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Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« on: March 18, 2020, 03:09:49 pm »
So my husband is really bummed out about the comicon we were looking forward to in mid-May having now been cancelled.  And I might be working from home from sometime next week (or if not next week then in the next few weeks or so, anyway).

What hints and tips can anyone share for keeping occupied while isolating?  (My hours of work are nine to five, but if I won't be travelling I'll have a couple of extra hours each weekday to do with what I like!)

There's some obvious options such as films, TV, reading and computer games -- interspersed with some indoor type of exercise, ideally.

I'll be fine, I think (I might even get to giving the place a good spring clean!).  But my husband already doesn't go out a lot at all and now the events throughout the year that he was really looking forward to aren't going ahead.  So not only has he not got the events to look forward to, but he feels there's no point doing all the prep work on his cosplay costumes (his hobby).

It feels as though were going to lose half of 2020 to this pandemic (possibly more?  But let's not even go there.)
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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2020, 03:12:05 pm »
I might be working from home from sometime next week

Just a brief additional post to acknowledge that I'm one of the lucky ones able to carry out my role remotely.
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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2020, 04:50:03 pm »
So my husband is really bummed out about the comicon we were looking forward to in mid-May having now been cancelled.  And I might be working from home from sometime next week (or if not next week then in the next few weeks or so, anyway).

What hints and tips can anyone share for keeping occupied while isolating?  (My hours of work are nine to five, but if I won't be travelling I'll have a couple of extra hours each weekday to do with what I like!)

There's some obvious options such as films, TV, reading and computer games -- interspersed with some indoor type of exercise, ideally.

I'll be fine, I think (I might even get to giving the place a good spring clean!).  But my husband already doesn't go out a lot at all and now the events throughout the year that he was really looking forward to aren't going ahead.  So not only has he not got the events to look forward to, but he feels there's no point doing all the prep work on his cosplay costumes (his hobby).

It feels as though were going to lose half of 2020 to this pandemic (possibly more?  But let's not even go there.)
Perhaps Astral Projection is a good idea?

If you can't travel physically you can still travel astrally.  :)

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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2020, 04:56:49 pm »

What hints and tips can anyone share for keeping occupied while isolating?  (My hours of work are nine to five, but if I won't be travelling I'll have a couple of extra hours each weekday to do with what I like!)


but he feels there's no point doing all the prep work on his cosplay costumes (his hobby).

It feels as though were going to lose half of 2020 to this pandemic (possibly more?  But let's not even go there.)

Well, how about working on organising an event for when everything clears? It would take a lot of time, involve phone contact and skyping other cosplayers, imagination in creating scene and background etc

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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2020, 05:04:48 pm »
Perhaps Astral Projection is a good idea?

Well, how about working on organising an event for when everything clears?

Thanks both for posting - I think these suggestions are a bit more ambitious than I was thinking of, though!

I'm not at the point of learning to astrally project, yet, and I'm the only pagan in the house at present.

And my husband's the keener cosplayer (I am mostly involved to take an interest in his interest, if that makes sense) but he wouldn't be up for organising an event.

I guess I could try looking at some sort of social event as something for him to look forward to, though.  Would need to be something that wasn't date dependent and could be run any weekend we felt like it (once the crisis has resolved itself) - could take a bit of thinking about, that (so any additional ideas you might have could be cool).
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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2020, 05:09:06 pm »
Thanks both for posting - I think these suggestions are a bit more ambitious than I was thinking of, though!

I'm not at the point of learning to astrally project, yet, and I'm the only pagan in the house at present.

And my husband's the keener cosplayer (I am mostly involved to take an interest in his interest, if that makes sense) but he wouldn't be up for organising an event.

I guess I could try looking at some sort of social event as something for him to look forward to, though.  Would need to be something that wasn't date dependent and could be run any weekend we felt like it (once the crisis has resolved itself) - could take a bit of thinking about, that (so any additional ideas you might have could be cool).

Well, would you mind me asking the somewhat personal question of what interests you both have? It might help to give you better ideas.

I mean I could just devour books all day and create d and d adventures ( although I've only ever created never played AND I tend to run out of books - on 1 book per 2 days :( ) but I realise that's not everyone's cup of tea

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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2020, 05:12:12 pm »
Thanks both for posting - I think these suggestions are a bit more ambitious than I was thinking of, though!

I'm not at the point of learning to astrally project, yet, and I'm the only pagan in the house at present.
I did not know Astral Projection is that ambitious to be honest.  ;D

Or that it is pagan.  ;D

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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2020, 05:24:00 pm »
I did not know Astral Projection is that ambitious to be honest.  ;D

Or that it is pagan.

For me personally it is not something I feel ready to learn.

And that was my way of stating that my husband (who is the one I'm really seeking ideas for) would not be interested.
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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2020, 05:25:43 pm »
Well, would you mind me asking the somewhat personal question of what interests you both have? It might help to give you better ideas.

I mean I could just devour books all day and create d and d adventures ( although I've only ever created never played AND I tend to run out of books - on 1 book per 2 days :( ) but I realise that's not everyone's cup of tea

Ps. I didn't mean that to sound harsh :( . Sorry

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« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2020, 05:26:52 pm »
For me personally it is not something I feel ready to learn.

