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.
Fucked up sleep pattern for the win.
Eat at arbitrary times when I’m hungry, and eat lots of spicy food. Smoke weed and play computer games. Feel a bit lonely.
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.
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.
+1
Cook food that he doesn’t like
Vacuum under my bed in the middle of the night. That’s what passes as excitement for me.
Go to that restaurant she hates. Turn the thermostat down. A bunch of carpentry and other home-improvement.
def having music on 24/7
I ain’t wearing any pants.
They’re asking what you would do differently
I have not yet had a relationship where my SO didn’t force me to wear pants around my own house. 😭
That’s criminal, you need to demand leg freedom
Go to bed on time finally
Humblebrag
Nah. She is a night-owl and always stays up for hours later than myself. Which makes it really hard to get up from the couch and go to bed for me in turn.
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.
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.
Sounds like I picked the wrong movie to watch on shrooms. Or… the right one.
Watching Splice on ecstacy was worse.
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.
Would invite my best friend for a sleepover, and we’d watch movies or a series together that he would never watch with me.
Definitely binge gaming.
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.
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.
sleep till 10am every day.
