Relaxing At Home

gxyywhyzy, People that live the simple life do have the key to relaxation. I live in a city and there are times that I wish I lived out in the country. I've had a few friends that live so far out in the country that you feel like you are in another world. It's so quiet and dark out in the country. Quiet as in no sounds of cars, construction, buses, trucks. Country quiet as in crickets, birds, wind in the trees, barn animals in the distance, the smell of fresh cut hay. Man, I've got to get out to the country like, real soon!...lol DCMerkle

gxyywhyzy, Well, I live in the United States, but I'm sure that if I looked up the area that you mentioned, I could find it!...lol DCMerkle

I live in the rural.do you know the 'Huaxi Village' of china?

clorissa123, It is nice when you have the time and the peace and quite to rest at the end of a day. I use to fight my mother so when she wanted me to take a nap. Now I look forward to them...lol DCMerkle

i dont love your theory in life,what about work hard for auseful,good thing you love.then laying on your bed at night after that work will be abeautiful thing

zigzabuddha, I like to keep things organized or at least I try to keep things organized. I thing the meal you had sounds really appetizing, especially the papaya hot sauce. The book I'm reading now is called, Black Boy by Richard Wright. He wrote Native Son which, believe it or not I have never read. That's on my next to read list though. I'm glad to be reading Black Boy. It's Wright's auto biography. He was born a little before W.W.I in the South. He gives a very good representation of what the south was like for him growing up and how he lived despite the racial prejudices that he was introduced to. It gives you a view to how his mother raised him and his brother. She had been married but her husband walked out on them leaving her to raise two boys. It's a very good book and it gives me insight to the author before he wrote Native Son. DCMerkle

Hmmm, doesn't sound like much of a page-turner to me, hehehehe. I have not been in the mood for 'serious' reading at all. But I have sure been having a good time with Jane Lindskold's Firekeeper Saga! It's a fantasy novel about a girl who was raised by wolves... right up my alley! I have been unable to get to bed before 4AM since I started reading it!

eztuner, When there seems to be nothing on, rather then leave the TV running until a favorite show comes on, I'll shut it off. I'd rather here no sound then something that I am not really listening to. I know that there are some people that leave a TV running just for the sound, but that's such a waste of energy. My grandmother use to paint and draw at times and I remember she always looked so focused. I know now that she was in a relaxed state of mind. DCMerkle

JHawkin214, Oh I remember what it was like to try to relax with two children. If we went out and were returning home, I would take them right upstairs, change their clothes, wash them up a little, pull the shades, turn on some soft music, and let them drift off to sleep. I had a cot that was in the room with them where I would lay down and sleep as long as they did. I think to this day that both of my children relax the same way coming home from work that I had them do when they were younger. DCMerkle

hemasriram, You seem to have relaxing down to an art and so organized...lol I try to not be so organized when I want to relax. If I had a "TO DO" list of things to do when I was home I don't think that I could relax that way, but for you it seems to work. DCMerkle

katkat, I like to listen to alernative/new age music. Some of it is very relaxing and there are a lot of instrumentals to listen to. DCMerkle

abcnadz, Now that's what I miss, a garden. Living in an apartment about the closest thing that I can get to for gardening is keeping house plants. My grandparents had a huge backyard garden. When I was a child I use to think that playing in the dirt was the best thing I could do, but now I know why they gardened, to relax. DCMerkle

csrobin, I love my laptop and being able to relax with it sometimes. It's wireless and I love not having to figure out how to settle with all the cable hanging over the bed. I have days that I purposely schedule my tome off the net though, because you can get lost in it. DCMerkle

skyla26, Feeling relaxed IS the best feeling in the world! DCMerkle

yinmm007, Home does mean safety and security. I guess a parents home has that feeling first and foremost for all of us. DCMerkle

mira91, I love my kitty. She's like my shadow. If I go to visit a friend in the building I take her with me. I'm disabled and at times I have to take my scooter to get around and Mousie will sit with me and go for the ride. I had another kitty that loved to go with me, but when he was ready to go back to his home he'd just quietly sit on the seat of the scooter and face the door. That was his way of telling me that he was ready to leave. I don't thibk that I could really call it a home if I didn't have a kitty to greet me at the door and still be able to relax. DCMerkle

mhil84, That's what I like about being home to relax. I have my things around me set in certain arrangements. I'm always redoing somethng to make it more relaxing to look at. DCMerkle

askm95, I can relax with the PC if I am playing music on a low setting. There are some games that I like to play, like Pacman, but I really enjoy reading more than the PC. DCMerkle

chiyosan, Bamboo bed? Does it have a type of mattress or cushioning to it? Even I would like to try something like that. DCMerkle

highflyingxangel, I think think taking off shoes is the first anyone's list of things to do when thy want to relax. I stay bare footed just about all the time when I am home. I only wear slippers or sockies when it's cold in the winter time. My father use to tell me to put my slippers on because he wasn't raising a hillbilly. Well, guess what dad? I love being a hillbilly!...lol It relaxes me. DCMerkle

froggieslover, I use to a big, brown sectional couch that had a sofa bed to it. It was so comfy. My mother, brother, sister and the cat and dog use to gather around and claim their favorite spots to it. We all watched hours of tv on that thing. I would love to get one now that has the lounge chairs to either end to it. DCMerkle