What’s doing your head in during lockdown?

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Lighthearted! Or semi-lighthearted anyway...

I’m not talking about the big obvious things eg unable to see family, shopping etc. I’m talking about the little foibles of your family/partner/neighbours etc.

I mean I could write a book but my main ones are:

• constant fucking podcasts! My husband is obsessed with podcasts and I feel like there is constant tinny talking that follows him around the house. Harmless but hiiighly irritating.

• the regularity with which my (fairly newly potty trained) two year old needs to pee. Every time I sit down to eat. I can’t eat a meal without having to get up to wipe an arse. Or so it feels anyway. I’d never let on obviously but I inwardly roll my eyes every time.

• six year old constantly asking to commandeer my phone.

The washing up..... the constant washing up

This has actually faded over the last few weeks but what was driving me mad at the beginning of lockdown was the CONSTANT whatsapp group chats. I was on 17 active chats at one point and every time I looked at my phone I would have 35 new messages and it would be relatives of husbands sending photos of what they had eaten for breakfast, or what flower they had spotted, or my boss sending a photo of his beer on a saturday night - who cares??!!! It was driving. Me. Mad. On Easter Sunday I must have had 50 odd ‘happy easter’ messages across the various groups. Why??!
I was 9 months pregnant, and very very grouchy.
Also annoying, constantly having to wipe up crumbs in the kitchen. Constantly.

@BlueCookieMonster i scan read. i'm tired. I read your post as

''constantly smacking the children''

An eyebrow went up

OP I think we are the same person except DH working out the house (bastard) while I have to wfh with 6 and 3 year old with a constantly ringing phone....

My kitchen.....because i'm NEVER out of it. Between the three meals a day and the washing up, constant requests for snacks and drinks in between, endless cups of tea making, washing up, laundry washing and drying (my DCs are wearing more clothes for some reason ), i'm also WFH in the kitchen. I might as well just set up a camp bed in there, i'm sick of the sight of it!

Coming home from work. I used to do this. And there was no one home apart from the cat. Or I would go to the gym for a nice swim and sit in the cafe after and surf the Internet.

Now. I come home. My son is still fast asleep at two pm ( don’t get me started on that) and my husband is at home. Telling me all the helpful things he has done around the house which are are really not helpful at all.
I’m pleased to be working still because if I was at home all day I may not make it till the evening time

My mum moaning about being 'locked up' but she refuses to go for a walk because there is 'no point'. We have the same telephone conversation every day. I do love her but argh!!!!!!!!!

The extra fat on my body and my total denial when I eat any treats, it's like having Christmas brain but for 6, or is it 7 weeks now.

The constant demands for food and snacks from my dc.

The constant mess my dc make.

I am sick of not being able to get the particular products I like because they aren't inthe supermarket that sells most of the rest of the stuff I like. Normally I would nip into a few over course of a couple of weeks and pick things up.

My mother. She appears to be spiralling into a pit of Covid based anxiety and I have no idea how to solve it. She wouldn't even think her anxiety was pathological, she'd think it was completely logical. I get constant messages and nothing I say is right and I'm working 60 hours a week in the NHS as it is and I just don't have the head space to deal with her. But I also see that being in her brain must be really hard for her and I wish I could take the anxiety for her and have it instead.

Constant mess
Lack of privacy and time alone
Logging into different online school apps
The endless stream of online exercise promoters trying to make me pay for some automated email rubbish
(Also anxiety about getting sick, people dying and my job but that's not so lighthearted!)

I really miss Home Bargains.

I have no essential reason to go (and my friend went and said it was a rammy with no social distancing so I don’t fancy it) but I miss my aimless wanders.

My bank balance does not.

DS taking forever to do anything and avoiding everything. Crowning glory so far has been 3 days to shower. Also takes him hours to sit and do some work

Cooking/preparing food.

Constant mess than nobody else seems to see.

The dog across the road that barks all day.

My employer, who has insisted I use three methods of "work tracker" - I've worked for this company for 17 years in the same position and I feel like I'm being treated like a school kid who is trying to skive off lessons. I'm working 8hrs + a day, and have been working on my day off for weeks. I'm absolutely pissed off with having to fill in a spreadsheet of what I'm doing hour to hour, follow it up with an email to half the frigging department and install a "capacity tracker" on my phone. Big Brother or what?!

I agree with PPs about being sick of people complaining about being bored. I'm currently working 12 hour days, 6 days a week and I would give anything for a week doing bugger all. I'm so tired of it (and tired in general) that now each time a friend/family member complains about being bored I tell them I'll happily send them some admin that needs doing. Funnily enough I've not had any takers!

The tv adverts

Worrying about having no job when furlough ends because I'm in hospitality, not being able to plan a way out for me because no one knows what's going on (don't expect them to though), worrying about my sister working with Covid patients, trying to make money stretch further than elastic, seeing the situations some people are in since all this when I'm volunteering and feeling guilty for my worrying, feeling guilty for being furloughed because everyone who isn't thinks we're just all lazy fucks who are taking the piss when actually until the gov says it's safe to open there's precisely fuck all I can do about it, missing my job and sense of purpose and achievement and reading/hearing/seeing everywhere that apparently I'm having a blast sitting on my arse all day getting free money.
Fought with depression most of my life, last few years that's a battle I've been winning, recently it's a battle I'm losing again very quickly, I really, really don't want to end up in that hole again, but this time I can't change the circumstances, no matter how much I want to or try to.

Oh god yes the fucking twee “together apart” constant adverts. Just. Fuck. Off.

MN being awash with endless “am I allowed to” and “I’m fuming” posts from idiots and posters encouraging sheer stupidity and inventing rules for lockdown, oh and tell tales!!

OP
Home Bargains near me is being very strict, marked out queue and staff only allowing people in at big intervals, also they were one of the first companies to offer financial support to their staff.

Insomnia is doing my head in.

Insomnia is doing my head in

Same here

I'm 38 weeks pg and recently started mat leave. I'm doing all the childcare for 2 year old DC1 as nursery is closed. I'm physically and mentally exhausted and can't bloody sleep.

But as it's a light-hearted thread, fucking Bing on cbeebies is doing my head in. DC loves Bing despite the fact Bing is a whiny little twat.

Entertaining a toddler. I’m all out of ideas. She has an attention span of about ten minutes at best, yet she’s clearly bored of doing the same stuff every day so I’m struggling to come up with new things each day. She also gets up at about 4am every day, so I have about 15 hours of entertainment to fill (she rarely naps, doesn’t seem to need sleep...)

Yes to pretty much all of these!
Mess
Husband’s bread making addiction. Apparently it’s how he unwinds after a hard day at work but to me it’s a mess of flour all over the kitchen and a million extra calories my arse doesn’t need. He’s run out of yeast now thank goodness.
The lack of alone time but conversely the lack of adult conversation during the day (and evening to be honest as kids are in bed later)
As a teacher-spending time planning work which isn’t getting done (not family’s faults-I know they are under the same pressures everyone else is) but just seems a waste of time) and not knowing when And how normal service will resume

Entitled customers being more rude than ever in supermarkets. And no we dont have to take it I will answer back politely and if they carry on will walk away.