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Post by freecharlie on Sept 27, 2018 1:55:17 GMT
A friend of my son's asked him if all I did was sit and watch sports.
Truly...it kind of is. Right now we are watching baseball as my team tries to make the playoffs, but by next weekend hockey will be back and I will be watching that.
Dh and I have started Dexter, for when there isn't a game on.
Just wondering what you all do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 1:57:58 GMT
Tv. Husband isn’t up for much of anything after a his “10” hour day. By which I mean 12 to 13 hours.
I might do laundry, sometimes I clean the tiny bathroom.
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Post by Linda on Sept 27, 2018 2:01:31 GMT
Tonight? DH is on a business trip so it's just DD11 and me. I scrapbooked, helped her finish a GS badge, supervised homework and helped her print it out....a fairly normal school-night evening for me. Non-school nights, DH, DD and I will usually watch an episode of Babylon 5 together (we're introducing her to it)
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Post by Merge on Sept 27, 2018 2:04:24 GMT
This.  Sometimes I watch TV, but there honestly isn't much on I enjoy any more. When I'm being good, I go for a long walk and then practice my instrument. But honestly, as you know - our job requires so much mental and physical energy that I don't have much left when I get home. It's all I can do to get dinner on the table and cleaned up. |
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Sept 27, 2018 2:05:58 GMT
I often will watch something on tv, depending on how exhausting my day was I might work on whatever project I have going on at the time. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of extra time after the commute, cooking, dishes, etc.so I don’t pressure myself to feel too productive.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Sept 27, 2018 2:07:27 GMT
I usually read but will sometimes watch TV, a DVD or craft (not much lately though).
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Sept 27, 2018 2:08:35 GMT
Daily: A mixed assortment of....
Read email, go online(usually check message board, instagrams/blogs, order things I need, read the daily and breaking news, etc...), household chores, laundry, make or return phone calls, pay bills/reconcile finances, play with cat, craft projects/scrapbook, read, go for walk, etc...
Occasionally:
Go out somewhere(dinner, event, hang with friends, grocery store, shopping, errands, etc...), watch a movie or tv show(I am not a daily watcher), food prep, etc...
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Post by Rhondito on Sept 27, 2018 2:09:46 GMT
Ride my bike and then watch a little tv.
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Post by Laura in OK on Sept 27, 2018 2:17:32 GMT
Not much! I keep my 3 youngest grandchildren, 2yr old twins & a 5yr old every day while their parents work. My day starts about 6:30 & if I'm lucky I can sit down & chill by a little after 6. It makes for a long week, esp by Friday. My DH also works a lot of hours too. We've been doing simple dinners, maybe sandwiches, soup or just a bowl of cereal. We're both too exhausted to even go out to eat unless we need to get out for something. We usually watch tv until about 8 then crash in bed. Exciting, huh?!
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Post by mikklynn on Sept 27, 2018 2:23:40 GMT
I usually do a load of laundry, clean up after DH cooks dinner, then scrapbook for an hour. Finally I join DH watching sports for an hour and go to bed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 2:27:57 GMT
Depends on the day.
90% of evenings I am handwashing any dishes that can not go into the dishwasher, packing lunches for dd, ds, and dh for the following day, giving dd her many meds, picking up the living room, and then looking in my planner to see what the next day has in the books.
Mon, Thur, Sat, and Sun is football. Thurs is BBT and YS.
Some evenings I am folding laundry.
Others I am on the couch watching YouTube.
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Post by padresfan619 on Sept 27, 2018 2:28:53 GMT
Let the dog out
Empty the dishwasher
Start dinner prep
Talk with my husband when he gets home
Make dinner
Eat dinner
Walk the dog with husband
Watch tv
Get ready for bed
Watch The Office until I fall asleep with the tv on
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Post by 950nancy on Sept 27, 2018 2:31:44 GMT
My evening starts around noon. I fart around, walk the dogs, fart around, run errands, fart around, make dinner, fart around, scrap, fart around, watch tv.
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Post by janeliz on Sept 27, 2018 2:37:32 GMT
Right now I’m getting one kid to swim practice four nights a week. While she’s there, i usually take a long walk in the nearby neighborhood. Swim season will be over soon and then my evenings should be pretty quiet. Dinner, laundry, playing on the iPad, watching tv or reading.
