I think of a couple easy, "fun" projects and distract myself with them as well as I can, try to gain friends/skills. Being around people at least once a day (just going to the store or library and having an interaction with a clerk helps) keeps me more centered and less in my head where things tend to trod the same paths. I try to think of easy things to want that I can "get." One "game" I like to play is when I grocery shop, I tell myself I can have anything I want in the store and then, as I'm shopping I look for what special thing I want -- could be in the gourmet shelves with the chutney :-) or Chinese mustard or something simple like cones for ice cream cones or maybe popcorn or a comfort food of some sort.
But I always have a journal or two going and a project or three on a back burner (I've just learned how to make "postcards" on my printer from pictures I take in my digital camera and so I'm making some for special family members who need cheering up and so they can see what I'm up to, get pictures of other family members they haven't seen for awhile, etc.) and I dabble with them. The last time I went to the library I only got one book and I've been reading it at night, in bed, before I got to sleep (hard to read after I go to sleep :-) and I finished it last night so now I'm going to go back today and turn it in and get another by that author. Little rituals/tasks/"projects" like that help me when I'm feeling down.
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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance." ~Confucius
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