Things you're doing in your life right now that would sound bonkers if you told anyone, but make sense to you....

[HundredsOfTinyWillies]

I'm currently stalking a man in my neighbourhood because I love his dog. I've bumped into this man and his dog twice. I've started going out at the same-ish time and walking the same-ish route in the hopes of meeting him his dog

I have a whole imaginary world in my head where I'm a former supermodel now living a quiet life in the countryside. When I'm pottering around doing household chores, I pretend Louis Theroux is following me asking me probing questions about my tough childhood and stratospherically successful career.

I plan retirement every single day. I model different scenarios with different levels of income. I look at properties in retirement communities a lot. I'm 40.

I would never say these things out loud to another human because they make me sound absolutely bonkers. But there it is.
Tell me your weirdness that you could never verbalise...

Well if you’re that close you can probably beat them there. I was thinking they might have gathered in the darkened corners but that’s possibly an I Am Legend kind of thing.
I have my eye on the harbour. Bound to be something seaworthy there. Zombies are non-swimming right?

Zombies wade, stacked on each other's shoulders.

Bring fire.

You can't have read World War Z (very different to the movie)? Zombies very much swimming in that!

It is vampires that may have some reluctance to attempt crossing water.

I can’t wait to hear it 🎶

I have mentally furnished many homes already . The penthouse apartment in NYC , the retirement bungalow, the refurb of this house.
Then there is the huge lottery win distribution
Then if I had taken a different path in life
What I will look like when I lose four stone

I dream about living in a solar powered tiny house with multi purpose pull-out furniture and the bare minimum of equipment, clothes, books etc. Ana White in Alaska (?) with her woodworking skills is my hero.

But then I realise I’m a maximalist and prefer to have supplies for any event.

Enjoy dying of Beri Beri 👋🏻

I'm not well enough anymore to plan exciting things & it's too depressing yi imagine the exciting things I can no longer do. BUT I could look after your home & your cat in return for photos & tales of your travels 😊

the rest of you are certifiable 🤣🤣🤣🤣

actually, these threads always amaze me, so so very different to me 🤣😊

It looks like a dolls house!

I think if would set off my claustrophobia as the plants look huge & like you wouldn't be able to get out....

that's hilarious!

@Arraminta @OtterDoBetter Well that’s my survival out the window then! I’ll just have to make sure I’m in the first wave of zombies myself. Nobody’s going to let me in on their survival plans. I’m too reliant on difficult to produce stuff like medication and chocolate.

Just remembered that when I was in my 20s I answered to "Kathleen" for about 2 years when a man who would come into my work thought that was my name.
My name doesn't even start with a K/C.

I do similar things. I hope that if I’m ever in such a scenario, my daydreaming and musings would prepare me for a terrorist situation. In reality, I’d probably freak.

This thread has made my day love reading these. I spend my life looking at houses for sale and planning all the rooms/ furniture / life living there, I’m surprised I have time for anything else to be honest

My Nana and her friends actually did this over 60 years ago, living together in a house virtually on the beach on the south coast.
As a child I loved visiting them … they were hilarious and so happy ❤️

Oh my god - i love this.
I'm hoping i can't get to sleep tonight so i can start this in my head !

1. Actively planning on becoming a nun. I expect it's a phase which will pass and I'll just go on lots of retreats instead. Have talked to (part-time) work colleagues, they think I'm bonkers but are very kind in a let's-humour-her kind of a way.
2. Daydream about winning millions on the lottery. I will contact lots of people from my distant past and offer them a million pounds each, the condition being they must firstly spend an hour with me where I tell them all the home truths I should have told them at the time - and they have to listen. (Would make a good TV programme!) Very satisfying in my mind, but given the nun planning above, it's probably a sin or something.

Fortunately neither are likely to happen!

I need more than that. Three kids, 2 ex-daughters-in-law and 2 grandsons to get settled in decent housing, and grandsons through uni. Then a lovely big retirement flat for us which can be left secure when we go travelling. When I can't sleep, I decorate and furnish this flat in my mind.

I used to daydream about my life without ex-h. In real life he’d had a brain tumour removed and despite being perfectly well, he banged on about it constantly. I met a psychic and she told me it would regrow - I used to daydream it would come back and I’d be free. Sounds awful but he was an arse and we separated eventually as he was violent towards me.

I used to run all sorts of scenarios in my head - I’d bump into someone amazing in an airport/on holiday and we’d run away together etc etc.
I spent an awful lot of time daydreaming of being free from him or reading books and getting lost in the fantasy.

These days my new husband is involved in my daydreams and they all seem to be based on us buying a massive house to renovate. DH is more invested in this fantasy than I am and he finds properties and I work out whether we could actually make it happen. I seem to be good at coming up with outlandish schemes that could be doable, but realistically we can’t risk losing everything we have now we have kids. If it was just us two, I think we’d have done it by now for real.

I fucking love this. Absolutely bonkers.

Seriously, good luck with your vocation. It can be a great life.

I consider becoming a nun quite often too.

Me and DH construct out whole working schedule around the dog so she's never on her own.
We both have very responsible, professional jobs - DH is C-suite at one company.
Our careers have probably both been significantly affected but we DGAF - pooch comes first.

I like the idea of bribing people with money from a big win but having to tell them some home truths first ( poster below ) I can see it as a ‘ play for today ‘ type show , I bet the majority would listen for money , but if you’d be still be friends afterwards is interesting!