You can watch a lot of television on your computer, assuming you have broadband. Same with movies, if you subscribe to the right services. If your computer has a DVD drive you can watch movies that way.
Recently pregnant woman here:
Go out and see a movie.
Go out to dinner somewhere and enjoy feeding yourself without interruption for the last time.
Get a pedicure (or give yourself a manicure if you can’t reach your feet).
Do some baking so you have cookies to eat when breastfeeding, or food you can pop in the over/microwave when you have no energy left.
Organise the pantry so you can see at a glance what you’re out of stock of.
Go and gloat over the drawers full of cute little folded items.
You could try a little perineal massage if you’re really out of things to do - a little olive oil - hey, it might help - who knows?
The baby kicks your hand away?
Decorate your home for the baby.
I don’t mean paint the nursery teal. You can make little pictures/designs that you place strategically around the place to provide a welcome distraction for the needy little mite.
It’s pretty easy. Your colour pallette is black and white. (Newborns aren’t so hot on colours). You can make checkerboard patterns, stripes, circles, spirals - anything with simple clean lines and well-defined edges. Babies find the visual world somewhat disorienting and confusing, so they’re attracted to simple images like this. They’re also attracted to faces, so make a very simple one of those (Eyes, Nose, Smiling Mouth, all just black figures on white). We put one of those in the Moses basket and the little one would just lie there staring at it. Quietly. If you don’t feel up to doing this by hand (and I didn’t) it’s dead easy to do on a computer screen, assuming you have a printer.
Depending on what kind of craft abilities/equipment you have, you can shoot for various levels of complication/fanciness. If you’ve got the wherewithal to make a mobile, that will reward your time amply.
NB I guarantee you nothing. Past performance is no guarantee of future success. The volume of your baby’s cries may go up as well as down. But it’s worth a shot.
Or, you could call someone and shout at them till your TV gets fixed.
Lord of the Rings online is now free to play, www.lotro.com.
Phone friends. (Friends without babies.) If you can get one of them to come over, great. Otherwise, go for looong phone conversations about absolutely everything from the best book you read this year to the worst kiss you ever had. Phone everyone.
The thing I missed most when Widget was tiny was long, uninterrupted, non-sleep-deprivedly-incoherent conversations with good friends. Conversations that did not involve poo.
Organize a knitting / crocheting project (one that you can do in a couple of days, nothing like a bed-sized afghan), get some audiobooks, and relax with your feet up.
Just noticed you said you don’t knit. Time to learn perhaps? A basic scarf is extremely easy.
Then tell your husband/SO to come home from work NOW DAMMIT and HELP YOU OUT.
Or buy a vibrator that can be propped up on a pillow or something :D.
My wife was teaching herself spanish off a free BBC website service. Habla Espanol? Parlez-vous Francais? Spechen sie Deutch?
Exercise small muscle groups in your hands, wrists, ankles, shoulders, neck. Light loads, many reps. Big soup cans and pillows are excellent for this.
Teach yourself to juggle.
Learn a small musical instrument like a recorder (cheap at toysRus)
Write a short story.
Make contingency plans for your new family:
fire, flood, tornado, pandemic, prolonged power outage, zombies, alien invasion, civil war…
Congrats, btw.
I misread one word there… so my suggested plans would be along the lines of
Diapers
Depends…
:D.
Break out the 'brelly and galoshes and go out for a walk anyway. Then come home, take a shower, make some hot chocolate and take a nap.
Stumble Upon. Once I start stumbling, I can do it for hours and never notice the time go by! (It is for that reason that I do not allow myself to stumble during the week.)