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I've been using my sudden excess of free time (!) to develop better habits and skills. I've been exercising more, starting a vegetable garden, contacting friends and relatives I haven't talked to in a while, checking in with other friends more frequently, cleaning up the house, making art (besides memes), improving my relationship with my elderly mother--of whom I'm the primary caregiver, and generally building better self-care habits.

What about you? How are you approaching this change positively?

Good for you.

This quarantine is definitely a major life disruption. And whenever life changes drastically, you can either fall into some really bad habits (drinking to excess, sleeping all day, etc.) or take the opportunity to develop some healthy new ones.

My wife and I gave up drinking and started an exercise plan a few weeks before quarantine started. We've been building on those changes by walking the dog more, cooking more, tacking home improvement projects, and just taking more time to re-connect with each other and our families.

This weekend, I got out in the garden and planted some vegetables and herbs. I hope our garden will be better this year than ever. Last night, we hosted a virtual game night over Zoom with a few of our friends who had moved out of town. We hope to turn virtual game night into a standing tradition for even after quarantine ends.

I talked a bit more about my experiences over in the Finance stream, which I've been contributing more to lately. imgflip.com/i/3wbg01

A bit on and off, trying to.

I'm cleaning my room! Does that count?

Of course.

Since I can't go to Piano lessons anymore, I'm teaching myself. So far, I've learned Turkish March, and I'm halfway through learning Clair de Lune. I've also learned the beginning of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.

That's really cool! I can play Turkish March and I wanna learn Claire de Lune

I'm trying to

Not that much, but the little bit I am is counting a lot.
Mostly I just stay up all night, fall asleep at like eight AM, wake up at around five, eat dinner, play videogames and watch YouTube and draw in my crap of a room all night.
Of course that is changing because my "mandatory" online schooling is starting today. For the past few weeks they actually thought that they could just extend the year afterwards, so they just gave us a bunch of IXL to do that I never did.
What I am doing is learning to draw and paint and I'm just making... art...? It sucks but I still enjoy doing it.
Also, I am trying to build up a better relationship with my sister. We've had a rough like... nine years, but I'm trying to help clean that up. (It ain't easy I will just say)
I did "attempt" to clean my room the other day, but I practically fell asleep after throwing a shirt in my hamper. I really hate my room because I'm going through a time of me figuring out what I like and what I want to wear and what I want my stuff to look like, just like all middle schoolers and high schoolers. I got my room done by my grandma when I was nine for my tenth birthday. The walls are bright pink. Dear lord help me. I can make that look cool... riiiiight?
I also need to do laundry and figure out what clothes I want to keep, what clothes are too small, and what clothes are so girly and I hate because I haven't done that in a few years and all of my clothes look like a unicorn barfed on them. Now keep in mind that in past years I was a little girl who wanted to be basically my own version of JoJo Siwa and my mom and grandma got me all of my clothes. Half of them don't even fit anymore but they still go through the washer and into my drawers. I know for a fact that I will feel better after I do that, but I haven't because my lazy ass just wants to play botw.
By the end of this, I would have hopefully not just been rolling out of bed into my own crap. I really want to just feel cleaner as a person and to do that I have to clean up things, figuratively and literally. Sorry this is so long but f it, I'm a mess.

Re the art: it doesn't have to be good to be art. Also keep in mind that Leonardo da Vinci didn't start off drawing and painting like that. Every artist starts off drawing like a child. Your willingness to fail, over and over, determines how great your successes will be. You can use your failures, which everybody has, as prison bars or as steps on your ladder. If you're not failing, you're not trying anything new.

Thanks :)
Also thanks for reading that. I know it's super long 😅

I'm trying to learn a language and start practicing the trumpet more so kinda

YES! MORE BAND NERDS!!!!

Yes!!

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Yeah! Also dorks streama I'll get a link

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You diddly darn bet I am. I've started doing Yoga again(Which, mind you, I haven't really had the time to do it, so yaaaaaaaaaaaay!).

My garden rocks this year!

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