Aibu lockdown weekends

[grubbygangsta]

Aibu to wonder how you are all spending your weekends in lockdown currently?

Walk the dog, gardening, housework, takeaway, wine.

It’s like Groundhog Day.

Walk to get juice/coffee.

Watch 90 Day Fiancé.

Stare forlornly at wine rack (pregnant)

Nag self to do virtual exercise class. Talk self out of above.

Nap.

Wake up before 7 with toddler. Sit in living room with DH and toddler. Walk toddler to park. More playing. Put toddler to bed. Dinner and large glass of wine. Netflix.

Working (therapist) - huge demand, people's mental health has taken a massive battering

Watching TV, going food shopping, housework. Drinking.

Boring, boring, boring. Counting down until April 12th when we can start going to some outdoor attractions again!

Work (nurse) clean, tidy after teens, cook, garden, Netflix , wine , and repeat, repeat, repeat .........

Being bored

Host a Cub Scout meeting on zoom, hold a Leaders meeting to plan ahead, lunch.

Some kind of organising or crafting in the afternoon. If grumpy teen gives me peace - or else bringing her for a walk or to health food shop or similar. Make an effort to make a Nice dinner.

Aim for a long walk on Sundays. More organising or crafting, - which realistically probably means I am more likely dealing with requests from the teen for specific food that requires a(nother) shopping trip. Cleaning. Sorting clothes. Might get a bath or an hour to watch tv but probably have a family zoom call and a grumpy teen to deal with.

Then try and get an early night ready to face another week of the grind of wfh, a teen who doesn't understand meetings as a concept, feeding the family and keeping the house from descending into chaos.

Wake up far early than I would like with three year old. Alternate between trying to be fun mummy who is present in her life with shouting and nagging. Tidy, tidy, tidy so that the general state of the house is slightly nicer than a midden. Put three year old to bed, lie on sofa staring at the ceiling, then go to bed myself.

Zoom coffee on the Satutday morning with the friends I used to meet for lunch on Saturdays. Afternoon walk.

Lie-in on Sunday. Main meal at lunchtime. Afternoon walk. Antiques Roadshow.

Otherwise exactly the same stuff as on weekdays, minus work.

Wake up, breakfast, walk dog, have a nap, watch tv, do chores, have a bath, cook dinner, watch tv, bed.

Repeat.

😐

Saturday. Morning walk. Pilates class. Reading or errands until lunch. Ring my mother. More reading or knitting while listening to an audiobook. Or chat with a friend. Dinner. Box set or film. Piano practise, bath book and bed.

Sunday: Walk early morning. P/T work in morning (I have a F/T job during the week). Lunch. Ring mum. Knitting/reading/audiobook. Complicated/big production dinner, piano practice, bath and bed.

Productive and relaxing but cannot wait to do something different again!

Childcare, Netflix, wine

Work! I m self employed so the more I do the more I earn. Sometimes we go to a country park or a national trust place but it’s hard to motivate the kids at 11 and 13 especially if the weather is rubbish. We also plan our summer and count the days until we can ride the coasters again!!!

I love the weekends, cuddles with the kids, watching movies, eating nice food, playing Minecraft (me and kids), jigsaw, baths, should be doing exercise and gardening but CBA.

Yoga
Walk
Shopping
Eating
Napping
Cleaning
Netflix/scrolling

Thanks to St Nicola of Covid, we're supposed to be confined to our very small council area which is basically just a suburb of Glasgow.

One thing we've done a lot of since the summer is geocaching, it's an app you put on your phone and it's like a treasure hunt. It gives purpose to walks, the kids enjoy it, and it encourages walks to places you wouldn't ordinarily explore. (We do break ridiculous laws and leave our local Council area to do it though, and don't feel guilty in the slightest.)

Wake up. Make a niceish breakfast for DDs and DH. Lounge around for a few hours. Shower get, get dressed, do make up. Go to the supermarket for something to do (alone) DH usually takes DDs for a walk. Come home and either watch TV or do a bit of work (might as well). Make dinner. Watch Saturday night light entertainment until DDs go to bed at 8pm. Watch a few episodes of a box set with DH. Go to bed. Rinse and repeat.

Lie in on Saturday while dh is at work, facetime the same 2 friends every week who l miss but am sick of video calls, take the dog out then nothing else. I enjoy weekends but now l know the end of lockdown is nigh l am getting fidgety and impatient. Just wanna go out for breakfast or a cuppa.

Coffee
Walk dog
Chores
Play many imaginary games with DD
Lunch
Chores
More imaginary games
Dinner
Walk dog
Bath
TV
Bed

Everyday is the same, but on weekdays I work as well as do all things.

I do a zoom catch-up with my parents and siblings on Saturday morning, which is always entertaining.
I garden, I do housework, I make my children get off roblox and help me do housework, I read, knit, cook, and talk to friends online. I sometimes do a bit of work.
Sometimes there'll be a bit of online socializing with friends, but mostly it's pretty quiet. I am quite a homebody in general, but now I really miss days out, I miss exhibitions and taking the kids to stuff. Even a different park would be nice!

Insist to myself that this weekend will be different and I’ll be really active. Clean the house. Eat stuff. Go for a walk. Eat stuff. Watch stuff on TV. Eat more stuff. Do my hobbies. Eat more stuff. Read. Eat stuff again. Go to bed. I do contact family and friends and I’m lucky to have a lovely husband to be in lockdown with. But I’m so excited to hopefully be celebrating my sister’s birthday in May actually with her - we live in different areas so can’t exercise outside together etc. Honestly I count my blessings a lot too - I’ve not had the awful experience that people affected by the virus or its impact on the economy etc.

Groundhog weekends. Go as follows

Saturday: running, food shopping, FaceTime a friend, make some food, watch motd

Sunday: longer run, get a bit pissed with DP.

Every bloody week. We were saying in the week we literally can’t wait to do “things” together.

I feel like I'm just sitting around waiting for work to start again. Haven't been able to shake off my 'work brain' since January.

Can't wait for some busy weekends to snap me out of it.

Ride the horse and work. I have never been so on top of things. I know it’s not sustainable long term when the world opens up, but I am just so bored at the minute.