[Closed] What do you do with your evenings?

Come in from work.
Have dinner.
Read stories.
Put kids to bed.
Go downstairs.
Go back upstairs.
Put kids to bed again.
Get glass of water for kids.
Put kids to bed again.
Get special teddy for kids.
Put kids to bed again.
Go downstairs.
Go back upstairs and shout at kids.
Give up and go to bed.

Sometimes we throw in a little housework just to keep things interesting.

I watch binners while he sleeps.

Monday - Tai Chi with mum
Tuesday - swimming with daughter
Wednesday - kickboxing with son
Thursday - nothing every week, but if there are ever school governor meetings we arrange for Thursday
Friday - daughter at youth club, I'm taxi
Saturday - son's football training
Sunday - son's football match

I try and fit in 4/5 gym sessions a week, work maybe a couple of hours each day before/after the office.

Have a puppy, a wife that works shifts...and just started a college course.

I long for quiet evenings 🙁

Try to get two very small children to bed, feed ourselves and collapse... And one night a week I usually go MTBing. Forget the clocks, buy some lights!

Ferrying my kids to their various social activities.
Coach a football team for 6 year olds - including the youngest panthercub.
Cross trainer / Sky go boxsets.
Home maintenance.
Drink coffee / eat cakes.

......sometimes, in the very height of summer, if the gods are looking favourably upon me and all the circumstances are fortuitously aligned, i'll ride a bike. Sometimes.

Do homework with the boys
feed the animals*

*boys

wait for Mrs Stoner to get home
usually pop out to the local for some social time (I work from home, it's my only interaction with real humans older than 9) for a couple of pints.

A few nights a week I go to Archery.

When the trails arent utter gloopy nastiness I go out on the bike and come back via the pub.

My advice is to create things, other than babies. 🙂

Currently trying to write a book!

GrahamS pretty much on the mark there. Add in helping with homework and crashing in front of TV like a sloth and thats it.

I may be the wrong person to answer here as my commute is long as are my working hours but as a start point:
Turbo sessions - Mainly 30 minute HIIT sets.
Gym - The wife mainly, but me occasionally.
Cooking - Having time to make and prepare interesting food is awesome.
Riding - My bike, buy some lights if you need to.

Chill out and relax after hectic days at work, may pour myself a JD and coke or two.

Play computer games, surf the web/youtube. Never watch TV.
My commute 2-3 days a week is 16 mile round trip a day on the bike.

Wednesdays is cinema night (I love it as it breaks the week up) go with my cus every week gives her a rest from her teenage daughter, we have a beer and a chat watch a film, nice evening.

Yes I know I have no kids, but my job is pretty physical most days and quiet stressful.

I watch CFH watching Binners sleeping.

Right, I should have set the background a bit better here!

Kids are 17 and 20, we usually go to bed before them, if they are in! Not much ferrying required as oldest one drives (and doesnt drink), youngest is learning. And oldest owes us more than a few ferries of her own!

So actually some actual free time to do grown up stuff for the first time in 20 years! Except ballroom dancing. I'm like a duck with two left paddles.

Exactly same situation as you OP - last week I've gone form commuting 160 miles a day, to 9.

Currently just faffing about in evening, going to gym more and getting bored at 8pm. Come lighter nights I'll be able to crack on with house jobs more and spend some evenings down allotment, so looking forward to that.

Hit big

Coke and hookers. 🙂

waste my time on ebay or here
turbo train occasionally
beer or wine at weekends (unless Im up early driving the next day)

hooked up the PS4 so that will probably take some time off Ebay.

Work or..

Come in from work some time after 7 or much later.

Chat to the kids and Mrs

Eat

Chill out and do some browsing/moderating on here.

PS4 some nights

annoy the neighbours with my punk rock electric guitar.

Listen to music, read with the kids, watch films, cook, read without kids, tinker with bikes, reddit, hifi stuff, swim, in the summer ride and walk dogs. No hobbies to speak of just whatever takes my fancy.

Train Wing Chun 3 nights, gym, dates, snowboarding and STW fill in the rest of the time.

I also used to ride bikes...

kids to bed.

extended commute on a tues night (sideways fun)

learning guitar (i`m shit - its taking a while!)

listening to music - jesu/sun kil moon and tricky released last friday - good stuff

fix the khazi/floor/lights/skirting/fascias/kitchen units/flat roof/kids toys/shower/van/car/chairs/bike (delete as appropriate)

eldest over on a thurs so thats nice and i`m off so i get to cook and relax a bit more.

friday beer

i try to limit TV to one hour.

if i could i`d cook more.