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Post by librarylady on Sept 27, 2018 2:39:38 GMT
We are both retired, so........
Watch TV, read, do a little laptop activity........
If I am watching TV, I am also knitting or crocheting.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2018 2:41:09 GMT
Depends on the day and week. My week with the boys, I'm playing chauffer during band stuff so I'm making early dinners, getting them to practice or event, volunteering, and then driving them home.
Most days after dinner, after clean up, after chores, we usually turn the TV on. I have certain shows I want to watch. If it's a night with nothing we like (I have a few shows I only watch on demand because DH doesn't like them), it's Netflix. Our to watch list is long because we never watch more than 2 or 3 episodes of anything in one sitting. I'm usually knitting during all this.
We changed our cable package and networks changed their deals so we rarely have sports on.
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Post by smokeynspike on Sept 27, 2018 2:42:11 GMT
Read, watch tv, play games, shop, converse with family, watch videos on YouTube.
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Post by GiantsFan on Sept 27, 2018 2:44:06 GMT
A friend of my son's asked him if all I did was sit and watch sports. Truly...it kind of is. Right now we are watching baseball as my team tries to make the playoffs, but by next weekend hockey will be back and I will be watching that. Dh and I have started Dexter, for when there isn't a game on. Just wondering what you all do. I mostly watch sports on TV while I'm on my laptop. This season the Giants are horrible, but they're my team (since 1986) and so I watch. We also watch the A's (who are doing really well), it just depends on who is on TV in the evening. But between the two I prefer the Giants. Hockey starts tomorrow (pre-season) and basketball soon. I'm not much of a football fan but DH is, so I watch and know more about it than I care to. If there is no sports on, then it's Egyptian shows, Nat Geo, Discovery, etc. I don't watch any "tv shows". Oh, and I consider Top Chef, Making It and other competition type shows to be sports. ETA: If "our" teams aren't on, we watch whatever team sport on the national broadcast. |
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Post by ~summer~ on Sept 27, 2018 2:44:54 GMT
I love to go for an evening walk when the sun is setting. I also sit on the deck and read, clean the kitchen, exercise in front of TV, read my cookbooks or play on computer. I probably only watch tv a couple days per week.
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Post by hop2 on Sept 27, 2018 2:45:57 GMT
Lately I’m so exhausted I vegetate. Lol
I try to do one settling in task each evening though. Today’s task was to go back to house to see if I could find the wood screw that came out of my file drawer.
I didn’t find it but I got a few alternatives to see if they work.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Sept 27, 2018 2:53:41 GMT
I usually read or make art when I want to be leisurely. Sometimes we swim. Sometimes we just layout on the patio and watch the sky.
I am more often working on projects in the evenings, and setting up the next day’s stuff I have to do.
I’ll have the TV on watching a game, baseball or football (baseball is more relaxing!) or I’ll watch reruns of The Office or something else while I’m working on my projects.
In general, (and what we aspire to do, lol) in the evenings after all the “daily routine stuff” is done, we try to just relax. I have bouts of insomnia, and when it’s bad, I’ll go 3-4 days with only 2 hrs of sleep and then want to sleep for a whole day when it catches up with me (but of course I cannot!). So we try to find relaxing things to do to wind down and prepare for sleep/bedtime.
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Post by freecharlie on Sept 27, 2018 2:54:10 GMT
Depends on the day and week. My week with the boys, I'm playing chauffer during band stuff so I'm making early dinners, getting them to practice or event, volunteering, and then driving them home. Most days after dinner, after clean up, after chores, we usually turn the TV on. I have certain shows I want to watch. If it's a night with nothing we like (I have a few shows I only watch on demand because DH doesn't like them), it's Netflix. Our to watch list is long because we never watch more than 2 or 3 episodes of anything in one sitting. I'm usually knitting during all this. We changed our cable package and networks changed their deals so we rarely have sports on. I do remember the chauffeur days. Older boy is 17 so he drives and since they play hs sports and I can see the school from my front yard, not too much of that anymore. I do remember nights of not getting home until 8. |
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Post by mom on Sept 27, 2018 2:57:38 GMT
Depends on the week, but usually cook dinner, clean the kitchen and then watch tv with DH. Some days we have a race to go to for DS2. Sometimes I scrapbook. Usually its low key though, and we are in bed early though (with a book, or TV or Peaing).
