One hour before this shot, and about an hour and a half after, it was totally bucketing down with rain, but I managed to find a quick sunny hour to do my rooftop walk. It’s been like this a couple of days this week, so I can’t complain because I thought I wasn’t going to be able to take any walks at all. The other thing is that cooler temps are back with the rain, so I still haven’t had to use the aircon, thus saving some €€€.
I don’t want to say that living in confinement has become easy, but if you don’t fight it then you end up just going along with each day and carping the diem. Because I can’t really plan much, my days are more about the quality of them, how much I enjoy them, rather than on being productive, setting goals etc. Am I crazy to think that if I keep on with this relaxed come-what-may attitude then I might get back in touch with… me? And thus get a clearer idea of what I should do next?
Things I haven’t been doing… making up biz plans for “whenever” or “whatever”, taking online courses, giving online courses, reading books, making travel-food videos to sell online, making podcasts to promote my biz, listening to podcasts, writing “lockdown” articles to try and sell (or for that matter writing anything to try and sell), losing weight.
Things I have been doing… getting up WHENEVER. Cooking. Drinking wine. Being online a lot with social media and chats, reading articles. Exercising (walks and workouts). A bit of tv, some housework, the occasional (mostly accidental) nap, enjoying my cats. And letting my imagination run free.
It feels a bit like being in a state of incubation (possibly an unfortunate term to use right now) with ideas just floating around and waiting to see which ones will develop and hatch. This is a much more passive me, I usually want to get out there and get stuff done, have a plan, make things happen. But for the moment I’m just going with this, because something is telling me this is the way for me to go. Stay tuned!
casa azahar 
I’m sure a lot of people must be finding this is a bit of a holiday away from certain of life’s stresses.
For me, no 2½ hour per day commute is very freeing. I get up a bit later, and because I don’t feel like I should be sleep deprived, I’m getting up earlier at the weekend. I’m only really wearing loungewear – changing from PJ bottoms and a jumper (it’s cold in my dining room, especially when I leave the door open for the dog to mooch in the garden as he wants) to loose leggings & a jumper so my laundry has gone right down. I don’t have the stress of leaving the dog in the morning -I hate that more and more as he gets older, he’s 15 now and I really don’t know how much longer I’ll have him so I’m getting to treasure a bit more time. He can wander over and have a fuss at any time of the day and that makes me so happy.
Mainly I have a sense of time to spare, time to waste. Reading, doing a jigsaw, just watching the birds, it’s really lovely. And while I want the whole virus thing to be over, I’m going to miss this time out of life.
I think what you’re doing is sensible. It’d be hard to make plans when really, who knows what life is going to be like on the other side? Allowing your subconscious free rein could well result in a little list of ideas when you actually sit down to think consciously about the future.
Oh, and “carping the diem”…I love that! 😀
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Sounds like me. My daywear and nightwear isn’t much different. Which means I am saving on buying new clothes and shoes for possibly… 8-9 monhts?
I think having ALL THAT TIME is good if you don’t stress about having to be doing something, and it sounds like you’re having a lovely time with it. Good for you.
For me it almost feels a bit healing. When I spent a year and a half with the whole cancer thing, I got physically better but I’m not sure I was emotionally ready for starting my life over. This now feels like that time.
Now I just need to work out how I will make ends meet for another 8-9 months.
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