Do You Get Restless?

[julesapple]

This week I can't concentrate. I have the fidgets. My attention span is zilch, I can't settle to do anything - and I have loads to do. Boredom is everywhere. I don't even want to eat. I don't want to go out, or to do anything that involves effort. I start things, but I'm lucky to finish them. My mind wanders. Creativity levels are nil. I'm sure it'll pass, but meanwhile.......grrrrrrr! Frustration with myself is immense.

Anyone else ever feel like this? What do you do to get over it?

[zazen999]

Yes, all the time.

I usually sleep. Or go and stand in the wind or cold. Or have a bath. Usually have the best ideas after a hot bath and early night.

[mothhawk]

Play on the poota till the desire to do nothing passes. I had a couple of days like that last week. I'd sit and think - the car wants washing....the grass really could do with its first cut, and it needs edging...everywhere wants a thorough dusting and I should shift the beds out and vacuum under them...but just didn't feel motivated to do any of it.

I reckon it's the body's way of saying - you need a little ME time, time to do nothing if that's what you feel like, and no guilt afterwards.

[veggiechicken]

I'm like that most of the time, Jules - not joking!! although I can manage the eating bit. My remedy is to get out, go to the sea and walk on the beach. Maybe the difference is that it doesn't worry me. I don't feel driven to do anything in particular - been there, done it, glad I don't have to now. Relaxation and contentment, that's all I ask from life these days

[Thelma Sanders]

If I want to do nothing - then that's just what I do. Then I'll have a day when I wake up and I'm raring to go - so I get on with things.

I get more do nothing days in the winter, and a lot more raring to go days in the summer - with me it's a bodyclock thing.....not quite hibernation, but almost

[SarzWix]

I usually read a book, preferably fantasy of some sort, and disappear into somebody else's world for a while. Sort of travelling without the expense or need for energy

[Aberdeenplotter]

Mine's a guinness, then another one till it passes. If I'm gonna be miserable, I might as well be happy being miserable

[binley100]

I pootle about on internet and in books and dream about what I'll do when my get up and go comes back

[julesapple]

Thanks guys. Good to know I'm still - ahem - 'normal'. Ish.

I've done lots of those good things - spent hours on the puter, re-read a lot of favourite books, but I can't do it without guilt. You can't if you're a carer. Although if I were to say to my cripple 'Look love, I just can't be arrissed' he'd not complain, not one word. But then he tries to do lots of things that he simply can't, or shouldn't, because I don't want to........actually, that's usually all it takes to get me up and going again. I can't watch him struggle (not that I let him do nothing, I don't do anything I know he can do safely)

I'm not physically bored. I'm mentally bored, if that makes sense? It wouldn't be quite so annoying if I had succeeded at the stuff I have tried to do (website, valentine's card, dressmaking, building ecommerce shop) but I've just gotten nowhere. Not that I'm giving up - I shall try, try, try again when I've cudgelled my brains into action.

Sorry to be a whinge-bag......

[Aberdeenplotter]

Sorry to be a whinge-bag......

I'm not looking at it like that. I think we all appreciate your home circumstances and I for one am happy for you to unburden if and when the need arises. There but for the grace etc.

[julesapple]

I count myself lucky, really. He's not bed-bound or worse, he just needs my help. There are days when he milks it a bit, but he doesn't do it often - I'm not the world's most sympathetic nurse

Ah well. Tomorrow is another day......

[Bren In Pots]

Hope tomorrows a better day for you Jules.

[julesapple]

Thanks, Bren. Tomorrow will be what I make it, won't it? I can make tomorrow a better day, I just have to make an effort.

I used to have a teacher who would tell me 'You only get out of school as much as you put in' Life is much the same, I think. It's just nice to know everybody has days like these.

[zazen999]

Yeah but you can allow yourself a day of doing nowt every now and then....or as much nowt as possible.

[julesapple]

I blame Wayne and his Stumbleupon

I can, and have, spent days on there. On the plus side, I did get the idea for the BH's Valentine card from there. It looked great until I made the wrong choice of thread colour. It won't take me long to make another, but doing it in secret is difficult.