” in my library. Can’t decide whether that is a must read or too macabre.
I’m knitting a 10-stitch blanket. 10-stitch mindless knitting so I don’t lose my place when I’m distracted by the latest news from the hell that is outdoors right now. 10-stitches leaves me ample time to bait entitled assholes who brag about their hoarding under the guise of bulk buying. Excellent, well done, you got yours and never gave a flying fuck for people who can’t afford to shop once a month or took the bus to the store only to find empty shelves. And the golfers who think the courses should be open because it’s just outside exercise. So what happens when, because it’s the only place open, flocks of people descend on the course? You’re gonna kick em off, right? Coz, members only, right? And there is nothing wrong with that. MFers. Sorry for the rant, that is my #2 hobby.
Rant away!
People have tried to teach me to knit over the years but I never managed to be good at it. Luckily those same people make me lots of presents!
This would be a good time to learn! I could try to teach you via skype but be forewarned, I am a terrible teacher.
BTW – Thank-you!