For those of you who aren't able to work any more. What do you like to do to fill your time? If you do crafts, what kind of a craft do you do?
I'm hoping all of us can share our ideas to help others (including myself) come up with new things that we can do to fill our time.
Thank you,
Ben
I recently started repurposing furniture and also taking old furniture and repairing and repainting to Shabby Chic. I am redoing my kitchen nook area with a table and 5 chair's that I bought for $30 and I few old pieces I had in my garage. Its costing me less than $60 to do this mini make over. I can work when I am feeling up to it, which is nice and my hubby helps when I need it. Also I am selling my Shabby Chic items for some extra $$$. It's nice to see some trash turned into someone's treasures.
Over the years, Online Games have been my escape from FMS. But due to the ever greater FibroFog, I have limited ability to focus through Guild Gear runs in World of WarCraft or online battles and their complexities within EvE Online. Several years ago I had a friend told me about a game called MineCraft which is a lot like very cool electronic Legos for Adults. It just also happens to have an extensive following with the kids too. After a few weeks of playing it by myself on my own computer, my kids and soon after my friends wanted to start playing with me on the same world at the same time. For the first month I rented a server to host my world, and the month after that I built an entire hosting company around MineCraft.
For me, MineCraft is not only an online escape from FMS, but it is something I can even do during the depth of my fogy days. I can start and stop whenever I wish, I can interact with friends and family when I choose or I can be off and alone creating what ever fancy I choose for the day.
If I find a few interested people here, I would not mind at all creating a private server just for us to escape upon. Here are some of my builds...
What to do with my time? Now that's a big question.. AS I am a nurse and cant work any more.(too much fibro fog) My children is doing their own thing and my husband has died 20yrs ago. I decided to write short stories. haven't had any published yet but its just for my family and friends.. now am trying to write all the funny and sometimes not to funny things that has happened to me since I was little.. Try it you might get a laugh out of some things that happened to you.. writing cook book also. Please have a
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I have several things I like to do. Some of those are becoming much harder to manage now though. For instance, the guitar. I love playing my guitar, but rarely can do it now. My fingers and wrists start hurting too much. I also love to read, but pretty much have to stick to reading just a bit at a time, as with this Fibro Frog that wants to become a part of my daily life, I have trouble retaining what I read. Mostly what I do right now is write stories for children. Writing helps me relax and its fun as well. I also enjoy trips to Yosemite and trips to Monterey as long as I can get out of the car every hour to stretch and walk around some, and take the pressure of my sciatic nerve. I love collecting miniatures, so I spend a lot of time browsing online and looking at them. All of these, I do in small increments at a time so that I can still enjoy them ,without having to try to tolerate them thru the pain when it gets to be too much. I love horses as well, and whale watching!
Video games and art are my two escapes. I play a lot of online games so that I can talk to people, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, and Minecraft. I also am working on a long comic that I hope to start publishing online at some point.
I also spend lots of time spoiling my rats and my cat, and trying to keep my house acceptably clean. I've finally come to accept my house will never be spotless, lol. I also love to cook and bake when I have the energy.
I also use to keep a spotless house. now I cant remember where anything goes. And I cant reach up to get anything or wash windows etc. Told my daughter that if I didn't get my house cleaned and my flowers planted that she could do it when I am gone. She thinks I am just crazy. Of course everything thinks I am loosing my mind. Started to teach Sunday School Class Sunday and forgot what a wall around a city was. finally stopped and explained I was probably having fibro fog. everyone laughed and said that was ok. My daughter finally told me what I was trying to say. by the way I am 78 yrs old. so I can blame it on being senile..lOL
Please tell me how to make my letters bigger,its hard to see what I have written thanks