How do you distract yourself during "the waits"

vh2014

It seems we do a LOT of waiting... Waiting to O, 2WW, Waiting for AF, Waiting for AF to be over... and patience is NOT one of my virtues.

I've been cooking a lot lately... and making lists.... and ok... not doing a good job of distracting myself and I just started up again. I don't know how some of you deal with it cycle after cycle.  I have HUGE amounts of respect and admiration for you.  When we were TTC before it wasn't as rough because it was Christmas time and then I had wedding planning but this time...ugh. How do you distract yourself?

WinoGrrl

I am organizing our whole house. DH is a semi-hoarder so getting everything sorted and getting him to throw stuff out / donate stuff is a full time job. We are just starting house hunting so that obsession plus the organization stuff works for a fair bit of time. It is still agonizing to wait so much and I'm only on cycle #3.

tmorash

The waiting is torturous! Although to be honest if I knew for sure our BDing was a done deal, and felt confident that the timing wouldn't be an issue (this is on my mind a lot today - sorry), at least I would know that we had done all we could do.

Running helps to distract me, and just generally has a positive effect on any anxiety I might be feeling.

I finally moved into a new house just a couple months ago after a neighbour's house fire nearly three years ago burned my last one down (obviously a much longer story). So there's the new-house activites of last-minute touches and trying to find furniture that is actually nice-looking that help to distract a little too.

But honestly, I spend probably too much time just gazing at my chart. So if anyone else has any suggestions, I'll take them!

kelley72

I love to read and do that in my "down time" so I'm not going crazy alone up in my head.  Other than that daily life keeps me hopping.  Stopping in here for check-ins, etc. helps during the day during a quiet moment at work (or a crazy moment to help me stay sane).  Best wishes!

URMySunshine77

Going outside for walks or other errands helps me to think about other things. If I'm in the house, I definitely tend to fixate.

Davie813

I just go ahead and fixate, to be honest.

Then again, I don't have a lot of leisure time, so I'm not sure how much it matters...

CML11

Waiting is the worst. I've had a lot of waiting, I've had to wait out the entire month of sept and part of Aug. the waitingto start is almost over...then the other IVF waiting begins
So what do I do to pass time?
Read! Lots of reading! Need a book at the moment though.
Candy Crush, I'm on level 550 so that should tell you what I do with my idol time lol

Clean, garden, yard work, cook, bake, exercise, shop, Pinterest, netflicks series, get together with friends...

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meredithcarole

I fret.

vh2014

@tmorash we agreed to "see what happens" for a bit first. Which now means this month.. LOL.. but I think if I was charting I might take my temperature every hour at this point and spend the other 55 min staring at the chart. LOL. 

I just got asked to do a big presentation at work so hopefully that will help with this month.  Right now I am visiting the forums waaay too much and lurking to see what's going on on all the other forums.  I've done some wishful thinking and checked out nurseries, maternity clothes, our leave policies at work (which are awesome), and redone my budget and we haven't even made it to the 2WW yet. hahaha.  Hopefully this is just initial (re)excitement and I'll get better with distractions.  I usually read on the elliptical but maybe I need to pick the Kindle up more often....