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PrintableSensualMelody said: AzureStar said: As many of you know, I finally moved out on my own, with my two children, and I have found that I don't know what to do with myself now.
I've done laundry until I'm blue in the face, thinking if I washed everything we owned that would take up my time... I've shopped when I shouldn't have because I need my money... I've even broken down and watched movies more than once, which is something that I NEVER do... I've even ran the dishwasher with two glasses in it just to hit the button and know that after a period of time I can take the glasses out and put them away... I'm happy... I just don't know what to do with my time, now that it's my own to do with what I please. Any suggestions? Have a Bible study...It's free, and you will meet some nice folk. You need not feel pressured, but you may ask any questions you have always wondered about and see what the Bible answers are. Or just dig deeper into the book yourself. A modern translation lends itself to longer study periods. Meditate. Just a suggestion. 
MELODY I used to meditate a lot... I may start doing that again. Thank you... | |
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Cloudbuster said: Look for God. It keeps me busy. I can't find him anywhere!
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ConsciousContact said: Dance girl, dance!
Oh... I have been doing that. And smiling! | |
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AzureStar said: I used to meditate a lot... I may start doing that again. Thank you... I experienced what life's plan was for me through meditation. A sort of a vision. I haven't done it, but that's my problem! | |
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AzureStar said: 2the9s said: 2the9s said: We should start an Org reading group! We all agree to read the same book (preferably a non-Rand, non-Vonnegut type of book) and then report our reactions to it here!
How about it? 
That would help you pass your time!  Here are a few books we might consider. I have been meaning to read these for some time, but haven't. I picked them because they are short! Adrift on the Nile, Naguib Mahfouz [Nobel prize winning Egyptian writer] The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz [Polish writer, shot to death in the Warsaw ghetto] Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee [South Africa writer] Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov [This one's for Ice] Don Quixote Kathy Acker [The only thing I know about this one is that she mentions Prince in this book] Who's in?
Or does anyone else have any suggestions? I'm certainly in... just tell me which book to buy! So am I... --ยปYou're my favourite moment, you're my Saturday... | |
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Think about all of the things you wished you could do...and DO THEM Anything your heart desires. It's your time and your life and thank goodness you reclaimed it, girl! 
GO LIVE  | |
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AzureStar said: SuperC said: Go outside the house and do something. Go to the park. Talk a walk with the kids. Go to a store and window shop. Meet people. JUST GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!
I am thinking about doing something so off the wall... I am thinking about taking the kids to the zoo this weekend! Scary, I know!  that is another giant step for you! ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
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ian said: Here's an original idea...
How about pissing away all your free time on some kind of website... maybe a fan site related to Prince or something? Maybe you can find with lots of dumb forums and stuff... Bwahhhahahaha. . .yeah. But when I'm not doing that, you know what I think is super fun? Try this sometime. Go to an art store, and just wander around and find something that intrigues you, be it watercolors or glitter or sidewalk chalk or fancy paper or something, and take it home and play with it. Doesn't have to be Great Art, just make pretties. Fingerpaint! Oh gawd, there is nothing more glorious than fingerpainting. Or melt crayons. Make yourself your favorite hot drink, put it in a paper cup, and draw on the cup with crayons. The heat melts the wax and it is sooo preeettty. You can also put a peice of paper on a hot plate and do it that way. I forget many things, but I never forgot how to play. | |
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2the9s said: 2the9s said: We should start an Org reading group! We all agree to read the same book (preferably a non-Rand, non-Vonnegut type of book) and then report our reactions to it here!
How about it?
That would help you pass your time! Here are a few books we might consider. I have been meaning to read these for some time, but haven't. I picked them because they are short! Adrift on the Nile, Naguib Mahfouz [Nobel prize winning Egyptian writer] The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz [Polish writer, shot to death in the Warsaw ghetto] Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee [South Africa writer] Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov [This one's for Ice] Don Quixote Kathy Acker [The only thing I know about this one is that she mentions Prince in this book] Who's in?
