How to waste a day: Amy Style
I know you are all dying to know how I spend the time I get to myself (which happens so rarely). On the off day that I am off and daycare is open and G goes there while I can catch up, or if Ty has offered to take G for a day while I gallivant, here are the things I like to do:
1) Groceries. I love to do groceries when the store is dead and I can take my time reading labels, feeling fruit for freshness/firmness and enjoying the experience. I hate grocery shopping when I have a grabby toddler, an impatient husband who doesn't know how to pack a cart and when I'm dodging people left, right and center and waiting in a lineup that is longer than my driveway.
2) I love to have Netflix binge sessions. I like to have just done groceries before I do this so that I may have the appropriate amount of snacks to fill this time (you never eat meals when you binge watch things--only snacks that take less than 5 minutes to assemble). I just finished Pretty Little Liars (all caught up now) and The Mindy Project (first two seasons) and The Newsroom. Now I am onto How I Met Your Mother (from the beginning)
3) A bath. It is no secret I get deathly bored in the tub. But I just LIKE the idea of being able to take a hot bubble bath with no one else in the house. Realistically, I fill the tub, lay down and then am bored.
4) Cook or bake. I love when I am home and have all the time in the world to make some fancy meal I normally wouldn't have time to make on a weeknight. Or bake something so the house smells yummy. I miss being on maternity leave, because we ate SO well. We had such a good thing going. Then work got in the way! UGH haha
5) Car rides past old houses (when the weather is warm and sunny). We always used to take these car rides as kids. It's fun to walk /drive down memory lane. I like to do it alone in the car though.
6) Get my hair done, or a mani/pedi. On an ideal day, I would have enough time to do all of these things and still have time at home alone! lol
7) A nap. This never happens, but when I am on vacations, I usually sneak one good nap in somewhere!
8) Shopping spree. I love just buying whatever my little heart desires for a whole day!
9) Deep cleaning the house. I know I am getting older because this (and being caught up on laundry) is an extremely exciting idea. Even if it's only a few hours I am caught up, I LOVE kicking back my feet knowing that the cracks in the baseboards are even cleaned! Too satisfying.
10) Catching up on my celebrity gossip/junk magazines that I gather because I never have time to read them. If I were smart, I would read these while in the tub. But I hate laying in the tub with my hands out of the water, falling asleep from holding them up. Too much work on my lazy day off LOL
And there you have it folks! The top 10 things I like to waste my alone time on!!!
Now...I want to be home alone doing any of these things, and not stuck in the confines of work where I have to work! lol.
Happy Monday! If you're anyone but me, you are off today enjoying time with your littles...or by yourself if you are childless.
Enjoy
(not).
1) Groceries. I love to do groceries when the store is dead and I can take my time reading labels, feeling fruit for freshness/firmness and enjoying the experience. I hate grocery shopping when I have a grabby toddler, an impatient husband who doesn't know how to pack a cart and when I'm dodging people left, right and center and waiting in a lineup that is longer than my driveway.
2) I love to have Netflix binge sessions. I like to have just done groceries before I do this so that I may have the appropriate amount of snacks to fill this time (you never eat meals when you binge watch things--only snacks that take less than 5 minutes to assemble). I just finished Pretty Little Liars (all caught up now) and The Mindy Project (first two seasons) and The Newsroom. Now I am onto How I Met Your Mother (from the beginning)
3) A bath. It is no secret I get deathly bored in the tub. But I just LIKE the idea of being able to take a hot bubble bath with no one else in the house. Realistically, I fill the tub, lay down and then am bored.
4) Cook or bake. I love when I am home and have all the time in the world to make some fancy meal I normally wouldn't have time to make on a weeknight. Or bake something so the house smells yummy. I miss being on maternity leave, because we ate SO well. We had such a good thing going. Then work got in the way! UGH haha
5) Car rides past old houses (when the weather is warm and sunny). We always used to take these car rides as kids. It's fun to walk /drive down memory lane. I like to do it alone in the car though.
6) Get my hair done, or a mani/pedi. On an ideal day, I would have enough time to do all of these things and still have time at home alone! lol
7) A nap. This never happens, but when I am on vacations, I usually sneak one good nap in somewhere!
8) Shopping spree. I love just buying whatever my little heart desires for a whole day!
9) Deep cleaning the house. I know I am getting older because this (and being caught up on laundry) is an extremely exciting idea. Even if it's only a few hours I am caught up, I LOVE kicking back my feet knowing that the cracks in the baseboards are even cleaned! Too satisfying.
10) Catching up on my celebrity gossip/junk magazines that I gather because I never have time to read them. If I were smart, I would read these while in the tub. But I hate laying in the tub with my hands out of the water, falling asleep from holding them up. Too much work on my lazy day off LOL
And there you have it folks! The top 10 things I like to waste my alone time on!!!
Now...I want to be home alone doing any of these things, and not stuck in the confines of work where I have to work! lol.
Happy Monday! If you're anyone but me, you are off today enjoying time with your littles...or by yourself if you are childless.
Enjoy
(not).
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