"Doing quarantine better than you"

[emkana]

Even if a situation like this people manage it...
Fb pics of children adoring homeschooling... craft in the garden... blah blah

Or people posting their fabulous schedule of yoga at 6 am followed by a light breakfast then a bit of work blah blah...

I'm just proud not to be drinking before 5!!

Its a tiny snap shot not the whole picture

Agree, so many mothers on my social media posting photos of their kids doing 'crafts', 'schoolwork', joe wicks 'PE'. It's really pissing me off...not entirely sure why but I just cringe.

Healthyandhappy Mon 23-Mar-20 19:13:51
Well. We got up at 7am walk at 8 in countryside then bk home kids work I did work from home shouting at 5 year old to do hers then donkeys at 1230 bk lunch then I'm working whilst getting 5 year old to do work tomorrow they can dig weeds out of garden and go on trampoline!!
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Wow! I'm worn out just from reading that.

You have real live donkeys? Wow! I'm impressed.

Let's see..... DS1 has watched wrestling on tv all day, DS2 played the Xbox and has just done his martial arts class that was being done over lice video stream. DS3 has been playing on his iPad, did a bit of school work online and went on the trampoline.
I'm envious of the people who have had alcohol already.

I'd avoid drinking straight gin to be honest. Burns the tongue. Stick some ice in it first.

@emkana I had a small glass of wine at 4.55, and I am perfectly normal .

Some people are just eejits I think. Ignore. My DD spent all day in her room, just coming out to grab an instant ramen!

I'm just proud I'm doing my bit, that included a shot of Vihno Verde circa 4pm. At least I'm not being an idiot - going to a packed beach, house parties, daily supermarket trips!

Some people are trying to convince themselves (more than you) that this is not a car crash, it is a defence mechanism.

It will be difficult for all of us make no mistake.

Maybe with the exception of living hermits.

It’s day 1. We’ve had a great day today doing all those things you’ve listed.

What the F we’re going to do tomorrow, and for all the days after that, I have no idea. Drink, probably.

I plastered the kitchen ceiling yesterday and sanded it, painted it today, and kitchen wall, then laid the underlay in the bathroom, having got sick of DH huffing and complaining. 7 hours of work, and the cleaning up to do tomorrow. I am sure I have plaster dust in my intimate crevices.

@CappyCapCap 😂

Yes I saw a FB post from a perfect yummy mummy saying how well she was educating her two dd's about food and cooking batch meals,

Whereas I have managed to get my DS to do a bit of homework and he has been gaming the rest of the day.

I doubt they can keep it up the whole time. It’ll get old quickly.

Yep, academics are excelling themselves in being even bigger wankers than usual. Very middle-class self-isolation involving posting pictures of the bread they've baked on Twitter, followed by post-structuralist analyses of quarantine.

My day - housework (for a change...), watched Malory Towers, played games on my tablet, had an afternoon nap because I didn't sleep last night and that's about it.
My best achievement is not having any alcohol yet.

In all seriousness I was actually wondering earlier whether the school closures/potential lockdown will actually put an end to the whole insta-perfect, “Pinterest mom” type pressure...

Guess not?!

We’ve done fuck all today anyway - I need to check if DD has kept up with the stuff school set though. DS is home educated anyway (in a very imperfect manner :o) and DD only started year 8 in December after also being HE for a few years. But DS and I both have CV symptoms so fuck that. In any case it’s only a week till Easter holidays when I plan to focus on just being together and (in an ideal world) decluttering/organising!

Done 'DisasterMom' before. I now know to give it 48 hours before it all goes to shit. For me, anyways. Thank God they're teens this time round. . .

Just ignore it all.
Social media is so good but it can also be terrible for this type of thing. By 12 weeks time it'll be completely different!

At work we all posted a photo of our home office with a ‘still working’. I spent all day yesterday —hiding the crap— tidying to have that perfect Insta office.

All those people doing a zillion hangs on day 1, wtf are you going to do on day 15.

I'm bored out of my skull, & proud that I didn't have anything to assuage the boredom until 18.00 (hic)

Social media is edited highlights only, like the only goal in a dull footy match.

One of my favourite sayings applies here; Don't compare your behind the scenes to someone else's highlight reel'

OP I totally get it.

My Facebook is littered with people going 'Look at my newly baked bread! Look at my arts and crafts afternoon! Look at my freshly re-planted garden!'

As someone whose house is half knocked down for an extension, I have no kitchen, my house isnt weather tight, everything is covered in rubble and dust, my garden looks like the Somme, I can't leave the house as I'm pregnant and in isolation for at least 12 weeks, and I now suspect the PM is about to announce a complete lock down and ban in all building sites so I just want to scream in response:

FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But that's just me. I realise I'm not being particularly calm at the moment. And yes I'm now not looking at social media.

Well I finally managed to wash my hair in 5 days but wearing pyjamas all day. Just bought a fuckton of booze and am comfort eating and not managing to get to sleep before 3am. The highlight of my day is watching Piers Morgan ranting about the Government and the Great British Public!