I forgot - in the summer - BACKYARD PUMPTRACK! (although this summer it was sodding house renovations so it got all overgrown)

Domestic servitude and reluctant exercise interspersed with gawping at the idiot box and making forever to be unrealised plans to escape the rat race

My PhD - every night, the ****ing PhD!

I take a few hours off each week for Fallout 4 and Climbing.

Tea
Poop check, feed chaps
Feed the chaps
Tea
Coffee
Find out what the idiot cat is doing
Tea
Find out what the idiot snake knocked over
Coffee
check what time it is and cry
Food of some type
Check amount of work i have left to do
Tea
Finish work
Poop and water check and last feed

Sometimes i like to roll around on CaptainFlashhearts carpet while he is out watching the love of his life

mostly its just bonging and masterbating

annoy the neighbours with my punk rock electric guitar.

Do you live in the suburbs?

monday - spin class
Tuesday - spin class
Wednesday - spin class followed by band practice
Thursday - band practice
Friday - spin class followed by beer

That's the plan, anyway.... Usually just manage Tuesday & Wednesday spin classes.

Straight out of my uniform.
Shower.
Drink, & think, 'thank **** I didn't get assaulted today but I've got it all to do again tomorrow'.

I just doze off. Safe in the knowledge that I am watched over by angels

mostly its just bonging and masterbating

Are you admitting your'e a ****er with a drug problem?

It's the type I deal with everyday.

esselgruntfuttock - Member
mostly its just bonging and masterbating
Are you admitting your'e a **** with a drug problem?

It's the type I deal with everyday.

work is a bit slow this time of year, i cant afford coke and hookers 😐

Shagging Mrsfry on Captainflashearts carpet 😈

Home by 6.15. Supper. Upstairs for a wash and clean teeth, which deters me from snacking later. Change. Watch Michael Portaloo on his train journey. Out to the garage and fettle something on the bike, ready for the next ride. Bed at 10.00.

I stare at the walls and wonder where it all went wrong.

Me?

This...

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Home about 615 from fast bike commute. Play with daughter (18 months old). Dinner. Chill out for a bit with mrs and daughter, bath daughter. Settle her to bed. Then a bit of quality time with the Mrs before bed. Love it 🙂

Home, grab the dogs, go meet OH at the yard, see to four horses (occasionally riding) whilst the dogs exercise themselves by running around daft, home again, food, bit of tv, sleep. Repeat until the weekend!

In the summer I get in a few evening rides a week as the horses are out 24/7 so no stables to see to.

Mostly I spend my time doing this:

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Cycle home,
Feed cats, wash up everything the wife has left around the kitchen
Go to crossfit gym for 1 to 1.5 hours
Cycle back home
Light the fire
cook dinner
eat dinner
watch an episode of whatever TV series we're on
Go to bed

Mainly spend time sat at computer all evening and trying not to get too annoyed with whatever other half is watching on tv or people in flat above. Currently learning to touch type properly, finding it strangely addictive. Couple of weeks ago it was re-learning basic maths on Khan Academy, will return to that at some point. Actually the reason I'm learning to touch type properly is when I got my new PC I decided I needed a proper keyboard with Cherry switches (brown). Oh and blank keys. So last week when I was setting up Kerberos authenticated NFS shares on the NAS and used a password that I couldn't actually type without seeing the individual charactersm hence using gtypist for touch typing tutorials.

Learning Linux will suck up time like the tardis crossed with a vacuum cleaner if you're that way inclined. Specifically Arch Linux on desktop PC and Debian (arm) on NAS.

Take work home when I get deadline coz I can't be arsed to do it at work place due to too many people eating, noisy and nosy ...
Watch old dramas from the 70s or 80s like Sherlock Holmes or some obscure shite.
Smoke me tobacco pipe with a shot of whiskey/rum or now non-alcoholic malt ... then clean tobacco pipe after smoking it ... then admire all me tobacco pipes.
Nothing good on telly then I shall be on STW telling the lefties they are wrong. Yes, lefties are wrong. Yes, you are.

😛

3:00 p.m: rise

3:05: Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills

3:45: cocaine

3:50: another glass of Chivas, Dunhill

4:05: first cup of coffee, Dunhill

4:15: cocaine

4:16: orange juice, Dunhill

4:30: cocaine

4:54: cocaine

5:05: cocaine

5:11: coffee, Dunhills

5:30: more ice in the Chivas

5:45: cocaine, etc., etc.

6:00: grass to take the edge off the day

7:05: Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jig­gers of Chivas)

9:00: start snorting cocaine seriously

10:00: drop acid

11:00: Chartreuse, cocaine, grass

11:30: cocaine, etc, etc.

