Quite frankly I'm sick of staring at the TV every evening, and waking up on the weekend and looking at dh and we're stumped for what to do.
Our quality of life does seem impaired because of this. What do you do in the evenings? Every evening? And what do you do on the weekends?
We wake up generally at 7.30 (we both seem to need a lot of sleep) then dh races to work for 8, and I speedily dress ds and myself for 8. We both work till 5, when dinner is generaly on the table. 6 o clock and simpsons is put on, then hollyoaks, then dh has a bath with ds (and I tidy away) then a bit more tv and ds goes to bed at 8 (don't get me wrong we play with ds then, but the tv is on, and it's just toys not major activities.)
Then it's tv on for the rest of the night. One of us is generally using the PC at the same time (dh for uni work, or me for our accounts/MN) or two nights a week I'm cleaning the house.
Dh is starting to play football wednesday evenings soon (and unknown to him I intend to take ds every week - will get us out the house!!!) In september I'll be doing a course one evening a week hopefully.
But that's it. And it's the same on the weekends, we spend saturday shopping which we can't afford, and sundays at the PILs. We have occassionally gone to the park or for a picnic, but there isn't a lot around here to do. Weekends we like to be OUT of the house - I work from home and if I spend all weekend in the house/garden I go a bit stir crazy.
Dh takes ds swimming one lunch time a week, but we're thinking of doing that at a different time, but I don't think evenings are suitable...
How can I improve all this? How do you fill your weekends with fun activities and how do you make your evenings more interesting?? We don't have much disposable income so anything too expensive is not really an option.. but suggest it anyways!
I've been thinking hobbies (tried knitting!) but haven't come up with much I'm good at. I'd love to try gardening but we're moving soon so not the best option in a rented house...
Sorry if this is a rant!
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lunavix · 20/07/2005 13:34
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