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What did life look like for you two years ago?

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Promisemeyouwontfollowme · 03/03/2022 11:47

I was wondering and if I’m honest to my shame really hoping they’d close the schools (in a very difficult personal situation.) Listened to the news a lot. Life was just starting to change.

How about you?

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MistySkiesAfterRain · 03/03/2022 14:45

First day in a brand new job ha ha haaaaaa, that worked out badly as it was the 1 week prior that I needed to be in employment to be eligible for furlough. No I had decided to have a week off in between jobs after 8 years with same employer.

VladmirsPoutine · 03/03/2022 14:49

I was unemployed and my freelancing contracts had all but dried up. It was a very very shitty time. I was also probably drinking a lot more than I should have been...

MissAngorian · 03/03/2022 14:50

I had just celebrated my DD's second birthday and was starting to think about whether to pull her out of nursery. I'd been following the news on here and Twitter, so I had a vague idea of what was coming but not the full impact of it, obviously.

My DP thought I was mad, and we had arguments about it. I'd already prepped for Brexit and that all came in very handy when the SHTF - I didn't have to go to a supermarket for weeks and by the time I did, regulations were in place like 2m distance and masks.

Two years later I've just celebrated DD's 4th birthday without DP - the pressure of the last few years made me realise I was wasting my life trying to get our relationship to work in the face of his depression, aggression, alcoholism and intermittent employment. I've been single for 6 months and this weekend he will finally move out.

TragicMuse · 03/03/2022 14:52

I had tickets to gigs and theatre all booked, plans to see my sister in Berlin, air tickets to see friends in Stockholm, loved working in my job, cycled daily, my child was doing well at school...

Now, my child has a serious MH condition, barely attends school, I'm suffering with depression and anxiety, I don't go out, I've got a whole load of new health problems.

Life has been seriously shit for the last 2 years. I want my old life back.

Backwards31 · 03/03/2022 14:54

I was worrying about my family with covid especially my parents. My dad died of covid 11 months later. If only I had of kept him home 😩😩

KLH87 · 03/03/2022 14:56

According to my diary, 2 years ago today I dogsat my friends dog, went to a yoga class and went out for dinner. It was the last time I went to yoga or out for dinner.

Few weeks later I was redeployed to a covid ward and thinking wtf is going to happen.

TheFormidableMrsC · 03/03/2022 14:56

It was my son's birthday, he's 11 today so he'd just turned 9. I had just had a biopsy on my boob. I had a kids party at a trampoline place and it was weird and empty. Nobody was quite sure what was coming or what was going to happen. I remember it being really unsettling and scary.

Two years on, I'm done with treatment for breast cancer and we've somehow come through. I am more fearful now of the cost of living and what is happening in Ukraine.

KLH87 · 03/03/2022 14:56

*last time before lockdown 1 lifted I mean.

WhenDovesFly · 03/03/2022 15:01

Miserable because I was due to fly to New York to celebrate my DDs 21st and they closed the flights down two days before we were due to travel. DD never did get a proper 21st celebration. I worked throughout the lockdowns but my husband was furloughed and sat around all day doing sod all, and when the weather was nice he laid in the garden. I got very irritable about it.

bobisbored · 03/03/2022 15:06

Willing Boris to close schools, panicking about covid but also dreading the thought of lockdown with a vile, abusive husband. I ended up leaving him 3 months later and moving in with my parents (even though we were still not allowed to mix). 2 years on me and my kids are settled and happy.

drinkuplikeamum · 03/03/2022 15:13

At this moment in time it was still very much business as usual - work was still open, school was still open, nothing had really changed. I bought a house with my partner and we all moved in together and blended our families on the 1st March, two years later we are about to un-blend them as its been a horrendous experience all round. I wonder if I would have been much easier without the pandemic.

I also lost my job during the pandemic and was out of work for 10 months. Back to work now though.

MotherOfDragon20 · 03/03/2022 15:26

Had just found out I was pregnant after a every difficult fertility journey. Working in ICU and not knowing if I needed to tell my Colleagues I was 5 weeks pregnant because we had just received our first covid case. The next few months were hell.

MadisonAvenue · 03/03/2022 15:27

I’ve looked at my photos and two years ago today I went shopping, there’s a sneaky photo I took of a beautiful dog on the bus, and that was the last time I went on public transport for almost 2 years.