And that was my way of stating that my husband (who is the one I'm really seeking ideas for) would not be interested.
Ah, thank you, well, if you ever need pointers, just ask.   8)

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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2020, 05:50:58 pm »
Ps. I didn't mean that to sound harsh :( . Sorry

It's okay, you're right you could fling suggestions at me all day with no way of knowing whether they'd be of any interest to us.

But you did indirectly give me the idea of having a 'remote' board game night with friends on Discord - the idea being, two or more couples log into Discord voice chat with their version of the same board game in front of them, and then play the game as you would play a game of long-distance chess with an opponent somewhere else in the world.

I've got this hilarious vision of playing Monopoly with some other couple when our edition of this board game is The Walking Dead one!  And theirs might be the Pokémon edition or something!  No rules lawyers here, this'll be just for fun!

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« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2020, 05:55:40 pm »

I've got this hilarious vision of playing Monopoly with some other couple when our edition of this board game is The Walking Dead one!  And theirs might be the Pokémon edition or something!  No rules lawyers here, this'll be just for fun!

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Sounds a great idea and loads of fun :)

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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2020, 09:07:48 pm »
So my husband is really bummed out about the comicon we were looking forward to in mid-May having now been cancelled.  And I might be working from home from sometime next week (or if not next week then in the next few weeks or so, anyway).

I have some more thoughts on this on the spiritual front gelling (for a post on Seeking) but they aren't quite there yet, but on the practical level, here's some of my things.

I spent the better part of a year leaving the house only once or twice a week due to health issues (I was unemployed, also due to those issues.) I have more available brain now, even though I'm working full time from home, so.

Things I'm continuing:
- Work (a bunch of my projects can be done at home, but I spent a chunk of Monday sorting out pieces of them and setting up my home computer for work things.)

- Writing (I've been making my wordcount goals, but not on the fiction at the moment. I am not beating myself up about that. My brain will work around to that in due course, we've been here before.)

- Knitting (which I picked up the year I was miserably unwell, because it was - in the form I do it - pretty mindless, but produced a thing where I could see I'd made visible progress. It went well with watching a bunch of really mindless TV series.)

- My goal is also to spend one of my former commute chunks (20-30 minutes a day) cleaning or organising a thing, and the other one playing harp.

- Reading. There is always more reading!

- Catching up on a lot of my 'I should watch this' or 'I should listen to this' list - one of my big at home work projects takes thought (good for some kinds of music) the other is pretty mindless. Usually i go through tons of podcasts, but I'm going to be doubling or tripling the amount of time I spend on it, and I've got a ton of TVish shows to go through.

- Catching up on the authorial wiki, in which I am now 3+ books behind.

Things I'm picking up again
- Harp. I got a chunk of new music, and I'm figuring out how structure working on the skills I want to improve.

- I'm also contemplating if I want to deliberately focus on some kind of visual art - I've dabbled in calligraphy a bit.

- Video gaming (this one I'm waiting on for a week or two)

Things I'm trying
It occurred to me that I've got a chunk of at least three weeks (quite probably more) in which there are minimal variables. I don't want to do drastic changes to my habits - but how do I feel if I structure my meals a bit differently? Fiddle with my sleep schedule? Try different kinds of exercise? Because suddenly I don't have to factor 'the commute was annoying' or 'I had a ton of meetings at work' into the calculations of how I feel. What stuff can I do when there's a little more flex in my personal schedule that may make my life better long term?

Also, seriously contemplating spending part of my weekends curling up with a book and napping, as a regular thing.

(On that note, our local guidance is that a walk outside is fine, just stay 6 feet from people you're not living with, and don't let kids play on playgrounds/etc. and wash carefully when you come in. I have a jacket that is my outside jacket that can be easily washed when I do laundry next time.)

Trying some new recipes and cooking stuff that takes a certain amount of time and periodic attention. (Also, because I rarely cook with nuts because I can't take it to our nut-free campus, eating a lot of nuts.)

Using stuff I have plenty of that brings pleasure - perfume oils, for example, where I tend to go light on them on work days for other people's possible allergies.

Other ideas
For your husband, I'm wondering if there are skills he'd like to learn - something that might apply to cosplay stuff down the road, like a new technique or construction method, or something that has multiple steps. I know people who've taken up stuff like chainmail work in similar situations of having to stay home. The stuff that just takes a lot of practice.

Or if there are other skills - art, model painting, etc. that he might like to take up. Especially ones where there are things like good YouTube videos out there and other resources.
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What hints and tips can anyone share for keeping occupied while isolating?

Birding, 100%. Done solo and outdoors, so no risk of infection, but involves fresh air and exercise, something we'll all desperately need after being cooped up. And spring migration is afoot, so it's an ideal time.

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Re: Keeping occupied while isolating - hints and tips
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2020, 05:07:20 am »


I'll be fine, I think (I might even get to giving the place a good spring clean!).  But my husband already doesn't go out a lot at all and now the events throughout the year that he was really looking forward to aren't going ahead.  So not only has he not got the events to look forward to, but he feels there's no point doing all the prep work on his cosplay costumes (his hobby).

It feels as though were going to lose half of 2020 to this pandemic (possibly more?  But let's not even go there.)

Does he have any cosplay friends? I've switched my social life to group Skype chats. We all  sit around with wine and chat like we would if we were in the same room together. I may never go back to the pub again!

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