What to do with that Extra Enforced Time at Home

This should be for Three on Thursday, but what the heck.

So you’ve scrolled through all your internet blog links and read about what everyone is doing and thinking and you still have time on your washed hands. You even COOKED a meal and you still have time. And if you don’t have children at home you aren’t having to play teacher and ‘help’ them with their lessons, so even more time.

Well you could Clean House, those closets that have been hiding all the junky dark secrets you don’t want to deal with. Okay let’s not get too radical here. Forget I even suggested it.

Listen to the telemarketers’ spiels? Nope, still don’t have time for those phone calls. Seems like they know we’re all at home….hmmm.

Projects – now I have to confess this one is doable and necessary. Those poor projects languishing due to being “too boring”, “too hard”, “too easy”, “too….” Take a challenge and finish at least one of them. I’ve got a) a charted knit hat pattern halfway done. That one takes a lot of concentration. b) ten-stitch afghan which uses up a lot of scrap yarn and I can almost watch tv while I knit it. The corners take my full concentration but they are getting further apart. I could also just start knitting or crocheting a randomly striped afghan and still not use up the last of the yarn in the house before the last COVID-19 case is cleared. Yes, I stocked up, but in my defense I was ahead of my time and have been saving yarn for years. (That or using it too slowly.)

Okay, I might have shopped on-line in a fit of boredom one day.(ahem) Or perhaps it was to support those businesses during this difficult time. Yeah, that’s what it is, not boredom, but support.

Or Write – that Great American Novel now could have my full, undivided attention. Let me see where I was in the story…

Oh, and maybe read a book? In our house this is never a problem, except perhaps as I have with yarn, my husband has done with books. Well, good thing we’re both introverts and like to read.

Knitting is obviously where forced ‘solitude’ should take me. I hate being told what I should do. I’m sure you have ‘projects’ of your own that you’ve put off because the timing was just not right. Well, what’s stopping you now?

All joking aside. Do what you can to ‘flatten the curve’.

Our mantra for 2020.