{"id":24831,"date":"2015-09-08T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=24831"},"modified":"2015-09-08T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:44:31","slug":"what-do-you-do-for-fun-relaxation-when-not-reading-a-cozy-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/what-do-you-do-for-fun-relaxation-when-not-reading-a-cozy-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do you Do For Fun & Relaxation? (When Not Reading a Cozy Mystery)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Charles<\/a>I have been complaining to my husband that I can’t seem to finish the Cozy Mystery I have been reading this past week. He reminded me (rather too quickly!) that I have recently been doing other things with my free time. (Good grief! What is it with husbands always pointing out the obvious?)<\/p>\n

Let me come clean…<\/p>\n

I have been sort of<\/em> immersing myself in puzzles! I wish I could admit to doing a lot of baking, cooking, or cleaning >>> but that’s not the case.\u00a0I set up a puzzle-making table in our family room >>> and have been going rather crazy. \u00a0Actually, I multi-task: I watch the old, black and white movies that I tape while I make my puzzles, something I used to do while cross-stitching.\u00a0I have several favorite puzzle-makers, Charles Wysocki<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is my favorite artist, followed by other artists like Jane Wooster.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine came over last week, took a look at my puzzle table, and remarked that I probably enjoyed puzzles because they are so relaxing. Hmm… I don’t think of my life as stressful in any<\/em> way but I guess the puzzles are relaxing, however not when I am searching around on the floor for pieces I have lost.<\/p>\n

\"Adult<\/a>Getting back to my friend >>> She works at a school here in town and finds the job somewhat stressful. She told me that she has taken up coloring, which helps her unwind after particularly difficult days. I thought she meant that she has found more difficult children’s coloring books for herself. Nope, she told me they actually make coloring books intended for adults now. Hmm… I found that interesting.<\/p>\n

I remember really enjoying coloring with my children years ago, so of course as soon as I got home from lunch I went online to look at adult coloring books. Wow! There sure must be a lot of people\u00a0with a whole lot of stress out there! It looks like they have adult coloring books<\/a><\/strong> for every reason (dogs, cats, flowers, etc.) and season (Christmas, Halloween, etc.)!<\/p>\n

This got me thinking: Are there any non-reading activities that keep you from reading your favorite Cozy Mystery books during your fun time? I know we recently talked about the types of non-mystery books we find ourselves reading, but this time I’d like to find out about other activities you do for relaxation\/fun<\/strong> >>> and I don’t mean household chores! Please post a comment if you do. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been complaining to my husband that I can’t seem to finish the Cozy Mystery I have been reading this past week. He reminded me (rather too quickly!) that I have recently been doing other things with my free time. (Good grief! What is it with husbands always pointing out the obvious?) Let me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-musings","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-6sv","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24831"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24859,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831\/revisions\/24859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}