Temporary Unemployment; Self enrichment or one long weekend

As I have been out of work for nearly 3 months I keep asking..... What have I been doing with myself? has this time off been a fruitful experience in my on going saga called life? Im a Business Analyst with skills that should help me to also analyze how my time should productively been spent. At least this time off has been during the summer so we can consider it a long vacation and not realy "unemloyed" (although technicaly thats what I have been)

In regards to my abundant amount of time off, what have I done to better myself, have I gained any new skills, did I achieve any goals that I had in mind or begin any projects that I never intend on completing... questions I intend to realise the answer to within due time... (not like the ridiculous question of why we are here...)

For some people its great... a bit of time off never hurt anyone.... rite? for me it's like my outlet of creativity is being taken away.... (no work = boredom)....
So I have tried in every possible way to keep myself occupied by doing a bit of globe trekking, learning something usefull and attempting to unleash my artistic creativity on the world.

some examples;
Take a painting and drawing class; It was a great experience... I now know how to measure depth and create shadows.... (im wicked with a paint brush)
Enroll in a language course; I chose Dutch, or here in Belgium we like to say "Flemish"
the outcome.. learned a few words in this amazing language (just enough to impress people) before running off to Estonia...
Run off to Estonia; ... pelmanies, vodka, saku, friends, and sauna... never can get enough of that place...

Learn some new songs on guitar;
Write some new songs on guitar;
Read some books; I reread the jungle, as i am now older since the last time I read it (I think that was 14 months ago), it gives me a whole different perspective...
Purchase a nice camera and call yourself an amature photographer; Trust me, people actualy think I can take good pictures... all though it's been said my techniques are that of a second year university photography student (I won't mention your name :P ).... but I will take that as a complement :)
Start a BLOG; as you can see.. we are getting somewhere.. (but what to write about..)

In the long run I suppose I have been able to accomplish and begin a few things during my hiatus, not necessarily accomplish the new things I begin, but at least I can say that if you have such time.. take advantage of it.. when you go back to work you wont have the time to do everything at once...
At least weekends will be more exciting again