Google: how to relax

It is my first day off in over two weeks and I don’t know what to do with myself.

Over the past two weeks, I have been working at the hotel or babysitting or sometimes both! Today is the first day where I am completely off from both of those jobs and I have no idea what to do. Laying in bed and doing nothing all day sounds great. But when I actually do it, I feel like I am wasting my day away, I overthink, I should be doing something more productive with my time, stress about finances, and everything except relaxing. Side note, I think that is why I had such a difficult time in Roatan.

I am the youngest of three. My two older brothers are five and seven years older than me. Growing up, they would play and hang out with each other and I had to entertain myself often. Thankfully the entertainment I had growing up translated into one of my major stress relievers today. I fell in love with brain games and puzzles. You can find me doing Sudoku, or have at least one book with me, probably ~85% of the time. I have completed well over a thousand Sudoku puzzles as well as Crosswords, Fill-it-Ins, Word Search, cryptograms, variations of Sudoku, any of those games are my favorite. Mm, find me with a nice pen and a Sudoku book and I will be in my own little world. Anyway, I absolutely love working on physical puzzles as well, I just haven’t been able to complete much because I have a cat that will make many pieces magically disappear. Here are a few other things I like to do to relax; reading, knitting, writing, painting, exercising, playing with my cats…