Things I do during my 35 hours spare time a week

Continuing what I’ve written previously on Quality Time, I just can’t resist thinking of what I do on my spare 35 hours a week. Here is goes:

Read
I am always into reading and I feel that I need more time to read. During the weekdays, my time to read is only 30 minutes before I go to sleep. During the weekends, I have more time. I have lots of books that I bought which I haven’t got time to read. Reading is important to keep my brain busy.

Browsing
Checking personal emails, browsing on some stuff that interests me, it is also a form of educating myself. Currently, I’m interested in browsing things on health and medicine, especially on vitamin and supplements. Sometimes I open up Facebook to know what’s going on with my friends.

Write my Blog
Haven’t been discipline on this matter lately, I would love to have time to maintain my blog.

Grocery shopping and car wash
This is essential every weekend. Grocery shopping takes about 1.5-2 hours including the traffic to go to Carefour, and carwash can take 2 hours (if there is a queue, more than that).

Organise my photo album
All my old pictures are still on paper prints and I would liket o scan them so that I have the digital form of it. This will take some time.

Taking care of myself
I usually do this when I get sick of looking at my toes and fingers, which is about every 3 weeks. Other things that I do is taking care of my hair, body scrub, massage, facial. These are some girly things that I like to do every now and then.

Lunch or coffee with good friends
I always like to catch up with my close friends and exchange what we have been doing. I don’t have too many close friends and they are also busy with their schedules, so if we can get together during the weekend, it is a luxury!

Visit my parents and/or my sister
Although I don’t do it much often these days because my parents are always busy with their social activities during the weekend. My nieces are getting bigger and bigger and I’m not too strong to accommodate them playing games and all that, so usually I end up feeling sooo tired after playing with them.

Health
All visit to the dentist, shrink, obsgyn, I try to squeeze it in here.

Diving
One day trip to Sanghyang or teaching in Sepa Island is something refreshing to do. I haven’t been doing this for quite a while…I should start doing this again when the weather gets better.

Taking care of Samba and Atun
Bathe them, play with them, tease them…

Checking the house, cleaning up
Any lightbulb need to be replaced? Anything dusty? Maybe I need to dust my CD collection, my bookshelf…

Taking care of my plants
Not that I have lots of them because I don’t have a big garden, but I do like to see my plants grow and add my collections. Trim the little land in front of my house and enjoy looking at the flowers.

Nice Nap
Paying off all the busy day with sleep in the afternoon is always a luxury…

…etc
Stuff like checking things that I wanted to buy, like a new underwater strobe. Or, check my diving gears from time to time, take the regulator for annual check up. Jog on Sunday Morning with the dogs. Bookstore.

Or…simply do nothing
Just be blah in front of the TV, or lay down in bed, let my mind think wildly.

I used to go out a lot at night, dancing my arse off on the Salsa dancefloor but I just can’t afford doing that anymore. Or go out and be completely toxicated, now it takes 2 days to recover from the hangover (and I don’t like spending my weekend with a severe headache).

So, that’s it. I can’t do all of this in 35 hours. Sometimes I do something impulsive, like driving to Puncak for breakfast, call up a friend to watch a movie, go to the orphanage (boy, I haven’t been there for ages). I go there when I’m really down, just to let me see that there are more unfortunate children around me so I really can’t complain with what I have right now.

So, quite occupied, hmh? I guess, living in a big city like Jakarta, time becomes really valuable. Especially for me, I start to need more space for myself after a busy and hectic days at work. Weekends are for charging myself and running errands that I couldn’t manage to do during the weekdays. Because if I don’t charge myself and keep learning, I will certainly be a dull person.