For various reasons, mostly health, I decided to take this next semester off. That means I have eight months off. I can’t have a job (again, health. Either they hire me and promptly fire me, I have to quit, or they see that I’m disabled and don’t hire me at all), so that’s out of the question. I have never in my life had this much time off. I don’t even know what to do with it. All I can think to do is clean and work on my channel. That only fills up so much time. What am I supposed to do with the rest of it?

I know that I am extremely lucky to be in a position where I can take this much time off. It was a mutual decision between my husband and I because he is willing and able to work to support us while I focus on getting better. I just don’t want to sit around all day and have him think that I’m doing nothing and taking advantage of this.