Aibu...how close to normal is life for you

[jeansandashirt]

Aibu to wonder how close to "normal" (as we know it) is your life right now?

70% normal. Back to work but wearing a mask. Have socialised with 4 friends and both sides of family over the past 5 weeks. The meet ups were all outdoor and no big group get togethers but nevertheless we saw them again. My sons are back to sports training and preparing for school. They have both seen their friends, one of them in particular is back to seeing friends every day. I worry because they are going to McDonald's and catching trains into town etc but I was worried when he was sitting at home watching Come Dine with me for hours on end. So have to accept that one I think. I've been to hairdressers and going to dentist tomorrow. It's all normal stuff but in a not normal fashion. New normal I suppose

Oh and no holidays or holiday planning
That's definitely not my normal

Not normal at all. Covering my face ends badly for me, and I am too scared to not wear one where required. So all my shopping is done online now. Even seeing people on the streets in masks sets my heart racing. My world has become so much smaller. For me, full lockdown was easier.

Not normal at all.

Everything I like doing has stopped and can’t restart until there is a vaccine.
My best friend is in a highly vulnerable category and is being extra vigilant so I can’t see them, and I desperately want to see them and hug them.
Dh normally works away from home but is now here 24/7 and driving everyone nuts.

I fill the days cleaning and gardening and walking and doing DIY but there is no fun and nothing to look forward to.

Very normal here, the only difference is wearing a mask out and about, we have been to loads of theme parks and on holiday to Cornwall which is very much a normal 6 week holiday for us. The kids have seen their friends and we ve been to stay with my mum as well. I am working from home more than I was before all this but I have changed a lot of the scope of what I do over the last few months so I ll be working from home for the foreseeable and I love it!!

Pre local lockdown it was very normal with the exception of not going to the office (I work in community, NHS, but paperwork is now completed at home, not the office). Anything not normal was a welcome change and made use realise that we don't need or even enjoy it.

Due to local lockdown we now can't see friends in our/ their house/ garden which we used to do a fair bit. We've never been shoppers or done soft play and we've really enjoyed the slower pace of life and more time at home lockdown has afforded us. We're very lucky.

30%
I've never been worried about the virus, but I've seen what mush 80% of people's brains are made out of now, and I can't ever unsee that.
From the start I thought lockdown was the stupidest, most harmful idea that was ever thought of. The amount of people who supported it was a massive, horrible shock to me.
Same with the idiotic mask mandate.

I'm terrified of my government and my fellow countrymen now.
I'm not sure things will ever be normal for me again.

A million miles from normal!

• both me and h wfh and my job changed in content too due to some work that we don’t do (organise events) and other things we do more of (plan for covid stuff)
• neither child in school since March. Usually holidays involve various camps (cancelled), trips to grand parents (now briefer and socially distanced), big groups away with friends with kids (no big groups)
• not going abroad makes a huge difference for us as family (been away abroad every summer since about 2003).

It “may” feel more normal in September when school restarts but at the moments doesn’t feel highly different from March to be honest basically we cancelled pretty much everything planned this year.

Really far off from my old life. I love the theatre and opera and ballet and obviously there is none of that anymore. Children’s birthday parties, holidays, exhibitions and many other things have been cancelled. Kids have only just started their activities again.

I am actually grateful that my mother, who used to live abroad, passed away before all of this so that I didn’t have to miss out on my visits with her, or being with her when she dies. That would have broken me. A friend had to attend her mother’s overseas funeral via zoom and she is utterly devastated for not having had the chance to attend in person.

*died

@Ubermints agree

About 2% normal.

Haven't been into a shop since March. Haven't slept in my bed since March. Haven't touched Dh since March. Have once had socially distanced chat with my parents, late last month. Have only driven to pick up vegetables from dsis in law's porch once a week. Got petrol 3 times. Adult kids living at home and not working. Dh hardly working. Me not working. Socially distancing from Dh.

Dh is extremely vulnerable with several issues which each individually would put him on shielding list.

Been on 2 walks (exercise indoors and in go in garden)

The most I've seen anyone I knew was for the NHS clap.

The 2% is we can now get supermarket deliveries and ds has had a couple of socially distanced walks with friends. Emergency dental treatment for me.

That's about it.

indoor shops: masks, SocDis, sanitiser, not supposed to touch things: deduct 10% for all that?
swimming: can't go because pool not open, deduct 10% for that?
dentist: can't get a filling (deduct 10%?)
office: weird one way system, just weird, supposed to WFH but that is turning weird, deduct 10%?
travel severely restricted ... another -10%?
job security is reduced, another -10%?
DC lives in many levels of disruption, another -10%?
Nobody cares if my hair looks a mess or I wear rags all day... -5%?
Some work things have changed, very not normal, -10% !!
No commuting.. before I commuted for years. -5%?

