Carla Carlton, executive editor of Bellarmine Magazine, shares these tips for dealing with additional weeks of self-isolation.
You鈥檝e finally caught up on your sleep and every series on Netflix. What started as sort of an adventure is now a drag. Yes, self-isolating could be worse, but knowing that doesn鈥檛 make anyone feel better. So we鈥檝e come up with 20 things to help pass the time. We鈥檇 love to hear your ideas, too. Share them with us at letters@bellarmine.edu. There! That鈥檚 No. 21.
- Make elaborate and hang them in your windows.
- Give yourself a mani-pedi.
- Write letters to your friends/parents/grandparents and tell them how much they mean to you.
- Learn more than one way to tie a scarf. . (Trigger warning: The display may remind you of a Zoom screen.)
- Learn . Use them.
- Do your taxes. (DON鈥橳 look at your 401k or 403b.)
- Start a blog or a journal.
- Decorate rocks with messages of hope and leave them along well-traveled sidewalks.
- Have a and give the movie the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (MST3K) treatment. Throw in some Shakespearean insults!
- Form a Quarantine Singalong group that started on March 18 and had more than 43,000 members in less than a week.
- Finally read Moby-Dick. (Naaaah, there鈥檚 still plenty of time for that.)
- Try a new fitness app.
- Facetime/Skype with your grandparents or parents. Ask them about what life was like when they were your age. Record it.
- Get creative: Paint by numbers. Mold with Play-Doh. Finger paint. Just create!
- Clean out the junk drawer.
- Visit a virtual museum. Google 鈥溾�� for links to dozens of online collections.
- Teach your dog a new trick.
- Feed the birds, then .
- Use a meditation app.
- Learn to fold a fitted sheet. (Ha! This one鈥檚 a trick. No one can fold a fitted sheet.)