Top 5 Tuesday is created by the always prolific Shanah, the Bionic Book Worm, and this week we’re not talking about books at all! We’re talking about the things we do to stave off insanity. What are we doing with our time now that there seems like so much more of it?! How are we going to survive if quarantine doesn’t go away AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE!!
Work (Believe it or Not)
I’m one of the lucky ones that gets to keep working by commandeering my wife’s crafting room and turning it into a home office. For the first two weeks, I was so busy getting used to the new accommodations, adjusting to everything taking longer from home, and generally just putting out little fires everywhere. (see what I did there?) It was so much work that I barely had a moment to spare thinking about isolation and the world going insane around me. Now that I’ve climatized, I can’t seen to keep hitting refresh on cnn.com!
Reading (of course!)
I mean, we’re readers, right? We read in the best of times, how can we be expected not to read in the worst of times! I was hoping this would mean that I’d have so much more time to read, but honestly, that hasn’t changed. Probably because of the other things on this list, but there it is.
Catching Up on TV (and Video Games)
I know, it’s a bit of a cheat to put TV and video games as one item, but they both serve to destroy my time doing anything productive. When it comes to video games, I’m a bargain shopper. I don’t buy them when they come out. I buy them when they go on sale (half price or less) thinking I’ll play them when I “have time.” I should have more time now, but as I said above, I don’t. And when it comes to TV, my wife and I usually take forever to get through a season of something. Lately though, we start and end a season within the same week, or close to it. Our latest was The Stranger on Netflix. As most of the best shows usually are, this one was based on a book. Now we’re struggling to find the next show to watch. Please drop me your binging recommendations in the comments!
Writing (sometimes)
Another of the more productive things I tend to do in the best of times, and another thing that I still wish I was doing more of. I started off last week writing and thought I’d continue the momentum all week long. NOPE! But alas, the times I do sit down and do it, I love it. It’s maybe the best escape of the list, especially if I can find myself completely immersed in the worlds of my own making.
Home Projects
I never thought this would make the list, but it did. I’m a procrastinator, through and through. But since we aren’t really leaving the house, I’m stuck nose-to-nose with all those things that are on the “eventually I’ll get to this” list. So far, I’ve done a bunch of landscaping in the front yard and a bunch of organizing in the basement. That may not seem like a lot (and it’s not) but for me, it’s A LOT!
Reading of course haha! For me trying to work a bit also helps, makes me feel like I’m still somehow productive!
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We should really take on some home projects. There are so many. Glad you’re able to get some stuff done. Stay safe.
Yep work at home has limited time to feel bored etc!
I’m going room by room in my apartment and doing a deep clean (when I’m actually supposed to be working…) It’s only taken me three weeks of working from home until I snapped and decided everything needed to be scrubbed.
Like you, I’m reading, listening to my favourite audiobooks and watching TV. Hubby and I have got our teenage girls into watching the quintessentially English sitcom,The Vicar of Dibley staring Dawn French. Of course we saw it back on the Beeb in the 90’s when it came out but thankfully the girls are enjoying it – they chuckle along. I think we all need a laugh.
I am the same way with home projects! I had to finally clean out my office so I could use it 🤣 I was using the room as storage before but I needed a place to work! (I had also been meaning to clean it out for like a year but somehow never found time 🤣 )