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Post by myshelly on Sept 27, 2018 3:01:41 GMT
We’re rarely home. We go to lots of lectures at museums, exhibit openings, author talks, book signings, concerts, and theatre. One night a week my dad is over here and we all go out to eat together. One night a week I’m at my BFF’s house to tv and another night a week she and her kids are here.
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Post by SabrinaP on Sept 27, 2018 3:05:51 GMT
Make dinner
Clean up after dinner
Some nights I throw in a load of laundry
Help kids with homework
Sport for kids, middle school football on tuesdays and little league baseball on Mondays and Thursdays.
Work on school work, usually lesson planning or writing activities to do
DH and I usually watch 1 show when the kids go to bed
I usually read before turning in for the night
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Post by ntsf on Sept 27, 2018 3:10:41 GMT
dh is retired.. and I am tired after getting home from work, making dinner, cleaning up.. so tv, email, reading.. are our evenings. some evenings I work.. so it just depends. dh walks the dog when he is home..
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Post by cmpeter on Sept 27, 2018 3:11:02 GMT
Depends on the day. Tuesday’s we usually go to the movies (AMC $5 nights). Right now on Thursdays we volunteer at s phone bank helping our political candidate. Other nights we take a walk, play games, watch a show, hang with friends, do something. Last weekend was dinner with friends. This weekend is wine tasting and a concert.
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Post by PNWMom on Sept 27, 2018 3:11:14 GMT
I get home from work around 430pm and spend the next 2 hours or so with my 16 month old daughter. Playing, reading stories, feeding her dinner, sometimes giving her a bath. Once she goes to bed between 640 and 7pm, I make dinner then watch the news or NFL football or play on my laptop for an hour or so before heading to bed. General low-key hanging out on the couch with my husband.
I'm almost 9 months pregnant and the last four or five months have me POOPED, between working full time, chasing a toddler and growing a baby. My husband is fabulous, but it's still very tiring and I'm off to bed shortly after 9pm. I have to be up at 0530 when my daughter wakes up so I can get us both ready to head out (she starts daycare at 0630 and I've gotta be at work by 0730). Wash, rinse, repeat.... Definitely looking forward to maternity leave in 37 days!
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Sept 27, 2018 3:17:09 GMT
If the kids don't have a game, I usually work into the evening. So, I usually don't get home until 7:00 or later most work days. We then have to eat, do kids' reading time, baths, get ready for bed, etc. In between that I try to do paperwork, clean up, sit with the kids. I usually have the news on while I am doing paperwork on the computer (like right now, although I am done with paperwork for the night). I don't watch a lot of TV shows that I have to sit and focus on.
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Post by bunnyhug on Sept 27, 2018 3:19:36 GMT
I'm just trying to figure that out . . . my dd has aged out of minor ringette (she's 19) and is in her first year of university, so this will be the first fall in the last 10+years that we won't be involved in a team--most years I was team manager. She's looking at helping coach a younger team, is a ref, and will be playing on a ladies team, (but they're pretty casual and only have one practice a week and one game a month!) and she can get herself to all of that. My boys are both still in hockey, but not the top tier, crazy committed kind, so we'll only have practices, dryland and games 3-4 times a week. I've quit going to parent council because it made my head hurt  and instead of some of the activities that require a bunch of parent involvement, my younger ds has started volunteering with the spca and my older ds has a job that he can drive himself to . . . I have no idea what to do with all my extra time right now! I've scrapbooked, started going to aquacize with a friend, read, hung out with my book club, work one evening a week at my job, cleaned the basement, and done too much baking in the last month. It freaking snowed here last week, and it's been otherwise rainy and miserable and getting dark earlier every day, so yardwork isn't happening until spring. What else is left to do?! I'm thinking I might take up either knitting or writing the next great bestselling novel, lol! |
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and instead of some of the activities that require a bunch of parent involvement, my younger ds has started volunteering with the spca and my older ds has a job that he can drive himself to . . . I have no idea what to do with all my extra time right now! I've scrapbooked, started going to aquacize with a friend, read, hung out with my book club, work one evening a week at my job, cleaned the basement, and done too much baking in the last month. It freaking snowed here last week, and it's been otherwise rainy and miserable and getting dark earlier every day, so yardwork isn't happening until spring. What else is left to do?! I'm thinking I might take up either knitting or writing the next great bestselling novel, lol!