First of all, how are you all doing? It's been a while. I hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe and healthy and I hope we all get through this unscathed.
I'm not sure if there is a thread for this already.
I know not everyone is sat at home bored out of their skulls, so how are you all spending your time indoors?
Personally, I've been working from home, so my day to day, until about 5pm, hasn't really changed a whole lot, besides having an extra hour or so in the day now that I don't have to commute to the office.
My only real inconvenience is the fact that I live in a flat with a tiny balcony. I have just about managed to fit an exercise bike in it and there's just enough space leftover for me to get on and off it. I envy anyone with a garden.
I've set myself a challenge to learn Korean. It seemed utterly daunting at first, but I got my head around the alphabet, currently learning about how sentences are structured etc.
I'm doing what I can to keep my mind occupied for as long as I can. The easiest thing to do would be to sit and watch Netflix for 7 hours every evening.
How are you filling the time? How long are your daily walks or runs? My neighbour goes running for more than 2 hours. I keep my walks to under 30 minutes.
I'm especially wondering about the people who aren't currently working, for whatever reason.
I live alone so you’d think I’d have got lonely but I’ve not. By having a routine I’ve found that I am not bored at all and my time is filled easily.
My alarm is turned off and my phone in the living room while I sleep so I’m getting a proper sleep and tend to wake up between 07:45 and 08:45 every day.
I wake up naturally, get up to do an exercise session, shower and do a couple of hours of work (some days I’ve actually not had to do any work).
When it’s been nice I do a couple of hours sunbathing. If not just do a bit of reading on the internet.
Prepare and eat my one meal for the day (I’m doing intermittent fasting because I don’t need nearly as much food as usual while I’m just staying at home) at around 15:00. Get the pots done, have a little clean of the flat where it needs it and get the 17:00 briefing on.
18:00 is Richard Osman’s House Of Games, never miss it!
A couple of hours listening to music, updating playlists, posting on my music WhatsApp group.
Then a few hours of documentaries and films before bed at around midnight.
I’ve not been bored for one day of the month I’ve been off work.
I also live in a flat, first floor, no balcony though. But I have a large communal garden and I get my deck chair out and sit at my front door on the ground floor (that nobody else has access to therefore no need to worry about social distancing). I don’t think some of the neighbours are enamoured with a nearly naked bloke in the garden sunbathing (nobody else from the other 7 flats ever come out and sunbathe). But sod it, I’m getting some Vitamin D!
My exercise sessions are cycling or walking outdoors on the roads. I’d found a quiet route for both. About a 5 mile cycle and a 3 mile walk. However, I haven’t been out on either of those this week after seeing too many people out last week with far too much social distancing ignorance going on.
I bought a skipping rope so have a skip session in the car park to the flats (it’s large and fairly unused so no problem with social distancing).
And also do body weight sessions in the living room. I’ve found back exercises the most difficult to because they’re the ones you need something heavy to pull but worked out some things to do (I used to be a PT so just used my noggin to replicate the movement needed).
I’m batch cooking some proper hearty healthy meals too, it’s a highlight of the week when’s I get to do that!
FaceTime my Mam+Dad every other day and on the other days FaceTime my Sister and her three kids.
Ive done a few album listening parties with my mates from my music chat too. They’re always good!
Also been messaging and ringing an old workmate who I always got on with when she worked with me and we’ve said we’re going to go for a drink when this is all over, so something to look forward to every few days when I speak to her and also for when this is all over.