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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Good time for disruptive projects like electrical work and power tools inside

[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

My wife’s a meal planner, I’m more of a ‘whatever’s in the house’ type of cook. Just throw random shit together if it even sounds close to good. So I’d probably just do lots of stir-fries of all the random ingredients for planned meals that didn’t happen but still live in our freezer.

She’d return to what appears to be freezer that I cleaned out, and I will have put next to no thought into cooking.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Time to get some lube, plugs, and dildos and get into anal

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

While I’m sure I’d have ambitious ideas, mostly no

  • no shoes
  • no thinking, planning or scheduling
  • no bed time
  • no pants

But a few more

  • more garlic
  • more spice
  • more meals she would never eat.
  • and a key lime pie, dammit
[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 106 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Based on experience: play video games for too long instead of eating, watch movies they don’t normally enjoy, and forget to go to sleep at a reasonable time.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 29 points 3 days ago

Fucked up sleep pattern for the win.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A dog or a cat may help with the last one. They will let you stay up too late, but they won't let you sleep in.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

My dog is a 13 years old couch potato. He gets angry when I try to get him outside while its still dark :D

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh dear lord. My 5 year old shiba has been deciding by that 4am is suddenly an appropriate time to ask to go to the bathroom when I even limit water after a certain point at night. This just started recently. She used to go until 5:30 or so and still sometimes does. It seems random, so I don’t think it’s a UTI or anything.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

My girls are both 8, but they don't have a specific time. They just go by the sun coming up, lol.

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[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would do absolutely nothing differently, except I would have trouble falling asleep.

I'm an introvert, and I chose my husband specifically because being alone with him feels just as good as being alone.

...Well, most of the time. (He does get on my nerves occasionally.)

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

You sound like my wife

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Shit with the door open

Nothing else changes

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Eat at arbitrary times when I'm hungry, and eat lots of spicy food. Smoke weed and play computer games. Feel a bit lonely.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That sounds wonderful, even the lonely part. I feel we don't appreciate the valance that some time alone can bring since we are social (ish) animals.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

It's hugely valuable. I love my partner deeply, but I often fall into a trap of imagining that life was simpler an dmore fun when I didn't have to care about another person's needs and could just be the goblin inside. But when I actually get the chance, the novelty wears off pretty quick and I'm so happy when they're back.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Corncakes whenever I remember that I have a stomach!

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 days ago

Vacuum under my bed in the middle of the night. That's what passes as excitement for me.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cook food that he doesn't like

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

I can eat the stuff that literally kills him. At home. Without worry!

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Completely reorganize the kitchen, including cutlery drawers, appliances, and so on. Clean out the fridge and freezer, wiping down the walls and shelves. Organize and rotate all jars, cans, and boxes of food forward, like you'd see in a grocery store. Do this to the pantry as well. Top to bottom kitchen cleaning: sweep, mop, wipe down all surfaces.

Then, as a reward, I'll slap my dragon dildo on the kitchen island and have my way with it while watching yuri on my Samsung fridge, covering myself in whipped cream and fruit syrups, losing myself multiple times right before I finally serve myself dessert. Yum.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

I was going to put something different, but id like to change my answer. This is the correct one.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not mushrooms, again.

Before my partner left for a work trip he showed me his stash of mushrooms in the freezer.

I wasn't big into mushrooms since my first and only trip to that date, where I spent five hours wide awake in my room, believing my curtains, lamp and bedspread were going to dismember me and absorb my nutrients (my curtains were an amoeba.) But my boyfriend made a pretty good case for blending up a microdose fruit smoothie and chilling while he was away. He told me there were different kinds of shrooms, that I needed to measure the dose and just create a chill vibe.

Day one, I didn't even think about the freezer stash. By day three I was so bored and alone I figured, what the hell?

Anyway, he came home to an impressive blanket fort in the living room and a box of farraday mesh fabric I bought to stop the robots because I watched Ex Machina.

[–] Grimm665@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd diagnose this response as 10% the effect of mushrooms and 90% the effect of watching Ex Machina alone. I walked out of my room at 1am shell shocked from that movie and had a quick conversation with my roommate in the kitchen that i remember nothing about except how reassured i felt that she wasn't a robot. Excellent movie.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

Sounds like I picked the wrong movie to watch on shrooms. Or... the right one.

Watching Splice on ecstacy was worse.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 9 points 3 days ago

Catch up on video games, reading, and maybe some shows they don't care for.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 25 points 3 days ago

Go to that restaurant she hates. Turn the thermostat down. A bunch of carpentry and other home-improvement.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I ain't wearing any pants.

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're asking what you would do differently

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have not yet had a relationship where my SO didn't force me to wear pants around my own house. 😭

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 9 points 3 days ago

That's criminal, you need to demand leg freedom

You're making me glad I'm single. Home is where the nekid is. Anything else is criminal. If I'm wearing pants at home it's either because I'm waiting on a delivery or cooking bacon.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 15 points 3 days ago

sleep till 10am every day.

[–] Aliya@feddit.org 14 points 3 days ago

Would invite my best friend for a sleepover, and we’d watch movies or a series together that he would never watch with me.

[–] bremen15@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

Lots of garlic in the food

[–] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago

Listen to music I was into in my teens & twenties and sing out loud. Cook grub. Clean the flat. Read books on couch and go to sleep early. Probably start a project that will be left unfinished on the table. Enjoy the peace & quiet. Then walk around talking to myself and get annoyed for being lonely and bored.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Definitely binge gaming.

[–] xpey@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

def having music on 24/7

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Lots of porn I assume

[–] errror@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Play video games, watch movies they don't like and invite friends over for game night or cocktails mixing and hookah!

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Eat bad-for-me food, hang out more with my "nerd friends", crank the music in the car, watch a movie that I like but they wouldn't.

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Find out how many times I can hammer one off before it starts to hurt.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Assuming twin went with partner to make the house truly empty, I'd be calling both of them each day, and otherwise dancing with the cat. She's nervous so less people maybe she'd let me affectionate her more.

[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Watch a horror movie

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