purplerabbits

I keep track of a bunch of stuff in my life, for largely neurodivergent reasons - things like whether I bath or clean my teeth, do housework or werk or art or craft, and whether I see another human being that day. Some days though don't have any of those tick marks, so I think I "didn't do anything." This is what I do on those days. I don't do all of them all the time, but I nearly always do some of them and they are not nothing.

This list is not complete

• Reading. I am nearly always reading a book that's new to me. Mostly relatively easy fiction - golden age detective fiction, children's fantasy books or some science fiction or fantasy. I mostly read on the Kindle, which means giving Amazon more money than I'd like but it is more accessible.
• Watching Youtube - I do this so much that it's worth it to have a paid account. I watch people doing crazy Zelda challenges or coming up with detailed geek lore, solving puzzles, making miniatures, ASMR videos, nerdy documentary stuff like Tom Scott, frugal or outdoor living, walking and camping and of course kitten rescues.
• Playing games on my phone. Sometimes this can be a grind that I wish I could escape from, but I am usually doing something else at the same time, and it can be genuinely enjoyable.  
• Imagining one of my many ongoing stories. Sometimes I will write some of them down, but far more often I am world building or just living in the story in my head. World building can include dives into all sorts of trivia, and making lists of things, because lists.
• Watching and solving variant sudoku, mostly from Cracking the Cryptic - https://www.youtube.com/@CrackingTheCryptic - sometimes I just solve the easier ones myself, but often I solve along - by doing what I can, watching the video for a hint and then carrying on.
• Make and maintain mostly strictly unnecessary lists and accounts and records of all sorts of things in my life.
• Jigsaw puzzles on https://www.jigsawplanet.com/ - You can pick kinds of puzzles, different shapes of pieces and whether the pieces are rotatable or not, and you can vary the number of pieces on every picture. I generally do natural scenes at 300 pieces, but with the pieces the right way up cos I'm terrible at rotating things in my head.
• Telling my cat what a wonderful bean she is.
• Doing quizzes on https://www.jetpunk.com/ - I frequently redo the same ones, like capitals and countries and flags of the world, chemical elements, monarchs, presidents and prime ministers. Hello, I am an autist and I like lists and knowing things. This flags of the world quiz is also good. https://world-geography-games.com/en/flags_world.html
• Doing my basic maintenance things - taking meds, getting dressed enough to open the door, eating a food, feeding the best bean.
• I do word puzzles too. I play Boggle at https://wordshake.com/boggle - it's slightly annoying because it's dictionary is a bit off, but it's easy to do just a bit of.
• Sometimes I do the guardian cryptic crossword, but not so often these days. I might like to do more, but I need to overcome my shame at "cheating" (true of some of the other puzzles as well). Rationally I don't believe you can cheat when you're playing anything alone.
• Watch TV - I usually only do this in the evening. I am currently watching Murdoch mysteries and Loudermilk and Pottery Throwdown and Salvage Hunters and Death in Paradise and Poker Face and Our Flag Means Death. Sometimes I have a very low tolerance for even mild peril and watch children's things and nature and Money for Nothing.
• Stepping into my garden for even  just a few seconds, so breath oxygen and see that things are alive.