I’ve taken a day off to do absolutely nothing. AMA.

[LoveIy]

Background is I’m tired. Haven’t had a minute lately due to work and other things going on. Spent last weekend doing a house move for someone else and having to do all of the lifting and organizing. I’m tired, emotional, and bruised (literally from hauling boxes and stuffing a skip).

So I’ve taken today off and will be doing precisely nothing.

I slept til 8.15, stayed in bed reading until 9.30, and now I’m drinking coffee and watching the curling.

I’ve set my exercise ring in my Apple Watch to the minimum, have lit a nice scented candle, and have a movie lined up for later. It’s pouring rain out and I’m determined to stay in.

Please do feel free to ask me anything, or to tell me how jealous you are 😁

Totally jealous, I'm stuck in with my 3 year old 😂 I'd be taking a lovely afternoon nap in your position 😊 what film are you going to watch?

Wanna come clean my oven since your free? I will pay you with a cuppa and endless amount of biscuits.

I'm not jealous because I'm doing nearly the same thing. I got up at 8.00 and did a Just Eat order.

When it came I made hot dogs for breakfast, and now I'm back in bed.

I get very tired anyway as I have advanced kidney disease. But I am retired, so I don't have to do much if I don't feel like it.

Enjoy your day.

Will you get annoyed when pedantic people point out that reading in bed, drinking coffee, watching the curling and posting on MN are all "doing something" so you are not in fact "doing nothing". And in fact that it's actually impossible to "do nothing" as "nothing" is still a thing you are doing?

A nap has not been ruled out.

Thinking of watching Anniversary on Netflix, the new one with Phoebe Dynevor.

I do really like biscuits, so it is a tempting proposition.

Following the house nice last weekend, I got a team of industrial cleaners in and they cleaned EVERYTHING. The old was sparkling. I’m so tempted to get them into my house. It’s amazing how clean they got things I never realised were dirty.

It wouldn’t be MN without them! I’m just waiting for someone to tell me they get up at 4am every day to get their 10,000 steps in because before dedicating their entire day to work, husband, and children and couldn’t possibly tolerate a day of doing nothing.

I'm scheduled for a morning of doing nothing.

What snacks do you have?

Have you seen heated rivalry?

Do you think Keir Starmer should resign as PM?

Hot dogs for breakfast is an interesting one! I’m not much of a breakfast or hot dog eater, but can 100% get behind a morning Just Eat order. We don’t have JE in my (rural) area, which is probably not a bad thing.

Enjoy your day too.

I do nothing but a lot of that is MN scrolling and other internet browsing so I don’t think that’s nothing!

I think an odd day doing this is absolutely fine. Enjoy.

Reading this jealous from work. I’ve been running on half power for weeks due to illnesses, when you don’t quite recover from one thing and pick up another, and seeing my dh still in bed as I leave doesn’t help (he’s retired, I’m younger). Enjoy your days everyone, perhaps take yourselves to local shops and support your local businesses, I leave dh a list (aren’t I lovely) and today he’s charged with fetching fruit and veg from the independent veg man who comes on Fridays

Enjoy @LoveIy , I used to do this when I worked FT whenever DH was away with eork for more than 1 week. Id book 2 days AL, first one was for getting shit done, 2nd one was for meeeee .

I’m on a diet so trying to avoid doing too much eating but I do have a fruit salad and yogurt in the fridge for later. Also have some lovely homemade chocolate sourdough in the freezer from last week so might have that toasted later.

I’m not English and don’t live in the UK so don’t have particularly strong throughs on Starmer. That said, I do think politics is amazing. It’s raises a big question over his decision-making abilities, and I think there was always a generally feeling of “there’s something not quite right” about Mandelson so the fact that so many senior politicians always supported him is baffling.

I do wonder what the situation would under Boris Johnson and he had appointed someone like Mandelson. I get the feeling he couldn’t be pressured to step down but that’s just a hypothetical and there’s no way of knowing.

Mandelson is just a stomach-turning individual, though.

The whole Epstein situation is utterly horrendous and the more that comes out about it and those involved, the more I realise that the protection of the rich and powerful extends to very high levels.

I think it’s shocking that all of this has come out about those men involved with Epstein and their crimes, and the outcome is one woman in jail (and rightly so!) but not a single man.

@LoveIy OP out of interest, how much were the industrial house cleaners and how big was the house they cleaned?

It’s a standard terraced three bedroom house but the elderly owners hadn’t been doing much deep cleaning so it was quite dirty. Total cost came to €1,000 (think that’s about £870?).

Expensive but they cleaned EVERYTHING. All walls and ceilings, radiators, door handles, light fittings, all windows (insides and out), carpets and upholstery dry cleaned, industrial steamers used on all floors and bathroom, inside, outside and tops of cupboards, double oven looks like new, fridge freezer looks like it’s in a showroom, even the cutlery organiser got cleaned 😁
It’s like they started at the ceilings and just cleaned every single item in every room. It was amazing.

I would highly recommend if it’s something that budget allows for. It took a team of three very energetic cleaners 10 hours. They brought all products and equipment, and left me some chocolates 😂

YABU.

I get up at 4am every day to get my 10,000 steps in before dedicating my entire day to work, DH (who is a truly exceptional beautiful human being) and DC (who are truly exceptional human beings) and I couldn’t possibly tolerate a day of doing nothing.

I am much better than you.

Sounds bliss. Enjoy x

I watched Anniversary last night - it's so good! It's fairly brutal and unsettling though so probably best to watch when in a good frame of mind!

I'm also having a lazy day, it's my day off and I have a cold so just hibernating under the electric blanket whilst the kids are at school.

What book are you reading (if you haven't already been asked that)?
What you having for lunch?

Very jealous. Currently sitting at my desk with a stinking cold that seems to have become significantly worse this morning and would love nothing more than to be curled up on my sofa with my cats, log burner on watching TV. Enjoy! :)

I've got a day off too!

Isn't it lovely. Whipped round and properly polished the stone in the kitchen instead of the usual spray and wipe, so it's absolutely gleaming. Off to have a poke around the butchers imminently for a big roast on Sunday.

Lovely.

Self care is so important!
I have done the same.. but I’ve not told my boss 🤫🤫 my DH is upstairs working in the office and hasn’t noticed yet, hoping he comes down and suggests a pub lunch 😂
currently watching the Winter Olympics with a hot chocolate

I’m doing the same but with my 12 week old. He is very grouchy from his jabs yesterday so basically letting him nap on me all day whilst I binge real housewives

We watched the new Simon Cowell documentary where he’s putting together a boy band. It’s actually really good. Maybe something for you?

Team GB mixed doubles is back at the bonspiel at 1.30 pm. Make sure you’re watching. Yours, doing nothing in retirement.

I’m doing the same! Went for a pedicure this morning with a birthday gift voucher and balloon shopping for DC birthday and have happily sat on the sofa ignoring all the house work and will stay here until school pick up…. Bliss!!