My bf just said I could open online shop with all chocolates and flowers I'm getting, maybe that's an idea 

My wifi is a tiny bit crap. I can watch Netflix but some days it will cut out every ten minutes.

Especially for those of us who work from a dedicated incall flat and actually go and sit there during out available hours... what are some things we can do to pass the time? I mean, I mostly sit and fuck around on the Internet. Sometime I read a bit. Every once in a while I will watch a movie. Why I don't do more reading and less clicky-clicky on Facebook, I couldn't tell you.

So, I could read more. I did bring my knitting bag into my work flat but for some reason I can't get into knitting again (I completed one half of one leg warmer. Perhaps I should attempt something a little more complicated to really occupy my mind. But then I will lose count of my stitches every time the phone rings with another TW.)

Sometimes I do some exercises with my free weights. I can do quite a lot of exercise throughout the day. I write down a group of exercises (ex: squats, bent-over rows, shoulder presses, push-ups) and tick off sets on the sheet of paper. I can get through 100 squats a day that way. Why don't I do this more often? Why do I just sit on my sofa (the least comfortable sofa in the world) and just surf the 'net?

I mean, I have all this free time. I could be accomplishing something with it! And I don't really do anything. Been reading War and Peace a few pages a day for months. I could have finished it by now if I were reading with the same dedication I had when I read Anna Karenina for a book club years ago. Hell, I could study a foreign language or something.

But I don't. I just post bollocks on here and look at pictures of cats on Facebook.

What do you guys do? Maybe you can inspire me.

Maybe we can encourage one another. Like, after we have our little moan on "Slow At The Minute Or Just Me?" we can come here and post little happy updates about how we've just mastered conjugating three new German verbs or have made some fantastic new fishing flies or completed a sock.

Quote from: Fabulassie on 14 March 2015, 07:47:47 am

I think the problem is down to concentration. Like I said about knitting something complicated: I'm not going to be able to fully focus on anything. So, I need to think of things that can be done in little snippets. I'm really thinking I could improve my French or German or maybe learn Italian - something I've always thought I'd like to do. I think that sort of learning goes well in small snippets. Conjugate a verb... answer the phone... write out a few sentences about ordering in a restaurant... do a booking...read a paragraph of French newspaper... then go do some push-ups.... lather, rinse, repeat and before long I'll have made an impressive amount of progress.

Just by reading these forums can help. I learnt wat conjugate means lol  plus 4 other words just be researching that word. Is it bad that i didnt know what that word meant? Gosh i need to do more reading.