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Keeping busy

ZX

What do you do to keep yourself busy? According to my mental health team keeping busy will help me. I generally have zero motivation to do things so now the weather is better I've been outside doing more and I do feel a bit healthier.

Odd little jobs I've done are ...

  • Cleaned the gutters.
  • Recarpeted my bedroom.
  • Cleared out my workshop and reorganised it. 
  • Pulled my Nissan ZX out the garage, started first time after 7 years of sitting in the garage. 
  • Put up a new fence in the garden. 
  • Took my cats to the vets.

I want to begin my writing again but admittedly that's a tall order.

  • Crikey, when have you had time to sleep?

    When I saw your user name, I thought "that's brilliant - ZX spectrum!" Then I read that you have a Nissan ZX. So now I'm wondering, did you buy the car because it reminded you of the computer, and is your user name a homage to the computer, the car, or both??

    (By the way, I also loved David Tennant as the doctor, and Matt Smith)

    I work part time but in my spare time I read, research my interests and play video games.

  • in reply to itsamybby03

    I had a different day to the one I planned, my dog jumped into a swampy drainage ditch and started digging, throwing up great clods and gouts of horrible smelling water and mud that she covered herself with. She's not much of a swimmer so wouldn't go in the sea deep or long enough to get clean, so when I got home I had to bathe her which was a performance as she hates it. She's all nice and clean, smells nice and has a lovely shiny coat now, but she's still not happy, she's going round the house with a real long face, and on a lurcher that really is a long face!

  • I have a pamper morning every Monday which always makes me look forward to a new week and is a positive start. I am currently studying part time and then on the days where I don't study I invest time into my special interests eg: listening to music , exploring new asian resturants as I love the cuisine , live streaming is another and it just makes me feel relaxed and it's enjoyable , hope that helps Slight smile

  • i go to work everyday which keeps me busy, but i dont think that kind of busy is any good for my mental or physical health at all lol
    i keep my mind sane and busy by plotting out different ways to retire and different financial things i can do.

    if i save like 200k into savings account i could probably get more interest than what i live off per month. so thats a motivator plan/goal for me. which could be possible if things stay the same for 20 years, which is also coincidentally the amount of time i need to get my state pension contributions fully.

  • Yesterday, I walked my dog twice, went to the B&M and bought fence paint and a brush, cooked a roasted vegetable salad with home made honey and mustard dressing, everything cooked from scratch and some gardening, then I sat on my bum and watched telly.

    I'm always fairly active, I try and get a good dog walk in before I do much else so as I get endorphins flowing through my body that enable me to do other physical stuff, although sometimes a walk just finishes me off. I always cook from scratch and I batch cook so I always have stuff in the freezer for days when I really don't want to cook or when I've been busy with other things. I do all the shopping, dog walking, most of the gardening, some of the cleanning, all my own laundry. I have more to do than time to do it in.

  • Watching TV, stuff on YouTube, going for a walk/drive. That's usually it.