12:00: midnight, ready to write

12:05-6:00 a.m: Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.

6:00: the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo

8:00: Halcyon

8:20: sleep

Apply for jobs 😉

I write books

I go through my collection of Fiestas.....

..... on CFH's carpet.

Get in from work about 6:30 give or take, change, eat hang out with the kids, put them to bed about 8 then veg out I front of the to from 8:30-9 til 10 then go to bed. Nothing interesting in the week these days, but if I find shed work earlier I'd be back racing kayaks for sure.

My evenings are mostly made up of change baby for bed, read baby story, cooking, eating, tv, or computer. I a few months when mini CD stops breast feeding I can add putting her too bed in to the mix. In the summer I used to ride or garden in the eve but I guess I've never really fully utilised them.

Home 6.30. Make dinner. Eat dinner. Tidy mess.Pretend to myself i will go out for a cycle/run. Find excuse to sit on couch. Browse here/check late work mail. Might even speak to the mrs. maybes watch tv. Bed at 930/10. Up before 6 to start again.

hours commute on bike, to and from work. home for 6pm. cook food. wash pots. walk dog. chill. every single week night. i love having grown up adult kids.

Cook dinner
Ride the rollers or do some yoga
Clean kitchen
Read or surf the web
Sleep!

..... on CFH's carpet.

That explains why it's so sticky all the time. Every time I run naked through his living room (when they're all asleep) I get sticky feet 🙁

Tonight I cooked dinner for three of us, helped my daughter with her homework, washed up then drove into town to pick up my son and his friend from diving. Got back home, heated up his dinner and did some more washing up. I've just sat down and put Let it Bleed on the turntable. I'll listen side one then finish washing up before deciding on side two. I'm reading Bill Brysons book on 1927 but it's taking a long time as I usually only manage 4 or 5 pages before falling asleep. My other half has just started teaching so I'm effectively a single parent at the moment. I'm considering going out on my bike tomorrow even though the weather looks biblical as it's the only chance I'll get.

Monday - leg it from work to yoga. After yoga check in to hotel.
Tuesday - work, then either meet a friend family or just head back to hotel, read book
Wednesday - train home from London, read book on way
Thursday - cook, eat, watch TV, make night owl daughter eventually go to bed
Friday - takeaway pizza with Mrs North & daughter, TV
Saturday - eat out, eat in, chill
Sunday - cook, finish ironing, pack, watch a film once daughter asleep

Repeat.

Home 5:30pm (26mile round commute) put bike in the garage ,shower ,eat dinner with wife n kids, wash up walk the dog help kids with homework ,put kids to bed ,TV or computer sometimes bit of bike tinkering in the garage then bed up at 4am to start again ..except tomorrow Im off so out on the MTB regardless of the weather surprisingly torrential rain forecast !...summer evenings differ more time in the garden out on the bike local trails

Monday work late, eat, fall asleep on the sofa, wake realise it's 2 am and better go bed.

Tuesday finish early, bike ride or turbo for an hour, eat, fall asleep on sofa, wake realise it's 2 am and better go bed.

Wednesday finish mid evening, go mates, eat at mates, drink coffee at mates, fall asleep at mates and get told to " ** wake up and * off home " 😀

Thursday work really late, eat, fall asleep on sofa............

Friday finish about 4, chippy tea, curry at mates, spend Saturday not eating as ate 2 days of calories on Friday.

Tuesday/Thursday? Ride
Monday probably do some washing
Wed good chance of pub
Friday? Pub

Apart from that random TV on streaming, STW, catching up with people back up North and at the moment job searches/applications

Mostly sit staring vacantly at the TV occasionally talking with MrsWCA
Sometimes dreaming up crazy/inspired ideas such as:
Big Bike Bash
Southampton Bike Oark
Designing and building a car
Designing and building a cabin with sauna and hot tub.
Baby Bike Bash

Dick about on the Internet/STW
Play my guitar/sing songs/attempt to write music
Play with my log burner
Watch films/series on our projector
Cook nice food

Work is running a bit later than normal, busy time of year

Try to get home in time to see the kids, bedtime around 7.15-7.30

Then have dinner, walk the dog, watch TV, faff about with a few bits

Cook nice food
Chat
Listen to the radio/mixcloud
Bit of social media
Maybe a film or a couple of episodes of something
My partner is working evenings this week so I'm carrying on painting until 9pm whilst listening to podcasts

Some evenings - night ride 🙂

Failing that, food/booze, watch Family Guy marathons, fall asleep.

I set up webcams in CFH's house and sell the recordings for a small fortune,if only the editing didn't take so long.