Or does anyone else have any suggestions? Me  | |
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Lleena said: 2the9s said: 2the9s said: We should start an Org reading group! We all agree to read the same book (preferably a non-Rand, non-Vonnegut type of book) and then report our reactions to it here!
How about it?
That would help you pass your time! Here are a few books we might consider. I have been meaning to read these for some time, but haven't. I picked them because they are short! Adrift on the Nile, Naguib Mahfouz [Nobel prize winning Egyptian writer] The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz [Polish writer, shot to death in the Warsaw ghetto] Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee [South Africa writer] Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov [This one's for Ice] Don Quixote Kathy Acker [The only thing I know about this one is that she mentions Prince in this book] Who's in?
Or does anyone else have any suggestions? Me I'm in. We should appoint somebody to be the head of the book club, pick titles, start the relevant threads, etc. Any takers? Sorry. That's the type-A in me. | |
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tackam said: Lleena said: 2the9s said: 2the9s said: We should start an Org reading group! We all agree to read the same book (preferably a non-Rand, non-Vonnegut type of book) and then report our reactions to it here!
How about it?
That would help you pass your time! Here are a few books we might consider. I have been meaning to read these for some time, but haven't. I picked them because they are short! Adrift on the Nile, Naguib Mahfouz [Nobel prize winning Egyptian writer] The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz [Polish writer, shot to death in the Warsaw ghetto] Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee [South Africa writer] Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov [This one's for Ice] Don Quixote Kathy Acker [The only thing I know about this one is that she mentions Prince in this book] Who's in?
Or does anyone else have any suggestions? Me I'm in. We should appoint somebody to be the head of the book club, pick titles, start the relevant threads, etc. Any takers? Sorry. That's the type-A in me. I nominate 2the9s to be the head of the book club. He is the only one capable of running such a club, anyone else would just be mediocre.  ---------------------------------
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wkb said: tackam said: Lleena said: 2the9s said: 2the9s said: We should start an Org reading group! We all agree to read the same book (preferably a non-Rand, non-Vonnegut type of book) and then report our reactions to it here!
How about it?
That would help you pass your time! Here are a few books we might consider. I have been meaning to read these for some time, but haven't. I picked them because they are short! Adrift on the Nile, Naguib Mahfouz [Nobel prize winning Egyptian writer] The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz [Polish writer, shot to death in the Warsaw ghetto] Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee [South Africa writer] Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov [This one's for Ice] Don Quixote Kathy Acker [The only thing I know about this one is that she mentions Prince in this book] Who's in?
Or does anyone else have any suggestions? Me I'm in. We should appoint somebody to be the head of the book club, pick titles, start the relevant threads, etc. Any takers? Sorry. That's the type-A in me. I nominate 2the9s to be the head of the book club. He is the only one capable of running such a club, anyone else would just be mediocre. Yes, 9s can multi-task very well... ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
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But you can't be seriously thinking of reading Nabokov?! Isn't that a little dark and heavy for starters? Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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I would also cast a vote for 2the9s. | |
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I'm a literature major... of course I'm in! I mean, like, where is the sun? | |
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Poetry...
Pick one room and see if you can reorganize it as many different times as possible in an 8 hour span... Four words: Ferret neutering for profit Be a dick to your neighbors and steal their UPS packages... 8) Buy some paint and repaint a room... Whip up a whole shitload of kolachies... Play a few rounds of trashcan basketball... Become a solitaire expert... See how long you can walk on your hands without falling over, then try and beat that record... Prank phonecalls galore... Take a yodeling class or two... Put lipstick on the cat... Stack pennies on the back of your elbow, then flip your arm real quick while tryin' to catch them all... See if hot water really DOES freeze faster than cold water... Call and leave Sag 47 voicemails, each one saying "Whatcha doin', Sag??"... Design your own emoticons... | |
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teller said: But you can't be seriously thinking of reading Nabokov?! Isn't that a little dark and heavy for starters?
 You may be right teller, although I don't know why something dark would have to be excluded. All of those books are sort of dark, I think.