My son went for an interview for his first teaching job and phoned me to tell me he’d been successful while I was standing looking amazed at empty shelves in Tesco. I phoned my sister to tell her, talked a bit about what was happening with Covid and we laughed when she said “see you in September…”

We were wondering if we’d be flying to LA for a holiday in May, my husband was convinced we would be while I was hoping for a cancellation.

MissAmbrosia · 03/03/2022 15:29

I started a new job on 2nd March. There was already a travel and meeting ban so I didn't really get to see anyone, not even my new boss. I spent 2 weeks in the office in total before they sent us all home, and bar the odd meeting I have not been back since. DH has changed jobs meantime and doesn't even have an office anymore. We have got on surprisingly well both being at home apart from dishwashergate

Dd had her 16th birthday (she's 18 next week) and managed a pizza out with friends, but the planned escape game etc was cancelled.

We lost several family members and old work colleagues to covid, and a dear friend who died of cancer. It was very hard not being able to say goodbye or attend any of the funerals. I'm actually planning to fly back to UK this month for the first time since Feb 2020.

MondeoFan · 03/03/2022 15:29

I was busy working and my youngest DD was in reception. I'd heard about Covid on news etc but didn't think too much about it.
In work we were all called into an emergency meeting that evening and were told we might have to close for a short period and we would be paid out of the bosses own pocket if need be. But he wasn't sure how long he could pay us for. I went home not really sure what to make of the meeting. Then 20th March was my last working day and the schools closed the next day. It was so surreal. Then rishi sunak announced the furlough scheme which took a big worry from most people that were eligible.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 03/03/2022 15:36

It’s my husband’s birthday on the 4th, we’d gone to his brother’s for the weekend and gone out for a meal. It’s a tiny restaurant and it was packed. We didn’t really comprehend that we’d lose that experience for a long time.
Work was crazy, so many teachers and kids off school, cover was a nightmare and supply was non existent. I was wfh organising cover and honestly it was a relief when schools closed.

OverByYer · 03/03/2022 15:39

I was making arrangements to get my son home from New Zealand. Frantic he wouldn’t get back before the borders were closed

Mercedes519 · 03/03/2022 15:44

I went to a work event in London - train, tube and face to face. There was some elbow bumps and awkward British jokes about Covid. Everyone wasn't sure whether it was a thing or not.

By the end of the next week I'd cancelled 20+ future planned work events. WFH the following week. Schools closed the week after.

So, it was a thing....

InsideTheNet · 03/03/2022 15:50

I was worrying about Covid and me having asthma.
Turns out I should have been worrying about cancer instead ☹️

TheDogsMother · 03/03/2022 15:56

This week two years ago I met our wedding photographer, finalised arrangements with the venue, met with the registrar and picked up my dress following alteration, all in time for our wedding in May..... not.

The following week we went to a big birthday do in central London and it was brilliant. Last time any of us would go out in a very long time.

PoleFairy · 03/03/2022 15:59

3rd March I got my hair done ahead of my hen weekend. Went to my hen weekend that week. Had the best time ever. Honestly covid was barely on my radar. People in my vicinity were vaguely chatting about it but I didn't think it would be much of an issue and I had a wedding to plan for late April!

Bigfishlittlepuddle · 03/03/2022 16:01

Sitting at home, trying to work out how much of the news to believe/how worried to be. As dd has asthma took her out of school a week before they all closed. She's had covid twice now, neither as bad as the scare bods tried to convince me it would be.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 03/03/2022 16:10

Living as normal. Never been scared of Covid, certainly didn't want schools to close. In 3 weeks time I would be furloughed. Boring.

TimBoothseyes · 03/03/2022 16:18

March 2020 we were talking about our parents 60th wedding anniversary they would be celebrating in November and what we should do to mark it. We never, for 1 minute, imagined it would involve scattering their combined ashes. Sad

user1471538283 · 03/03/2022 16:19

I was arguing the toss with someone who said it would be like swine flu and how they didnt believe in vaccines because they gave you diseases! Changed their mind now.

We went out for my birthday just before lockdown. I can remember hating my neighbors and they just got worse. It feels like a lifetime ago ...