What kind of things do you do to keep busy?

[LittleAngel]

I know it gets lonely with your trucker gone, so what kind fo things do you do to take up time?

My husband drives locally, however, I still find things to do with my time during the day when he and the kids are gone to work and school. Besides regualr house cleaning, I also participate in some message boards, and I love Scarp Booking. I also do some other crafts.

Please share what you do.

[LadyValkyrie]

Of course the everyday straightening up the home, laundry, and trying my best to keep the kids modivated to help out with all the different chores. I make gemstone beaded jewelry for myself and my family. I love reading, mainly nonfiction as well as anything horror and mystery. I snag and share incredimail email stationaries on a bunch of Yahoo Groups that are specifically for sharing Incredimail Stationary. So I always have a high volume of email to sort through. One day I would like to get PSP and learn to actually create my own email stationaries. I do frequent a lot of message boards ranging from various musical groups like Godsmack... to TAPS... to Wiccan, Witchcraft, and Pagan themed message boards... to other trucking message boards. Sometimes I just sit around and enjoy the silence in the home before the kids come home from school. lol

[LadyValkyrie]

I was reading the following excerpt from the book "Each Day a New Beginning
Daily Meditations for Women" by Karen Casey and it reminded me of this thread. I really like the message it conveys. I just thought I'd share it with the ladies here... us ladies who try to find our Creativity as an outlet.


I believe that true identify is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best re-find herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Creative activity might mean bird watching, tennis, quilting, cooking, painting, writing. Creative activity immerses us fully in the here and now, and at the same time it frees us. We become one with the activity and are nourished by it. We grow as the activity grows. We learn who we are in the very process of not thinking about who we are.

Spirituality and creativity are akin. There is an exhilaration rooted deep within us that is a lifeline to God. Creative activity releases the exhilaration, and the energy goes through us and out to others. We find ourselves and our higher power through the loss of our self-conscious selves while creating--a picture, a sentence, a special meal.

Creativity is a given. It is another dimension of the spiritual presence guiding us all. I'll get out of its way today.

[BookBimbo]

I do what I did before he started driving. I read, play with the dog, think up excuses not to do housework, hang out on a few forums, and when my computer isn't acting up I play a MMORPG called Asheron's Call. It's like Everquest but even more uncool.

[LadyValkyrie]

Originally Posted by BookBimbo

I do what I did before he started driving. I read, play with the dog, think up excuses not to do housework, hang out on a few forums, and when my computer isn't acting up I play a MMORPG called Asheron's Call. It's like Everquest but even more uncool.

My oldest son is into RPGs. I have a friend who is into RPGs and her boyfriend is into them even more than she is. They went to this major anime convention in Virginia a couple of months ago and did the whole dressing up like their favorite characters thing. She got her picture on a couple of websites because of her big boobs! LOL Anyway, I have all these people around me who like RPGs and I haven't played them myself since I was in middle school, which was a long time ago. lol So I don't find the RPG thing "uncool"... I just moved on from it myself. However, I draw the line at those guys who are in their late 30's living in their mother's basement working at the local convinence store and living for the next DND meeting! LMAO