Coetzee is one of those really important writers that I have never read that feel I should. And again, it's short, coming in at just over 100 pages. Here's the description from the back of the book: For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire whose servant he is. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he finds himslef jolted into sympathy with their victims -- until their barbarous treatment of prisoners of war finally pushes him into a quixotic act of rebellion, and thus into imprisonment as an enemy of the state.
Hard to get happy after that! Does anybody else have any other suggestions? Anything new? | |
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wellbeyond said: Stack pennies on the back of your elbow, then flip your arm real quick while tryin' to catch them all...
The Fonz did that! | |
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I would pick very boring books. | |
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Lleena said: I would pick very boring books.
There are no boring books! Only boring readers! Except for Ayn Rand.  | |
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2the9s said: Lleena said: I would pick very boring books.
There are no boring books! Only boring readers! Except for Ayn Rand.  Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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teller said: 2the9s said: Lleena said: I would pick very boring books.
There are no boring books! Only boring readers! Except for Ayn Rand. Yeah! Where's the children in Fountainhead? Think of the children! | |
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ConsciousContact said: Yeah! Where's the children in Fountainhead? Think of the children!
 I don't know.Fear is the mind-killer. | |
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applekisses said: Think about all of the things you wished you could do...and DO THEM
Anything your heart desires. It's your time and your life and thank goodness you reclaimed it, girl!
GO LIVE I've reclaimed it and boy... am I gonna have a hell of a lot of fun! Thanks, Apples... | |
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sag10 said: AzureStar said: SuperC said: Go outside the house and do something. Go to the park. Talk a walk with the kids. Go to a store and window shop. Meet people. JUST GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!
I am thinking about doing something so off the wall... I am thinking about taking the kids to the zoo this weekend! Scary, I know! that is another giant step for you! HUGE step for me... but, I am going to buck up and just do it... even though it's going to drive me crazy! | |
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Yoga, Azure. | |
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wellbeyond said:
Poetry... I think I'm going to do that again, as well as write... Pick one room and see if you can reorganize it as many different times as possible in an 8 hour span...What? You think I haven't done this already? I made it in less than four hours! Four words: Ferret neutering for profit Ferrets are sneaky and I don't like sneaky things... even furry, sneaky things. Be a dick to your neighbors and steal their UPS packages... How about I just be a bitch and they can keep their packages! Buy some paint and repaint a room...I'm planning on doing this next month... painting the entire place. I can't stand white walls. Whip up a whole shitload of kolachies...Then I would get fat! Play a few rounds of trashcan basketball...I would need someone to play with and I have no trashcan. Become a solitaire expert...I've played way too much solitare in the past two months. See how long you can walk on your hands without falling over, then try and beat that record...I've tried that for 31 years... I never beat my record of falling down instantly. Prank phonecalls galore...Fantastic idea! Take a yodeling class or two...Umm...no. Put lipstick on the cat...Haley does that already... perfume too! Stack pennies on the back of your elbow, then flip your arm real quick while tryin' to catch them all...I can do that already! See if hot water really DOES freeze faster than cold water...Believe it or not... I did this two nights ago. I filled up one ice cube tray with cold water and the other with hot water... just because. Call and leave Sag 47 voicemails, each one saying "Whatcha doin', Sag??"...That is something that I would do! She'd just LOVE me for that! Design your own emoticons... Are you trying to make me sick? Good suggestions! Thanks! | |
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Anji said: Yoga, Azure.
Yoga is not for me... but a good suggestion... maybe I will think about it! | |
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AzureStar said: applekisses said: Think about all of the things you wished you could do...and DO THEM
Anything your heart desires. It's your time and your life and thank goodness you reclaimed it, girl!
GO LIVE I've reclaimed it and boy... am I gonna have a hell of a lot of fun! Thanks, Apples... YAY!
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You see? Ian was right... I am wide awake and couldn't find anything to do so I came to the org!
Though I do need to shut up... I am a little too chatty tonight and really should get to bed so I can go to work in the morning. | |
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