So bloody bored

[Helenj1977]

Just that really. Dp wfh and is busy. Older dc are home schooling but are able to do so themselves.

It's just me and our 19mo who is getting harder by the day.

With a second peak being talked about in September time there is just no hope is there?

I've started shopping again this week but that's not the same.

I'm a SAHM but hate it! I just miss routine, school runs and the general hustle and bustle of our normal life.

Anyone else the same? Any tips?

[Isitreally77]

I'm bloody bored too. I miss every day life, getting up for work, actually going into the office, coming home, rushing out the door to the gym, popping to the supermarket to get bread and being in and out in minutes rather than having to queue to get it. I miss weekends being weekends(pub lunch with my mother, food shopping etc) and not just a tag on to the week. It's bloody boring all this social distancing and queuing to get into a shop.

[LesLavandes]

Bored to tears here also. Spent lockdown alone and have recently moved to this area. Only know a couple of people.

[LolaLollypop]

There's much more to do now than there has been for a long time!

From next Saturday you can start visiting your friends again. Your kids can go to play areas. Book cinema tickets. Get some nice takeaway food and go and sit in the park with a drink or two.

I've just booked a weekend away (UK) for the end of July and we celebrated "Glasthomebury" this weekend with 2 days in my parents garden + BBQ (in the rain).

[BananaSpanner]

@gonewiththerain

I’m usually quite cheerful but it’s getting me down now especially as I don’t think things will have improved enough to be back to normal by winter.
I’ve a bored 2 year old who despite my best efforts with a good variety of home preschooling really needs some socialisation.
I’ve got a long list of jobs to do which I’m slowly plodding through and I’m still working but I’m bored I want a change of scenery and some normality back.
I think it’s the not going to be back to normal for a very long time that’s just hit me and I’m not keen on. There are things I’d like to do at home but no chance with the two year old.

This is how I feel. When we were in full lockdown, it felt urgent, necessary and temporary. It didn’t bother me too much. I feel weary now, like this is it for the forseeable future, it’s hard to come to terms with, though I obviously get why it has to happen.

[BananaSpanner]

So fucking bored with no real right to be because I work out of home and see colleagues etc. My kids are in school several days a week but I’m finding time away from work is so boring it is stressful. Lazy weekend morning used to be a treat now they’re just depressing. The kids are having too much screen time but have had a lifetimes use out of all their toys etc.

I miss activity, things to look forward to, nights out, impromptu lunches, watching dc do sport and dance, strolling around the shops.

We’ve booked a uk break and I am looking forward to it but am slightly worried that is also going to be crap.

I know we are lucky, we have our health and our jobs but I have felt so low this weekend. Rant over.

[BogRollBOGOF]

There's DIY that needs doing, but with the house permanently occupied, I can't face that extra layer of mess disruption with no escape. Routine housework is bad enough.

The DIY isn't urgent. It can wait.

[gonewiththerain]

I’m usually quite cheerful but it’s getting me down now especially as I don’t think things will have improved enough to be back to normal by winter.
I’ve a bored 2 year old who despite my best efforts with a good variety of home preschooling really needs some socialisation.
I’ve got a long list of jobs to do which I’m slowly plodding through and I’m still working but I’m bored I want a change of scenery and some normality back.
I think it’s the not going to be back to normal for a very long time that’s just hit me and I’m not keen on. There are things I’d like to do at home but no chance with the two year old.

[BogRollBOGOF]

Horrifically bored.
SAHM to two primary age DCs who are that odd balance of needing me on standby and able to referee fights, but not constantly hands on.
DH working from home... having a quiet phase and doing lots of lethargic loafing around which is enough to quench anyone's motivation.

I'd rather be back in the final year of full time teaching that finished me off, with DH frequently abroad and living on a knife edge of tight deadlines.

Normally I get school time to myself. I fill the time with supporting in school, other youth groups, mum taxi. All that is out of the window until at least September and for much of it even longer...

I normally go out running and train for races. No races to train for. I think I've now explored every public footpath within 5 miles. It's not the sense of freedom that it normally is, and summer tends to be a natural lull for me anyway.

I need external motivation. By the time I've chivvied a scatty 7 yo and dyspraxic, autistic 9 yo into action I have little drive left for myself. (SAHM because of DS1's needs) It's not carefree time for self-indulgence.

I went into this on empty after a long, hard winter where mud made everything outdoors into a slog. I was looking forwards to interesting things reopening after a long winter.

I'm drained. I lack a purpose for the first time in my life. Stuck in an abyss of time.

[cannotchange]

Yep bored shitless and getting depressed. I have been on a health kick, healthy eating and excercising every day - not lost 1 pound thats boring..

Iam furloughed, there is only so much cooking, laundry cleaning I can do before it makes me feel even more brain dead.

It's my birthday today and I have never felt so shit on a birthday, weather has been crap and nothing to do.

