What to do when you have the house to yourself?

When you normally have a roommate (be that a spouse, partner, s/o, sibling, child, friend, or random stranger) finding yourself suddenly with the place to yourself can be a bit overwhelming. It can feel like sudden freedom or it can feel like a sudden hole in your otherwise perfect world. Sometimes it can feel like both of those things at once.

My husband is traveling for work for a week, and that leaves me alone in our cozy apartment with just me and the dog. To be honest, with both of us having been working from home for the past two months, my initial inclination is towards feeling a sudden freedom (though I'm sure I'll be missing him soon enough).

The question, though, is what to do with that sudden freedom... The possibilities are almost endless, but a few things come to mind as the top of the list:

1. Eat food without plates (skewered on a fork or just held in your hand) while wandering back and forth between your desk and the kitchen.

   

   Om Nom pic stollen from the interwebs



2. Dance to your favorite music blasting through the house in whatever attire suits you (including nothing at all if you're so inclined - no judgement). 



Thanks, Tom Cruise, for the inspiration



3. Practice an instrument, loudly, repeatedly, and often, without the fear of annoying the hell out of the other person that lives with you.



This lovely work of art taken from soulofwinter's deviantart page








4. Eat all your comfort foods all week without any fear of getting "that's not healthy" stares from your absent housemate. 

   

   Mmmm... kraft mac and cheese (or as my Canadian friends call it "KD")





5. Feed the dog extra peanut butter, because it's hilarious and there's no one around to worry about the mess that you know you'll clean up when she's done. 
   







6. Stay in your pajamas all day, and curl up with multiple good books. No one actually minds when you do this normally, but you feel guilty when other people are around to see it, so go ahead and indulge. 
   







7. Take as many (or as few) showers as you like. No one can give you "the look" for taking too many, and no one is around to smell you if you take too few. 

   

   This one, of course, is credited to Charles M. Schulz






8. Sing loudly and freely in all of those showers you are (or aren't) taking because no one is around to hear you. 

   

   If you don't know where I got this one, we are no longer on speaking terms








9. Have dessert for breakfast, breakfast for dinner, dinner for lunch and eat whenever you want! No one else is around to make you adhere to societal norms, feel free to bend and break them as you see fit. 

   

   What do you mean I can't eat pancakes for dinner?







10. Don't feel obligated to clean anything up until right before your roommate comes home. Unless you're planning on having lots of houseguests, why bother? 

    

    Also stolen from the depths of the interwebs

That's just scratching the surface, I'm sure. I've already struck a few of those off the list, and my husband has only been gone a handful of hours, so it'll be interesting to see what else occurs to me as the week wears on. I'll be sure to keep you posted if I come up with anything interesting.