Hahaha that's me with Duolingo right now (and also the crafts and book reading). xD

Hmm. Maybe I'll try audiobooks again but it's so hard to find your place when you get lost due to daydreaming/getting too into something else you were doing at the same time. I gave them up a long time ago because I was so discouraged by how often I'd have to spend time trying to figure out where I lost track. It's weird since I can't not pay attention to TV that this can happen with audiobooks (and even podcasts I like a lot, with fascinating topics).

I have a new "tip" (sort of):
If you're angry and just don't know what to do: Clean something! If there was something you were putting off, you'll either scrub it spotless or make significant headway as you attack that dirt. Then you feel much better at the end because you used that energy for something productive. Obviously you can't rely on anger to make your cleaning jobs go away (I hope). I was angry and impatient at *myself* a little while ago, and just randomly started cleaning instead of going back to what I was doing before. found myself making massive headway on scrubbing some bathroom tiles that were getting pretty ugly. I thought back to other times I was irritated at either myself or someone else, and sometimes I'd just pick up a broom or a mop or go to town on the kitchen counters. Obviously this only works with the mindless kind of cleaning I'm mentioning above. Something like carefully putting things away or sorting laundry isn't going to be quite as satisfying. But if it works like it did for me, it's not just cleansing for the surface you're cleaning but cleansing for your mental state as you watch the grime (in the case of my shower tiles anyway) rinse away.