"occupied with things" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to mean "preoccupied with activities or matters." For example, "She was occupied with things at work, so she didn't have time to take care of her children."
Even if I didn't have kids, I would be the same, but I think my brain is occupied with things other than fashion, fashion, fashion".
Aniston added, "I did not come out the model child she'd hoped for and it was something that really resonated with me, this little girl just wanting to be seen and wanting to be loved by a [mom] who was too occupied with things that didn't quite matter". .
Daydream to keep your mind occupied with things.
Keep yourself occupied with things that you love.
Keep your mind occupied with things like homework, or plan a day out to keep your mind of it.
Get busy to be occupied with things other than food... Lose safely: Don't stay on quick weight (modified fasting/actually starvation) level more than a few (like three or four) weeks at a time.
In his Book of Religion, al-Farabi explains along these same lines that most people are not able to grasp truths through an exercise of intellect, but rather, "either due to nature or because they are occupied with other things" these people (the average folks) will "understand generally accepted or persuasive things" (BR, B 98; BR, M § 48).
We become uninvolved, aloof, occupied with other things.
But he seemed to be occupied with other things.
They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.
To be fair, Evan, 30, and Oliver, 33, have been occupied with other things, like designing restaurants (among them, Telepan Local in TriBeCa, Ramona in Greenpoint and a project for Stephen Starr in Philadelphia).
