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Friday Fun Thread for April 12, 2024

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What does your after-work routine look like? I feel like I'm in a bit of a rut in the way I spend my time. Curious what other people do.

  • Pick up the kids and drive them home
  • Make something for dinner, or talk to my husband while he makes something
  • Eat the dinner
  • If the weather is nice, look around the yard. Otherwise, read online message boards and talk informally with family who are also watching or reading things.
  • Put the children to bed.
  • Have alone time -- write, read, meditate. I am very much an introvert.

Theoretically, I would also like to paint, but I never actually have enough energy after working, so I suppose I should just accept that I paint during the summer, when I'm on break.

My after-work routine depends on the day. I'll usually do one of the following:

-Hit the gym

-Go to the driving range

-Go to the movie theater (solo)

-Meal prep (almost always a home-made caesar salad with chicken)

-Group therapy (every thursday)

-Softball team (spring and summer only)

-Hang out with my girlfriend

I'm lucky that I only need to be in the office two days a week, so I have a lot of flexibility in my after-work regiment. I spend a lot of time (too much, tbh) by myself during the week, so I really try to stay active instead of sitting alone in my apartment.

Curl into a ball and contest for my share of a very small bed with a very big dog.

I work 24 hour shifts, though I'm currently waiting for the ICU I've been voluntold to handle to open, things have been really quiet, and I actually would get some sleep if I hadn't taken some Ritalin to read Fish's Psychopathology (despite the name, it's about humans, I think).

But after that, it's usually a slow recovery and then a normal day after I'm done napping.

I actually highly prefer 24 hour shifts over an equivalent number of 9-5s. If I'm lucky, I'm paid to sleep, and that's always appreciated. If not, well, that does leave most of the week free. But I find that normal 9-5s, for the few months I did work them, left me too tired and annoyed to achieve anything when I get back home.

  • Hit the gym (in my office building) or go play [unspecified racket sport] with coworkers.
  • Eat postworkout meal/dinner with family or friends or coworkers. I try not to do this alone.
  • Arrive home and prepare for next day. If there is time left over, just fuck around a bit.

This sounds like a good, social life.

I lucked out pretty hard by having home, work and friends all within a 10 minute drive of eachother.

I don't have a specific one, but I have felt the rut as well. A couple things I like:

  • Skipping television. It seems typical that those in relationships are "dragged" into watching shows and movies with their spouse. Just... don't do that more than 1-2 times a week.
  • Working out. I invested in an internal bike, I can do beat saber, or during warm months I can strap some lights on a bike and hit the greenway.
  • Building legos. I can milk a big set for weeks or months, and I purposefully work slowly.
  • Plan a project. Build the spreadsheet, queue the cart from the home improvement store, order the car parts, do the research. Make it to where the thing you have to do during the day goes off without a hitch.

I do a kettlebell workout, have dinner with my family, help clean up dinner, do the cat litter, take out the trash, put up the chickens, then relax with my wife for an hour or two until she passes out. We're still watching LOST, though we've been reading together a lot too. After that sometimes I get some games in, either Helldivers 2 or Unicorn Overlord lately.

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