I am so fucking bored

[WhateverTheySay]

BORED. Absolutely fuck all to do. Sick of watching shit on telly, reading, cooking. Sick of going for a fucking walk, I might go whole hog and turn left at the end of that road instead of turning right just for a change, that's the big news here today. The cat shit on the carpet this morning at least cleaning it up gave me something new to do. I want to go to a theme park, I want to go to London for the day, I want to go to the pub, take my Mum out for lunch, get smashed in a beer garden with my mates. Haven't seen the fuckers for months. Go on that luxury solo trip I treated myself to last year that never happened. Just me, my ipod, a massive glass of alcohol and a pool. Instead I'm stuck at home every bastard day driving myself mad with overthinking because there's nothing to distract me. Get me on a fucking plane away from this bullshit. Rant over!!

@Lyricallie

I feel you all so much. Also to the people being like learn a new skill etc. I work all week doing complicated calculations and having to deal with people being daft. The last thing I want to do on my down time is learn a language or something. It's like all these zoom quizzes I don't want to think. I even said to my friends, can we just have a chat and not play a game our next zoom.

I have done all the walks here so many times. I miss my friends and family as they are a 6 hour drive away. I just want to go on a night out, get chips on the way home and go out for a coffee and a debrief the next day.

Also I'm decorating my house so I have plenty to do I just want to do something else.

I've started playing stardew valley again on the switch - year 4 winter 😂

Oh my goodness this as well. “Learn a new skill”. Sorry, I work stupid hours, in my house so my house no longer feels like “mine”, staring at a screen to do said work at least 14 hours a day, and I am the only one who is working right now. I don’t have it in me to learn a damn thing.

Do a jigsaw puzzle.

I did an 1000 piece one last week. It kept me occupied for ages.

It is surprisingly satisfying too.

[quote Love51]@toobee sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I went shopping in the September when restrictions were lifted. testers are no longer a thing
You can buy samples on eBay though![/quote]

But @Love51 I thought that was only temporary 😢

Hawkins001
lady better manners and debate would you agree would be more productive about how people can enhance there skills and knowledge during lockdown, ?
'Their'.

Lol!

Me too !! Was coping well until a few days ago...we have basically a new house as done so many jobs and new bathroom etc but if one more person suggest I do online macrame or fucking crotchet or language course I will hit them !!...I speak two other languages and already sew !..

I Google luxury property in Scotland.

Read this thread while wide awake with insomnia due to a mixture of menopause and not having used my brain enough in the day to tire myself out, and found it really cathartic in a way I can't quite put into words.
Anyone know what I mean?

I'm planning an inventory of my kitchen cupboards and freezer next week. I cannot WAIT

earsup what about Latin ?

lady I usually get those mixed up.

@Crankley
@Hawkins001

Read. The. Room

This with fucking bells on!
I’m sick of home learning, dc are bored and constantly looking at a screen and I’ve also sat on my bed so much that one side of it is dipping, which means I’ve put on more weight than I thought I had

Mrs I'll admit I've not read the full thread, only the ops response, my main point was that in certain cases, this is the perfect time to enhance skills, because as and when the world returns to open for business, then most people will be too busy and some will then be saying I wish I had the time to do x, However If I could of worded my suggestions better, I apologize.

@Oatyoatcakes

I've pulled a muscle running, which is disappointing as I was on week 8 of c25k, but the unexpected perk is that I can rub tiger balm on my leg every now and again and my leg feels different for a while

My leg feels different for a while. 😂 I was so bored the other day I played hot foot, cold foot putting my slippers and socks on and off, taking photos and WhatsApping them. Lockdown has turned me into Oscar Wilde, I tell ya!

To the irritating people saying learn a language blah blah blah... some of us are still busy. My work hasn’t gone away. I have the addition of two children to home school and MiL to care for. Keeping the house clean and tidy and everyone fed is actually more work than usual, because we’re all in the house messing it up 24/7 and we’re never eating out. There is more drudge work, less free time, and pretty much none of the little treats, even the pitifully tiny ones like chatting to another human being on the school run, or the DC having a play date.

Everything we’re doing is reduced to the most boring version of itself. Go for a walk- go ALONE. Don’t go anywhere interesting or new. Don’t go with anyone bar the people you’d quite like a break from. Don’t eat out or take a picnic or make a day of it. Learn a language- do it ALONE. I used to go to a friend’s for Italian lessons. Duolingo is not the fucking same. Learn an instrument/take up a hobby/whatever- alone alone ALONE.

And yet conversely, never have peace, because everyone else in the house is also stuck, bored and frustrated too.

