I can do more when it's things where I can plan my own schedule. So I walk my dog every day, and have family come to visit, etc. But I walk my dog at the time I have most energy. I'm a morning person, so I get up early, wait for my meds to kick in, then go out, maybe for fifteen minutes, maybe longer, but if I get tired (or any other symptom gets too much) I come home and rest. And it's ok having family round, because I still nap during the day when I need to, eat when I feel most able, etc.
But when I have to do things at a set time, it's exhausting and I get nervous whenever I have things scheduled coming up - hospital appointments, usually. Then they might coincide with the time I desperately need sleep, and it's awful.
It's been a few years since I last had what came close to a normal life - university, forcing myself to have a social life - and there's no way I could do half that now. But even back then, the evenings were the worst, I'd literally be crying with exhaustion because I just wanted to go to bed but made myself go for nights out instead.
and it's a bit fun to dress up in scrubs for an afternoon now and then. 
