I can sympathize with the missing friend. My best buddy is moving a long (long) way away next month and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself when he goes.

Anyway, things that help for me are playing with my dogs or hiking with them if the weather is good. My labbie is the happiest creature on earth and you can't not smile watching him play. I tell people if I had half his joy in life, I'd be great! Or I ride my horse.... but that is a major cause of my current funk, I may not be able to ride him again, he's hurt. So that's killing me. But normally, a ride makes the world better.

I like to do photography too, I can find the coolest stuff without going very far from home but I love to just randomly drive in a direction and see what I see. Painting watercolors is also a good thing. I can get lost in books too, sci fi or fantasy is my favorite.

I have a ton of unfortunate habits that aren't the best, like bags of M&Ms. I need to figure out how to let some of those go.