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Mar. 20th, 2020 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings I am doing while at home:
- I am deliberately limiting my news intake to once small part of the day, in the morning. Nothing that I can immediately affect and nothing that can immediately affect me will be harmed by me not finding out for 24 hours and being constantly bombarded by scary news is bad for me.
- I've told myself that I have to do at least one productive task every day that can be finished on that day. Yesterday, I made bread. Today I did laundry. Tomorrow, I'm writing a bunch of postcards to people. (Would you like a postcard? Message me your address!) That means positive feelings of accomplishment and not just sitting around doing nothing.
- I thrive on structure and routine and having nothing to give structure to my days right now makes me feel bad. So I've set up a series of alarms on my phone for different times of day that mean different activities.
( - Yes, some of those activities are religious in nature. Yes, I am reinventing monasticism. I know. Look, we're all essentially cloistered right now anyway.)
- I'm taking a walk every day, because I am bad at exercise at the best of times and prone to sitting in the same chair for hours at a time if I don't consciously make myself do other things and I will atrophy into a slug.
- I've proposed an online D&D game to my sister and her husband, so we're going to start playing Tomb of Annihilation on Sunday. I'm hoping they will agree to my proposal that this be a weekly activity. See above re: structure and routine.
- I've figured out how to stream stuff if it's playing on my laptop and am hosting a virtual family movie night tomorrow. This is also likely to become a weekly activity, at least on my part. I've made a list of themed sets of movies and tv so that I can provide folks with choices without giving them option paralysis. (Those themes are heavily weighted towards my own taste but a) that's what I have easiest access to, b) I have excellent taste, and c) if they want to watch other things, turns out streaming is pretty easy.) They are not all horror films.
- I am deliberately limiting my news intake to once small part of the day, in the morning. Nothing that I can immediately affect and nothing that can immediately affect me will be harmed by me not finding out for 24 hours and being constantly bombarded by scary news is bad for me.
- I've told myself that I have to do at least one productive task every day that can be finished on that day. Yesterday, I made bread. Today I did laundry. Tomorrow, I'm writing a bunch of postcards to people. (Would you like a postcard? Message me your address!) That means positive feelings of accomplishment and not just sitting around doing nothing.
- I thrive on structure and routine and having nothing to give structure to my days right now makes me feel bad. So I've set up a series of alarms on my phone for different times of day that mean different activities.
( - Yes, some of those activities are religious in nature. Yes, I am reinventing monasticism. I know. Look, we're all essentially cloistered right now anyway.)
- I'm taking a walk every day, because I am bad at exercise at the best of times and prone to sitting in the same chair for hours at a time if I don't consciously make myself do other things and I will atrophy into a slug.
- I've proposed an online D&D game to my sister and her husband, so we're going to start playing Tomb of Annihilation on Sunday. I'm hoping they will agree to my proposal that this be a weekly activity. See above re: structure and routine.
- I've figured out how to stream stuff if it's playing on my laptop and am hosting a virtual family movie night tomorrow. This is also likely to become a weekly activity, at least on my part. I've made a list of themed sets of movies and tv so that I can provide folks with choices without giving them option paralysis. (Those themes are heavily weighted towards my own taste but a) that's what I have easiest access to, b) I have excellent taste, and c) if they want to watch other things, turns out streaming is pretty easy.) They are not all horror films.
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Date: 2020-03-21 03:52 pm (UTC)