I started by wanting to say 60% normal, but all above puts me down to 10% normal.

About 70% normal. Have been going to bars and restaurants since as soon as they opened. Always worked from home but used to meet clients/work with groups a lot and now it's all on Zoom. Loving seeing friends again and being back out there as I'm very sociable but missing all the gigs and shows I had booked. Have seen my shielding parents and stayed over. May go abroad. Not prepared to hide away. I live alone and love human interaction.

Not.

Husband and I both still WFH for the foreseeable. No holiday childcare. Lost my non working day. Lost one of my main hobbies. Can't go out without having to say where I am going. Not been alone in the house (other than while working once or twice) since March.

Pretty normal here....only differences were the home schooling and wearing masks.

We do wear masks at work now, but both me and DH were working all way through so nothing changed there.

We weren't big visitors to other people's houses anyway...so no change there

We didn't eat out much before, and don't often go to pubs. So didn't mind them closing.

I quite liked lockdown... Roads were lovely and quiet when I was going too and from work.

Life is not returned to normal but if I'm being honest I quite like some of the new normal. I like that there are less people around, peace and quiet always wins for me. I love having more personal space in supermarkets etc and if wearing masks means less germs then what's the problem?

At the hairdressers last week, I had to have my temperature taken and wear a mask but at the end of the day I still got my hair done and it took half the time it usually takes. Probably due to less talking wearing masks

I had to go to my GP last week for a regular jab and it was great - no sitting in a crowed waiting room waiting for ages waiting for my name to be called - we literally drove up to the door at the allocated time, the nurse came out to the car within a nano second of my appointment and it was done. No waiting, we were back home 5 mins later. Drive through fast health care - fab!

My daughter had an outpatients hospital appointment at 9am yesterday - a Saturday - how good is that? She was in and out in minutes, they were waiting for her. And our journey time was super quick - the roads were really quiet

Non of these things would have happened before Covid-19 and as far as I am concerned are an improvement on how it used to be.

More than it was but not really

Still only seeing family members outside and at 2m distance

Lost my job 3 months ago so not working (new job meant to start next week) and husband been furloughed and only just back at work PT (hospitality)

Kids back at school

Wearing masks everywhere isn’t normal to me so for as long as we have to do that life won’t be normal.

Very far from normal. Haven't left the house since just before school summer holidays so about a month ago. Struggle to get out with disabled dc and PIL who sometimes help are shielding.

forgot to add so many hospital appointments have been postponed. My 7 year old is really struggling with his hearing but nobody can help him. A 10 minute operation would solve the problem but it's going to be over a year before he can have it done.

Not normal at all. Still WFH with no return in sight, definitely not this year anyway. I am under local restrictions and live alone so am back to total isolation. I booked a holiday to Greece in January this year, not due to go until October.....so who knows.
I am also due to go to stay with an elderly relative in the South West at the end of September, clearly this too is up in the air. If either/both of these are cancelled there is very little chance of booking any leave for the rest of this year, due to therr not being any leave available.
My dance class was due to restart, with all the social activities that go along with it, but local restrictions have kiboshed that as well.
I can't see any type of normality for me until we have an effective vaccine.
Sorry for the mega-whinge

About 50% normal. It was very odd for the four months when DP was off work, especially because he loves shopping and seeing friends, so I am not used to him actually being at home 24/7. His industry has picked up and he's back at work full-time, which makes life feel much more normal.

We home educate so I'm used to having the teens here some of the time, but we usually go out more than half the time to activities and seeing friends. That has stopped completely and most of our usual groups are on hold indefinitely. My youngest is quite sad about that.

Pretty normal, DH and I both had 100% working from home jobs before covid and live remotely so don't go to cinema, pubs, restaurants unless on holiday. So not much change.

90%, we are in australia in a state that is pretty much untouched, its just no international travel or interstate travel.

We had our first netball rep carnival yesterday which was a bit weird but it was so good to be out there again.

Not very normal at all. Have just started visiting 1 or 2 shops again (wearing a mask) - a garden centre and a pram shop, and have been so surprised at the total disregard for social distancing.
Still not sociailisng indoors and only with up to 6 people outdoors. DH still WFH until Jan earliest, has cancelled his gym membership and exercises off a tree in back garden instead. Not hugging family or friends, in fact in-laws still shielding due to lung conditions. dentist still not resumed, need a haircut too, and medical appts still significantly reduced. Still chasing a refund for a holiday cancelled in April due to covid and shld also be on holiday now too - also cancelled by covid!! Ordering weekly shop click and collect very carefully so we don't have to do a mid week milk run either or step foot in supermarket.
Nowhere near whatever normal should be.