Come in from work.
Have dinner.
Read stories.
Put kids to bed.
Go downstairs.
Go back upstairs.
Put kids to bed again.
Get glass of water for kids.
Put kids to bed again.
Get special teddy for kids.
Put kids to bed again.
Go downstairs.
Go back upstairs and shout at kids.
Give up and go to bed.

Sometimes we throw in a little housework just to keep things interesting.

I guess that's what I've got to look forward to - at the moment our little dude is in a cotbed so can't escapte (yet) but that doesn't stop him standing up and throwing stuff out. Or waking up.

At the moment, I'm on bedtime duty Mondy, Wednesday and Friday. I ride or run Tuesday and Thursdays.

I'm in about 6, the other half arrives home slightlty after with the little dude who then runs about untidting anything I've tidied up before they get home. About half six it's bath time then story, milk and bed. At the moment I'm trying to do some exercise once he's in bed - weights or turbo. After that its shower, dinner and in bed for 10-ish as he's up anyime from 5.

fasthaggis - Member
I set up webcams in CFH's house and sell the recordings for a small fortune,if only the editing didn't take so long.

Does my arse look big in this?

Have dinner.
Read stories.
Put kids to bed.
Go downstairs.
Go back upstairs.
Put kids to bed again.
Get glass of water for kids.
Put kids to bed again.
Get special teddy for kids.
Put kids to bed again.
Go downstairs.
Go back upstairs and shout at kids.
Give up and go to bed.

why have my kids never done this?
They have a story, and then a glass of milk and then they go to bed

and go to sleep.. at the same time every night

/smug

BoardinBob

3:00 p.m: rise
3:05: Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
3:45: cocaine
etc etc

Carry on like that and you'll be dead by 67

weekday evening, 60-90 minute ride home, shower, dinner with the fam, fill dishwasher, make lunches for next day, get kit out for next day, do any bike tweaking, sit down, watch a bit of tv, chat with any family member that wants to speak to me (usually a cat) :), bed around 10, read for a bit. Exciting isn't it. The weekend is far more rock 'n' roll.

BoardinBob
3:00 p.m: rise
3:05: Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
3:45: cocaine
etc etc

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Carry on like that and you'll be dead by 67

http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/hunter-s-thompsons-harrowing-chemical-fueled-daily-routine.html

Gym or "Netflix and Chill".

In the summer, ride bikes.

Monday - Go dancing with Mrs TH
Tuesday - Cycle to and from music lesson
Wednesday - Bike night come rain or shine, light or dark, whatever!
Thursday - That's the 'no plans' night. get pi55ed and watch porm go to the pub whatever takes us fancy ...
Friday - Takeaway and nextflix
Saturday -Party and/or pub
Sunday - Put corners back on ahead of Monday

fasthaggis

I set up webcams in CFH's house and sell the recordings for a small fortune,if only the editing didn't take so long.

Did you see where i left my Garmin 😳

mrsfry - Member

Did you see where i left my Garmin

It was in my sock 😯

They're water/liquid proof.

So's the beaker on CFH's coffee table

Home every night usually just after 4 my OH has a slimming world class so most of her evenings are spent either at class or doing admin. Also walk our working cocker spaniel every night about 10.

Most nights are usually make dinner for the 5 of us then ferry myself our own kids and other peoples kids around to various clubs.

Home around 5.30

Normally out before 7 for

Monday -climbing
Tuesday - fast club mtb ride
Wed - climbing in winter, sup/snorkeling/kayaking in lighter months
Thus - pub mtb ride or climbing
Fri - pub
Sat - pub/meal out/ friends in
Sun - recover....

Gym,
Shower,
Cook,
Back to work (from home) while movies in tv.

I hate working 6 days a week 0730-2300.

I mostly:

Mess around on the internets [who knew?]
Listen to music
Watch a fillum
Poss go for a walk/ride [not very inspired right now]
4:20
Veg. out
Geek out [electronics, computers etc]
Cuddle a rabbit or watch the fish

Oh, and try to get my end away, obvs 😀

EDIT - Break the forum! Arrrgh I thought that was fixed 🙁

Monday - play with the boy, tidy up round the house, veg in front of tv/internet
Tuesday - Cook dinner, then as above
Wednesday - see Monday
Thursday - see Tuesday
Friday - see Tuesday

Very sedentary at the minute but I'm finally going to get my turbo trainer setup and do an hour a night on that. Need to start attempting to be able to run some distance as well as the ****bags at work have got me down to do tough mudder.

Carry on like that and you'll be dead by 67
http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/hunter-s-thompsons-harrowing-chemical-fueled-daily-routine.html

Yeh I got it, hunter s Thompson died aged 67, that was my point.