Good ideas. Thanks. I'm thinking my extra time is coming from having no husband, children, or pets. It's just me with very little social life so I have to keep making it up. Work does help - that means that for 7.5 hours M-Th and 4 hours on F I have something to do (although sometimes I run out there too). I have started writing every night, though I didn't do it consciously - I've been doing it to get things out since I keep going downhill at the end of the day and the journal helps some. I also read, but there is no set timeframe for anything. I'm starting to notice that the radio helps because it adds voices to the house. The funny thing is that I have tons I "could" do, but it's the wanting to do it that is hard.

biiv - Off topic, but I have trouble with the eating thing to for various reasons - is one of yours the aversion to messing up the kitchen because then you'll have to clean it? I don't have a TV. It's been years since I did. I don't think it's bad as long as you're careful about what you choose to watch and let into your home and mind. I just get mesmerized by it and have a hard time pulling away and there is so much junk that it became hard for me to avoid - so no TV - just the VCR & DVD player with monitor.

Oh and Sunrise - yes, what you're talking about is part of what I meant.