That's it I'm done

[babasaclover]

Right that's it I'm done. I've been locked in this house since January. First due to health now Coronavirus. I'm done been positive and thankful for having a garden etc - i need to MOOOOOAAAAANNNNN.

Anyone else thoroughly fucked off with it all? Never thought I would miss work and mundane stuff.

Maybe it’s because it’s the end of another week on lockdown but without a proper weekend to look forward to. Normally I’d be thinking about a trip somewhere or popping into town...

...even looking forward to spending time with the kids because unlike now I didn’t used to have to spend every sodding minute with them even though they have two parents and I have a full time job and bloody conference calls all the time they can’t seem to figure out where dad is and they know where I am...and breathe.

Coronamoaners all the way here

There is a solution to this. End your lockdown hell and just go out, does anyone actually care if you do apart from the MN corona stasi?

@PhilCornwall1 I am in Australia and don't fancy a $1331 fine.

It’s not the going out - and though it is hard I totally see why we are on lockdown (given the government did not even try to implement what South Korea did for example) - it’s the fact that there is no normal life to go out to.

Yep, I'm in. Week 7 of lockdown for me since my daughter is vulnerable and I haven't wanted to take any risks.

Today has been dull as hell, three kids including one teen and one baby, a dh who is trying desperately to salvage his business and a dog who shit on the carpet for the second time in two days.
I didn't even get dressed today. Now lying in bed and on the gin feeling sorry for myself, the weather doesn't help. Tomorrow I have a delivery arrjving so another bloody day of disinfecting shopping to look forward to.

I know I'm lucky- I have a garden and I've managed to get a delivery slot but my God life sucks atm.

Struggling here too. It turns out I relied on being able to get out of the house with the kids 90 percent of the time to stay sane. They are 22 months and 5. They don't want to do the same thing. They both want my attention 24/7. The 5 year old talks all the time, he narrates everything. The 22 month old wants physical contact all the time. When I'm struggling with my mental health, I can't stand noise or physical contact.

I'm sick of the toxic positivity on facebook. I have pstd, gad and attachment issues from my own childhood. Being trapped at home is hell. No, starting to crochet (or whatever random craft is currently being pushed as a cure for all) would not make me feel better. I know this because I'm currently knitting a bunny and it's not helping at all...dh reckons that it looks demonic as a result of all the hatred and frustration which is going into every stitch. With any luck I can set it on the village facebook "police".

This is the first week of lock down that I've felt really negative. Eventhough I do nothing (but work) all day hah, I'm still exhausted and yet I can't sleep until the early hours. I opened to the guys at work about it today and it seems like everyone is feeling the same way. This will pass as well, and we'll get to another new normal. Hang in there!

Philcornwall there is nowhere to go. I can't even nip to the shops with my dc because they wouldn't let us in.

Even if I decided to drive somewhere for a walk, where would I go with two dc that I couldn't just do near my home?

My 4yo has realised that walking is boring and refuses half the time.

@Philcornwall1 I can walk around as much as I want to, nobody will know probably and I'll walk past about 2 people with no risk to anyone, but there's nothing to do. I just want to go back to work and see people and not be so fucking lonely or sat in the same room all day every day.

I’m fed up with government not being honest with us or respectfully including us in any plans they might have.

one vegan (who hates nuts, pulses and fucking vegetables), one who would eat steak 7 times a week, one who only eats chicken & mince and a husband who understandably has given up, it's like a daily game of food roulette.

Oh yes, this is doing my head in. Going to the shop, guessing what the kids will eat this week, throwing half of it in the bin every day

I actually am rapidly getting to the point of giving up all meals and leaving them to forage for themselves

Very very fed up here today too.

But just been chatting with my lovely sil who works for a chain of care homes and she told me cried throughout today's meeting. Cherish your bubble she said and hold your family close. The rate of illness and death in care homes among clients and staff is apparently horrendous 😕

I would like to have @Xenia 's reply posted in very large letters at the top of the MN Corona topic.

I couldn't agree more.

Cherish your bubble

Try telling that to someone who's wanting to die because of lockdown.

No, I'm not cherishing my bubble, thank you.

I am so fucking fed up of working in a small supermarket with hundreds of people every day " oo i'm just out for my exercise so thought i'd just pop in for an ice cream" or my personal favourite "you're so lucky to be working I am really bored" I get everyones bored and fed up but fuck me, i'm lucky to be risking getting this virus or passing it on to someone else especially my own family. It beggars believe some of the shite I hear every day. I also know how lucky I am to probably still have a job at the end of this that's presuming i'll still be alive to fucking need it n

Even if I decided to drive somewhere for a walk, where would I go with two dc that I couldn't just do near my home?

