What will you do when covid is gone?

[Woahisme]

Just for fun and a general nosey.

If everyone was vaccinated and/or covid disappeared, here is my list of things I would do.

Visit my 6 week old niece - havent met her yet.

Spend time with all of my siblings and their families.

Have a brew with my mum and dad.

Catch up with friends. Board game night needed asap.

Go to a pub (I don't even drink, I just want the vibe).

Mooch around the local shops in the nearby seaside town - they are mostly independent shops and I have wanted a browse for years but the kids would be bored so I haven't yet.

Go to a music festival in summer.

Start going to gigs (haven't been to one in years).

Take my kids to London - eldest has been harping on about this all lockdown. We live in the north.

Visit my relatives in the south. This could tie in nicely with said London trip.

Go on a well deserved holiday abroad. Don't care where, but I've not been abroad in years and not holidayed at all since 2017.

Visit friends in Scotland.

Nothing like a pandemic to make you realise how much you miss having freedom.

What would everyone else do?

Sleep and recuperate.

Have been so stressed about our business it's taken an awful toll on our family life.

Meet friends in a cafe or go into each others homes

Watch my adult kids get a life again

Hug everyone and see my parents and hug them.

Then have weekends away and travel and shop and enjoy life.

@flowerycurtain

Insist on working from home for at least a month and just not leave the house (have had to be office based throughout so far)

I am going to start applying jobs. I am sahm with mh issues and I don't want the extra stress that isolations/lockdowns/ illness would bring when I start to work again.

Have a belated 50th birthday party. A big one.

See my parents inside

Book a holiday abroad

Go clothes shopping with dd and try loads of stuff on

Go to the theatre and the cinema maskless

Meet friends for lunch

Get back to swimming - I usually run but I seem to have hurt my stomach so want to see if swimming is ok but will need to take it easy .

Go on holiday. Then go on holiday again.

I only had one holiday this year, and that was a weekend in Munich in February. I may have been guilty of taking frequent international travel for granted ont the past, but I will never, ever do so again. Getting up in the middle of the night to drive to an airport then spend the next two hours queuing will in future feel like a privilege, not a nightmare.

Go to work. In an office with other people.

Talk to them. Within 2m. Indoors. Don't worry about standing close to them or following a one-way system to go to the loo. Or whether someone saw me touch something I'm not supposed to (like a water tap).

Where the printer works.
Where the cats/kids/husband/housework don't distract me.
Where the network works 99% of the time (tbf, it's about 93% of the time at home).

Maybe go for snacks in a cafe or drinks after work with other people.

Hug everyone
Go dancing
Go abroad
Hug everyone

@Woahisme thank you.

Your username would suit my mood tonight!

On a practical level I will have a mahoosive 40th party with lots of fizz for every friend, family member and neighbour I can find.

Go to the theatre

Eat out.

Get my kids back to their rugby and ballet

Visit my granny.

I want to go clubbing, I am 44 and last went to a nightclub in 2014. But I would love to go out dancing. Oh and the theatre, run the London Marathon, visit my cousin in Spain so many things.

Go back to choir. I would be running into the building to sing with others, and crying too.

Hug all my friends.

Board games weekend with friends and/or games in the pub.

Go to a spa and get all the treatments.

Sign my son up for lots of classes and clubs.

Book for UK festivals.

Cry for ages from all the pent up stress and sadness and horror.

Go to a concert. Go abroad on holiday (either Canaries or Greek islands).

Have a belated graduation celebration, go on holiday, have a meal out with family and a weekend away with dh.

Book a trip abroad.

@Hotcuppatea

Have a belated 50th birthday party. A big one.

Happy belated 50th

Sing with my choir again.

Hug my parents. See them hug the DC.

Meet most of my colleagues in person for the first time.

Go abroad.
Reduce my hours at work
Hug people other than my lovely husband (dses aren't hugging, covid or no covid)
Go to a restaurant without planning and booking weeks ahead!
Burn my masks 😷

I cannot WAIT for a night out! I just want to dress up, heels, blow dry, freeze in a queue outside, fight for space at the bar, dance to all the bangers.

Since the DC I hardly used to go out but omg I want one!!!!! 🥂

Book a fabulous holiday, ive missed travelling so much! Never will i moan about jetlag again

Double yes to going swimming and even going to nightclub.

Happy 40th flowery

Go for a carvery with my 5 household family.

Go to the shops with no mask.

Hug my parents.

Glastonbury baby. And I'm nearly 40!