Are you bored or busy? Poll

I could do lots of stuff, but I don't feel like doing any of it. So I'm bored right now. or depressed, whichever it is...

I craft and do puzzles in my "free time". I'm also do distance teaching. It sucks up so much time.

bored AND busy. trying to make the most of the time but hard because i know, i could just do this crap tomorrow.

starting work on tuesday.... that motivated me a bit to kick it up up a notch. but if i spend 2 hrs weeding and an hour cleaning my windows out front, i am gonna flake and just, ya know, be bored.

so i didn't even select anything from poll options.... lol!

I’m not bored but not busy either. It feels like one long Sunday at the moment. We’re happily pottering about, we do some chores but not too many, we zoom family, we eat and do jigsaws and plan future holidays for when we can. That’s not to say we wouldn’t prefer to be living normally- we
miss family and so on - but we’re relatively content just hanging out together 😊

Definitely both. With all 3 kids home, working, cooking, exercising etc I’m super busy and definitely not on top or even close to organizing my house. But I’m super bored with the monotony and longing to travel and see people.

Frustrated, exceedingly frustrated. Thank God May 20th is the last day I have to home school my child.

yes - both, neither...

I'm normally a SAHM and I don't drive so I'm used to be home most/all of the time. But I'm also used to having the house to myself for 9+ hours/day during the week.

The mundane chores are taking more time because there are more people home making more dishes, more laundry, more messes, eating more food. I'm spending more time with family - my two daughters and I are watching an episode of Call the Midwife together most days and DD20 and I are watching an episode of West Wing most days also. DH and I are between shows right now but we finished up The Crown and watched Chernoybl. Typically I wouldn't watch ONE episode of TV even every week never mind 2-3 in a day. And DS calls everyday to chat - which is nice but I find multi-tasking on the phone hard. I also started a walking challenge through my county extension (virtually) so I'm walking about an hour every evening with one DD or the other (not both - tried that once and it didn't go well). I'm also still working on my mum's photos - so much scanning. So all that is keeping me busy but not in an entertained way.

I'm struggling a bit with my hobbies (reading, scrapbooking, card making, sewing, genealogy) - it's hard to settle to them and my motivation/creativity keeps disappearing. My free time seems to be disappearing online instead of on the things I enjoy.

I am enjoying my time at home. I have coffee in the morning and go for a walk - barely anyone is out in the mornings, it's so peaceful. I have been working in the garden or cleaning out different parts of the house. I take a nap most days. Sit outside and read my book (have a big stack) if the weather is nice, or on the couch with the dogs if it isn't. At night I watch something on Netflix and embroider or knit.

Maybe one day a week I go get groceries. I have been trying new recipes, cooking and baking.

I know what is happening is a terrible thing, but I am appreciating the slower pace. It feels like I have been given the gift of time. I wake up in the morning and think I have the whole day to do whatever I want. No demands, no constraints. The day is whatever I want to make it.

I'm bored. I have chemo every other week, and by the time the chemo sickness and exhaustion wears off and I start to feel interested in things again...it's time to go to chemo again. It's frustrating. I think I'd find a lot more to do if I felt better.

Im busy but also bored. I *have* stuff to do at home but don't want to do it. Even the fun things at home are old now.

Busy, but with work. Things are crazy busy trying to launch a new site and new products. We had a gal on our team leave and we have a hiring freeze right now. I’ve picked up two of her teams. No time for hobbies or house stuff.

I am SO slammed busy with work and housework and the kids wanting my attention. I have only two weeks left to work and I am just waiting for it. I am going to lay around like a fat lazy slug and binge watch Netflix until my eyes fall out.

I am sure that I will still have to cook and clean in between episodes, but looking forward to a pretty lazy summer.

Thanks. I have a treatment tomorrow and another in two weeks, and then chemo should be done. Then surgery, maybe at the end of July...not sure when that will be. I'm not doing great, to be honest; physically this is very hard and emotionally it's devastating. I think I could have handled it all okay if it wasn't for the pandemic. It's hard to feel like I have a future. But hopefully getting done with chemo and starting to feel physically better will help my state of mind. :-)

I’m normally a WAHM so I’m used to being home by myself. I’m busy during the week for more hours than I’d like helping my kid stay on task with school and because she’s busy watching/listening to recorded assignments there are things I need to do but don’t want to do because it would be a distraction to my kid. I’m so glad they only have five days of “learning” left and then four days after that of just goofing around, wrap up the school year kind of things.

Once school is out, I hope it will be easier to get closer to my usual working week schedule. It will likely be a summer of video games, FaceTime and YouTube for my kid, at least while I’m trying to work and get stuff done. Thankfully she won’t mind.