Full Distractions

Occasionally I need to get out of my own head with high urgency. Thoughts go around like a spiral staircase to nowhere and leave me feeling dispassionate, unmotivated, and stuck in a loop. In those moments, the usual things I choose to do for enjoyment may not be demanding of my full attention to keep me from continuing in a thought maze. Usually combining a couple at a time, here's some things that help get me through:

• Sporcle quizzes, especially ones about geography
• Reruns of Gilmore Girls, Buffy, Sex and the City, etc.
• Shopping, especially places I've forgotten existed like American Eagle
• Shoe videos of pumps on Saks website
• Attempting intense makeup looks (contouring is HARD)
• Paint by numbers
• Jigsaw puzzles
• Puzzle books, like hidato and easy crosswords
• Video games, even Two Dots on my phone (current obsession)
• Karaoke of old songs (Why are things so complicated, Avril?)