Everyone on the thread has their own version of this and their own reasons why things are shit. Surprisingly, it’s not that we’re too thick to think of lovely wholesome activities to do that makes us bored.

@Hawkins001 Does studying for a MA count? Though even that's a struggle right now because I miss lectures in classrooms with people to discuss topics with, rather than being stuck behind a screen with no interaction.

I am not “wallowing” in boredom. On the contrary, I hate it. But the things I normally enjoy doing are closed to me:
Visiting friends
Collecting sea glass (more than 5 miles to the coast)
Swimming (pools are closed)
Travelling to other countries
Going to the theatre

I would still go to the coast (assuming you mean it's a bit further than five miles and not 100 miles)

Also assuming you're not in wales (have they got a five mile limit?)

Everyone on the thread has their own version of this and their own reasons why things are shit. Surprisingly, it’s not that we’re too thick to think of lovely wholesome activities to do that makes us bored.

This, with fucking bells on.

I’m 6 months pregnant, I have a toddler who can’t go to fucking nursery because it’s sodding shut. I’m WFH full time in a taxing job.

I’m still ‘bored’ because I can’t do anything nice in between all the extra shitty drudgery. I can’t book a holiday, go for a nice meal or even a coffee.

I feel like I'm in prison with no real life contact from anyone.

Zoom isn't enough

I feel like I'm existing and not living

Oh and my daughter is in the shielding category so I can’t even go to the supermarket I get my shopping delivered to reduce risk to her.

I never thought I’d miss Lidl.

@InsufferableLKIA absofuckinlutely!

To all of it.

I really feel for people on their own, I'm trying my best to support a couple of friends in that situation but nothing can make up for the lack of human contact. I, on the other hand, would kill for a wee in peace or a day without 'Can we have a snack?' every 10 minutes.

Everyone is going through their own version of this shite. And it's worse because of the weather and the long dark nights..but they are getting shorter!

@InsufferableLKIA

To the irritating people saying learn a language blah blah blah... some of us are still busy. My work hasn’t gone away. I have the addition of two children to home school and MiL to care for. Keeping the house clean and tidy and everyone fed is actually more work than usual, because we’re all in the house messing it up 24/7 and we’re never eating out. There is more drudge work, less free time, and pretty much none of the little treats, even the pitifully tiny ones like chatting to another human being on the school run, or the DC having a play date.

Everything we’re doing is reduced to the most boring version of itself. Go for a walk- go ALONE. Don’t go anywhere interesting or new. Don’t go with anyone bar the people you’d quite like a break from. Don’t eat out or take a picnic or make a day of it. Learn a language- do it ALONE. I used to go to a friend’s for Italian lessons. Duolingo is not the fucking same. Learn an instrument/take up a hobby/whatever- alone alone ALONE.

And yet conversely, never have peace, because everyone else in the house is also stuck, bored and frustrated too.

Everyone on the thread has their own version of this and their own reasons why things are shit. Surprisingly, it’s not that we’re too thick to think of lovely wholesome activities to do that makes us bored.

Says it all for me. We have a one bedroom flat. Last year DH was furloughed for 3 months and had 3 months off sick after an accident at work. Now he's furloughed again. We have walked. We have exercised. We have done hobbies and crafts and reading and looking at interesting things online. And we are absolutely sick of constantly being within six fucking feet of each other 24/7 for what has felt like years. We can't even take a flask of coffee and go sit in a park for a change of scene. I don't want something to do at home, I want to go out and be around other people and have random conversations about nothing important. And I want a holiday. A long one.

Oh god yes , if I hear learn a language one more time I'll show them some language of my own ! Wfh full time and homeschooling doesnt mean I'm twiddling my thumbs but BORED , its 2 different things. Theres nothing to look forward to at weekends.

Yep - me too - bored, fed up, feel like a drudge, miss my friends, sick of the same thing every day. I long to go for a wander round the shops, to meet different people for a chat, to go my ballet class, to go running with my running group rather than toiling round the same old routes on my own, to put something, ANYTHING, in the diary that I can look forward to.

I've taken to getting up early so I can have the house to myself for an hour before anyone else gets up - that's how desperate I am for DH to go back to work, the DC to go back to school and life to go back to normal. I am not a hermit, I'm not an introvert, I don't watch Netflix and I miss normal life SO MUCH!!!

@CheltenhamLady

Me too, we are currently absolutely torturing ourselves with Place in the Sun, and almost every other travel show going.

The excitement of the day really is taking a different turn on a street close to home. Can't even get in the car now and drive anywhere rural.

@CheltenhamLady

Yes you can! We're doing that today. We won't go within 10 metres of another soul, it's 100 percent fine and anyone who says it isn't can't read the law correctly.