What's keeping you sane?!

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In these times of lockdown?! Personally, it's my horse. Caring for him and being out in the fresh air is definitely saving my MH.

What's your lifeline?

Wine. And spontaneous DIY. Ripped out my kitchen cupboards today and had no idea that was going to happen when I woke up.

Oh yes and phoning people

I’m trying to remember who I was as a teenager:
Listening to 80s music
Taken up drawing
Reading more

@Brookeinabook here's weird that you should resonate with my post. Because yours stood out for me.
In my normal/real world reading and escapism just filled my days. But for the first time ever, it's not enough. I need a practical distraction.
I hope I learn something from all this.

Yoga. Endless yoga. To help my anxiety. I wasn't anxious before all this kicked off. I don't even like bloody yoga but it is the only thing that is helping

Walking and list of “must do” jobs around the house....

I'm going to make a list of these to work through!

My dds are older (13 and 18) so I don't have childcare as such.

I take my hat off to those who are coping with multiple little ones. I would really, really struggle.,Double rations of wine for you lot, definitely!

I'm thinking maybe wine could be the way to go tomorrow 🍷

Doing little jobs that need doing around the house.
Pottering in the garden.
But the thing I'm taking most from it,is the fact that I can step of the endless treadmill of life for a bit and relax and breath and just be.
I'm trying to find a positive in the darkness.

In no particular order, garden and vibrater.

Food and booze. I’m scared of the day I have to put my jeans back on.

Running. Daily yoga practice. Mindfulness. A bottle of Malbec most nights.

Seeing that spring is arriving
Gin
Rebounder trampoline (Indoor)
Getting jobs done that have been quietly stacking up.

After 3 weeks of lockdown, it may be a different list entirely!

@Thelnebriati - that’s adorable!

We have two preschoolers. Trying to give each other lots of breaks. Early nights. Lots of coffee. It was booze but we're out of that.

We had a dinner party last night (a la zoom) which was lovely

Having a routine to follow, not staying in pj's all day.
Grooming DDog, he normally goes to the groomers every 2 or 3 weeks but I'm doing it myself now - he's going to need clipping short when all this is over.
Housework - I'm up to date on everything!
Knitting, I may finally finish the blanket I started about 3 years ago.
I've also got a big stack of books to get through.

I'm not sure I am staying sane, my mental health has taken a nose dive

Inspired!

I'm still working (NHS nurse) so my colleagues are. We've been redeployed so as of tomorrow we will be carrying out a different role. We've set up a Whatsapp group to support each other and it's helped a lot with our feelings of anxiety.

At home I'm just pottering as usual, my teens 16 & 15 are good as gold and happy to just chill and do homework. Dd is GCSE year so she's been reading a lot 👍🏻

Mumsnet. Cups of tea. Baking. Netflix. Cats It's pretty intense with my clingy DD5 on my own, but trying to find the positives

Watching people train their parents to sing things on YouTube. My favourite is a cockatiel that can whistle the game of thrones soundtrack.
Beeswaxing wooden furniture also seems to calm me down.
I've also retaken up running and I'm always on my lyra hoop anyway. It's usually taken down afterwards but now its permanently up.
I'm going to walk out after lockdown with a six pack at this rate!
I thought I'd be all about the crochet and sewing as I usually do those all the time, but no. I just can't find the right concentration.

I'm going to be totally honest here, may get a bashing but it's the truth, cigarettes.
We've been in for 10 days, bar the odd walk probably every other day. Not walking as often as I would like as dd5 is getting extremely upset she can't see her friends or go on the playground etc. Ds2 is enjoying having her off school but there's lots more fighting and screaming. Constantly being pulled in each direction. Oh still at work for the foreseeable (construction)
As a pp said, I am doing the jobs around the house that I would usually put off. The kitchen shit draw is no longer a shit draw !!

Think you might mean 'pets' not 'parents' Candice

Watching tiger king on netflix and realising how sane I am, even when I do my next 'stay sane' trick of trying to out-weird the world with strange outfits, weird eyebrows, wigs and make up

We were able to rent a Reformer machine from our Pilates studio when it closed so can keep up our usual exercise
Books
I'm on Season 11 of ER
Wine

My cat, wine, books, chocolate, Jo Good on YouTube , my partner. Not in any order.