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I'm fed up with MN, fed up with the tv, fed up with going a walk and fed up with the weather

118 replies

ssd · 27/01/2021 13:49

...in short. I'm fed up.

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Chicchicchicchiclana · 27/01/2021 13:50

Book?

Pugdogmom · 27/01/2021 13:50

I am pretty fed up too. I hear ya.

GoodbyeH · 27/01/2021 13:53

Me too! Although having a good day today.
Yesterday was horrendous, home schooling stressed me out so much I had a nose bleed! The kids were quite shocked. So I've decided on no more home schooling. We are having such a lovely relaxing day today. Kids are happy, I've done loads of house work and the house is looking great. I can breath again.

Bored as hell though.

Exercise has helped me massively. Bloody hard to get going though and often feel like I can't be arsed. But it's like free drugs. Really does lift me.

Have you got a spouse or kids?

You aren't alone OP. It's a fresh kind of hell!!

misskatamari · 27/01/2021 13:53

I am so so fed up with the shit weather! I find I can't get motivated when it's so grey and wet outside. I'm finding audiobooks a godsend at the moment, love having one on when I'm cooking etc

Pandoraslastchance · 27/01/2021 13:55

I was like this yesterday evening. Didnt want to sew, play games, read, watch anything. Ended up just endless scrolling on Facebook but not really taking anything in.

MacDuffsMuff · 27/01/2021 13:56

So am I OP. I'm so grumpy it's ridiculous. I even thought of starting an argument with DH earlier for a bit of entertainment. Grin

Crakeandoryx · 27/01/2021 13:59

Yup, I can't disagree you op. But fed up and bored at home is better than the other alternative at the moment. Its very hard to remain patient but I don't want to hear Boris saying "alas" for much longer!

TottiePlantagenet · 27/01/2021 14:03

Same here Flowers

ssd · 27/01/2021 14:04

I'll get a shower soon and then go a walk. I know exercise and getting out,even in the rain, helps.

It's all just so mind numbing.

I avoid the news , but all that's left is repeats of Place in the sun/ antiques roadshow/ escape to the country/railway journeys etc etc

All a bit granny tv I'd normally not watch but theres nothing else that's not covid 24/7

I dont watch Netflix or box sets, not into them

I like reading at night in bed, I dont read during the day it feels weird

Ho hum....

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wonderwhatshappening1978 · 27/01/2021 14:06

Hear hear

And fed up of myself Grin

ssd · 27/01/2021 14:06

I'd be ok if I was by myself but dh isn't at work today grrrrr

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Schmooopy · 27/01/2021 14:09

I'm fed up with trying to get excited about the same old things week in week out. Takeaway on Saturday! New season of [insert viewing of choice here] on Netflix! Dog walk! Baking a cake! Supermarket delivery!

SO BORED. And I'm not an easily bored person, I'm really good at entertaining myself normally. But right now, it's like fucking groundhog day, and my concentration span is shot to shit for some reason, so even reading, which I normally love, is me

GoodbyeH · 27/01/2021 14:10

Yes! Concentration is awful and I'm becoming forgetful and clumsy! I need stimulation!

sunlightbuttons · 27/01/2021 14:12

Oh god me too.

Iamnotminterested · 27/01/2021 14:13

It's the looking at an empty calendar that is getting to me most; normally, however crap a day you might be having in 'normal' times at least the weekend promised a day out, or a cinema trip or meal etc Sad

ApplesinmyPocket · 27/01/2021 14:13

The thing that helps me de-stress the most at the moment is playing the piano. I can only play very simple two-handed pieces but I do exercises and scales and so on (luckily we have a hundred tuition books as both DC learned from 5 ish to teens). I seem to enjoy my daily or twice-daily practices much more than the DC did Grin.

Hours pass that way and much more happily than on MN at present!

Fairydustrust · 27/01/2021 14:13

I hear you! I am the same today. Have been fine but today it just feels too much too long. I am eating my bodyweight in chocolate to see if that helps.

Beamur · 27/01/2021 14:14

I was so bored a couple of nights ago that I did some online clothes shopping. But yep, it is feeling a lot like every day is much the same.
I've contacted a few local friends and lined up a few SD walks and chats which has been really nice. People that I hadn't seen much of before as we were both busy with work, school runs etc, so I'm using 'school run' time to go for a walk.

ssd · 27/01/2021 14:24

If anyone sees me here after 2.30 arrange to get me banned please?
I need a shower, need to get moving.

Aarrgghh

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MaureenMLove · 27/01/2021 14:42

Yep, me too. And the slim chance of me actually being allowed on school premises after half term, have just been dashed by PM. That's 5 more sodding weeks of this shit!

Bored of walking, bored of reading, bored of watching, bored, bored, bloody bored! DD has suggested I go to her house to work every day. (She is my bubble, I live alone). She reckons, if I were to get my shit together in the mornings and go to her house and work all day, it'll make me feel better.

I think it sounds boring...Grin

AndcalloffChristmas · 27/01/2021 14:46

I’ve very fed up too!

likeamillpond · 27/01/2021 14:59

I hear you.
I'm sick to death of watching tv.
I'm sick of social media. But I keep coming back.
Sick of this shorty grey weather.
But most of all
I'm sick to death of WALKS.

I'm all walked out.
I'm just going to eat my body weight in chocolate, cake, crisps and wine.
Wake me up when it's March.

likeamillpond · 27/01/2021 15:00

Shitty weather

mekitgubakuds · 27/01/2021 15:02

I'm fed up too. I'm so fed up I will confess (anonymously on an Internet forum!) that I'm still wearing the same pyjamas that I put on on Monday. No I haven't changed since then. I haven't had a shower since Monday. I stink! I'm fed up, I'm not seeing anyone and I don't care about being a stinking tramp at this moment in time!
Actually I do care, I feel grim, I just can't be arsed. Right, that's it! I'm going to have a bath right now!!

likeamillpond · 27/01/2021 15:05

@mekitgubakuds

I'm fed up too. I'm so fed up I will confess (anonymously on an Internet forum!) that I'm still wearing the same pyjamas that I put on on Monday. No I haven't changed since then. I haven't had a shower since Monday. I stink! I'm fed up, I'm not seeing anyone and I don't care about being a stinking tramp at this moment in time! Actually I do care, I feel grim, I just can't be arsed. Right, that's it! I'm going to have a bath right now!!
I havent ironed anything for a year. No point.