For years, I never used the sitting room properly. I never really relaxed in front of the TV.
I used Christmas time as a time to take time out and relax with some movies.
But outside of that, I never relaxed much at home. Life was always work Monday to Friday (usually) and then weekends was always spent catching up with chores or going out or quite often also more work.
In recent months I became very unhappy and also sometimes unwell. There was always somebody having a pull on my time - work, partner, family.
I really enjoyed Christmas time at home.
I had a week where I enjoyed sitting down in the sitting room and watching movies.
I never wanted that to end.
Since the new year, I fell into a position of being somewhat lazy at weekends.
I went into the sitting room one Saturday morning in the new year, and turned on the TV and I enjoyed it.
I watched bake off.
Followed by more programmes and movies.
Then I spent the Sunday doing the same.
Since then, aside from one weekend of work, I have been doing the same. I am lighting a fire and turning on the TV and relaxing in front of the TV and spending whole weekends watching movies and dipping in and out from the kitchen for food or tea and also to do some chores in between.
It was years since I watched Saturday TV.
I would say I would have been a child since I watched TV on a Saturday morning but I really liked it.
I'm becoming more selfish with my time and saying no more often and I am stopping the racing around 7 days a week. It really feels like some sort of h