[annabel85]

Monday to Friday are fine as i'm WFH which i'd prefer and in a general routine. But being at home all week makes me eager to get out at the weekend and i've basically been sat at home twiddling my thumbs all weekend since March when i'm used to going to concerts and evenings out etc on Friday/Saturday. Already resigned to living like this until next Spring.

[Vampyhooch]

So bored of it too. The first few weeks were ok as it was actually nice to slow down for a change instead of rushing from one place to the next.

Depression has hit me massively now as a result of this. I’m finding the repetitiveness of each day soul crushing. I find I’m waking up dreading another day of life like this. I wish things would go back to normal.

[mum2jakie]

Even the weekends are long and boring! Constantly minding the weather because the only sanctioned activities are outdoors...

[SpnBaby1967]

I work full time from home & have 3 primary school age children and I'm bloody bored too. Not because I can't find something to occupy myself, because I can, but because I know that all the things we would go out and do as a family are even cancelled or subject to fucking queues and bastard social distancing so about as much fun as a drill to the head.

[DivisionBelles]

I'm bored stupid. I had a hysterectomy three weeks ago, so I'm not working, can't drive and not allowed to do very much at all for another couple of weeks. There is only so much daytime TV I can take. I know exactly what time it is by the programme that is on the telly. I can go for gentle short walks, but it's been raining today.

My DC are grown up, but one is wfh upstairs and the other studenty one doesn't get up until midday. DH is at work and I'm just totally fed up with everything.

[mum2jakie]

Even with working throughout, life is still pretty boring and monotonous! I think part of the issue has been not being able to book things to look forward to. Feels a bit better now there are timescales for more things reopening and we have a holiday booked that should be going ahead.

The kids are bored shitless unfortunately and absolutely sick of the sight of each other!

[BikerWife]

It's such a crap situation OP

My children are grown up, if this had happened when they were small I don't know how I would have coped, parents with dc at home through this need a medal!

I'm a nurse working frontline NHS and yes I feel lucky to have a job and also to see my colleagues every day for social interaction but all the lovely outside of work things that are cancelled and the fact we haven't been able to see friends and family mean I've had plenty of time feeling bored too... And not a nice time to relax 'bored' but a low motivation & miserable 'bored'.

[QuornHub]

Me too. Bored to tears.

My life for the last three and a half months has been lived within a mile and a half radius of my home. I have been to the same two supermarkets and walked the same streets for exercise and had no conversations with anyone other than DH and DD. Weekends used to be something to look forward to - now they're just more of the same. We live in a tiny flat with no outside space and we've no car so getting about anywhere for a change of scenery isn't possible (we're avoiding public transport as I have a health condition and don't want to risk it). And dragging home two shopping trolleys full of stuff for three adults and a cat (I used to use the bus and do lots of smaller shops in various places to spread it out, before) is getting knackering and tedious.

The worst thing is being unable to plan for fun future stuff. This is the time of year when me and DH usually go away on trips, festivals and so on. We plan stuff all the way up until autumn, and then we start thinking about Christmas. This year there are no trips, gigs or festivals and it looks as if Christmas will be very different. The idea of this being life for months on end is enough to drive me mad.

[TheShapeJaper]

Same here. Have never been bored in my life but I am officially bored shitless now.

[Waxonwaxoff0]

Furloughed here, single parent of a 7 year old. Bored as fuck. Sick of baking and walking around the same park every day.

[Catastrofuck]

The thing is you can be both busy and bored

[IcedPurple]

Bored and depressed.

I live alone which I love and am the type who can happily live a quiet, at home existence which others might find boring but I don't. But this is the time of year when normally I get enough social interaction and travel to sustain me for the rest of the year, so I'm finding it hard.

I work 10 hour days while trying to home school. I would bloody love bored being an option

Maybe this isn't the thread for you then.

[Catastrofuck]

People forget that with small children you don’t have time to do many leisure or educational activities for yourself. It’s the lack of contrast that is so dull.

[Rainbowqueeen]

Podcasts?
Make DH take the toddler during his lunch break and you get some time to yourself.

Fitness blender for exercise

New dinner recipes

Get a paddling pool if you don’t already have one for toddler
Can you try to get tickets to a national trust property?
But yes it’s hideous.

[Helenj1977]

I'm glad it's not just me but also sad.

Hayday is back on my phone and they kills a bit of time 😂 I've stopped baking because it makes me fatter!

Coronavirus can do one now. I fear for a very long winter though 😢

[emmathedilemma]

Also bored. Working from home but it's not the same as interacting with people in the office. It's literally an eat, sleep, work, exercise, repeat every god damn day........highlight of the week is picking up the supermarket shop! I'm used to being home to eat dinner and go to bed, seeing lots of different people a week, travelling at weekends, this is beyond mind numbingly boring and in a strange way exhausting!