How would you describe your lifestyle? For me every day is like a quiet, lazy, Sunday afternoon.

[applegrove]

[riderinthestorm]

1. My day is like the "building the barn" segment in the movie "Witness"

Rural but full of bustle, cooperation, "community" of my clients and staff, multiple layers of personnel working together, homespun, completely outdoors and connected intimately with nature and the weather ....

Of course, as a female, I'm the boss so there's THAT difference but overall the mood and pace of that agrarian lifestyle is similar.

A qualifier: I've always bristled at the subservient women in Amish households (and we do drive horses as well so I come in contact FREQUENTLY with the Shipshewana IN and Arcola IL communities often, even staying as guests with them) so I wanted to point out that many modern farming households are actually directed by women.

[murielm99]

2. I try to keep my life

low key these days. I try to do something necessary and useful every day as well. But I avoid most of the people who hurt me in the past. Even if I see some of them around town, I start to feel badly all over again. It may be a long time before I can end my enforced solitude. Maybe, for the sake of my health, I will never end it.

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. I hope that you find your peace AND strength again.

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[murielm99]

6. Thank you. n/t

[dawg]

15. I hope you find your peace, too.

And that you will soon be able to end your solitude. I have to see the person who hurt me the most every single day - and interact with her like it was no big thing. It is certainly not easy.

[applegrove]

22. There are new fish in the sea. Don't give up on people. Leave the assholes behind and connect

with the good eggs that are out there.

[progressoid]

4. Sisyphus

[applegrove]

5. I've had decades like that.

[grasswire]

7. I try to do something for the past, the present, and the future each day

I have a lot of projects. A long list of projects. Some honor the past, some are urgent, some have to do with family legacy for the future.

One of them is reworking a worn-out battered crib quilt for a family member who is now 36 years old. The thing was precious to him, and he wants it incorporated into a new throw. It even survived a family canoe crash and wild trip down miles of mountain river. It's a challenge.

Another is the transcription of my uncle's letters from Corregidor WW2.

I write, I edit, I study, I read, I listen to jazz and drink coffee. I look out the picture windows a lot -- a million dollar view that I adore.

I am really grateful to be able to decide what to do each day, within the constraints of weather and expense. And grateful to be safe and warm, with clean tap water hot and cold, electricity, and so many more blessings than most of the world's citizens will ever have.

[dimbear]

8. Hypermotivated, go-getter, achievement oriented. For instance, on my kitchen table,

there is a grandfather's clock I took apart to repair in August. I'll get around to it soon. I promise. I can always eat here by the computer.

[sarge43]

9. Enjoying the lull between shit storms n/t

[EmeraldCityGrl]

10. I'm with him...

It's like a roller coaster and we just pulled into bottom heading up up up up up......

[PassingFair]

13. +1

I used the roller coaster analogy, too.

You must hate your job as much as I hate mine.

[rucky]

11. hookers and blow

all the way

[PassingFair]

12. Week days: Getting onto a rollercoaster when I DON'T WANT TO.

No waiting.

Weekends: Bliss

[HopeHoops]

14. A fucking mess.

[dawg]

16. Frantically plugging holes to keep the ship from sinking.

While everyone else around me is busy poking new ones.

[pipi_k]

17. Some people would call it

BOR-ING.

To me, it's like being on vacation 24/7.

Lots of woods and animals. Very quiet.

Sundays we go into town for breakfast and to socialize with the locals.

The rest of the time I'm on my computer or playing with the dogs or doing some kind of crafty thing...knitting/crocheting for friends or family or for charity. Just got back into doing the family genealogy after a hiatus of 5 years or so.

When it gets warmer I'll go sit out by the pond with my wireless touchpad and a cup of coffee...or maybe under the maple tree by the barn.

Really low stress, which is good because I have various anxiety disorders and can manage to create my own inner stress at the drop of a hat.

[geardaddy]

18. DU 24/7.

Not really.

[Bertha Venation]

19. Great question. I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to answer.

I guess my lifestyle is in flux right now. On March 1 I returned to work after 4 1/2 months on medical leave. The Hepatitis C virus is now undetectable, and in August we’ll know for sure if I’m cured. I feel better than I did before the treatment, of course, but more significantly I feel better than I ever remember feeling. Largely gone is the constant state of fatigue I’ve felt for as long as I can remember. Sunday I did chores all day and could’ve done more but the day ended. That has never happened.

So I think I can safely say I will soon have more physical activity worked into my daily routine. That possibility is what’s dominating my thoughts these days.

I guess I didn’t really answer the question, but there it is.

[JitterbugPerfume]

20. Lacking in structure

I am retired, living alone . I eat when I am hungry, sleep when I an tired, sometimes stay up all night reading, and take long walks or watch TV all day. It drives my kids nuts , but then payback it a B##ch --they drove me nuts for years!

[RebelOne]

21. Mine too.

I have been retired since 2010 and it seems that one day just merges into another. Sometimes, I have to check the date on my calendar. In fact, I thought today was Wednesday.

[Arkansas Granny]

23. It's pretty calm these days, but in days gone by, friends used to describe my house

as being like a box of granola. It was full of fruits, nuts and flakes.

[femmocrat]

24. Eat. Sleep. Work.

Mine is more of a merry-go-round than a roller coaster.