I guess that depends on where you live. From Tuesday of this week it's really starting to get back to normal here, apart from specific shops being open. People going out more, the one form of exercise has gone out the window. People who are self employed and stopped working, now going off to work. Plenty of cars on the road.

There has been garden maintenance people working around here today and a builder has started back up on a property down the road.

I'm done too. I have a big family holiday to Florida and New York planned in August. We've planned it for years and saved like maniacs for the past year. We're now in some sort of hellish limbo because the travel agent hasn't cancelled and we're not sure if the FCO will allow us to go.

I'm fed up of people telling me it's just a holiday and it can be rearranged, obviously I know this. I don't need to hear that people have it much worse than I do, obviously I know this too!
But it's a massive deal to me right now and I'm disappointed. I have so many plans for our family this year and this bloody virus has ruined them all.

This thread has cheered me up and has actually made me smile and feel better x

Me too I had to go to pharmacy today for first time in a month. The pharmacy is just part of the shop. Has cafe, ice cream parlour, museum and the most wonderful gift shop. When I got there everything beautiful was disappeared. Barricades up to the ceiling. Taped off squares that you had to stand in. It was a shock to the system and upset me out of all proportion

I'm really glad of this thread.

So many on mumsnet where no one is allowed to moan.

It's nice to just be able to admit that it's bloody shit.

I'm not too fed up because I live in lockdown all of the time (in terms of never going to shops, meeting at other people's houses etc.) due to illness. I am however finding wiping down the food shopping a massive schlep and I'm a bit sick of worrying about silly things like a plastic cup, which has blown over from a neighbours house to our drive way (might have Covid lurgy on it); about encountering other people on our 'permitted walk' and about whether anti-bac wipes will even get rid of Coronavirus!

This crisis is different for everyone but you are not alone in struggling OP- most people are!

I just want to go back to work-I am self employed so not earning anything at the minute and worrying I won't qualify for UC.
I am worried about my 12 year old who is spending all day sat on his own playing the Xbox or on his phone-refuses to do anything else and next week we have the daily battle of not doing Homework!
My 5 year old also does not want to do any work and I have realised I am no teacher!!It is sooo stressful, OH is doing jobs on the house(which I want him to do) but this means he's out the way and it is all left to me!!
Find myself wanting a drink more and more..

I have a Whinge List too. Here goes:

In no particular order:

My Dparents are in their 80s and I worry about them. I saw them 6 weeks ago (before CV took hold) I don;t think they get the severity of it try as I might to explain.

My Sainsbury order didn't give me flour , Stork or dry fruit .
I have just rrecieved an email (from Sainsbuty) suggesting I make my food last longer by baking Seriously Sainsbury! Bake ?

DH and I had a disaster on our last holiday , I ended up two weeks in hospital having two episodes of emergency surgery

We had a cruise booked this year which is cancelled

I have many bottles of Sun Cream that I didn' use on holiday and won;t use now my cruise is off.

I have a Patient facing job which means I go in to work , and even with PPE , I am aware I might catch Covid 19 and it might kill me

Free lunch was provided in a clinic I don't work in on a day I don;t work (typical)

My Silver Wedding - cannot go anywhere . Can only see DH and DC , no other family .
Cannot make a cake . Might try and buy one .

The skin on my hands is going to shrivel up and fall off with the washing .

I had my dentist appointment cancelled , no idea when it'll be .

I want a moan as well!

For the first couple of weeks I was in a kind crisis mode, doing this, doing that, keeping going, keeping positive and trying to be cheerful. Now I just feel flat and grumpy. Today I should have been on a plane to a week's holiday in Italy, that I was really looking forward to, and I'm not. So meh. Things are not terrible here, I just feel a mix of bored and anxious. Wondering how long all this is going to drag on for. Wondering if and when I'm going to get ill, and how badly, and trying to not get ill.

I have a nice local walk I can do but I'm geting bored of it and I want to go to the coast AND I CAN'T! (But I am glad you like walking. The weather will get better and you'll be able to go out and do some more. In the meantime, moan away!)

And anyone who doesn't want to read a lot of moaning can go read some other thread.

My sympathies to everyone. We are all in different situations but all suffering. I am in lockdown alone, which will sound blissful to some others. But waking up every day knowing you wont have a conversation with anyone....again....is so depressing.