{"id":2208,"date":"2020-04-22T16:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:21:07","slug":"staying-busy-stuck-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/2020\/04\/22\/staying-busy-stuck-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Busy Stuck Inside!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2211 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-4.10.46-PM-256x300.png\" alt=\"Jamie our blog writer holding a baking tray with meatballs on it\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For me, and probably a lot of you, before having to \u201csocial distance\u201d your schedules were pretty busy. I&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">am someone who relies A LOT on my busy schedule for structure. During quarantine, I&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">have been trying to stay creative to stay busy! One positive outcome of this&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">is we can all use this time to better ourselves, spend time with our family, and even learn <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">new skills. This is the list I created (some I have done already &amp; some I haven\u2019t!) to keep busy!&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><b>Cook! (or bake)<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have used this time to learn how to cook things I haven\u2019t before! During the school year being so busy, I usually would meal prep on Sunday\u2019s something easy and eat the same thing for a week straight. Now that I have some time I have been creative &amp; I even learned how to make homemade meatballs! (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uridining\/\">@uridining<\/a> has cooking videos)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><b>Organize &amp; clean your closet<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is something that everyone always wants (or needs) to do, but never \u201cgets around to it.\u201d I am guilty as well. This is a good time to go through everything and get rid of what you don\u2019t need, I ended up with two trash bags for Goodwill!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><b>Delete your emails<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This one makes me laugh because it\u2019s something NO ONE wants to deal with. The amount of websites I have entered my email in makes it almost impossible to ever clear out my inbox. This is a great time to go through and unsubscribe to websites so you stop getting spam emails. And yes I am still putting this one off!<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><b>Have a paint night<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As much as I love watching movies, some nights I almost get sick of watching them. A paint night or even another arts &amp; craft project with your family or friends you live with is a good alternative! Watching a tutorial on Youtube and having a contest is a fun way to get everyone really into it! (spoiler alert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uricampusrec\/\">@uricampusrec<\/a> has virtual art classes for finals week)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2214\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1178\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-4.10.57-PM-209x300.png\" alt=\"Jamie, blog writer running with friends on outside\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\"><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><b>STAY ACTIVE!<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With all this time there are NO excuses! The weather is getting nicer too so even if it\u2019s as simple as going for a walk, that\u2019s okay! I know a lot of people (like me) are very dependent on the gym environment for motivation, so this is a great way to test yourself. There are so many at-home workouts posted that require no equipment. Campus Rec is also starting to do a few live stream classes a week, so check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imleagues.com\/spa\/fitness\/paZJWOxP7qaW67zMji4mSw==\/home\">IMLeagues app<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me, and probably a lot of you, before having to \u201csocial distance\u201d your schedules were pretty busy. I&nbsp;am someone who relies A LOT on my busy schedule for structure. During quarantine, I&nbsp;have been trying to stay creative to stay busy! One positive outcome of this&nbsp;is we can all use this time to better ourselves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2020"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/inside-rec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}