To ask what you really really want now that you can't have it!

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I probably have a McDonalds meal maybe 2 to 3 times per year (usually when we are on holiday). So the chances are I wouldn't have had one in the past 6 weeks anyway. But all I can think about is how much I want a Big Mac. In normal life, I drive past a McDonalds or 2 most times a day, and they barely even register. Now, as soon as I spot that big yellow M, I just start salivating. Is it because they are closed and I know I can't have one?

So I was wondering what other things people aren't normally that fussed about, but really really want now that they can't have them!!

A massage.
A really long massage - hot stone or aromatherapy

@Tattoocrazymum - uniqlo for jeans, amazing quality, excellent online in recent weeks.
M&S have £5 off bras ATM

To see my mum, we talk on the phone but missing her like mad now.
To take my daughter to play on the swings in the park and feed the ducks.
Just having days out again and letting my 2 year old see her family.

Primark and a hair cut!

To go to a couple of shops without it taking half the bloody day to pick up dog food and a prescription. And to find nobody here but the dog when I got home.
I live in a very small town and I'm missing the options of a bigger place very much - there's no Wilco or M&S or even Superdrug here. But I'm happy to boast that the chip shop remains open to walk-in customers. Of course, that being the case, I don't especially want chips.

@ChazP I missed those from our cafe so much I found a recipe for "fluffy pancakes" think it was bbc food and amazed myself with how easy they are. Until I can get back to the cafe these are a good second!

Pub lunch in a sunny beer garden

The gym! Had finally bought a membership for the first time since I recovered from from my last relapse with my ED. Felt amazing about it. Spent far more than I'd like to admit on work out clothes - gyms got closed within weeks.

I want to be celebrating my hen weekend which was supposed to be this weekend. I want to be getting in a month which has now been postponed to next year. But most of all I want to start my new job... and have a cider in a beer garden.

My honeymoon! But probably won't happen now til next year.

Also a really nicely cooked blue steak at a good steakhouse. drool

And of course, to see my family and friends.

I was supposed to have a joint 40/50 party with my brother this year in September but that won't be happening now either. Doubt we'll bother doing it later

Coffee that I didn't make myself.

Watching something fun and trashy in the cinema.

I WANT MY BLOODY ROOTS DONE

I want to have a proper date with a man I’ve been talking to over Zoom from online dating. You know - out for a first coffee, like each other, dinner date next - in an actual pub/restaurant, then maybe some amazing sex and getting to be able to know him properly.

Normality - I just want it all back to normal. I miss my old life so much.

Friends and family - hugs and laughing, proper conversations.

Essentially, proper human connection.

McDonald's for me too

And our summer holiday. To Scotland. In August.

I'm not optimistic

McDonalds!

My acrylic nails!

A cider in the beer garden after a nice long walk with the dog

My boyfriend

Aside from seeking friends and family...
Getting my eyelashes infilled, eyebrow wax and a hair cut. Nandos. Booking a holiday.

A pizza express American pizza with anchovies .
The pizza express pizzas in Tesco are just no where near as nice as the real thing

Oh yes and of course my extended family .. ahem ..

@Clemmieandareallybigbunfight You have 100 times the chance of going to Scotland this August than I do of my LA / Hawaii trip in August 😭

For my daughter to play and interact in the flesh (not via zoom) with another.child.

To have a nice pub lunch and pint of ale after a good long walk.

To go to the supermarket and enjoy picking some stuff at random rather then going with same boring list and trying to get out of there as quickly as possible.

To walk through my town as see people enjoying cafes, pubs, shops..to. It see a sad, deserted and empty town centre...

I want a hug

I want to kiss my Mum's face....but I can't and won't be able to for ages yet.....

Pathetically, it's also my birthday on Thursday and I'm mourning the loss of it...

Btw I KNOW my birthday isn't important AT ALL, but I'll be spending it alone with a 3yr old....

Silence !