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Time to Kill

Night float is boring, y’all.

I am stuck here at home without my husband to distract me. I mean, heaven forbid I should try to distract myself. And doing 200 stomach crunches does not take that long. (I kid you not – I have been doing some hard core weight type exercises. HARD. CORE.) (Well, as hard core as you can get with two eight-pound weights.)

When I’m working, it’s fine. Plenty to keep me busy. But the weekends, when my husband is home, sleeping, I can’t even watch TV. This is what happens when you have a small apartment. With large, open, inexplicable  ventilation grates between the bedrooms and the living room. Not that I’m missing much. I mean, TV sucks during the summer. Sure, I’ve been watching the Real Housewives of New Jersey. But – while they are quite weird – I don’t like them as much as the New York housewives. I’ve been dabbling in some other shows – Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D List… Bethenny Getting Married… Last Comic Standing… Reruns of The Good Wife on demand… Some other stuff.

And I’ve been reading a decent amount. I just began Tana French’s In the Woods, which I always mistakenly call Into the Woods because of the play (“Into the woods then out of the woods! And home before dark.”) although they have absolutely nothing in common. Well. So far. I am only on page sevenish.

But besides TV and books and writing, I need some distractions.

What do you read online when you have some time to kill?

In return for your suggestions, I will leave you with my favorite Internet diversions. (Besides YOUR blog, which I will read if you tell me about it! And comment on, if I have something worthwhile to say! Or possibly not worthwhile!)

Hyperbole and a Half – Every post makes me laugh. Every. Post.

Catalog Living – I don’t think I ever realized how hilarious a Pottery Barn catalog could be.

Maru – I love this cat.

Friends of Irony – Deliciously head-slap-worthy.

The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks – Grammar nerd heaven.

Go Fug Yourself – Fashion faux pas of the highest order.

MamaPop – Gossip, TV recaps, and lots of snark.

Don’t Even Reply – Hilarious, but mean spirited. (My husband doesn’t understand why I find this one so funny.)

Failbook – More hilarity from the Cheezburger empire

Regretsy – What is WRONG with people?

31 thoughts on “Time to Kill”

  2. I’m known for scouring dooce’s archives for hours at a time. I started reading her only a couple of years ago, so there’s a goldmine of posts that I missed before that.

    And I like food, so I also mosey through food blogs: Smitten Kitchen, Bakerella…then I drool.

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  3. I love blogs like these! Thanks for posting them. Here are some of mine:

    cracked.com…chinglish.com…thisiswhyyourefat.com

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  4. STFUMarrieds is a funny one. I also enjoy PassiveAggressiveNotes.com… aaaaand Cyanide & Happiness.

    I LOVE the unnecessary quotation marks blog!

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  5. freerice.com – answer questions and earn rice for an organization that feeds kids (can’t remember who at the moment)
    http://www.sporcle.com – more questions but all sorts of different ones. Makes me smarter 🙂
    digg.com – huge waste of time – popular news stories/random stories from the internet

    Also, I definitely need your workout routine! Weights! I need to try! 🙂

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  7. Oh I do know how much night float sucks. Once I’ve read all my blogs, I then go to my blog friends’ blogrolls and start clicking on names I think sound interesting. And then I click from theirs. It’s almost like a game to see if I can come full circle by clicking on other people’s blogrolls. And sometimes I find good new reading material along the way!

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  8. I LOVE regretsy and don’t even reply and of course fail blog and engrish.com. Its rare that I have time to fiddle around on the internet but if I do I look up stuff about photography a lot. Its been a pretty much self taught hobby and its been really funt o get good at taking pictures… always a good thing to have under your belt for parties and get togethers etc. 🙂

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  10. Dude, 200 crunches?? You are amazing.

    I am dying to hear what you think of In the Woods. I have strong feelings about it but that’s all I’m going to say about it. I read the not-quite-sequel, The Likeness, on honeymoon last year and it was un-put-down-able (to the point that I would wake up before my new husband, sneak out to the balcony and read for a couple of hours every morning). Hi, I’m cool.

    Thank you for these links. I reach the End of the Internet from time to time, so these will definitely keep me busy.

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  11. I am the worst ever for keeping myself busy and I have a feeling that I am going to need to get good at it reallllly quickly because when I get home and I don’t have my parents to keep me entertained – I’m pretty sure I will be missing S even more!

    Sooooo basically what I am saying is I don’t have anything to add but I will be coming back to see what other people do to stay busy!

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  13. Hm, I don’t know! I’m kind of over the internet/being online in the evenings. I like to spend my alone time scrapbooking, or tackling some other project, like cleaning out closets.

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  14. I am such a dweeb, but I have been known to spend an embarassing amount of time on amazon.com taking advantage of the “Look Inside” feature and reading the first 40 pages of books I want to read. It’s okay to laugh at me.

    And I also go back into Dooce’s archives a lot. Say what you will about her, but she is hilarious!

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  17. Love regretsy, oh my goodness. Have you tried watching Hulu with headphones? Or going out to explore? I don’t know where you live but lately I am all about leaving and getting outside.

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  21. Kepping yourself busy is hard, very hard. I am a reader also, besides being addicted to my kindle, I am overly zealous about reading other peoples blogs. Blog forums are fun to!!!

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  22. I’ll have to check these out! I love looking at Popsugar.com and tastespotting.com (lots of fun recipes). I also like to have a project. My latest one is bringing my sewing machine home from my parents’ house and trying to create something “wearable”. It’s a work in progress. haha. Good for you with all the crunches. I also love yoga and do that when I’m bored/lonely/stressed.

    xo
    Valerie

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  23. Pick out a few of your favorite blogs and then go into the comment section and read the blogs of people who comment. Usually I find lots of good stuff there.

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  24. I just went to the hyperbole and a half and I about died.
    I don’t know if it’s because I’m in the process of training a dog but I think it’s just that it’s ridiculously funny. I died. Day 4 of my new job and I literally cracked up laughing…out loud…reallly loud. I couldn’t help it. I had to go to the bathroom to calm down.

    Thank you so much for this!

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  26. Thanks for the sites. I knew about a few of them, but it’s great to find more. Most of the ones I was going to mention have already been cited by other commenters.

    For me, when hubby was on night float or on-call, I scheduled things with my friends. I also did short road trips, day trips to nearby places, movies alone or with friends and spent lots of time on the phone. Friends in different time zones are GREAT during those late nights. Now that he’s in research it’s much harder to figure out when he’ll be busy. I spend more time NOW sitting around the house alone than I did then.

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